CoolCly posted... Great post on TV Tropes
I definitely agree there's way too much reliance on "Tropes" when discussing material - I often see people point to "well this book was just another heros journey:" without actually discussing the specifics of how the book executed that to see if it did it well or in an interesting way or not. Oh it was "just" another heroes journey so it's not worth reading.
I do love reading tropes and being like "oh yeah that guy was totally the Dragon" or whatever but it shouldn't decide whether you liked something or not for you.... especially if you haven't read it. It's always about how well that work executed the ideas its using.
In fairness, isn't one of the pages "Tropes Are Not Bad"?
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