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On more "high-minded" literary and media discussion sites, there are endless complaints about how TV Tropes ruined media criticism. On the one hand, they're no
by BeFlatXIII 4y ago
On more "high-minded" literary and media discussion sites, there are endless complaints about how TV Tropes ruined media criticism. On the one hand, they're not wrong. People will make idiotic statements such as "it's terrible because it has too many tropes" and then provide citations to all the tropes.
However, that site has introduced the idea of media criticism as a worthwhile endeavor in a way that most literature teachers cannot. Perhaps it's because people coming to TV Tropes do so when they're no longer fifteen and can visit on their own time.
- alexvoda 4y agoIt also has the appeal of being descriptive instead of being prescriptive. (Just like linguists for English vs French). Tropes aren't good or bad, they just are. And with time they become fashionable or unfashionable. Traditional literally criticism always had a prescriptive feel to me. In the worst cases, it was just elitist hate. Note that many artifacts considered masterpieces today were disregarded at the time of their making
- BeFlatXIII 4y agoPrescriptivist and often irrelevant. Even when it’s correct, it often isn’t on concepts high schoolers can relate to. More often, it feels like one of those hokey dream dictionaries applied to books.