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Script-Reading Doors

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19 feature instances
9 referencing feature instances

Script-Reading Doors	type	FeatureClass
Script-Reading Doors	label	Script-Reading Doors
Script-Reading Doors	page	ScriptReadingDoors
Script-Reading Doors	comment	We've all seen automatic doors in Real Life - a person walks into range of the sensor and the door opens. As long as there is someone in the sensor's area the door stays open. Not in the future. There the doors only close if the characters are staying in the room, and if they're going straight out again, then the door conveniently stays open for them. They can have a chat where each person is on the opposite side of an open door, but as soon as the conversation is over, the door will close, without either person moving. Also, when a person walks past a door with no intention of using it, the door will not open. So, how do the doors know when to open? They must have read from the script. Subtrope of Our Doors Are Different. Examples
Script-Reading Doors	fetched	2024-02-11T21:00:48Z
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Script-Reading Doors	isPartOf	DBTropes
Script-Reading Doors / int_30464d62	type	Script-Reading Doors
Script-Reading Doors / int_30464d62	comment	Played with in Airplane II: The Sequel where the doors on the space station can only be opened and closed if you 'shh' at it.
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Script-Reading Doors / int_353b7af3	type	Script-Reading Doors
Script-Reading Doors / int_353b7af3	comment	Lampshades in the Star Trek: Discovery episode, "The Red Angel" where Tilly apologizes for barging into a meeting, saying she should have knocked but couldn't because the doors open automatically.
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Script-Reading Doors / int_492240cf	type	Script-Reading Doors
Script-Reading Doors / int_492240cf	comment	MADtv (1995): THE BLIND KUNG FU MASTA! was tripped up by the 'Star Trek doors' twice. First time it closed while he was still between the doors. The second time he was far enough away and the door closed, preventing anyone from hearing his speech (something about apples).
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MADtv (1995)	hasFeature	Script-Reading Doors / int_492240cf
Script-Reading Doors / int_503d3d54	type	Script-Reading Doors
Script-Reading Doors / int_503d3d54	comment	The freezer that Eddie's trapped in in The Rocky Horror Picture Show opens for no reason so that Eddie can ride out on his motorcycle and sing Hot Patootie. Creator, Richard O'Brien notes this in the commentary and regrets not having Frank N. Furter accidentally hitting a button or something. In the original stage play, Columbia is shown accidentally opening the freezer door, and discovering Eddie.
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Script-Reading Doors / int_5d354f8	type	Script-Reading Doors
Script-Reading Doors / int_5d354f8	comment	In the Red Dwarf episode, Emohawk: Polymorph II, the airlock door starts to open as Ace Rimmer is reaching for the controls.
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Script-Reading Doors / int_5d84baa1	type	Script-Reading Doors
Script-Reading Doors / int_5d84baa1	comment	In The Restaurant at the End of the Universe the elevators at the publishing office are precognitive so they know just when someone needs them. Unfortunately, they also refuse to bring passengers up to floors where they predict something bad is about to happen. They have therapists.
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Script-Reading Doors / int_605dd875	type	Script-Reading Doors
Script-Reading Doors / int_605dd875	comment	In every incarnation of the Stargate franchise, the eponymous device is established to stay open for a maximum of thirty-eight minutes, but should supposedly shut down on its own when it's not being used. In practice, it knows to stay open until the characters go through, barring instances where the plot calls for it to stay up longer or for the cast to miss it. We've seen it stay open for ages for the sake of atmosphere, or close the instant the last character was through. This can be justified in any outgoing wormhole from Earth given there's a control room replacing the DHD who are presumably briefed on any outgoing traffic — almost literally making it a Script Reading Door. As for offworld-to-offworld wormholes or offworld-to-Earth wormholes, it might often be justified by a gate on the outgoing side of a wormhole detecting if all entities at the gate have or have not gone through the gate like any supermarket infrared or pressure-sensor door. Obviously some instances can't be justified even in this manner, however. For instance, when the burst of energy from the wormhole forming was used for a funeral offworld, the gate opened, vaporized the funeral pyre, then shut down instantly, as if aware it was being used for precisely that purpose. The guy operating the DHD didn't even touch it after activating it. Similarly, incoming visitors to Earth always step through after the iris is opened. This is justified for SG teams, since their GDOs relay an all-clear message, but at times there have been visitors possessing no such device yet managing the same. In one incident on Stargate Atlantis, one of the main characters has just had a heart-to-heart with his girlfriend, and as he walks away the door stays open just long enough for him to have a longing look back before closing despite being just outside the door (and therefore presumably still in the sensor's range). In another episode, the doors to the conference room close just in time to keep the last guy inside and they don't open when he steps back, then forward again.
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Script-Reading Doors / int_6c9193a1	type	Script-Reading Doors
Script-Reading Doors / int_6c9193a1	comment	Averted on The Venture Brothers. When Brock is being treated in an OSI hospital level, an invisible man tries to escape and bounces off the doors, indicating that they use normal infrared sensors.
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Script-Reading Doors / int_81692f99	type	Script-Reading Doors
