I read an AV Club article today about bad TV tropes writers use: "enhancing" photos, fake band names, using 555-1234 as phone numbers, the "magic" of Christmas, etc. Most of the reasons given were that they pulled the viewer out of the show, and I could see how it could also apply to DCI. What design tropes do you hate the most or are over-used?
For me, most of them seem to be in the pre-show. Mostly voice-over stuff. Honestly, the adjusting the dial with old-timey radio announcers does it th