All right. Switching gears to fiction-writing, after some tedious administrivia this afternoon, carried forward from yesterday's ridiculous 3-hour meeting & debrief.
What is your LEAST favourite sci-fi trope? Bonus points if it's something that gets done to death on #StarTrek!
I really don't mind stories of 'the chosen one,' provided they aren't exceedingly predictable, but that's about the only trope that really stands out to me.
Well, that and easily understood alien motivations. They're alien and I expect alien paradigms G-dangit!
@BosmangBeratna @MLClark the story in working on now, the characters are identified as chosen ones and that’s precisely the problem. The God that chose them has nefarious purposes currently hidden.
I like to play with tropes and come at them from new angles as well as bust tropes or purposefully violate them.
A very important theme for our times!
Woo! That's great fun! Playing with overdone tropes is precisely why I put out the question, pre-writing session tonight. I like to shake out the dust on SF to date before diving back into my own.
"Lo! I have chosen you!"
"Oh."
"...That's it? Just 'Oh'? You've been CHOSEN!"
"Right, but, ah... for what?"
"Oh, shush, never you mind all that now."
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@BosmangBeratna @MLClark like I’ve done mind control but I’ll do it on mass to represent Fascist thinking and the assimilation and annhilation of culture or as a way of showing how abusive relationships can be normalized for those involved.