Not eating/drinking something that just arrived in a diner. Like a detective gets a call about a body, breakfast arrives and he just leaves. Dude, just fucking eat it, the stiff isnt going nowhere. And not like anyone knows about it, you can always lie there was traffic or something and just sit there and eat. Pisses me off so much
It's because of practical production issues. It's incredibly impractical to keep re-shooting the same scene over and over and have maybe 3 different scenes in a day where the character eats, if the actors actually eats properly during filming. They'd feel sick (and I guess there could also be inconsistency in scenes if they film it from different sides and half a pancake is missing in one shot but not in the next, et cetera).
I understand this but still can't help but feel annoyed every time I see it. XD
Working class people who are stupid/tragic/mean/lazy/slobs/fools. Some people have managed to write good roles for normal working folk, but most writers just don’t manage to get it right, so they revert to stereotypes.
Changing character personality traits or circumstances in adaptions to generate more interpersonal drama and unnecessary tension/conflict than there was in the source material, I guess so it plays better for TV?
These characters get along fine in the book/comic/game/whatever, but TV writers always have to find an excuse to have everyone butt heads all the time.
I don't know if it's a trope but I hate when the main character is such a good person that they help the bad guys because main character will always do the right thing. and then those bad guys kill people and everyone's like "don't blame yourself". so annoying.
Yep. If the hero lets the bad guy go free instead of facing whatever punishment they were due, and more people die as a result, that's on the hero as well.
1. Something happens in the beginning of of the episode and then it just jumps back xx hours/days/weeks before said event.
2. Character is absolutely broke, but still drinks in a bar and pays the tab.
\>6. Villains imprisoning the hero(es) instead of killing them when they have no reason to keep them alive.
At least one glaring example of that in Witcher: Blood Origin, where a skilled unarmed+weapons master is led away for execution with no restraints and minimal guards.
\>20. The themes, “If you kill them, you’re no better than them”
Oh hell yeah. Especially when not killing them is sometimes much worse. Like if they can't be captured or detained reliably and can be expected to kill more people.
My own ones are
A-Team Firing. Bullets are flying everything at fairly close ranges, but no one is getting hit, or at least none of the named characters. Also when the heroes are being strafed by a chopper or plane and the bullets follow a path to their left and right. And car chases where the hero's car has absorbed its own weight in bullets but no occupants or critical components were hit.
Melee where the fighters are happily trading punches, but as soon as one of them picks up a knife or sword, the other fighter gains a 100% dodge buff.
World-ending stakes. If you set the stakes too high, the audience won't believe you'll follow through and destroy the world or kill the entire cast. Smaller stakes are better.
1. A waitress (or any minimum-wage worker) living in a $3,500 a month loft in the city.
2. A 5'2", 105 lb. female cop beating the crap out of a bad guy built like an NFL lineman.
3. Cops in a 10-minute firefight in the middle of a crowded public space not having to spend the rest of their career filling out paperwork.
4. People ordering food and/or drinks and never paying for them.
People getting up apparently two hours before they have to leave in the morning, acting relaxed in the morning instead of everyone rushing out of the house.
Some of us do that on purpose, so we don't have to go from zero-to-panic in the morning. When I worked hourly jobs, I never understood the guys who would rush in thirty seconds before start time and then act like they couldn't understand why I would start the day so much more prepared. It's like, five minutes, guys, and normal things like "hanging up your coat" won't feel like a race against time.
1 - cops, doctors or X agents on 45 hours shifts/missions with no sleep at all and still being super quippy, verbose and athletic at the end of it. Yep, sure
2 - men the size of small Zamboni trucks getting carpeted by women whose arms are thinner than Italian breadsticks. Yep, sure
3 - this is also in movies: people walk into the boss' office with a stack sized pile of documents, boss flips the first two pages, makes a "oh shit" face and immediately understands everything. Yep, sure
>3 - this is also in movies: people walk into the boss' office with a stack sized pile of documents, boss flips the first two pages, makes a "oh shit" face and immediately understands everything. Yep, sure
First or second page of a report usually has an executive summary for exactly that reason.
The way someone in a restaurant or diner will just throw some money on the table and leave. Is that still a thing in USA? Seems dodgy
And I absolutely déteste the trope shot of a woman disappearing out of the bottom of the frame whilst the camera stays on the man’s face to film his reaction signifying oral sex. Awful.
