I’m in one of those overthinking things feedback loops I get into where everything I can think of feels tropey and so I hate it. There have been so many movies, so many tv shows and so many scripts that a character even drinking a glass of water feels like a tired trope now.

Maybe the character can sit down. What a trope. Or they can pace. What a trope. Maybe they can smoke a cigarette, trope, stare off into the distance, trope! Go to the bathroom, go for a run, go to bed, pet a cat, talk to a dog, have sex, get drunk, trope trope trope trope trope!