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Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue
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Conversations don't take place in a vacuum. Other things don't stop happening just because characters are talking. Many beginning writers forget this, writing long chunks of dialogue without any narration or dialogue tags to break it up, and in the process, the reader becomes lost in the Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue. Like an unintentional version of the White Void Room or Blank White Void, the reader is given no reminders of the setting in which the dialogue actually occurs: For all they know, the scene could be completely bare and blank, with nothing to look at, no other characters and absolutely nothing occurring whatsoever aside from the dialogue in question. In the very worst cases, the writer may fail to even set the scene in the first place, giving the reader absolutely nothing at all to visualise what's happening. Another problem is that it's easy to lose track of who's saying what, especially if there are more than two characters involved in the conversation. Sometimes an author may do this on purpose, for example to keep The Omniscient Council of Vagueness appropriately vague. Other than that though, the Featureless Plane Of Disembodied Dialogue is uncommon in published literature, because professional editors tend to frown on it quite heavily. It's very common in live theatre, however, since it's easier to strip the stage bare of scenery than it is to transform from one set to another. The trope also finds quite a bit of intentional use in stylized visual media for a number of purposes: Film Noir, for instance, is fond of using Chiaroscuro and minimalist staging to put an extreme focus on the actors and dialogue. Part of Alfred Hitchcock's Signature Style involved abstract shots giving this impression to create a dream-like disconnect between characters and their surroundings, while Akira Kurosawa and Sergio Leone together cemented it as THE trope for tense confrontations where the scope of the world is reduced to the participants and their immediate surroundings (if that far). More esoteric works frequently seek to further separate dialogue and context- say, a conversation is carried out in voiceover while closeup shots of various objects in the room are displayed. Compare Textplosion, when a comic's panels are suddenly filled with text before reverting to illustrations, and Script Fic (indeed, many examples of this trope are script fics clumsily converted into prose to get around FanFiction.Net's ban of the format). See also Talking Is a Free Action, Wall of Text, and Speech-Centric Work. When the dialogue itself is being used as a substitute for describing the scene, see Show, Don't Tell and Expospeak. |
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In Lost in a Good Book, Thursday and Harris pull this off deliberately, with a long stream of conversation with no indication of who said each line, to trap another character who may not be real (and who turns out to have escaped from his own book). | |
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Terrible Writing Advice:Discussed in "Scene Writing" episode. JP states that writers, especially book writers, should not waste their time setting the scene before or during the characters talk to each other as according to him, readers can imagine the scene as well as writers. | |
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"Jokester": Most of the story takes place within the rooms of Multivac, the massive computer system, and is sparsely described to minimize the potential for getting future computer design obviously wrong. The characters themselves have even less description, as Dr Asimov focuses on character dynamics instead. | |
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"Insert Knob A in Hole B": The characters and setting are barely given any description, Dr Asimov relies on the Studio Audience being able to see his fellow panelists and the context of the panel itself to paint the scene. The only room mentioned in the entire space station is the airlock. | |
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"The Watery Place": The aliens are described as wearing expensive suits, but the two human characters aren't described. The setting is barely mentioned either, aside from a desk and window. | |
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The opening scene of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is set in a deliberately featureless area, with the characters musing on how they don't know how long they've been travelling, or why they're travelling — merely that they know they have a cue to show up for. | |
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"Homo Sol": While the aliens are described with unusually coloured/shaped appendages, almost none of the setting itself is, taking place in rooms of the audience's imagination only. | |
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"The Feeling of Power": The characters of Aub and Shuman are the only ones to rate a description, even when other characters are the only ones present in a scene. The rooms are all empty of description; although chairs and tables are implied, no textual evidence supports their existence. | |
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The Black Widowers story "Northwestward": Despite including a fair bit of activity by the characters and describing their food and drink, the Milano is left relatively bare of description. | |
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"Kid Stuff": The elf and Jan Prentiss are described in detail, but the office where the story takes place only has a desk and typewriter, and the wife and son are only given short descriptors. | |
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SCP Foundation uses this in a lot of its interviews, adding to the chilling effect most of them get. Granted, the reason why they're featureless is they're written as actual interview transcripts instead of any sort of narrative. | |
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The Fans inhabit one of these in With Strings Attached most of the time, though hints as to their setting come out in the dialogue, and the different Fans are delineated with different quote-substitutes (i.e., Jeft's dialogue ~is surrounded by tildes~). Word of God has it that she took the technique from Piers Anthony's Cluster series. Note that whenever the Fans interact with the four there's physical description, since they're meeting in a mental space (albeit one that's usually a big white blank anyway, though all the characters are visible). | |
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"Flies": Despite taking place during a college Class Reunion, which would imply a large crowd of hundreds of people, the only description is of the three characters. The flashbacks are expected to take place in different rooms, but there isn't any description to differentiate them from each other, or from the present day. | |
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Sonichu, as shown in the page image, combines the Wall of Text with very limited backgrounds to this effect. | |
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"Dreaming is a Private Thing": There apparently isn't very much in the office; a nondescript desk, implied chairs, and a helmet for experiencing dreams. | |
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Steven Brust occasionally likes to narrate a scene strictly through the dialogue. In To Reign in Hell for example, dialogue between two characters in a fight scene indicates all of their actions. | |
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A Game Of Gods: Infinities: Dubix and Shotaro's mental world. | |
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Franchise: Most of the main characters get a line or two of description when they're introduced, but rooms are completely bare of details unless a character interacts with the furniture. | |
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In Hermione's Talent, it's not only the Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue but the Featureless Plain of Disembodied Singing as well. | |
