Writing Game: Pilots! So...predictable?

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Good morning again! Thanks to those of you who joined our conversation yesterday, it was an interesting discussion and it's always great to see new voices joining in! Today, a game:

TROPES!

tvtropes.org defines tropes as "devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members' minds and expectations" - and pilots canon and fic both employ and subvert many, many tropes over the course of their story. Case in point:

Belligerent Sexual Tension


Your challenge today is to think about the tropes left in comments and either:

• Write a drabble/ficlet that employs that trope in an interesting way (they're not bad if they're well written!)
• Write a drabble/ficlet that subverts the trope
• Or give us some meta thoughts on how pilots do or don't fit the trope

And if you get sucked into tvtropes or know others off the top of your head, leave them below!

(Side note: I was thinking of having a conversation about comments and commenting tomorrow, but one is happening today at bsg_epics! Check it out over there if you're interested :)