Dear authors

I'm getting really burned out on the "chosen one" plot. Especially the chosen one with super-powers. Extra-especially if the super-powers are exceptional even in an existing community of super-powers. Most especially if the chosen one is also an orphan. There are other ways to make your protagonist interesting-- a well-developed personality springs immediately to mind.

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I knew I should have been reading this one

Started Scenes of a Multiverse today. The one that actually is getting me to post is this one, but they're generally pretty awesome.

SGU

So, I tried Stargate Universe while I was sick all weekend. Not only is every character either a walking stereotype, unlikeable, or both, but the stereotypes are some of the really aggravating ones. Who's got the anger-management issues? The black guy. What kind of person is the nerd? Overweight, badly socialized, and lusting after a girl out of his league. What's the only visible religion? Catholicism. Who's the tortured genius? One of many white males. And that's without getting to TJ, whose character arc you can call in 30 seconds and which kinda pisses me off as someone with a feminism tag.

It pretty much just made me want to go back and watch Farscape again.