Cliché plots nobody should ever use again

Anonus · 2014-12-25 22:18:15

The mistaken identity episode

Princess Alice · 2014-12-25 22:21:22

lol

Sex Grips · 2014-12-25 22:43:51

the opening for a sequel

Imipolex G · 2014-12-26 00:54:46

the amnesia episode

Anonus · 2015-01-09 07:06:39

the episode where the protagonists' sense of rationality inexplicably disappears

lee4hmz · 2015-01-09 07:19:56

#McProtagonist on Twitter (which is totally Obscurus Lupa's doing)

Imipolex G · 2015-01-09 07:21:14

the episode where everybody acts out of character in order to facilitate the dropping of an anvil

lee4hmz · 2015-01-09 07:21:51

let the anvils ring

Sredni Vashtar · 2015-01-09 07:23:50

Less a plot than how a plot resolves: A status quo-altering event occurs, yet the ending of the arc/episode/instalment contrives a means by which there is a reversion to the status quo and the event is either ignored in the behaviour of the characters or entirely brushed under the rug.

Salix Babylonika · 2015-01-09 09:08:36

remember how Code Lyoko had a literal reset button

Calica · 2015-01-09 09:17:27

Magic Jane said:
remember how Code Lyoko had a literal reset button

i remember multiple scenes where a character was literally just about to die and then lol reset

Salix Babylonika · 2015-01-09 09:23:04

Some shows I liked as a childhood have held up, I have a sneaking suspicion that Code Lyoko would not be among them.

Anonus · 2015-01-09 09:30:37

I was never into Code Lyoko

It's one of those flown-in-from-abroad shows, those tend to be blanded down to appeal to a nebulous global audience, and if I watched it I think I'd detect some of that sensibility

Salix Babylonika · 2015-01-09 09:34:13

I don't know if that's fair but it definitely does not strike me as something you'd enjoy

Aliroz · 2015-01-13 00:20:12

The "only one person can see the strange thing which disappears or is just out of sight when other people are around and the moral is that sometimes you just see stuff and you can't trust your pattern recognition because there's nothing really scary, it's just all in your head." episode.

And then at the very end of the episode, an actual ghost or actual aliens or whatever shows up and is never shown again in any episode and so yeah, you're right about X thing only you can see or hear except you'll never know it and you deserve to get told off for jumping to conclusions which make perfect sense given the information you recieve.

Okay, I actually kind of love this one, but hate it at the same time because dang it nobody else percieves the things that you percieve and you're actually right but you'll never know it and you think that there's something wrong with you and it's not your fault and the dang moral of there's nothing really supernatural/interesting/strange is wrong because there actually are such things but only the audience will ever know. Just accept that when you're the only one percieving a problem, that you're delusional and that your judgment and senses cannot be trusted above a group consensus of people who ADAMANTLY REFUSE TO TURN THEIR HEAD TO THE LEFT GOSH DANG IT!

Just once, just once, in the stinger thing where there really are ghosts, I want the character who learned a lesson to nab the ghost and show his/her friends and be all like "tolja! tolja there were ghosts!".

Yarrun XIX · 2015-01-13 00:54:18

If I could annihilate every romantic comedy "romance is interrupted with a major misunderstanding" plot, I might finally accept romantic comedies as a legitimate genre.

One-Winged Eagle · 2015-01-13 01:21:48

They're not actually interested in portraying romance is the thing.

Yarrun XIX · 2015-01-13 01:26:15

Which is why i will never accept it as a legitimate genre.

Tachyon · 2015-01-13 01:30:14

the body/mind swap episode

Anonus · 2015-01-13 06:48:45

Aliroz said:
The "only one person can see the strange thing which disappears or is just out of sight when other people are around and the moral is that sometimes you just see stuff and you can't trust your pattern recognition because there's nothing really scary, it's just all in your head." episode.

And then at the very end of the episode, an actual ghost or actual aliens or whatever shows up and is never shown again in any episode and so yeah, you're right about X thing only you can see or hear except you'll never know it and you deserve to get told off for jumping to conclusions which make perfect sense given the information you recieve.

Okay, I actually kind of love this one, but hate it at the same time because dang it nobody else percieves the things that you percieve and you're actually right but you'll never know it and you think that there's something wrong with you and it's not your fault and the dang moral of there's nothing really supernatural/interesting/strange is wrong because there actually are such things but only the audience will ever know. Just accept that when you're the only one percieving a problem, that you're delusional and that your judgment and senses cannot be trusted above a group consensus of people who ADAMANTLY REFUSE TO TURN THEIR HEAD TO THE LEFT GOSH DANG IT!

Just once, just once, in the stinger thing where there really are ghosts, I want the character who learned a lesson to nab the ghost and show his/her friends and be all like "tolja! tolja there were ghosts!".

sadly, Aliroz isn't here to see this, but 101's trusty reliance on clichés is of use to me here

Imipolex G · 2015-01-13 06:50:12

I hate that plot too.

I hate it with the intensity of a million phasers set to kill.

Cliché plots nobody should ever use again

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