Narrating the Obvious
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One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in "It's a nice day", or "You're very tall", or "Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright?"
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Possibly a holdover from the days of radio, where it was necessary for characters to describe the action for the audience. The radio play (and subsequent versions) of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy played with (and lampshaded) this by using Arthur's tendency for this kind of talk to demonstrate the primitiveness of the human mind.
Examples: Every single Radio Drama, as required by the medium. Tends to make the actors sound really hammy to listeners used to visual media.
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in "It's a nice day", or "You're very tall", or "Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright?"
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Possibly a holdover from the days of radio, where it was necessary for characters to describe the action for the audience. The radio play (and subsequent versions) of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy played with (and lampshaded) this by using Arthur's tendency for this kind of talk to demonstrate the primitiveness of the human mind.
Examples: Every single Radio Drama, as required by the medium. Tends to make the actors sound really hammy to listeners used to visual media.