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To better see what this sounds like, consider [http://www.thecenternetwork.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=7012 this story by Mark Rosenfelder]{{broken link}}, which applies the techniques of '''Expospeak''' to a non-[[Sci Fi]] story.
Note that some recent series—especially ones which have had mainstream success—have tried to avoid '''Expospeak''', such as the new ''[[Battlestar Galactica
A predilection for '''Expospeak''' hasn't prevented [[Police Procedural]] shows such as ''[[CSI]]'' from leaping to the top of the [[Ratings]] (and [[Dan Brown]]'s books, laden with Expospeak about different subjects, to the top of the bestsellers list), lending credence to the oft-expressed idea that the reason speculative fiction only ''seems'' to be in decline as a genre is because its tropes have been adopted by the mainstream.
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