Would the grand finale of Clone Wars season 7 count? Not that we as the audience aren't fully invested in Ashoka's escape, but the real action is happening on coruscant.
Does anyone else think that the trope name is a bit misleading? I've never seen the show 24 before, so the title did no help to clear things up.
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Yep. Me, for one.
Oh no! The DREADED AQUAE MORTIS! No, wait, it's just your imagination.
Does the Matrix example really count? The battle at Zion was important, because if Zion was destroyed before Neo defeated Smith and convinced the Machines to back down, humanity would be doomed to the same cycle as before. It's not really padding. If I don't find anyone arguing for it, I'll delete that example.
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I'm with you on this one. The battle for Zion is critical. If Zion falls, it doesn't really matter if Neo defeats Smith because humanity will be wiped out. And it IS only a matter of time before the machines overwhelm them, which gives Neo's quest a sense of urgency.
Still an awful movie though.
Ok, yeah, I'm removing the entire Star Wars example for now because it's likely not an example, because arguably none of the examples given were actually needless subplots:
- 1) all of these scenes were important to the plot. They're not detractions from the plot, the main plot just splits up four ways. Just because they weren't the most major aspects of the plan, or, in the case of the Padme subplot, just because they eventually were in vain, doesn't make them baseless diversions.
- 2) From what I can tell, this trope is not the same as padding.
- 3) The podracing scene is an important part of the main plot, because, y'know, it got them off Tatooine.
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Ambiguous Name
, started by HiddenFacedMatt on Mar 20th 2012 at 12:20:23 AM
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