Wow! It's fucking nothing!

I guess you could say...

...she was a real SHOE-IN for the job!!!

lol ^__^

>Do something
>THIS SHOW IS GOD TIER
This thread is shit tier

>>60952844
>>60952856
It's a big deal, because visual scifi generally forgets that something which deals with enough energy to get a ship someplace in a reasonable amount of time deals with enough energy to be used as a weapon.

The person aiming through the scope went blind.

People still warch boringshit pirates? Oh wow

>>60952945
Worst day at work ever. EVER.

Last episode was really good

>>60952951
They have medication for ADHD, bro.

>>60952951
>still using the outdated troll even though something happened
Trolls and haters confirmed for stupid.

Lightning 11 was just stupid. They could have won.

>>60952945
It's okay, he's probably vaporized now

>>60953137
Even if things went badly, Bentenmaru was out there and so was Barbolsa apparently.

>>60953137
Not once their computers were hacked.

>>60952945
Yeah.

Blind.

And burned alive. Marika killed someone. Pirate Captain in the making, folks.

>>60953228
Self defense.

>>60953228
Even better. A better captain she is.

Did something finally happen? Might pick this back up.

>>60952800
Is this true?
I was considering picking this up but am now having doubts.

>>60953402
It makes sense in the anime

>>60953386
Ship attacked, crew was prepared, Lightning 11 got fucked in their ass, they tried to be cute and shoot beam cannons by manually aiming through a scope, Odette II had no weapons so Marika shot the SUN at them.

>>60953386
I'd suggest marathoning the five episodes. Judging by the preview it looks like the pace is going to start picking up.

>>60953402
They didn't actually "shoot" the enemy with sunlight, just used their sails to focus the light on the enemy to blind them.

>>60953447
It makes sense in reality.

>>60953402
Yes it's true, but it's actually explained and it makes perfect sense.

>>60953396
keep the bitches give me the money

You guys do understand they blinded the gunner right? Are you guys fucking 12?

>>60952800

Creative writers have nothing to do with it being god-tier. Its all about a script that is easy to understand with great execution not some "Blahblah" COMPUTERS, PEW PEW HOLY SHIT WE ARE SO SMERT!

>>60953531
>You guys do understand they blinded the gunner right?
Yes.
>Are you guys fucking 12?
The fuck?

>>60953454
Blind them, and if they had left it on, kill them. Remember, in space, you can only lose heat via radiation. Heating op a ship like that kills the ship. Also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0_nuvPKIi8

>>60953531
Yeah no shit. It's just a lot more funny if we say they got shot by the sun. Gunner is blind for life now.

>>60952800
The show is good tier. It appeals to a certain demographic, but I don't think that makes it great.

>>60953531
>You guys do understand they blinded the gunner right?
As oppose what?

>>60953558
Ok good. I was concerned for my species slightly.

>>60953579
>Gunner is blind for life now
Judging by the actions of the Bentenmaru and Barbalusa, I'd say "for life" isn't very long. Those niggas dead.

>>60953620
You understand that they really could have killed the crew of the Lightning 11 that way, right?

>>60953697
At least he didn't see his death coming.

>>60953731
Yeah but I wonder if he had time to reflect on the actions of himself and his crew, hindsight is 20/20 you know.

>>60953596
Everythingwentbetterthanexpected.jpg

>>60953763
>Blind puns

Never change /a/.

>>60953228
Umm... I kinda want my pirate captain capable of killing someone.

>>60953731
he went towards the light

>>60953717

And the Lightning 11 could have just as easily killed everyone on board the Odette II - In fact, more easily. The Lightning 11 could change position, maneuver, yield, etc. before they got burned too badly. The Odette II, where it hit, would be in multiple pieces sucking hard vacuum.

>>60953596
>Defcon
So when do the nukes start?

All this technology porn makes my dick hard

>>60954043
>they could maneuver
>with engines shut down and computer turned off

Giant nerd boner.

>>60954118
So? Why pity scum who endangered the lives of children? They got what was coming to them.

PRAISE THE SUUUNNNNN

SOLAR FLAREEE

>>60954112
>>60954224
>>60954281
>>60954306
Jesus christ stop samefagging.

you know the ship reflected the sun like a mirror and not like a magnifying glass, so the talk about burning the pirates was bullshit.

>>60954278
Missing the point. They couldn't maneuver with no engines.

>>60954372
You know you're retarded, right?

>>60954281
My new wallpaper. This show is better than Shinkai movies in that aspect.

>>60954372
You're not being serious right? Please tell me you're not

>>60954506
I´m totally serious xD

>>60954372
People like this are how Lightning 11 had the crew it did.

and they need the exactly position of the pirate ship. try it with a mirror and a person, you can only blend the other person if the angle is perfect

>>60954575
They calculated it.

