Personally. I think my favorite cliche bit is the episode in Star Trek : Next Gen when Data suddenly goes berzerk and takes over the entire ship, using Picard's voice commands and locking down the entire vessel before taking command of the bridge to pilot the ship to a nearby planet where Soon is waiting for him.
Despite the fact it was "Good guy suddenly goes back because of funky mind control" the way that it was handled was very shocking, Spiner did a superb job of acting out the sudden cold, calculated, mechanical manner.
That I find is the one dividing line in the whole "Good guy suddenly acts evil" if they can -accurately- and -convincingly- describe just why they're acting in such a manner, then it doesn't seem as trite and mechanical.
Its just like the whole 'Blackmail' garbage. Every time a main character gets blackmailed these days I want to throw popcorn at the screen and boo at the top of my lungs... Not because its not implausible, but because its horribly, pathetically cliche and no one can see to properly set the scene where the character would reasonably submit to it.
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Despite the fact it was "Good guy suddenly goes back because of funky mind control" the way that it was handled was very shocking, Spiner did a superb job of acting out the sudden cold, calculated, mechanical manner.
That I find is the one dividing line in the whole "Good guy suddenly acts evil" if they can -accurately- and -convincingly- describe just why they're acting in such a manner, then it doesn't seem as trite and mechanical.
Its just like the whole 'Blackmail' garbage. Every time a main character gets blackmailed these days I want to throw popcorn at the screen and boo at the top of my lungs... Not because its not implausible, but because its horribly, pathetically cliche and no one can see to properly set the scene where the character would reasonably submit to it.