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Alexa, you had you had a pitch for a conversation topic.

Do you want to do you want to talk about it?

Yeah.

So sci-fi, I feel like is, I mean, any quote unquote genre is going to have its own tropes.

And I feel like sci-fi has a lot of them.

And a lot of them I really like.

And a lot of them I think are really tacky.

And I would love to hear what you guys think.

What are your favorite and least favorite sci-fi tropes?

I have a favorite that I would like to hit off the bat.

I don't know if this is sort of against the spirit of the thing.

I love a lot of sci-fi shows will have like episode after episode of high concept, high adventure, exciting, high tension stuff.

And then every once in a while they'll throw an episode in that's like deeply poignant or emotional.

That's a trope that I like.

I love the unexpectedly poignant or emotional episode of a sci-fi series.

The one that jumps to mind is that show The Orville, which is like Seth MacFarlane's Star Trek-like copy kind of show.

That's not fair to say.

It's different but very similar to Star Trek.

There's an episode where the first mate on the ship finds a phone and falls in love with the lady in the phone.

And it's this really heartbreaking story of we were born in different eras.

You had this phone in the 2000s and I have a spaceship here in the 25th century or whatever it is.

And one of the reasons why I love it is that the guy who plays the first mate is like a back pocket killer singer.

He's like an amazing vocalist.

And so he does like a bit where he plays and sings an acoustic guitar.

And it's like a heartbreaking, unexpectedly grounded, human, beautiful story in the midst of like...