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eroock Since: Sep, 2012
8th Dec, 2017 01:50:15 PM

Don't think we have this troped. Probably not enough structural engineers amongst us. Anyway, such a scene lends itself to Help, I'm Stuck!.

MetaFour MOD (Old Master)
9th Dec, 2017 08:49:44 PM

Possibly Special Effect Failure. It already covers "That's supposed to be rubble from a collapsed building, but it's clearly just styrofoam!" So "Why do broken parts of a spacecraft look more like rubble from a collapsed building?" doesn't seem like too much of a stretch for that.

I didn't write any of that.
TheSaddleman Since: Oct, 2017
13th Dec, 2017 12:32:06 PM

@Meta Four - Possibly, though in the case of The Orville, it's actually a plot point that what falls from the ceiling is massive enough to kill a character (sparking the episode's plotline). But for something that big to fall from the ceiling in a spaceship, that spaceship should be falling apart. Special Effects Failure feels more like "They wanted to show this in a story, but this is the best we could come up with."

eroock Since: Sep, 2012
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