A lot of modern storytellers, critics, and reviewer types lament these things called tropes, literary and rhetorical devices which appear frequently enough to be recognizable. The same goes for archetypes, characters of certain frequencies types (wise old granny, etc). Thread:
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The complaints go that tropes and archetypes are tired and old and no longer interesting. That they constitute lazy storytelling. I assert, though, that tropes and archetypes are not the problem. Shallow application of these are the real issue.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus
see the thing is going against tropes intentionally is also a trope, tropes aren't bad or good, a good character is made up of dozens of tropes that combine to make a fully realized person. I think complaining about them is sort of a baby's first criticism sort of thing.
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