A form of quick Exposition, used to sum up the crazy situation that the characters have gotten themselves into. Can be for a few different reasons. Maybe someone's playing a game of Xanatos Speed Chess or Xanatos Roulette, or there's a Gambit Pileup going down, and the character(s) are assessing the problem to make a quick decision on their feet. Maybe someone is about to do / has done something insanely stupid, and another character tries to talk them out of / calls them out on it by pointing out the idiocy of the plan. Sometimes a character, finding themselves in an unfamiliar / scary / Mind Screw situation, speaks to him/herself to clear their own head. And sometimes a previous character has just explained it for the first time, either off-screen, but presumably at too much length to sh