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Quick question
| Everything is overused, it depends on how you handle it and what you do differently.
| If it's pulled well, a great story will stay great. Hell, if it's pulled well, a mediocre story can be a great story.
It's all in the execution, g/u/rl.
| There is nothing new under the sun. The Hero's Journey, Seven Basic Plots. All you need is one trick so the viewer thinks they are experiencing something completely novel, while being familiar enough to be comfortably predictable so as to not violate their belief of what should happen in the end (to not break from what they feel like the outcome should be, or they will feel "wronged"). Real genius is violating the viewer's beliefs, but causing them to question which is correct.
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| is the "main character is dead" plot twist overused? i mean to the point that even if a story had been great so far but then pulled that would it make the story bad?