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What's your pet peeve when it comes to tropes? What bothers you when you see it in a show or a movie? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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I'll go first. Mine is the instant knockout drug. Like Dexter's intramuscular injection that causes someone to immediately lose consciousness. Or in the movie Split where there's the aerosol spray in your face that makes you instantly unconscious. Or pretty much any time someone uses chloroform.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Whenever the plot entirely revolves on avoidable misunderstandings from character that nothing in the story prevents from having a clarifying chat. It's weak storytelling.

Also whenever the characters don't react to enormous thing A because advancing the story requires them to immediately ask about thing B.

Lastly whenever you end up screaming at the tv "you have enough clues to call for backup" or "enough reason to worry to call 911" yet they proceed alone. Bad writing.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

“We don’t have time (to explain why were doing this)”

Proceeds to have time to do dozens of other useless things

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

avoidable misunderstandings

You didn't watch a lot of Three's Company, did you? :-D

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I feel like there's a lot of script writers that want the emotional wrenchingness of "this character's personality and history means that they will never see the simple solution" but have no idea how to actually pull it off.

Breaking Bad pulls this off wonderfully multiple times, where the "right" decision is right there but for the character to be able to do it, they couldn't be who we've learned them to be so far.

But most directors amd scriptwriters are nowhere near that level.