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Thomas Harris employs this in The Silence of the Lambs when FBI trainee Clarice Starling is Consulting a Convicted Killer, Dr Hannibal Lecter. The two are in the basement of an insane asylum with no other (important) characters paying attention or even present, making the use of this trope more palatable; additionally, Harris gives the characters such prominent voices and motivations that telling them apart becomes easy, even after pages of unattributed dialogue. Tellingly, The Film of the Book renders the corresponding scenes primarily in alternating close-ups, allowing the conversation to dominate. | |
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"Gimmicks Three": The two main characters, Shapur and Isidore Welby, don't get much description aside from Shapur's sulfuric stench and tail. The room itself is actually a blank bronze cubicle. | |
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"The Immortal Bard": This particular story shows quite a bit of physical activity from Dr Welch, seeking out glasses of alcohol and checking his pockets for Shakespeare's signature. Despite this, the supposedly crowded room may as well have been taking place in an empty parking lot due to the lack of interaction. Nor do we get a physical description of either character aside from the clothes worn by Dr Welch. | |
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"Green Patches": While the human characters are given some reasonable descriptions, the ship itself could be any shape, colour, or size, and this problem extends to the interior as well. | |
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Foundation Series "Search by the Mule": Normally generic in his descriptions, Dr Asimov Lampshades it for the Interludes, because the exact location and names of the Second Foundation characters are being held in a deliberate aura of mystery. The title refers to the way the Mule is trying to find them, and they've kept themselves hidden from the galaxy for hundreds of years. | |
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Prince of Darkness No More: Particularly bad towards the end of the first part, where it's lampshaded in the author's notes. | |
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"The Gentle Vultures": Captain Devi-en receives the most description, aimed mostly at giving a sense of the Hurrian appearance. The other two main characters have even less description and the Hurrian Moon base has absolutely nothing described about its appearance. The story focuses instead on the idea of aliens who wait until nuclear war and then swoop in to fix everything afterwards, for a price. | |
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"The Imaginary": Humanoid Aliens from the same planet are given consistent descriptors and aliens from different planets can almost be told apart without their names, but buildings and rooms get less than minimal description. Notably, the strange glow from the squid is never given a colour, perhaps to support the assertion that it isn't electromagnetic in nature (light and colour are part of the electromagnetic spectrum). | |
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White Dark Life, being an amateur work, occasionally falls into this in the roleplays. (It can generally be assumed that the roleplays start out in the same location as the comic they're attached to. However, if the location changes, good luck keeping up.) | |
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Oversaturated World: Group Precipitation is a collection where there are some minifics less than 200 words, so environmental description is sometimes non-existent: Yet Another Revolution, by Tophe: He'll Save Every One of Us, by Masterweaver and FoME: Encoded Toil Inn, by Masterweaver: |
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"The Dead Past": Some descriptors for the main characters are used, but never very detailed and few rooms are described, or even named. The opening scene, specifically, presumably takes place in Director Araman's office, but it could just as easily be occurring in a hotel, given the details included. | |
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Ender's Game deliberately establishes no context with the conversations between Graff and Anderson, and the conversations between Graff and Carlotta, to give them the impression of being an Omniscient Council of Vagueness. The comic book adaptation depicts these conversations as a page with nothing but script written on it. | |
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"The Last Trump": After The End of the World as We Know It and everyone starts waking from death, the buildings disintegrate, nobody pays much attention to people's bodies, and even the landscape itself starts to level out. | |
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| Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue / int_b78aea86 | comment |
"I Just Make Them Up, See!": None of Isaac Asimov, the fan, nor the setting are described because none of it is relevant to asking the Driving Question; "How on earth [does Dr Asimov] give birth to those crazy and impossible ideas?" | |
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Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue | |
| Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue / int_c859dee9 | comment |
"Hell-Fire (1956)": No descriptors for the main characters are used, or for the room itself. They don't matter; the description is reserved for the slow-motion film of an atomic bomb. | |
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Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue | |
| Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue / int_ce7bc5c | comment |
Dark Secrets: A review of this fic was the Trope Namer. | |
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Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue | |
| Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue / int_d37e7711 | comment |
In True Grit, Charles Portis does this for one scene. However the scene takes place in a courtroom where no one is doing anything other than sitting and talking. | |
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| Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue / int_d380b32d | comment |
"True Love": (Justified Trope) The story is told from Joe's perspective, a computer program that has limited sensory input. Joe doesn't describe anyone's appearance, considering them pointless in comparison to personality and temperament. | |
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| Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue / int_d7b0ace0 | comment |
Cirno & Purple Steve: Justified in chapter 11 because it actually takes place in a featureless plane. | |
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Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue | |
| Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue / int_e186e2cf | comment |
Strongly advised against in How NOT to Write a Novel. | |
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| Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue / int_e2ac1023 | comment |
"The Message": This story is written with very clear imagery for the setting and emotion, but the character descriptions are, as usual, treated as sparse and unnecessary. | |
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| Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue / int_ea1a786f | comment |
Monica's Gang: Most stories employ simplistic, monochromatic backgrounds, with the colour changing every panel. This stylistic choice applies regardless of whether the story takes place outside or indoors, making it impossible to discern the current setting. | |
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"The Hazing": While the Humanoid Aliens are given some basic descriptors, none of the humans are given physical distinguishing traits. | |
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Deadpool comics often have minimalistic backgrounds that don't accurately define the story's setting, which is a result of most of the panels being covered by the protagonist's speech bubbles. In particular, Rob Liefeld's stories lack backgrounds entirely, with the scenery details only being added later in production by the colorist. This practice would later be mocked by The Unbelievable Gwenpool, who states she dislikes Deadpool's comics due to the dialogue obscuring the art. | |
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Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue | |
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Mai's Ramblings: Every entry is completely encased in quotation marks. Some fans have speculated that Mai is telling it all to a psychiatrist in his office. | |
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