Another thing I HATE is the "everyone's related!" trope. I think we can put the modern usage of this at Empire Strikes Back's feet, but it is rampant -- Alias devolved into hackery as it turned from cool SF spy show into dysfunctional genealogy chart; the X-Files toyed with it before that -- at least hinting if not outright committing to blood relationships amongst various loved and hated characters, and Heroes has crashed and burned into an incestuous mess this season in part by taking that path (also very guilty of the no-one-dies sin).
I'm a lot more picky with reading since there's so much more to choose from there than in TV/movies, but I know this vein is worked in print spec fic, too.
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Date: 2008-11-01 05:37 pm (UTC)I'm a lot more picky with reading since there's so much more to choose from there than in TV/movies, but I know this vein is worked in print spec fic, too.
Stop. It.