07 March 2013

Clichés, Clichés Everywhere

I have to say I'm sick of clichés, they are everywhere, movies, books, games...  It's time to get rid of this "cancer".


I think the most common type of cliché nowadays is the love triangle. Every damn history have one! Juliet - Romeo - Paris, Scarlett - Rhett - Ashley, Elizabeth - Wickham - Mr. Darcy, Edward - Bella - Jacob, Katniss - Peeta - Gale, Eponine - Cosette - Marius, Christine Daaé - Raoul - Erik and many, many others. Have you ever seen any love triangle in real life? I guess not, so why almost all stories nowadays have to have at least one? I can't understand.

Another one that bothers me a lot is the stereotyped personages. Ninety percent of the women are either a emotionally weak person that will be loved by often more than one male character and will take the whole story to choose one of then or they are the most intelligent or smartest person in the story who will only "fail" for love or yet the least used category, they are a woman with man behavior.
People, please, women can HATE, they often do, we men are a bunch of little-bunnies-good-guys near that ladies in anger. They can be as strong, both physically or emotionally as men. They can be that one girl that becomes the cat lady! Anything! Just don't repeat the same damn history!
Another stereotype often used is for kids. if you have a kid on the story I can assure you that he/she will do something way better than any adult and in many cases it will be an activity not even possible to a kid to perform well.

I'm no writer and I can't even imagine how hard is to create a whole history like those I'm criticizing, but c'mon guys! I know you can do better than that!

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