Explain a Plot Badly

[Faceless Mist-Wraith he/him]

Oathbringer

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An old general saves the day by refusing to share his feelings and clapping his hands.

A soldier continues to be sad while his imaginary friend tells him to get a girlfriend.

A crazy girl manages to create a love pentagon using her other 2 personalities, before telling them to shut up so she can get married.

A bald guy decides to switch sides during a war, and everyone is apparently okay with it.

The lady who helped start this whole apocalypse party has second thoughts, so her good imaginary friend helps keep her bad imaginary friend locked away in her heart.

 

[Condensation she/her]

White Sands

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A boy has trouble moving sand, but his dad is in charge so . . . oh wait . . . nvm. He tries to succeed and over succeeds, his dad is mad. But you can have this other guy's sash! And then everyone gets dehydrated, but he's alive, so he meets these people who 'look different' *gasp*. He doesn't tell them that he should be in charge of the magic sand people. Then he has to decide whether or not to blackmail a bunch of other people who are in charge so he can actually be in charge. The people who 'look different' find out that he's supposed to be in charge and get mad at him. He decides not to blackmail them, but a guy who's always drunk blackmails one instead. In the end, the person who hates the boy(who is now a man) is the person who decides if he has something to be in charge of, and she surprises everyone by saying yes.

Oh, and somewhere in there there's a bunch of parts where the boy is *almost* dehydrated and then gets better at moving sand.

 

[Truthless of Shinovar he/him]

22 hours ago, Faceless Mist-Wraith said:

Oathbringer

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An old general saves the day by refusing to share his feelings and clapping his hands.

A soldier continues to be sad while his imaginary friend tells him to get a girlfriend.

A crazy girl manages to create a love pentagon using her other 2 personalities, before telling them to shut up so she can get married.

A bald guy decides to switch sides during a war, and everyone is apparently okay with it.

The lady who helped start this whole apocalypse party has second thoughts, so her good imaginary friend helps keep her bad imaginary friend locked away in her heart.

 

*claps*

[Condensation she/her]

Shadows for Silence

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A lady isn't supposed to kill people but she does so she can pay her taxes.

 

[Elegy he/him]

Stephen Sondheim musicals:
Sweeney Todd:

A barber combines job and hobby in an inventive way.

Sunday in the Park with George:

First act - someone paints a painting. Second act - people talk about the painting.

Into the Woods:

First act - A fairytale. Second act - Not a fairytale.

[Crucible of Shards he/him]

White Sand:

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A man finds out that self-destructive tendencies make certain people better at surviving.

 

[Personification he/him]

33 minutes ago, Crucible of Shards said:

White Sand:

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A man finds out that self-destructive tendencies make certain people better at surviving.

 

Arguably also applies to Secret History.

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2020:

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Stick becomes fire

 

Edited August 18, 2020 by Enter a username

[Spren of Kindness she/her]

2020

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When they couldn't decide on one apocalypse, a foolish world brought on seven.

If anyone watches the Honest Christmas videos on Youtube by Malinda Reese, who else is waiting to see how the 2020 one goes?

[Condensation she/her]

First day of school lecture:

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Here's the disclosure document, you need to follow these rules, don't forget to wear your masks, I'm immunocompromised, so be a good person. *bell rings* Bye, see you in two days!!

 

[Channelknight Fadran]

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A young boy saved from death by the power of love must destroy a noseless, stick-wielding overlord.

 

[Eluvianii he/him]

39 minutes ago, Channelknight Fadran said:

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A young boy saved from death by the power of love must destroy a noseless, stick-wielding overlord.

 

Is that a Riddle? If so the answer is Tom.

[Spren of Kindness she/her]

Szeth WOK

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The king is killed, and it goes downhill from there.

Shallan WOK

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A traumatized art student makes plan to steal from her mentor, gets poisoned, and jumps into a ball pit.

Kaladin WOK

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A enslaved former soldier with clinical depression builds a family through the power of stew, singing, and medicine, with help from his invisible friend.

Dalinar WOK

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A former tyrant begins to question life and religion while having seizures during rainstorms.  His son thinks he's going crazy.  After many questionable decisions, they determine this to be false.

 

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Stormlight Archive prologue

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A bunch of people kill some guy because he wanted to bring back their gods

 

[Truthless of Shinovar he/him]

On 8/19/2020 at 0:09 AM, Enter a username said:

Stormlight Archive prologue

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A bunch of people kill some guy because he wanted to bring back their gods

 

Alternatively:

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“Can we see the replay of that?”

 

[Personification he/him]

26 minutes ago, Truthless of Shinovar said:

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“Can we see the replay of that?”

 

In like 3 decades (yes, I know that that is an optimistic figure), when the SA TV series is finished, I can't wait for the "Every Prologue Scene Supercut" videos.

[Spren of Kindness she/her]

46 minutes ago, Personification said:

In like 3 decades (yes, I know that that is an optimistic figure), when the SA TV series is finished, I can't wait for the "Every Prologue Scene Supercut" videos.

And the 'Every time a Radiant swears an ideal' or 'Every awesome Kaladin moment'.

[Eluvianii he/him]

I can't wait to see repeats of discussions from the Shard by people who only watch the show too. "Can spren turn into bows?"

Edited August 21, 2020 by Eluvianii

[Spren of Kindness she/her]

"Guys, I think this Wit person knows more then he's letting on..."

[theTruthshaper]

1 hour ago, Spren of Kindness said:

'Every awesome Kaladin moment'.

Won't this be like half of his screentime?

Also, which bad character do you think will get an ardent following?

Edited August 21, 2020 by The_Truthwatcher

[Spren of Kindness she/her]

1 minute ago, The_Truthwatcher said:

Won't this be like half of his screentime? Which bad character do you think will get an ardent following?

That's true.  Kaladin has a lot of awesome moments.  So there will be comments saying, 'you cut out xyz, why?  That was the best part!'

Well, depends what you mean by bad...  Probably Taravangian.  Or Mraize.  Depending on where he goes, maybe Vyre/Moash.  

No wait.  Kabsal.  And Nan Balat.

[theTruthshaper]

Just now, Spren of Kindness said:

That's true.  Kaladin has a lot of awesome moments.  So there will be comments saying, 'you cut out xyz, why?  That was the best part!'

Well, depends what you mean by bad...  Probably Taravangian.  Or Mraize.  Depending on where he goes, maybe Vyre/Moash.  

No wait.  Kabsal.  And Nan Balat.

I was going for someone like Kylo Ren(warning: I have only seen A New Jedi), someone who makes bad choices an stuff... It will probably be Moash.

Wait.. what did Balat do? Is this 'cause of the torturing of animals?

[Spren of Kindness she/her]

1 minute ago, The_Truthwatcher said:

I was going for someone like Kylo Ren(warning: I have only seen A New Jedi), someone who makes bad choices an stuff... It will probably be Moash.

Wait.. what did Balat do? Is this 'cause of the torturing of animals?

Yes.  Yes, it is.

[Condensation she/her]

I get mad at him every time I read that.

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Mistborn trilogy

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Weird guy comes, informs protagonist of mystical powers, convinces protagonist to save the world a few times.

Harry Potter

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Weird guy comes, informs protagonist of mystical powers, convinces protagonist to save the world a few times.