Seizing the Dung Pile / Discussion

This is the discussion related to the wiki page Seizing the Dung Pile.

This page could use some more work

r_b_bergstrom 07 Sep 2011 13:47

Since this Trope page has no equivalent at the TV Tropes Wiki, it could really use more examples here. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any thing I've read or watched that made use of this as a trope or plot device, so I'm afraid I'm of no use in this regards. Could someone who's a little more familiar with the concept please fill this one in?

I also note that there are no links to this page from anywhere else. (You can test this by clicking "+ options" at the bottom of the page, and then "backlinks" on the menu that that creates.) Which means the only way someone will stumble across this page is if it comes up on the random page list (given 3400 other pages, that's not gonna happen too often) or this week while it's still on the short list of recent pages. Colonel, was there a specific page or topic that made this concept come to mind? If so, we should link here from there. If not, then we should at least figure out where it belongs on the big trope lists and link from them.

The Colonel 07 Sep 2011 21:21

I'm not sure why this concept came to mind - I was thinking at the time that it was an interesting one and that it ought to be found somewhere so I made a page to hold the thought whilst I went away and pondered it. I tend to find that thoughts hang around and make a nuisance of themselves unless I write them down.

Actually, I think it may have come to mind reading one of the politcal argument threads on SJG where someone had just made an eloquent and convincing argument against something that had nothing to do with the position his opponent had taken… it was a decent bit of rhetoric, but it left me wondering how it advanced his argument. And probably baffled his opponent as well.

I've plugged it into narrative tropes for the time being as it's a sort of plot related thing.