[ SECRET POST #2392 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2392 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 064 secrets from Secret Submission Post #342.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I suppose that would be a problem if you decided that Trope=Bad.

It doesn't. That's an odd conclusion to come to.

"There is nothing new under the sun." Tolkien did it, Shakespeare did it, Chaucer did it, the Norse, the Greeks, the Ashanti and the Egyptians did it. It doesn't mean anything if "Simpsons did it." The world of storytelling doesn't operate like internet comment section--no one yells "FIRST."

Buffy was a girl with magical strength who kicked badguy butt. Linda Carter did it earlier as Wonder Woman. It doesn't make Buffy any less good, or cheapen it in anyway.

Archetypes exist for a reason. Tropes exist for a reason. The only thing that's inherently bad is lazy storytelling.

[harp]

I suppose that would be a problem if you decided that Trope=Bad.

Y'know, I considered adding that. It's true, everything you said. I guess I was coming at it from the P.O.V I read the secret in because the wording seemed to be expressing lament or ruined enjoyment. Or because of the negativity I've seen. I'll try not to, but at the moment, it feels like calling something a trope has a negative connotation.

Maybe it is odd, maybe it is just me, but I'm coming at this from my own experience, which is seeing "and so and so does X, using the common trope of The X does the Y". But I tried to make my comment say what you did, that a trope doesn't have to be a mark against a story.