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⌈ Secret Post #2870 ⌋

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[X-Files]

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(Doctor Who/Torchwood)

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(Benedict Cumberbatch)

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[Star Trek]

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[Star Trek Voyager, "Macrocosm"]

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[Great British Bake Off series 4, Ruby Tandoh]

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[How to Get Away with Murder]

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[Far Cry 3]

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[Krazy Kat & Ignatz Mouse]

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What the title says. Do you have certain tropes that just don’t work for you anymore since you’ve seen a show that used them or averted them?

For example: Orphan Black completely ruined all tropes about clones for me. Like instant cloning, where the clone is somehow the same age as the one being cloned and shares all their memories, or armies of clones all acting like mindless robots and not real people.

No other show or movie has been able to top Breaking Bad's use of the Chekhov's Gun trope. Then again, Breaking Bad has ruined most shows for me.

I've always hated those clone tropes. The Vorkosigan Saga does it very well (and has extremely good justifications for when it appears to follow the trope), but to say much more than that is a large spoiler.

Eh, going to put it in a reply just to be safe, in case anyone really cares about a 6 year old book

Edited 2014-11-12 01:00 (UTC)

It's pretty major spoilers to say that this trope is even used in the book. But Anathem, the book by Neal Stephenson, completely ruined alternate universes for me. The way that they work in the book is just so clever and so incredibly well tied in to the rest of the book and the universe of the book that it actually kind of surprises me when another book or movie doesn't use it. It actually makes a kind of sense - even a handwavey kind of sense - in a way that alternate universes almost never seem to do, for me.

And it's also executed very well within the book itself IMO which helps. The one line about the Faraday cage is just such an amazing moment.

Spoiler in reply.

Unpopular opinion, but I thought Doctor Who handled the genderflip of the Master reasonably well.

I don't look at media via 'tropes.'

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Shows that changed how you see certain tropes

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Doctor Who

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