User blog comment:VedranTheII/At what point is a writer like Cardin Winchester?/@comment-11188061-20150526023219/@comment-26018514-20150526074308

@Zolnir... that others don't see past that was my point. I do look beyond the trope, however I look at it first through that lens to see what the author may want me to see. I then look for the character and political/religious undertones of the overall work, then analyze all 4 layers separately and interwoven to determine a likely course for the story to follow, eventually weaving possible stories of if t+e+n, then x and y will go to z, etc. If they don't reach "t", or t->e does not then have n, that equation is a dead end and I dismiss it. Typically certain layers are more prominent dependent on the author, so I create theories based on those layers alone and determine what the other layers might do to disqualify those theories... if they cannot, or do not always I then consider the theory "possible", regardless of personal attachment to the theory itself.