So you're watching a good old Space Opera or your favourite Cyberpunk tv series. There's been a grand battle and within all the excitement, you forget that in an intergalactic space war so big there must have been at least a few casualties. It is of course, the writers' jobs to remind of this eventually so as to add to the drama whilst slowing the pace a little. Next you, the casual viewer, will be shown images of the debris left behind in the battle and it'll only be a matter of time before you're shown a body (or parts thereof) floating within the wreckage. This is Dramatic Space Drifting.
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| - So you're watching a good old Space Opera or your favourite Cyberpunk tv series. There's been a grand battle and within all the excitement, you forget that in an intergalactic space war so big there must have been at least a few casualties. It is of course, the writers' jobs to remind of this eventually so as to add to the drama whilst slowing the pace a little. Next you, the casual viewer, will be shown images of the debris left behind in the battle and it'll only be a matter of time before you're shown a body (or parts thereof) floating within the wreckage. This is Dramatic Space Drifting.
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| - So you're watching a good old Space Opera or your favourite Cyberpunk tv series. There's been a grand battle and within all the excitement, you forget that in an intergalactic space war so big there must have been at least a few casualties. It is of course, the writers' jobs to remind of this eventually so as to add to the drama whilst slowing the pace a little. Next you, the casual viewer, will be shown images of the debris left behind in the battle and it'll only be a matter of time before you're shown a body (or parts thereof) floating within the wreckage. This is Dramatic Space Drifting. Common in Science Fiction, this is when a spaceship blows up in a battle and relatively important characters are visible drifting through the debris, usually with all body parts intact. This is a trope based mostly in aesthetics as there is often little scientific logic behind such scenes. Characters are usually dead, thus emphasizing the tragic consequences of the battle at a human level, but there are occasions in which characters are still alive and such occasions can either have the same effect or achieve a more comedic one. No relation at all to Multi-Track Drifting. Examples of Dramatic Space Drifting include:
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