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colbertimposter Since: Dec, 1969
#1: Dec 28th 2010 at 7:07:31 AM

Basically, I want your feedback on how you think it's best to lampshade the lines that are fundamentally "Now, let's do this" that an eight year-old boy would think cool but any teen or adult would roll their eyes at.

I ask this because I'm aiming for cool with the lead protagonist in a screenplay I've written a lot of notes on, and I don't want him to become cheesy like Horatio Cain (CSI: Miami) by saying stuff like "Now, let's do this" too often or by trying to sound super-cool while saying them.

Sorry if I'm not explaining myself that well.

Anyways, the ideas I have are either:

a) Come up with lots of good one-liners, which won't be easy.

or b) Just have him say "Now, let's do this" and the like in a casual manner, which will be easy.

Do you guys have any other ideas? Or, which of those two methods I said do you think would be the best way to lampshade this trope?

colbertimposter Since: Dec, 1969
#2: Dec 29th 2010 at 4:27:54 PM

Sorry if I didn't explain myself well enough. I figured there was a specific page for Horatio Caine when there really wasn't, but this page here is the page I was thinking about:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GlassesPull

/end shameless bump

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