VidUKon Vidshow help - Tropes!

[purplefringe]

As everyone else seems to be doing it - hi internets, please help me with my VidUKon vidshow! The theme is TROPES, and if anyone can think of a better title than such_heights's suggestion of 'Tropetastic!', please do let me know :-)

So, this is hopefully going to be a joyful show celebrating all the fun that can be had with the tropes that crop in in all our favourite shows. Obvious examples include time loops, doppelgangers and bodyswaps. Tropes can also be character types - the dorky scientist, the badass warrior woman, the unlikely hero...you get the picture. I'm interested in patterns and parallels, so there will probably be a lot of multifandom vids in this show - but if anyone has recs for tropey vids that are confined to a particular fandom (particularly long-running shows like Doctor Who or Star Trek), those are awesome too.

Please rec me vids! When I put together the Constructed Realities show last year, everybody's suggestions were incredibly helpful. Even if you think a vid is really obvious and I've probably seen it, remind me about it anyway! And self-recs are very much encouraged :-)

Comments

[some_stars]

giandujakiss's Hourglass is about one of my most favorite tropes, the time loop! And rhoboat's I Think I'm A Clone Now is about doppelgangers. And I love them both a lot.

[some_stars]

okay so i had a fairly long and thoughtful explanation here of why i think kuwdora's I Wish I Was James Bond, a DS9 vid, fits the trope theme, but then the cat jumped on the keyboard and made it disappear. so i'm just gonna link it and say, i think it might fit the theme, and let you decide. (the show's multiple takes on secret agents/espionage, each with varying levels of grim reality versus fantasy; fantasy vs. reality; the nature of fantasy in what is, for the viewers, already a fantasy setting; the "ascended fanboy" as tvtropes calls it; probably other stuff that i forgot. but like, it was in sentences.) and it's a single-fandom vid! it might not work, idk, but when i tried to think of single-fandom vids about tropes this is the very first thing that came to mind.

also, it made me think, there MUST be a multi-Trek vid out there about the holodeck, for more takes on fantasy vs. reality and fannishness. and there must be a vid about time travel that's Trek-only. THERE MUST. i don't know of them but they have to exist, surely.

[grammarwoman]

Ooo! thirdblindmouse did an excellent ST vid about the holodeck, Might As Well Be.

[purplefringe]

Oh, awesome, thank you! I shall check that one out. Hooray for the holodeck. Oh Star Trek, you are so tropey :-D (I initially mistyped that as 'trippy', but I guess that works too.)

[purplefringe]

Aaaaah thank you for all of these! :-D Omg I Wish I Was James Bond is EXCELLENT. I agree - it's definitely super tropey and should be in there. I'm sorry your cat ate your comment - perhaps it was jealous of Julian Bashir's beautiful face.

[alwaystheocean]

Phoebe phoebe phoebe I'm hoping to use 'I wish I was James Bond' in my spiiiiies show, if that's OK?! :D? Like obv see what else we both come up with but figured I'd stake my claim! Can we haggle? :D?

(Re-posting in a more sensible place.)

[purplefringe]

Cleo Cleo Cleo...that's fine :-P I'm sure if it were up to the lovely Julian Bashir, he would much rather identify as a Spy than as a Trope, even if both are true, so I shall graciously concede the vid to you :-)

BUT IN RETURN please rec me tropey vids! I think you may have some ideas and/or feelings on this subject?

[alwaystheocean]

Yaaay, you are the best, thank you! :D <3

Tropey vids, you've got Skins. Did Amy actually make that one on hands and hand-holding?? And didn't Charmax have one on femeslashy cliches, that 'I'm Your Man' one, or something? (I shall ponder further.)

[zeborah]

Here's a link for I'm Your Man which also occurred to me.

Also thingswithwings' We Go Together is all about the trope of (especially) Guys Talking About Things In Bathrooms.

[purplefringe]

Oooh, thank you! :-)