Have guidelines (academic or otherwise) ever been established as to the critical mass of ‘adopters’ making a trope, meme, or cliche legitimate? After all, a new word is officially added to a dictionary when the dictionary’s publisher says so. In other words, the prestige of the person(s) decreeing that it is so.
If Shanneon and Jeff say it is so, it is safest to not question it 😉
My other thought on this is I don’t watch CSI shows and this isn’t the first time I’ve seen it. The other 2 times were by regular folks IRL, not in any media. So maybe it is a cliche rather than a trope. Or maybe this is an example of words (trope and cliche in this case) being misused often enough that they develop additional meanings.
No, but seeing it shared numerous times on social media and elsewhere does. The source is irrelevant, it’s the sharing and resharing that matters and I’ve seen this one in several places.
It’s more a meme than a trope. Everyone who does it now or references it is doing it in imitation of one specific quirk of a character from a TV show. To be a trope it would have to be something that has meaning outside of a single originating entity.
Honesty? She was doing a Horatio Cane, Phil Coulson-style. Playing straight ‘badass’ for the first three panels, then being an endearingly silly dork for the fourth.
There “are still some team members “at large.” At least two cobras and Bubbles. I suppose the Killbots are resident staff…don’t know how to count Shelby…am I missing anybody…hard to tell the program without the players…
There’s some very cool science! behind this:
Polarized sunglasses block horizontally polarized light to reduce glare.
Liquid crystal displays work by polarizing the light they reflect.
Put the two together and guess what you get…
(Many LCD manufacturers have caught on and vertically polarize their displays instead, but not all of them.)
and Moustachio hopes for ample headroom!
Are the dark shades symbolic of something?
Just the whole sunglasses trope thing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mznsEcZlM2I
One actor doing it in a very bad tv show and not for puns or even emphasis does not a trope make.
Have guidelines (academic or otherwise) ever been established as to the critical mass of ‘adopters’ making a trope, meme, or cliche legitimate? After all, a new word is officially added to a dictionary when the dictionary’s publisher says so. In other words, the prestige of the person(s) decreeing that it is so.
If Shanneon and Jeff say it is so, it is safest to not question it 😉
My other thought on this is I don’t watch CSI shows and this isn’t the first time I’ve seen it. The other 2 times were by regular folks IRL, not in any media. So maybe it is a cliche rather than a trope. Or maybe this is an example of words (trope and cliche in this case) being misused often enough that they develop additional meanings.
No, but seeing it shared numerous times on social media and elsewhere does. The source is irrelevant, it’s the sharing and resharing that matters and I’ve seen this one in several places.
I’ve only seen it in webcomics and had no idea where it came from originally.
Trope or not, it’s definitely a meme; I’ve seen many edits/comics in which a low-caliber pun is followed by sunglasses.
A meme becomes a trope when it’s widely referenced in pop culture, by my reckoning.
Ta. I may be the most trope-challenged individual on the planet.
Oh, I thought maybe she had put on “peril-sensitive” glasses. I guess that means I’m old. ;-D Never having seen CSI, I didn’t realize it was a comedy.
I GET THAT REFERENCE!
Never seen either the show, the trope or the meme but hey – whatever floats your boat…
It’s more a meme than a trope. Everyone who does it now or references it is doing it in imitation of one specific quirk of a character from a TV show. To be a trope it would have to be something that has meaning outside of a single originating entity.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CoolShades
I think Dr. Lee was doing a Horatio Cane (CSI: Miami)
Really? It looks more like she was failing to pull of a Horatio Caine. In the best manner possible, of course.
Like some kind of Super-Fun-Pax-Comix character, she forgot there was a fourth panel to the strip.
Honesty? She was doing a Horatio Cane, Phil Coulson-style. Playing straight ‘badass’ for the first three panels, then being an endearingly silly dork for the fourth.
I think she has MY sunglasses. The special ones that let me look directly at the sun, or an arc-welder without burning out my eyeballs.
What’s she need them there for?
Just in case she needs to do some arc-welding.
She may have them on hand in case she finds she needs to kill someone with fire in a bit, but doesn’t have anything more convenient to use.
I’m wondering if she can’t see because they’re dark, or because they’re not prescription welding glasses.
Hitty have legs?
I think she has tracks.
Bad Ginny! No biscuit!
The Devils are plant-based symbiotes?
Meet the new moss … same as the old moss.
We won’t get spored again!
Standing Ovation, to both of you sirs.
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/262054010511-0-1/s-l1000.jpg
I…I can’t even…
Are those like Zaphod’s peril-sensitive sunglasses?
There “are still some team members “at large.” At least two cobras and Bubbles. I suppose the Killbots are resident staff…don’t know how to count Shelby…am I missing anybody…hard to tell the program without the players…
The cobras aren’t team members, they were the payload.
Clearly she forgot to turn them on.
I think Mustachio is going to have to get off of Hittie if both of them want to fit into Nick.
It occurs to me that Nick might balk at carrying her. She might outweigh his usual passengers by a ton or two.
Taking into account the weight of all the fashion accessories Tip probably brings.
*maybe not.
Did we ever determine if Nick has a cargo/assault/whatever ramp in the back? Regular Ospreys do, but Nick’s not exactly ‘stock’.
Hitty may have to settle for a sling-loading.
They can’t leave yet. Sweetdaddy hasn’t been repaired.
Seen on a gas pump in Wyoming: “IF DISPLAY IS BLANK REMOVE SUNGLASSES.”
There’s some very cool science! behind this:
Polarized sunglasses block horizontally polarized light to reduce glare.
Liquid crystal displays work by polarizing the light they reflect.
Put the two together and guess what you get…
(Many LCD manufacturers have caught on and vertically polarize their displays instead, but not all of them.)
Was this entire story just for the forest/trees pun?
If so, I approve.
Way late for this comment … but why did Nick say they had yet to find the Devil when RK already found the cryptids here?
Phrasing got a little awkward when this like was cut for panel space. Nick himself hasn’t seen them or confirmed their existence.