Overused Plots

by micheledodge on July 17, 2006

Today was near 100 degrees, and it wasn’t much fun at all. I added a bunch of new jewelry to the Lava Jewelry web site, just before the server went down for several hours.

Question of the Day: How many obligatory sci-fi plot lines can you list?

I’ll start:

1. Body swap episode
2. Stuck in video game episode

{ 10 comments… read them below or add one }

Chel September 2, 2006 at 4:08 pm

Someone sleeps with an alien woman and gets a bizarre uncurable disease.

Chel August 24, 2006 at 6:55 pm

Hrm, my turn, huh?

Did I already say “alien plant grows wildly out of control”?

kddodge August 22, 2006 at 8:07 pm

Main characters are locked away together. They end up discussing how their past has affected thiir current interpersonal relationships.

kddodge July 24, 2006 at 10:25 pm

Insane person/people threaten the status quo.

kddodge July 24, 2006 at 1:08 am

A character/s is/are undergoing some physical change or metamorphosis.

kddodge July 24, 2006 at 1:02 am

The episode that tries to use as many clips from previous episodes as possible.

The episode where an old lover comes back and causes waves.

The flying cave episode. (Not really though)

Chel July 21, 2006 at 6:59 pm

Stuck in a time loop.
Incurable alien disease, with no known cause.
Stuck near the event horizon of a black hole.
Trying to discover/create a stable wormhole.

kddodge July 18, 2006 at 10:28 pm

Someone is out-of-phase.

We messed up the future/past, so we have to fix it.

Someone came to our time from the future/past.

Oh no! Main character dead! Wait, nevermind.

Alternate universe people!

Chel July 18, 2006 at 1:03 pm

Those are both in just about every sci-fi series ever. Almost every series has a body swap episode (including Red Dwarf, Star Trek, SG-1, Farscape…) Almost every series has a stuck-in-video-game episode (see above list).

3. Alien plant grows out of control (or Tribbles make trouble)

More please?

kddodge July 18, 2006 at 12:00 pm

Those are both from SG1 right?

I an think of none right now. I really don’t pay attension to the names.

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