All The Tropes:Signal to Noise Train Wreck: Difference between revisions

The work's core tropes, the ones which drive its plot and characterization, are hidden somewhere between a paragraph-long well-informed speculation on the [[Noodle Incident]] mentioned once in episode 15 and an eloquent dissertation on why the [[Mauve Shirt]] who showed up on a four-episode-long arc is subject to an [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]. [[Omnipresent Tropes]] obstruct the page, complete with huge bullet point checklists that detail every trivial invocation of theirs in the work. To get to the point of an example you find yourself reading through a verbal [[Establishing Shot]] and when you're done there's a huge disclaimer about all the other subtly different ways the event described could have been interpreted. 70% of the page is whited out in spoiler font and your wrist gets a not-so-nifty workout from highlighting and de-highlighting everything constantly.

 

 

The measures that could be taken, from least to most drastic, are:

* Split the tropes into categories (A "soft split"). This is really an extreme solution for pages where nothing else will work. This has the disadvantage of breaking alphabetical order, making editing less straightforward and causing potential argument about which example goes in which category- which is why some tropers would have it that it is ''never'' an appropriate solution.

 

 

Just make sure to bring it up in both the discussion page and the [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/conversations.php?topic=renames Trope Repair Shop forum] to work out a consensus, and aim for as few and as well-defined categories as you can that will still get the job done.