story lab: Tropes

 Honestly, I was a little confused on what exactly I was looking at when I first opened the link to the website. I had no idea what a trope was, how to navigate the page or what i was even looking for. I started about by reading what a trope was and then decided the easiest way for me to explore would be to start under the genre tropes. 

The first trope I clicked on was "game show" this seemed a little random to me but it also caught by interest. On this page I clicked on "eject the loser". This phrase immediately reminded me of Ellen and it made me laugh. She always has such unique (slightly scary) ways of getting rid of the losers. 

The second trop I wanted to explore was "mystery". Even I'm kind of a scaredy cat, I still love watching crime shows (criminal minds is my favorite).It was really interesting to see how long the subgenre list was under mystery. But when I thought about, there are usually so many moving parts within a mystery plot line. The first subgenre I looked at was "public secret message."  I always think these are so clever when they appear in tv shows or movies. I think to myself "would I be able to come up with something like??" and usually the answer is no. The next trope I read was 'serial killings, specific target". I feel like I've seen many shows about the villain murdering random people to cover up his main target. 

The last trope I wanted to look at was "love." Love is a very popular theme in all sources of entertainment so I was surprised when I found subgenre after subgenre. I picked "love is a crapshoot" because first it made me laugh and then I realized I had heard that phrase many times. I picked "love makes you dumb" because again, it made me laugh. As I was reading through all the examples I realized how many different ways love can make you dumb. After reading through these I started to think about real life examples of when people lost their mind over a boy/girl. A lot of my friends in the past have been "boy crazy" and would do the most ridiculous things. 

Reading through all the different forms of Tropes was, in a way, mind blowing. There really isn't a way to create a story without having a trope in it.