I don’t know how to phrase that title but when a character is written a certain way and then they do something outrageously out of character and you, the viewer, are supposed to just swallow it.
Eg. Sky Mangel in Neighbours becoming a cop. Fuck offffffff would Sky ever become a cop.
Palpatine returning (somehow)
John Snow killing Dany
How about anything that anyone did in the final season
Is this cause of Spider
When Chandler banged on about making ‘chanberry sauce’ for Thanksgiving when it was well established he hated everything about the day
When Lorelai stops speaking to Rory for several months cause she drops out of college. Also loads of stuff Rory does in the revival.
When Kane punched the claw machine to get a toy for a kid
Blair Waldorf going out with Dan.
Don’t remember that part of Citizen Kane
lance murdering someone and covering it up in fnl
The toy was a child’s sled
Oh yeah this is the perfect example
Phil Mitchell being a crack addict for a couple of weeks
Toph becoming a cop in Legend of Korra
So many TV shows rely on this when written week-to-week, don’t they?
Seem to recall there’s a TV Tropes entry called The Idiot Stick or something dedicated to those times a character is just making the worst choices for that week’s plot.
Shit.
Barney realising women are people in the HIMYM finale
any time a character has an addiction that is over in 1-2 episodes.
Jack Bauer kicked heroin in less than 24 hours
Soap characters pretty much always end up with something like this, cos you need to come up with something for them to do.