Trivia / How to Write Badly Well

• Follow the Leader: "Wear your influences on your sleeve.", which apes elements of both Star Trek and Star Wars, with a dash of Battlestar Galactica mixed in.
• Recycled Script: "Suddenly change characters' motivations" recycles the premise of "Sacrifice motivation for the sake of plotting". In both cases, the protagonist has snuck into the enemy's lair and found the thing they came for...but instead of leaving, they find incredibly flimsy reasons to linger, solely because it would be more exciting if they got caught (which is lampshaded by their friend). Joel stated that this recycling was accidental, and that the first version was funnier.

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