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Saturday, February 11th, 2023

When I recommend the fantastic Overly Sarcastic Productions to folks who haven't yet met this unique YouTube channel, I usually recommend an episode from their "Miscellaneous Myths," "Classics Summarized," or "History Hijinks." I often link directly to their latest "Previously on OSP" for a frenetic two-minute montage of their delights. I never recommend a "Trope Talk" cold. Never...

Until now! Check out yesterday's new episode: "Trope Talk: The Heart" (15:37). This is (apparently) the last in a series analyzing the storytelling utility and deployment of each member of the famous "five-man band" trope (leader, lancer, brawn, brains, heart). Perhaps unexpectedly, considering how "the heart" (formerly known as "the chick") is often deprecated and downplayed, this analysis is not only an absolute banger, with a gem of a pop-media history timeline in the middle, it may be the most useful in the series. Are you writing a team? Does your team have a character, any character, performing the core structural storytelling job of the heart, which is actually not -- contrary to popular belief (sarcasm!) -- getting kidnapped? If not, you could wind up with a team that just won't jell, and here's, structurally, a possible reason why.

So. Yeah! ;-D

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