| That flowchart people are talking about... |
 That flowchart people are talking about...
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Oct. 12th, 2010 @ 08:57 pm 
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Originally here.
My reaction:
Wait, Yoko Ono is a fictional character now?
I think there's a seed of a good idea in there somewhere but it's beyond botched.
Curiously enough, it's the inclusion of specific examples that actually does directly break the whole thing - it strips out all possibility of nuance, and all possibility of having any potential usefulness or applicability to, well, anything.
A number of the characters showed just don't fit the trope they've been assigned. Miss Piggy is a Muppet. They're not supposed to be balanced characters. There aren't any well-rounded Muppets. Because well-rounded, balanced personalities don't really fit with Muppet-dom. "When in doubt, blow something up" is not a sane approach to anything.
But all that is really not that much of an issue when you take into account the inclusion of Yoko Ono on the chart, which positively pole-vaults over the line of appropriate critical commentary.
I have no real opinion on Yoko Ono. But she is, in fact, an actual person, and using her as an example of an unflattering fictional stereotype is just flat wrong.
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Honestly, I think Miss Piggy is one of the most well-balanced characters in the Muppet troupe!
That chart just annoyed me more and more the more I read it. Urgh.
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