Talk:Gone Forever

I don't understand. --ItsWalky 19:54, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Really? It seems to me like this has happened all the time -- fiction-wise, the need to give the bad guys an easily explained way out leads to the good guys stopping the search and going home, assuming, sometimes even saying, that the threat is "gone forever" (usually contradicted in words, but not in actions or leadership, by Fearless Leader). The bad guys do this a lot, too.

It was a mainstay of the G1 cartoon, where you had all these self-contained plots, but couldn't go killing off hte bad guys to end every one, but it's showed up as recently as the movie, what with dumping the Cons at sea rather than something more technical but more permanent, like incinerating them in a basic-oxygen steelmaking furnace...--Autobus Prime 21:53, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

The problem I have with this article, personally, is that it sounds like it's trying to explain a common fandom joke/phrase, but as far as I know there is no such joke about it. I agree that it describes a well-used trope, but... with the capitalized title and tone and everything, it sounds like it's trying to be True fan or Trukk not munky, but... it isn't. I'm sure it could be salvaged with a thorough rewrite, although I don't know offhand what direction I would take it. For now I'm putting a cleanup tag on it. --Steve-o 22:37, 12 November 2007 (UTC)