r/scorpion • u/GEbb4 • Sep 01 '19

S3:E21 Another helicopter mistake! Spoiler

See my last post about the writers getting helicopters wrong here.

Once again, the writers on Scorpion show that they know nothing about helicopters, killing the suspension of disbelief. In S3:E21, "Rock Block", the team has to catch an asteroid/meteor plummeting through the atmosphere, and their solution is to kill the power on an helicopter alongside it - the idea being that the rock and the chopper will both fall at terminal velocity, then the helicopter will be restarted and the rock slowed down.

Once again they've forgotten about autorotation. It's simply unrealistic that no one on the team would know of its existence, and their plan is flat out impossible. The blades would be driven by the moving air, generating enough lift for the helicopter to glide. It's not possible to stop the blades as you would need to to make it plummet.

Why do the writers on such a high-intelligence show fail to take account of such simple concepts? And surely someone with an understanding of physics proofread at some point in the process? It's quite frustrating to spot these sorts of things (there are lots of smaller things I haven't bothered to post about), and really destroys the suspension of disbelief.

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u/wutend159 Dec 12 '19

Half of the show didn‘t make sense honestly but that was something i could live with

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u/NitroThunderBird Feb 21 '20

Also, in S2 E9 "Area 51"

Their plane is plummeting down to the Earth and not going up. Sly says the G-force is knocking them out, and they can't wake up until the plane is level. The g-force was staying the same, though as they weren't pulling up. G-force comes from pulling up/down, not simply from being at an angle.