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Ozy & Millie at tvtropes.org

Postby marklungo » Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:18 pm

The wonderful TV Tropes site has an O&M page listing storytelling tropes associated with the comic. Feel free to check it out here.
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Postby MW » Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:22 pm

I saw this a while ago. It's nice to see Ozy and Millie have a page on there, and I do like that website a whole lot.

... even then, I'm kind of split on the entire place. A TVTropes listing means you're very popular, but at the same time it sort of points out how trite and commonplace a fiction element can be. It's a great resource for all fiction writers, but is it one to follow, or something not to follow? Considering the deficit of originality out there these days, I really can't tell anymore.
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Postby Tom Flapwell » Tue Sep 23, 2008 2:47 am

The main page of TV Tropes hastens to point out that tropes are not the same as cliches. Not all of them are shameful. Besides, what we call creativity is really just good synthesis. Finding common elements among diverse franchises can even enrich the experience.
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Postby Muninn » Tue Sep 23, 2008 4:29 am

Oh I am not going to that site again anytime soon. Last time I went there it was a Saturday, I closed the tab to find it had become Sunday.

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Postby LewisTheTank » Tue Sep 23, 2008 5:40 am

Oh I am not going to that site again anytime soon. Last time I went there it was a Saturday, I closed the tab to find it had become Sunday.
I've done that before on many sites...
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Re: Ozy & Millie at tvtropes.org

Postby Kyler Thatch » Tue Sep 23, 2008 6:36 am

Feel free to check it out here. (WARNING: TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life)
Fixed. Every link to TV Tropes needs that warning.

I figured O&M would get its own article on TV Tropes eventually, it was only a matter of time...
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Postby osprey » Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:10 pm

Yeah, I was late to a party tonight because I clicked that link. :?
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Postby Bocaj Claw » Tue Sep 30, 2008 5:51 am

Given that for every trope, theres an anti-trope its almost fair to say that every author will use at least one trope.
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Postby osprey » Tue Sep 30, 2008 4:04 pm

Given that for every trope, theres an anti-trope its almost fair to say that every author will use at least one trope.
I'd think it'd be nearly impossible to NOT use any tropes, since pretty much everything has been done before, even if it was remote.
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Postby Bocaj Claw » Tue Sep 30, 2008 7:59 pm

Is it leviticus that says theres nothing new under the sun or does it limit itself to telling people not to do things?
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Postby datherman » Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:22 pm

And 20 minutes later, I finally close all the TVTropes tabs to reply to this topic. Good lord, it's like Youtube and Wikipedia all over again.
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Postby Bocaj Claw » Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:45 pm

Tell me about it. The only reason I'm not on there right now is because I read it all.
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Postby Steve the Pocket » Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:21 am

Is it leviticus that says theres nothing new under the sun or does it limit itself to telling people not to do things?
That would be




...uh....


...hang on... King Solomon, in the book of... uh.......


... "everything is vanity" ... calls himself "the Teacher"...


... >_< ...


DAMMIT
*Wikipedia*

...ECCLESIASTES. I KNEW THAT. SHUT UP.

Also, seconding the warning thing. I hopped over here at like midnight as part of my nightly comic check, and the next thing I knew, it was almost dawn. It's way worse than Wikipedia. Wikipedia isn't awash with hilarity.

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Postby Tom Flapwell » Wed Oct 01, 2008 3:16 pm

My advice: When you read Ecclesiastes, imagine it being spoken by Alan Rickman.
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Postby Steve the Pocket » Sat Jan 03, 2009 8:23 am

Actually one thing that's pretty neat, now that I've become hopelessly addicted to that site (thanks for that, btw :P), is discovering pages that use Ozy and Millie and other stuff I've seen or read in ways other than merely listing it as an example of a trope.


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