if you go on tumblr dot com and say some variation of "they should have [thing that clearly exists] BUT [twist that's crucial for the post to make sense]" you get a bunch of responses like "this already exists, it's called [the thing, without the twist]" and "this entirely new concept intrigues me, but let's go one step further by completely cancelling out the twist."
I don't know what's worse between that and the people the just go "hear me out: take on [well established cornerstone of a genre] BUT! [twist that was already the whole point of the original].
They should do Alien but it's about the horror of unwanted pregnancy
There's also a third category of responses that are like "this already exist, it's called [not even the thing upon which the twist was proposed]".
(Some of the really ambitious ones go as far as to insist that the thing with the twist already exists, then name a piece of media which is in fact the exact opposite of both the thing and the twist, which is actually kind of fascinating in a "taking a true-or-false exam and getting every answer wrong" kind of way.)



















