Torchwood: The clichés...

[fajrdrako]

From fannish5: Name 5 cliches - from canon or fandom - that you'd like to see disappear.

What's a cliche? I have learned through time that things I think of as appalling and embarrassing clichés that I never want to see again (MPREG, feminization of a hero, little kids in stories, and so on) fit just nicely into other people's kinks and really, it's a genre, not a cliché. Other such ideas often listed as cliché-fic (trapped in an elevator, going undercover to a gay club, etc.) are merely hokey stratagems for sometime-excellent stories.

So - keeping in mind this is my taste - here are the clichés I like to see Torchwood rid of:

1. Stories that refer to the characters as 'the older man/the younger man'
   
2. Ianto making coffee. This just doesn't do much for me. It was cute at first, but wears thin.
   
3. Toshiko being meek and insecure, especially with Owen.
   
4. Zombies.
   
5. References to Captain Jack's paperwork, and how much he hates it.