"TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life!"

That's a page tite in the website TV Tropes, and *I get it. *Once you understand the elements that make a piece of media and how they're all mixed and matched together, you can never enjoy the media in the same way again.

I find looking at anime/games as set of tropes and art pieces to break down is enjoyable, but it's hard to go back to the "let the show take you for a ride" mentality and experience cliché story beats as if you're seeing them for the first time... (Though it's not impossible.)

What about you guys? (Image is by Rafiki)