I watch and play alot of things, so I have noticed alot of modern devices that you won't hear at school. Heres a list of them and an explaination. I will also include a few storytelling errors that like to keep coming.

Dialogue Fill: This is more in the realm of animes, many live action films don't do this, I have yet so see a particularly obvious example, but I am sure one is out there. However, every anime in existance does this at least once, and you may have heard me refer to my old name for it: "Needanewwarcryitis". This is when in order to fill in empty dialogue space with words, they simply repeat a character's name, or have them say "thats why" "therefore" or something to that effect. The latter two examples don't result in much irking, since the character saying it is generally interrupted in such a manner as to make whatever they were about to say null and void. The real problem comes from the former example, the name repetition, and every anime is guilty of this, NO EXCEPTIONS. For me, this is about as unanimous with anime as cut and paste romance subplots (which I will expand upon later) are with Hollywood movies, and just come with the territory. Although this is ubiquitous with anime, the party to my knowledge is Gundam Wing.

Cut and Paste Romance Subplot: The polar opposite of Dialogue fill, I have yet to see one of these in an anime (with the excpetion of Robotech's Rick/Lisa) but they seem to be in too many Hollywood movies to count. Whats worse, is that these also spill over in Western made video games. I cite, as my example, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Although I initially was favorable of it's plot, time has made me realize what a lame duck it really was. Starkiller, Darth Vader's secret apprentice, gets a new pilot after his previous one is killed by Vader, the new pilot is a young woman named Juno Eclipse. These two have absolutely no chemistry whatsoever, however, this doesn't seem to prevent sexual tension from silently building totally out of sight, but with it's predictability constantly in mind. With them kissing just before Starkiller embarks on his final mission, somewhat out of the left field. Every western effort seems determined to shoehorn some love interest, perhaps to add the "Woman's Touch" to a situation where it really isn't needed or for that matter welcome.

I have to leave to do something but I will be finishing when I am able, I havn't even scratched the surfance, I still need to explain how to do character development, and how to make a romance plot not suck.