This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
From YKTTW Working Title: Whiteout Room
Nate The Great: Does anyone else think that "physical rooms with white walls and minimal furniture" and "areas of solid white and/or mist where there are no walls" are two different tropes?
Meta Four: Neither of those are what I'm going for here. This is about physical rooms that look like areas of solid white.
Paul A: I notice several of the examples are not "rooms like white voids", but "actual white voids". Should they be here?
Nate The Great: I don't think so. Walls should have to be visible to be this trope.
Prfnoff: As I read the trope description, the walls of this room should not be apparent. That rules out Nineteen Eighty Four as an example and a page quote.
.: If I'm interpreting this trope correctly (that is, if Nate The Great's first proposed definition counts as well as just the second), does the Wonkavision room from the 1971 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory film count as this? Also, at least if my own childhood is any indication, this trope can indeed be Nightmare Fuel for some. Edit: Having checked the YKTTW for this, the first reply to that seems to consider the Wonkavision room an example, at least.
