It’s worth giving the TV wiki site TV Tropes their very own blog entry. It’s very not Wikipedia, as they state so on their front page, the language is much more informal and often defamatory but it’s a great website to discuss different sorts of conventions that appear in TV and film.
The nature of the site means once you start reading one article, it will link to another, and another and you’ll be on there all day, as represented in this comic:
Today, for example, I was reading up about Star Trek: The Next Generation because I am currently making my way through that series again for the first time since it finished back when I was roughly 10 years old. After landing on the Star Trek page, I was passed onto what they call the Patrick Stewart Speech page, which lists examples of characters giving long speeches about why humans are great, named after Stewart’s tendancy to launch into such speeches as both Picard from TNG and Xavier from the X-Men series.
The examples listed on the page include a number of my favourite TV shows like Buffy, Doctor Who, and Torchwood. And if I go click from there onto one of those pages and then onto another page, and so on and so on.
The best part of TV Tropes is that if you can’t find the answer to the Trope for your particular show, you can add it in yourself. And unlike the Nazi editors at Wikipedia, everyone at TV Tropes is laid back, so you won’t have to worry about having your content deleted all that much. Of course, if they disagree with what you’ve said, they’ll rip your argument to pieces publicly for all to see.
TV Tropes will inevitably be my most sourced website for this blog mainly because it’s a good way of explaining character conventions but also because it’s so thorough for a TV website.
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