Purpose

The address is frequently acclimated as a agency of emphasizing how active the characters are. It suggests that there is so abundant to do and so little time to do it in that alike traveling time charge be acclimated to serve added functions. It additionally serves the purposes of cutting transitions from one area to addition and abacus beheld absorption to what ability contrarily be changeless "talking heads" sequences. All three Law & Order alternation accept acclimated the address to this purpose occasionally, additional all three shows in the CSI authorization use this frequently. Moreover, it has been acclimated as a arresting story-enhancer in abundant episodes of The West Wing, The Bill, House M.D., Ugly Betty, and ER.

The Walk and Talk address is additionally generally acclimated as a way of accumulation account with a beheld addition to above areas (and their locations in affiliation to one another) that will be acclimated in a production. Examples of this can be apparent in both blur (the aperture chat amid Mal and Simon in Serenity) and television (the agnate chat amid Sinclair and Lyta in the pilot adventure of Babylon 5, "The Gathering"). This use of the address is consistently apparent in aperture scenes in the UK alternation Hollyoaks as a way of recapping accepted news curve and assuming how the artifice streams interrelate with the characters.