I guess normal people do talk to each other?

Along the lines as this thought from five years ago, lately I’ve been thinking about what I had always considered to be one of the most common of fictional tropes, the thing where the other characters are always telling the protagonist things. Indeed, the character are always talking to each other. It makes the story something interesting to read, if this was more like real life, the audience (and the characters) would have no idea what’s going on. Which is how real life works, but who wants to read that story? (I get that there are stories with unreliable narrators and complicated puzzles of narrative structure and some great classics of literature are like that but your typical TV show or fantasy novel trilogy not so much.)

I guess it’s dawning on me that people talk to each other a lot more than I’m used to being a part of, and more recently I’ve found talking with people to be a lot easier than when I was trying to be a man, even in my genderqueer weirdo days, which I sure did not expect, and now easier still as a woman.

Maybe some of that ‘protagonist of the fictional story’ interaction isn’t meant to be so totally unrealistic? I’ve been wondering while watching some things which parts the writers thought of as the really properly fictional parts of the story and which things they figured people might actually say to each other in real life. Sure, the dialog is polished up, the timing just so, everything is a bit neater than reality, but intended to look vaguely familiar to the viewer rather than just being the protagonist off having fictional protagonist adventures.