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Most tropers, academics, directors or writers who do this start to find new ways to enjoy media. The subtle blends of plots, the new spins on old stories. The rare and welcome times where a plot you weren't expecting appears. [[Measuring the Marigolds|But it is never the same.]]
Enjoyment comes from a balance of Recognition and Surprise -- we enjoy things that we can relate to and have seen before, but we also like to be surprised. Total recognition is cliché; total surprise is alienating. Through comparing different works of fiction, browsing trope wikis like this one will merge surprise almost entirely with recognition and you will begin analyzing everything and taking a totally new (and possibly better) enjoyment from media - [[Theory of Narrative Causality|or reality]].
Also, according to [http://www.salient.org.nz/features/tv-tropes-will-ruin-your-life this article], trope wikis are actually paths that mirror our desire to fictionalize and narrativize our lives.
Who knows, they could be right. At any rate, keep these goodies in mind:
* [[Tropes Are Tools]], not clichés. They are plot devices and progressions (similar to but more defined than literary devices) that have been around for a long time because they ''work'', and there's no inherent loss of complexity through the use of them [[Discredited Trope|(most of the time)]].
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