Sentences with phrase «classic hero tropes»

Peggy's relationships were a driving factor of the show, and while the second season's love triangle may have slowed down certain episodes, the character's ability to make allies out of enemies harkens back to classic hero tropes in action cinema.

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For with every theme Ross presents — the Hitchcockian fallen hero, the classic «wrong man» trope, the Möbius strips and Escher imagery that emerge again and again, lest we forget the unending nature of marriage, love and murder — there is a way in which this too - clever - to - be-neat story resists such thematics, indeed calls into question the expectation / fulfillment nature of storytelling itself.