On the other side of this, the cliche of “Simple misunderstanding we could have resolved if one party hadn’t said “I don’t NEED to hear your explanation!” before storming off” can fuck right off and die.
How original. Fucking Shakespeare over here.
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AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world 1 day ago
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Gotta love the “this season wouldn’t have even happened if everyone had been upfront and honest with each other.”
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
Gotta love the …
No, wait, it’s the other thing.
Gotta hate with the burning rage of a thousand suns…
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Ahhh yes, the old idiot plot. Where would we even be as a culture without it
mika_mika@lemmy.world 1 day ago
All scripts of Shakespeare’s comedy category that I’ve read are idiot plots. The characters constantly explain to the audience, but never to each other. It enables all the hijinks to unfold. So, it’s been around at least that long.
For example, twins separated at birth. If the twins in the Comedy of Errors explained who they were, or if the cast once questioned either of them on their strangeness, everything could be clarified.
It extends to outside comedies, even the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet could have been avoided if Romeo had confirmed Juliet and Friar’s plan, or had checked to see if she was still alive before offing himself.
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
We would probably have a much higher (and more incorrect) opinion of ourselves. We’re all fools, and recognizing our own foolishness reflected in art doesn’t make it not so. Just makes it easier to think about.
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
People do that all the time though, often to disastrous effect. Once it stops happening IRL we’ll stop making art about it*.
* while it does happen all the time IRL, I think some writers use it as a shortcut to get to the plot they want to pursue without going through the character development that establishes why a character might act this way. That is lazy and annoying writing, but it doesn’t invalidate the whole trope. People really are like that. Clear communication is hard work and a lot of people just don’t do it a lot of the time.
NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Sure, sometimes people are like that, but even if it meets the absolute minimum standards of plausibility, why on earth would I waste my time watching/reading it? It’s just bad writing either way.
Relatedly: everything is art, but not everything is good.
joshcodes@programming.dev 16 hours ago
There’s a somewhat horrific show on Netflix called Bloodlines which I thought made a point of not using this trope. There’s a character who for half a season listens to everyone, does what they tell them to, tries to make things work in a dysfunctional environment, and falls back into old habits because no one trusts him when anything goes wrong. Its a show filled with very human interactions, almost like the writers asked “what would actual people do” in every scenario, but also push the plot along.
Highly recommend it because this shit annoys me.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 17 hours ago
I’m gonna write a book that has none of that cliche bullshit.
…And done. Check it out:
hands you a blank piece of paper
Batman@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Paper? How original…
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Lowers glasses to look at blank paper
- Genius!!!
brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
While enjoy the occasional anime, I don’t get how some people can watch so many of it. It’s literally the same characters and tropes over and over again.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
It’s a process of finding diamonds in the shit, to be sure. The genre is so saturated too. The heavy watchers I know are just at a point where they enjoy the garbage because watching garbage can be funny. I hate feeling like my time is being stolen though
Danarchy@lemmy.nz 21 hours ago
This is why tha part of Watchmen where that blue guy just sort of sits there rules so hard. Goes to a setting and does nothing
Zensate@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Deriviative
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Zensate@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Perfection
0ops@piefed.zip 1 day ago
WHERE
Oh sorry dude I just have ptsd from calc 1
borosilicate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
[deleted]Zensate@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Aww, I liked mine better. Didn’t know it was pronounced like that
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
It could also be “individuals” or “groups” doing stuff in a “universe”?
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Can you imagine? Fucking Shakespeare I mean. I wonder if his dirty talk was in iambic pentameter too…
atro_city@fedia.io 18 hours ago
Everything's a plot now!
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
About as original as this meme format
LouNeko@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Authors trying not to write a child to be a moron, getting the adults and themselves in danger and inevitably resulting into on of their deaths [challenge impossible]
OwOarchist@pawb.social 1 day ago
Children are morons, though.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 13 hours ago
Not as much as depicted in films tbh, maybe it’s different in the USA eh, different cultures and allat but in films they exagerate it a lot
Zorque@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Insofar as everyone is morons, yes.
Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
That’s why the only book I own is windows 95 for dummies