Same here. Whenever I watch Mecha anime, especially the ones that try to be more realistic, I find the actual implausibilities of mechs distracting. There's a reason we don't use them; terrible surface area to armor thickness ratio (and some other stuff too).DoPo said:A lot of giant mecha and robots - why do they need to be humanoid? I suppose I get terminators and such, as in "normal sized robots" - they were probably initially designed to look like humans, so humans would be less freaked out by the machinem but they are still somewhat guilty of it. I don't think the whole bipedal thing is that efficient - it's a machine, why does it need to have 2 arms, 2 legs and a head? It's designed for war and fighting, so why not just make it better - four legs would work way better for balancing and also speed, you can still attach as many hands as you want, but you might be better off just having guns, and the head is often times the weak spot - just have the weak spot behind several layers of protection and guns. Why mimic humans all the time?
I've been perplexed by this for just so-o-o long. Since I was a kid, in fact, I never did manage to watch many robot stuff because of that, it's always been nagging me.
OT: All of the unresolved subplots in Fire Emblem (GBA 2003). Like all of the shit about rebellion and eliwood's father's involvement that just gets dropped after the dragon's gate arc.