The silence on sodomy was broken in January 1730, when the sexton of the Utrecht Dom Tower reported having seen two men committing sodomy in a room below his quarters. One of them was arrested and produced a whole list of accomplices, some of whom were men of high social standing. A ca...
That’s very surprising, for a character like Dongfang Qingcang, who’s supposed to be the devil in our story. It’s tropey but still funny, that the way these two swap bodies, is through kissing. I get the feeling that there will be more kissing – and swapping – coming our way....
And somehow, even though part of my brain registers that this is a trope that is often used to manipulate audience emotion, I still feel my heart clench in disappointment, when they don’t actually meet – because they had been so close! Like, when we see that the pregnant lady, to wh...
I actually felt that Love on the Brain was better than TLH in many ways, especially the tall/huge-short/tiny height trope (if there is one 😂) because it wasn’t mentioned as much in this one as it was in TLH。Story wise, I really enjoyed it a lot! I felt that there was more...
The Joker – undisputed king of the One Bad Day origin – did not appear until the following year and went on to make the trope the overt premise of “The Killing Joke” (1988). Anyone, the Clown Prince postulated, will go mad given enough provocation and that can be accomplished in a...
Noble idiocy isn’t a bad trope in and of itself, and while what Gun did and why wasn’t so beyond the realm of reason as to be incomprehensible, that story thread did surprisingly little to enrich our viewing experience or understanding of the characters. Because in the end and after ...
It’s the trope, not the exact circumstances. May 6, 2018 |Reply Dove It’s an extremely common plot idea that’s been around about as long as the bullet catch illusion has been. There are also multiple real-world instances. Stolen from Wikipedia because I’m lazy: “The best-docume...