33 Trivia Tidbits About TV and Movie Tropes
Hmm. Now where have we seen these before?
When we hear the word “trope,” we automatically roll our eyes and think “cliche.” But this list gave us an eye-opening lesson: They’re not the bad guys! They’re just helpful storytelling devices. It’s the lazy storytellers who recycle them over and over again who turn them into cliches. It’s like a hammer. A hammer can be a very useful tool, or it can be used to smash your TV to smithereens because you’re just so sick of the blatant overuse of the same old tropes!!!
Sorry — we got a little carried away there. We’ll put the hammer down now.
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