Thursday, August 12, 2010

My Favorite Overused Plot Line.


I've already expressed that my least favorite overused plot line is being impregnated with demon spawn. My favorite would probably have to be when one best friend is secretly in love with the other best friend. This is almost always an unrequited love, but as overused plot lines go it's not a bad one. Besides, if they actually get together for more then like 3 seconds it's not overused, because that only happens in like 3 things. The classic example being Emma, the Jane Austen novel. My favorite example being Ron and Hermione in Harry Potter, they are my favorite couple ever, and I practically have pg. 625 of the Deathly Hallows memorized. Anyway It's by far a superior overused plot line then the 'classic' secretly in love with the popular pretty girl. You may think that this one is only reserved for the really terrible high school movies, but if you look a bit closer you'll see that it is literally EVERYWHERE. It happens in BtVS, when Xander falls for Cordelia in season 3. I actually don't mind this one too much, because you still get a side of Willow maybe being in love with Xander, but dating Oz. It happens through season 5 of Smallville, because Clark is so desperately in love with Lana. I hate this one, I mean geez, can he just get over her? But Smallville does have Chloe being hopelessly in love with Clark, which kind of makes up for it. It happens with reverse genders in Veronica Mars, when Veronica gets back together with Duncan. I personally preferred her and Logan together, it was so weird it was awesome! But then again anything is better then being impregnated by demon spawn.

1 comment:

  1. What about the bad boy with the secret heart of gold who is (also secretly) in love with the nerdy-but-cute heroine?

    Uh, that's my favorite.

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