Script-Reading Doors / int_81692f99	comment	Any amount of times on Star Trek. Oddly, the unaired Pilot "The Cage" has a door that opens when two characters walk into range, despite the fact that they were only running to get a view of the transporter. Particularly obvious in one episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, when Picard makes a speech, and then walks towards the door. Then he pauses, right at the door, before turning back to give a final comment to cap his speech. The door doesn't open until it's quite sure he's finished. Another notable example: in "The Naked Time", Spock begins to feel the effects of a waterborne inhibition-removing chemical and ducks into an empty briefing room. As soon as he's out of sight, he slumps back against the doors, which fortunately stay closed. Lampshades in the Star Trek: Discovery episode, "The Red Angel" where Tilly apologizes for barging into a meeting, saying she should have knocked but couldn't because the doors open automatically. In a possible case of Reality Is Unrealistic, the TNG-era Star Trek production team once actually tried installing real automatic doors on the set rather than paying grips to pull back the prop doors. It didn't work because—yes—the doors opening and closing at "natural" times often spoiled dramatic moments in the script. There are outtakes where the grips missed their cue and the actors halt abruptly or walk into the doors.
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Script-Reading Doors / int_8b957d5d	type	Script-Reading Doors
Script-Reading Doors / int_8b957d5d	comment	Zaphod even tried to instruct a door how to open stealthily so he can get the jump on his unwanted boarders in one chapter of Life, the Universe and Everything. The door does exactly as he asks, then completely blows it by asking him - loudly - if that's what he wanted. Yes, the in-door voice has No Indoor Voice.
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Script-Reading Doors / int_9a7088bc	type	Script-Reading Doors
Script-Reading Doors / int_9a7088bc	comment	Another notable example: in "The Naked Time", Spock begins to feel the effects of a waterborne inhibition-removing chemical and ducks into an empty briefing room. As soon as he's out of sight, he slumps back against the doors, which fortunately stay closed.
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Star Trek: The Original Series	hasFeature	Script-Reading Doors / int_9a7088bc
Script-Reading Doors / int_a183d57f	type	Script-Reading Doors
Script-Reading Doors / int_a183d57f	comment	Subverted in the first episode of Futurama, where they seem to be time based and when Fry spent too much time gawking at them, they closed on him, twice.
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Script-Reading Doors / int_a3fcd166	type	Script-Reading Doors
Script-Reading Doors / int_a3fcd166	comment	In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy, the automatic doors on the Heart of Gold are characters in their own right. It is their pleasure to open for you and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done. Zaphod even tried to instruct a door how to open stealthily so he can get the jump on his unwanted boarders in one chapter of Life, the Universe and Everything. The door does exactly as he asks, then completely blows it by asking him - loudly - if that's what he wanted. Yes, the in-door voice has No Indoor Voice. In The Restaurant at the End of the Universe the elevators at the publishing office are precognitive so they know just when someone needs them. Unfortunately, they also refuse to bring passengers up to floors where they predict something bad is about to happen. They have therapists.
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Script-Reading Doors / int_ba666650	type	Script-Reading Doors
Script-Reading Doors / int_ba666650	comment	When dragging a dead or unconscious body in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, non-electronic doors will automatically swing open as you approach them and close behind you.
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Script-Reading Doors / int_e278316b	type	Script-Reading Doors
Script-Reading Doors / int_e278316b	comment	In The Prisoner (1967), Number Six's front door seems to know when he's entering or leaving his home. Of course, he is living in a panopticon.
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Script-Reading Doors / int_e4732abc	type	Script-Reading Doors
Script-Reading Doors / int_e4732abc	comment	In one incident on Stargate Atlantis, one of the main characters has just had a heart-to-heart with his girlfriend, and as he walks away the door stays open just long enough for him to have a longing look back before closing despite being just outside the door (and therefore presumably still in the sensor's range). In another episode, the doors to the conference room close just in time to keep the last guy inside and they don't open when he steps back, then forward again.
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Script-Reading Doors / int_e885c808	type	Script-Reading Doors
Script-Reading Doors / int_e885c808	comment	In one scene of Spaceballs, the sliding doors shut on Lord Helmet's helmet.
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Script-Reading Doors / int_f74b5f80	type	Script-Reading Doors
Script-Reading Doors / int_f74b5f80	comment	Happens at times on Babylon 5. Sometimes the doors would open/close automatically once a character gets in range of it, sometimes it will remain open (or closed) despite a character standing right next to it. There's also the matter of how Ambassador Kosh is able to magically walk into any room despite the doors of the station quarters clearly being not wide enough for him to pass through.
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Script-Reading Doors / int_ff9ab17f	type	Script-Reading Doors
Script-Reading Doors / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Particularly obvious in one episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, when Picard makes a speech, and then walks towards the door. Then he pauses, right at the door, before turning back to give a final comment to cap his speech. The door doesn't open until it's quite sure he's finished.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Script-Reading Doors	processingCategory2	Door Tropes
Script-Reading Doors	processingCategory2	Futuristic Tech Index
Script-Reading Doors	processingCategory2	Speculative Fiction Tropes
The Rocky Horror Picture Show / int_d821a69	type	Script-Reading Doors
SAYER (Podcast) / int_d821a69	type	Script-Reading Doors
The Prisoner (1967) / int_d821a69	type	Script-Reading Doors
inFAMOUS (Video Game) / int_d821a69	type	Script-Reading Doors
Star Command (Video Game) / int_d821a69	type	Script-Reading Doors
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls / int_d821a69	type	Script-Reading Doors

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