Subject: So, been thinking about this TV Tropes review for a while.
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Posted on: 2022-06-09 13:20:11 UTC

So you know how we have a page on TV Tropes? Somewhere a year or two ago I took a quick look at the 'review' page just to see what was up with it, and found this.

Here's the link.

So I figured I'd bring it up here. Normally I wouldn't be, like, genuinely upset-feeling over something like this, but there's just a lot, to be honest. The main review's really unprofessional for someone who's supposedly reviewing, and the replies to said review are just people jumping on the angry bandwagon to talk about things they don't like about the PPC as well and it really overwhelmed me at first with the sheer vitriol of it.

It probably doesn't help that a lot of what they say are either signs of a complete lack of research (an example one Troper uses for an Agent 'indistinguishable from a Mary Sue' is Lorson, of all people, apparently for being both competent and non-human) or more lack of research (not a single person seems to realize the PPC still's, like, semi-active and in general has evolved quite a bit past what they're criticizing half the time) to flat-out hypocritical. (One fellow basically says, 'if you have a wiki to explain unclear terms, then that implies they're incomprehensible to begin with and it's thus bad writing.' On TV Tropes.)

But despite all of this, somehow it's managed to stick around in my headspace for a long while, and I'm starting to wonder why. I'm just feeling confused and whatnot about this and I'm having a hard time collecting my thoughts, so... what are your thoughts on this?

-OrangeFox, tired and clouded

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