Not so much of an unpopular opinion here (and slowly starting to become a bit less unpopular overall), but I feel as though the 'Whedonification" of media has caused an untold amount of damage to storytelling. Every character is snarky and quippy, there's a joke being told every two minutes, and any moments that would be heartfelt or sincere are broken up by a reference to pop culture. It's fine to tell a joke every once in a while in a story, and if you want to have a lot of bathos in your story, that's perfectly fine. But when the dialogue of your story begins to read like the script of an MCU film, it just shows that you're not confident in your own work, that you're afraid the story you're telling isn't that good, so you tell a quick joke to distract the audience from whatever it is in your story that you're worried about. The problem isn't that this exists, because by itself it's harmless. The problem is that now everything wants to be like this, that everything wants to be...