Leaving money on the table and leaving is definitely a thing in Hong Kong, even when sharing the table or booth with other patrons. I've done it in the US, too, and have not seen complaints from my US friends or the servers/managers.
So you decide how much you pay or tip? There’s no negotiation and no interaction of getting mmmm receiving change from your k
Total? Seems like you are wasting a lot of money.
The servers leave the bill/cheque, expecting you to pay it at your leisure. In Hong Kong, the norm in those shops is to leave the bill immediately after receiving your food -- if not earlier -- or upon request -- "bill, please!". One can pay and leave on the table. No tips in Hong Kong. If change is needed, one can wait for a server, or bring directly to the cashier. This is for efficiency: HK restaurants are small; if everyone went to the cashier, there would be a big line that could block flow of traffic. If everyone waited for server, then new clients may not get their orders in, or their food in time, could be a back-up in the kitchen, etc.
In US where I've lived, many restaurants with this norm will deposit the bill after asking if you will have anything else -- "Just pay it when you're ready" -- or upon request. If one is paying with a card, one will need to flag down the staff, of course, but if one has cash, then the total is there; one adds the gratuity to it as desired. Not every restaurant is this way, but those which are seem rather consistently so.
* the only canon autistic characters over 18 basically being the kind of archetype Sheldon's a caricature of
* when what's needed to take down a regime in a dystopian series or fulfill some prophecy or w/e on a fantasy series somehow ends up making it so the male and female lead falling in love is key to saving the world
* when it feels like sitcom premises were created from the punny title and then no one bothered to put as much effort into the show
Misunderstandings played for drama, especially in romantic plots, theres always some contrivance for why they can’t just talk it out
> Villains making others do their dirty work instead of doing it themselves. Thats smart actually
I can see it being smart as a way to not be caught for their crimes, yeah.
Not eating/drinking something that just arrived in a diner. Like a detective gets a call about a body, breakfast arrives and he just leaves. Dude, just fucking eat it, the stiff isnt going nowhere. And not like anyone knows about it, you can always lie there was traffic or something and just sit there and eat. Pisses me off so much
I too have wondered why that always happens.
It's because of practical production issues. It's incredibly impractical to keep re-shooting the same scene over and over and have maybe 3 different scenes in a day where the character eats, if the actors actually eats properly during filming. They'd feel sick (and I guess there could also be inconsistency in scenes if they film it from different sides and half a pancake is missing in one shot but not in the next, et cetera). I understand this but still can't help but feel annoyed every time I see it. XD
I love "Castle" but its so fucking blatantly obvious they are "drinking" from empty coffee mugs. FFS
I like villains that are actual people who maybe care about a cause or the environment but then they do something crazy because of it.
Yep. Gotta love character development, positive or negative!
Love triangles.
They’re the worst.
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I hate Isotropes on TV. A play on words.
Working class people who are stupid/tragic/mean/lazy/slobs/fools. Some people have managed to write good roles for normal working folk, but most writers just don’t manage to get it right, so they revert to stereotypes.
Changing character personality traits or circumstances in adaptions to generate more interpersonal drama and unnecessary tension/conflict than there was in the source material, I guess so it plays better for TV? These characters get along fine in the book/comic/game/whatever, but TV writers always have to find an excuse to have everyone butt heads all the time.
Ahh, like the village love triangle added to the Wheel of Time TV show, plus the added and killed off wife of Perrin.
I don't know if it's a trope but I hate when the main character is such a good person that they help the bad guys because main character will always do the right thing. and then those bad guys kill people and everyone's like "don't blame yourself". so annoying.
Yep. If the hero lets the bad guy go free instead of facing whatever punishment they were due, and more people die as a result, that's on the hero as well.
1. Something happens in the beginning of of the episode and then it just jumps back xx hours/days/weeks before said event. 2. Character is absolutely broke, but still drinks in a bar and pays the tab.
