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What's something that annoys you in films & tv shows?


Things that happen often in fiction that just "piss you off".

There are countless things but I'm gonna go with the one that inspired this post.

I'm watching this show right now & it's a mystery-ish show. The main character is about to learn something, they get interrupted & she doesn't even follow up.

Happens a second time with a different character. Someone walks in & they just stop the conversation.

It's important information, you can literally continue the fucking conversation. It's not top secret stuff.

That happens A LOT in so many shows & movies & it annoys the shit outta me! 😆

I know it's just something to drag the hell outta the story but it just infuriates me how often it happens.

How about y'all? What's YOUR thing?

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Interracial couples that serve no purpose other than it shows writers and creators racism towards white people. It's either racism or white guilt on display.

Also shooting guns with one hand. Unless it's a .22 LR pistol or rifle it's not realistic. Neither is no hearing protection.

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So many, but these ones automatically come to mind:

When the main character gives a grand speech to someone who clearly hates them and has even bullied them, and the bully actually listens to it and doesn’t immediately walk off.

Tying onto that, when someone says a mean comment to the main character, usually in a kids or teen movie, and the main character always takes it to heart and never simply responds with “Piss off” or something of that nature.

When there’s a pet shown in a family, but that pet is never an inconvenience or shown throughout the film, they’re just an impermanent object that comes and goes without consequence or meaning.

When the best friend betrays or turns on the main character, or worse, when the main character is tricked into thinking they were betrayed, but then it’s all resolved with no actual proper resolution.

The parent character whose only real lesson is to learn to have more fun - despite being completely overworked and unrewarded for anything they do, all they had to do was be more chill and everything magically gets better and all the work they need to do disappears to somewhere else.

Money being a core issue of the plot while never being shown as an issue.

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