And that page is "Tropes Are Not Lego Blocks"
Of the most common reasons many anti-troper communities mock tropers, and if you ask me, very rightly so, is due to the belief many tropers take tropes like legos and build a story out of them without trying to do anything deeper with them. Worse, they turn tropes into cliches, not a starting point for doing something interesting with the tropes by using them in creative ways.
Another thing that is roundly mocked is when this is crossed over with story analysis. Instead of trying to actually dissect the usage of tropes, they don't really analyze the way the tropes are used, they just give a lego block style trope list for what the story contained while missing the real message, which was how the list of tropes they spit back was used to convey a story.
Basically being so focused on counting all the leaves they forgot they are but small parts of a tree.
Maybe I'm just being a bit critical here, but I cannot shake the feeling this criticism must be consciously addressed, not only for PR reasons, but because those bad practices are bad for writing and story analysis.
Of the most common reasons many anti-troper communities mock tropers, and if you ask me, very rightly so, is due to the belief many tropers take tropes like legos and build a story out of them without trying to do anything deeper with them. Worse, they turn tropes into cliches, not a starting point for doing something interesting with the tropes by using them in creative ways.
Another thing that is roundly mocked is when this is crossed over with story analysis. Instead of trying to actually dissect the usage of tropes, they don't really analyze the way the tropes are used, they just give a lego block style trope list for what the story contained while missing the real message, which was how the list of tropes they spit back was used to convey a story.
Basically being so focused on counting all the leaves they forgot they are but small parts of a tree.
Maybe I'm just being a bit critical here, but I cannot shake the feeling this criticism must be consciously addressed, not only for PR reasons, but because those bad practices are bad for writing and story analysis.