[ SECRET POST #5797 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5797 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Fandom or media things that just bug you

[rosehiptea]

Mysteries ending with the detective being trapped by the murderer, who usually explains his whole plan. Then the detective gets saved at the last second. I’m not saying it should never be done but it gets old, and often involves the detective doing something really stupid to get into the situation in the first place. I get that there needs to be tension and an ending more exciting than “And the police went and arrested the guy, the end.” But there are other ways to end a mystery.

Re: Fandom or media things that just bug you

[(Anonymous)]

Ha! Now I'm thinking of a version of that where the villain had been quietly prospering for, I dunno, decades, and the hero starting to mess up his stuff began to feel like a game, a competition? It drew him into riskier behaviour than he might otherwise have done because he wanted to score points off the annoying little gnat blundering through his world.

And he directly referenced the 'why would a villain monologue?' problem in his final villain monologue before admitting that, oh god, the gloating just felt so good.

(Given that the hero was something of a chessplayer, he might have set up that dynamic on purpose.)

Re: Fandom or media things that just bug you

[philstar22]

Yes! There are a couple Poirot episodes where it works for me (right now I'm remembering specifically the one where it turns out the killer is the housekeeper who was the secret mother to an heiress or something and she tries to poison Poirot with tea, but he didn't drink). But mostly this trope is overused.

Re: Fandom or media things that just bug you

[tabaqui]

Along these same lines....

When something big is going on re: serial killer, mad shooter, whatever, and some lone cop goes running in like a cowboy to save the day when hello? Do you not see the traffic stop in the middle of the day in downtown with like six cop cars? THEY DON'T GO IN ALONE!
That's just so stupidly unrealistic. ESPECIALLY if they do it with a partner for the sole reason of getting the partner killed 'for plot'. Blech.

Re: Fandom or media things that just bug you

[rosehiptea]

Yes! Or they call for backup and then just go in before anyone else gets there.

Re: Fandom or media things that just bug you

[(Anonymous)]

This irritates me if the detective in question is actually doing the work as, you know, a job. And is trained for it all.

If it's Sally who works at the flower shop part time and writes romance and who is trying to solve the mystery because her bestie's implicated in it, well, I give it a lot more of a pass. Sally doesn't know any better.

(... I might read too many cozy mysteries.)

Re: Fandom or media things that just bug you

[rosehiptea]

That's a fair point.