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What's your pet peeve when it comes to tropes? What bothers you when you see it in a show or a movie? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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I'll go first. Mine is the instant knockout drug. Like Dexter's intramuscular injection that causes someone to immediately lose consciousness. Or in the movie Split where there's the aerosol spray in your face that makes you instantly unconscious. Or pretty much any time someone uses chloroform.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

Star Trek is awful for this, but this conversation:

Subject Matter Expert: Oh no, the defences are down

Captain: How long do you need to fix them?

SME: Two hours

Captain: You have one

No, motherfucker, the person that you fucking PAY for their expertise on this very subject said it would take two hours!

Management is full of these cunts that think they can just dictate a timeline and have people that actually know their shit dance to their tune.

[–] NostraDavid 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cue Scotty, Mr "miracle worker", quadrupling his estimates:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9SVhg6ZENw

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

And later, Torres explicitely not doing that.

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