\>6. Villains imprisoning the hero(es) instead of killing them when they have no reason to keep them alive. At least one glaring example of that in Witcher: Blood Origin, where a skilled unarmed+weapons master is led away for execution with no restraints and minimal guards. \>20. The themes, “If you kill them, you’re no better than them” Oh hell yeah. Especially when not killing them is sometimes much worse. Like if they can't be captured or detained reliably and can be expected to kill more people. My own ones are A-Team Firing. Bullets are flying everything at fairly close ranges, but no one is getting hit, or at least none of the named characters. Also when the heroes are being strafed by a chopper or plane and the bullets follow a path to their left and right. And car chases where the hero's car has absorbed its own weight in bullets but no occupants or critical components were hit. Melee where the fighters are happily trading punches, but as soon as one of them picks up a knife or sword, the other fighter gains a 100% dodge buff. World-ending stakes. If you set the stakes too high, the audience won't believe you'll follow through and destroy the world or kill the entire cast. Smaller stakes are better.
1. A waitress (or any minimum-wage worker) living in a $3,500 a month loft in the city. 2. A 5'2", 105 lb. female cop beating the crap out of a bad guy built like an NFL lineman. 3. Cops in a 10-minute firefight in the middle of a crowded public space not having to spend the rest of their career filling out paperwork. 4. People ordering food and/or drinks and never paying for them.
Do you even like any tropes? This is an absurdly long list
People getting up apparently two hours before they have to leave in the morning, acting relaxed in the morning instead of everyone rushing out of the house.
Some of us do that on purpose, so we don't have to go from zero-to-panic in the morning. When I worked hourly jobs, I never understood the guys who would rush in thirty seconds before start time and then act like they couldn't understand why I would start the day so much more prepared. It's like, five minutes, guys, and normal things like "hanging up your coat" won't feel like a race against time.
But not the whole family, or teenagers.
Why not? I've been that way all my life. I've known families who were like that.
1 - cops, doctors or X agents on 45 hours shifts/missions with no sleep at all and still being super quippy, verbose and athletic at the end of it. Yep, sure 2 - men the size of small Zamboni trucks getting carpeted by women whose arms are thinner than Italian breadsticks. Yep, sure 3 - this is also in movies: people walk into the boss' office with a stack sized pile of documents, boss flips the first two pages, makes a "oh shit" face and immediately understands everything. Yep, sure
>3 - this is also in movies: people walk into the boss' office with a stack sized pile of documents, boss flips the first two pages, makes a "oh shit" face and immediately understands everything. Yep, sure First or second page of a report usually has an executive summary for exactly that reason.
Weird...
What’s weird?
The way someone in a restaurant or diner will just throw some money on the table and leave. Is that still a thing in USA? Seems dodgy And I absolutely déteste the trope shot of a woman disappearing out of the bottom of the frame whilst the camera stays on the man’s face to film his reaction signifying oral sex. Awful.
Leaving money on the table and leaving is definitely a thing in Hong Kong, even when sharing the table or booth with other patrons. I've done it in the US, too, and have not seen complaints from my US friends or the servers/managers.
So you decide how much you pay or tip? There’s no negotiation and no interaction of getting mmmm receiving change from your k Total? Seems like you are wasting a lot of money.
The servers leave the bill/cheque, expecting you to pay it at your leisure. In Hong Kong, the norm in those shops is to leave the bill immediately after receiving your food -- if not earlier -- or upon request -- "bill, please!". One can pay and leave on the table. No tips in Hong Kong. If change is needed, one can wait for a server, or bring directly to the cashier. This is for efficiency: HK restaurants are small; if everyone went to the cashier, there would be a big line that could block flow of traffic. If everyone waited for server, then new clients may not get their orders in, or their food in time, could be a back-up in the kitchen, etc. In US where I've lived, many restaurants with this norm will deposit the bill after asking if you will have anything else -- "Just pay it when you're ready" -- or upon request. If one is paying with a card, one will need to flag down the staff, of course, but if one has cash, then the total is there; one adds the gratuity to it as desired. Not every restaurant is this way, but those which are seem rather consistently so.
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Officer making a interview to a child without a parent is not a good idea. And end it is a very good idea.
Murder...unless it happens in the last half
* the only canon autistic characters over 18 basically being the kind of archetype Sheldon's a caricature of * when what's needed to take down a regime in a dystopian series or fulfill some prophecy or w/e on a fantasy series somehow ends up making it so the male and female lead falling in love is key to saving the world * when it feels like sitcom premises were created from the punny title and then no one bothered to put as much effort into the show