safely breaking a fall

Archaic · Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2009 6:45 pm Post subject: safely breaking a fall

How often does it occur in anime that a character is falling from some great height when they are safely caught by either someone in a mecha, a ship or some other thing that should have killed them. Oh sure the palm of that metallic robot caught you, but you still fell hard onto metal! Why is it that being caught by that metal saves you, whereas falling on an other piece of metal (or something just as hard) kills you?

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Billgar · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:44 am Post subject:

This is rediculous and yeah....

But! lets use science! they robot palm could move with the person for a few feet lestenng the impact! If not....then yeah.

Beanbaker · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:58 am Post subject:

Dramatic conventions! We are forced to accept the rhetor's manipulation of gravity! I guess it might be too ironic to have a person die so soon in a savior's arms, or metal hands, maybe even a cliche.

Lord_Obagon · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 3:13 pm Post subject:

Plot Development. It can make anything happen.

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