when you spend too much time at work...
LOL I'm throughly amused by TV Tropes, "a catalog of the tricks of the trade for writing fiction".
Topics include They Changed It Now It Sucks, Big Bad, Book of Shadows, Applied Phebotinum (yay Angel shout out!), Snark Bait, Die For Our Ship, Card Carrying Villian, Bed Trick, , So Bad It's Horrible, Fan Dumb, Violence Is Really The Answer, Break The Cutie, Knight Templar, The Chosen One, The End of the World As We Know It, What Is This Thing You Call Love, Luke I Am Your Father, Once Per Episode, Crowning Moment Of Awesome.
Also, breakdowns of tv shows (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Alias, Gilligan's Island, Lost), films (James Bond), and books (Sword of Truth).
and finally The Universal Mary-Sue Litmus Test.
Topics include They Changed It Now It Sucks, Big Bad, Book of Shadows, Applied Phebotinum (yay Angel shout out!), Snark Bait, Die For Our Ship, Card Carrying Villian, Bed Trick, , So Bad It's Horrible, Fan Dumb, Violence Is Really The Answer, Break The Cutie, Knight Templar, The Chosen One, The End of the World As We Know It, What Is This Thing You Call Love, Luke I Am Your Father, Once Per Episode, Crowning Moment Of Awesome.
Also, breakdowns of tv shows (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Alias, Gilligan's Island, Lost), films (James Bond), and books (Sword of Truth).
and finally The Universal Mary-Sue Litmus Test.