I think people can be described in trope terms in the ways that they fulfill a role in a story from real life, but yeah it would be insulting as hell to think that that's who they actually are rather than a role that you assigned them in a limited personal narrative.

@avclub-87caf7c42aedbada42572e2374eed08d:disqus, I agree completely, which is why I don't that it's the defining characteristic.  I think it's a useless as a concept if the trope only applies when it's done poorly.  There have been well written manic pixie dream girls; it would be silly to say they don't count simply…

This post was lost in some dark hole of disqus but I managed to shake it loose by sacrificing a post about how I was utterly confused that everyone was talking about The Beatles in response to @m0nit0rman:disqus 's comment about the Jacksons.  That post is now lost in the dark hole of disqus.  Never forget.

I don't understand what's going on in this thread.  It's at the bottom
of page one, but all the replies at the top of the next page are about
The Beatles not The Jacksons.  I think disqus is fucking with me.

Also I know he coined the term and all, but I think the lack of an inner life is more a criticism of the trope than the defining characteristic.

Being to beholden to the source material really can be such a problem generally, but on the other hand for GoT in particular I can't help but notice the shit I hate is the stuff that doesn't come from the books.  Robb's wife was a tonally mismatched waste of time.  If they had cut that shit they might have had the…

I try not to be a follow the books purist, but I think the land portion of Blackwater is a good example of where they really should have just followed the fucking book.  In trying to show the whole battle the limits of the budget really showed.  If they had just kept it to Tyrion's perspective it wouldn't have been so…

"You like flying motorcycles?"
"Anything's better than crawling"

Uncle Bacon-Face will never interject another spit parade. RIP

When selecting a Watch This from a single director/actor's work cheating a little is inevitable.  This week's Stephen Chow film, King of Comedy(not the Martin Scorsese film), isn't a documentary, but it is a film about films.  Chow, who also directed,  plays an aspiring actor trying to break into the industry starting…

Every NTR comic.

The Room is a more rich and rewarding experience over all, but for shear entertainment Troll 2 can't be beat.  It's the most consistently entertaining bad movie I've ever seen.

Well not to spoil too much, but the smart money is on fucking around.

Ned's dead, baby.  Ned's dead

It was some fairly entertaining trolling yesterday, but there's some serious diminishing returns going on.

The story is an argument in favor of fiction claiming to be an argument in favor of God.  Really it's the religious who should be offended.

Ashes of Time Redux is shorter than the original, but it replaced the synth soundtrack with an orchestral one, so it's by definition inferior.  Likewise it's also much easier to find the Redux version.

While his weird physique is more Krugan, it was Christopher Lambert's acting more than anyone else that reminded me of Wiseau.  I swear I even heard the Wiseau laugh at one point.

Stephen Chow doesn't make a very good terrorist in Royal Tramp, this week's Chow film.  His organization wants to remove the Manchurian Qing dynasty and restore the Chinese Ming dynasty.  Chow is tasked with infiltrating the palace to find an ancient text that purportedly has a secret to defeat the Qing.  Instead he…

The second one is somehow even worse, and at the end it's implied that they're going to become the Pope's personal hitmen.  I've often commented that I can only assume that the third one will have them murdering the Pope's enemies: prominent atheists and sex abuse victims.