I have a few:
- Chosen ones, fate, destiny, &c. When you get down to it, a story with these themes is one where a single person or handful of people is ontologically, cosmically better and more important than everyone else. It’s eerily similar to that right-wing meme about how “most people are just NPCs” (though I disliked the trope before that meme ever took off).
- Way too much importance being given to bloodlines by the narrative (note, this is different from them being given importance by characters or societies in the story).
- All of the good characters are handsome and beautiful, while all of the evil characters are ugly and disfigured (with the possible exception of a femme fatale or two).
- Races that are inherently, unchangeably evil down to the last individual regardless of upbringing, society, or material circumstances.
I also hate this, and you just reminded me of a minor detail in the book Ender’s Game where the one world government has invented gravity control tech but keeps it a secret. I don’t think it comes up outside a single conversation where a couple of the kids figure it out, though - they realize that even though their space station rotates, they smoothly transition from 1G to 0G in a way that doesn’t make sense if such tech doesn’t exist.
Anyway I would love it if more shows had wire work and practical special effects mimicking microgravity. Just go through the notes from the 2001: A Space Odyssey production and do what they did, cuz that shit holds up really well. I get that it can be a pain but Disney’s pumping beaucoup bucks into a new Star Wars show every season and all the actors ever do is run around on a set with special LCD screens behind them.