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The hot take: idiot plots are bad. The hotter take: idiot plots aren't necessarily bad!

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Trope Talk: Idiot Plots

Check out campfire here: https://campfirewriting.com/write/book-writing-app?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=OSP_Q4_22 This one's a spicy meatball! Today let's talk about the plots that are driven, in whole or in part, by the characters acting dumb - and how that's not always a bad thing! Video examples in order of first appearance: I Love Lucy, Divergent, Star Wars III, Doctor Strange (as a contrasting non-idiot plot example), Spider-Man: No Way Home, Captain America: Winter Soldier, TMNT 2007, Batman v Superman, The Three Stooges, Twelfth Night, Alien, Romeo and Juliet, Hadestown, Assassin's Creed 2, The Dark Knight, Captain America: Civil War, Frozen, MUSIC: Scheming Weasel, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Our content is intended for teenage audiences and up. PATREON: https://www.Patreon.com/OSP PODCAST: https://overlysarcasticpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe DISCORD: https://discord.gg/osp MERCH LINKS: http://rdbl.co/osp OUR WEBSITE: https://www.OverlySarcasticProductions.com/ Find us on Twitter https://www.Twitter.com/OSPYouTube Find us on Reddit https://www.Reddit.com/r/OSP/ Want this video in another language? Check out our guide to contributing translated captions: https://www.overlysarcasticproductions.com/community-captions

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Jack manson

Good on ya red you brought up idiot plots without complaining about revenge of the sith

Maytree

If idiots in Star Wars bother you, go watch Andor. It's the least idiot-infested plot I have ever seen, and not just in Star Wars.