12.21.2009 10 replacement plot devices for the modern age
- Amnesia → Hard drive crash
- The self made man → The self-assembled robot
- Red herring → Wireless red herring
- Foreshadowing → 2^4shadowing
- Double agent → Double User-Agent
- Deus ex machina → iddqd
- Unreliable narrator → Reliable narrator [citation needed]
- The long con → The long cron
- It was all a dream → It was all a webisode
- The butler did it → The computer did it