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The journey is usually treated as a major plotline, if not ''the'' main plot itself, and the secondary and tertiary locations and characters that our group encounters are at most a source of smaller subplots, which are usually resolved shortly before that location is left - after all, it's about the journey, not the destination. That said, if a specific subplot ''isn't'' resolved immediately, [[Chekhov's Gun|expect them to come up sometime down the]] [[Stealth Pun|road.]] |
The journey is usually treated as a major plotline, if not ''the'' main plot itself, and the secondary and tertiary locations and characters that our group encounters are at most a source of smaller subplots, which are usually resolved shortly before that location is left - after all, it's about the journey, not the destination. That said, if a specific subplot ''isn't'' resolved immediately, [[Chekhov's Gun|expect them to come up sometime down the]] [[Stealth Pun|road.]] |
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[[Christopher Booker]]'s ''[[The Seven Basic Plots]]'' calls this "[[Voyage and Return]]". |
[[Christopher Booker]]'s ''[[The Seven Basic Plots]]'' calls this "[[Voyage and Return]]".<!-- MOD: Please leave this link in place, so that the redirect isn't deleted as unused. --> |
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[[Tropes Are Flexible]], and this one is more flexible than most. (It ''is'' one of [[The Seven Basic Plots]], after all.) |
[[Tropes Are Flexible]], and this one is more flexible than most. (It ''is'' one of [[The Seven Basic Plots]], after all.) |
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