>>60954575
That's why Marika asked their position be calculated exact as possible.

Like how Marika thinks.
>If the're fucking with you, you need to teach them a lesson or the'll never stop.
>They wouldn't take mercy on us so we won't take mercy on them BURN THEM!

>>60954575
If only they had an advanced sensor suite and computers to do that sort of thing.

>>60954642
It´s more like this:
>They are firing beam canons at us?
>The only logical option is to blend them.

>>60954372
You can't be this stupid can you?

>>60954645
That would take a super advanced space ship to do though.

>>60954616

"exact as possible" is pretty lame, because both ships are thousands and thousands kilometers away, so a hit was more unlikely than for the pirates with the old artillery methode.

>>60954642
Yeah she seems pretty merciless, I hope she keelhauls someone at some point IN SPACE

Will she ever actually start wearing pirate clothes?

I hope not.

>>60954773
Next episode.

>>60954773
Preview showed her in her pirate hat/coat, so probably next episode.

I have no idea what the FUCK is going on in this show

Who the hell are they fighting?

>>60954728
>it was more likely to hit with calculations done by hand using an optical sights at a range at over a light second than with a targeting computer and sensors.

Dat Kzinti Lesson.

>>60954847
the man

>>60954820
Shit's gonna be so real when that finally happens

>>60954847
All we know is that it was a group of people on a ship called Lightning 11 attacking them. It was probably the same group of people who tried to kidnap Marika in the restaurant.

>>60954856

even a miscalulation of some meters are enough to miss the target. It's basic geometry...

>>60954847
Just some punks who wanted to fuck with the pending captain of the Bentenmaru, I'd say.

The president is so cute when she gets all flustered about primitive ways of doing things.

>How can you fire long range weapons without radar?!
>...with their eyes?
>Madness!

Next flag: rape

>5 episodes later
>finally become pirate

So, how many episodes is this going to be because I'm going to be pissed if it's like 12. Wasted almost half the show on nothing basically.

im not really sure if the enemy was dead. i guess, infrared goes up? could have just blinded the optical targeting, so they cant fire again.

>>60954973
26 episodes.

>>60954973
26 I'm looking forward to the ride

>>60954973
26

>>60955021
>>60955033

Thank god.

>>60955016
That ship was dead in the water, at the very LEAST one of their crew was completely blind and Bentenmaru and Barbulsa both opened fire on it. If it's not destroyed it's beyond doing anything and they were arrested by the military.

>>60954372
You can use mirrors to focus light, you know. You just need to have the right curvature. And since each individual antenna used in generating the sail seems to have the ability to be turned independently, the Odette II could probably get a pretty decent curvature for focusing at that angle.

>>60954926
That's exactly the point. Now who's going to be able to make those calculations faster wish the lower error margin, the ship that has to do it by hand with maybe a separate computer to do the actual math and have to aim manually, or the ship with the integrated targeting computer?

>>60954973
26
We aren't even 1/4 in yet.

>>60955016
Well that would have been the case if the two pirateships hadn't appeared and obliterated them with beam cannons

>>60954973
>wasted
>nothing
I'll get you Peter Pan! And your little ADHD too!

>>60955016
Infrared going up means they were heating up the ship. Now remember, they're in space, so this is a very very bad thing.

>>60952945

It's fine though, because he was blown to atoms a few seconds later

Technically, the Odette II would also have its knowledge of the Lightning 11's position be off by 1 second due to the distance. However, the computer on the Odette II would likely be able to compensate for that a lot faster than someone doing it by hand or with a pocket calculator, unless they were an idiot savant. Or a Vulcan.

>>60955180
Cooked alive god that's a nasty way to go.

>>60954857
What's the Kzinti Lesson?

>>60955240
Possibly two seconds, depending on whether they were using active or passive sensors. But it's not like they cold maneuver.

then again, are the sun rays powerful enough to burn a ship? I mean...ships like that suppose to be built to withstand those?

>>60955306
I should tell you to fuck off and google it, but basically see >>60952923
Now fuck off and google it for more information.

>>60955345
If focused, yes. Besides, you don't need to burn the ship itself, just heat it enough to kill the crew.

It's little touches like these on why I think this is my favortie show of Winter 2011, bearly beating out EVOL

>No plot on board
>Bore the enemy to tears with slow pacing

I honestly doubt anybody in the other ship died, or they would have mentioned it in some way.

They just blinded the guy who was aiming the beam scope, and probably anyone who was looking in that direction. Ships are probably resistant to that kind of heat.

So wait, Chiaki is gonna be a captain of the other pirate ship now?

>>60955478
They confirmed the ship's IR readings were increasing. If they didn't die, it's because they let them live.

>>60955490

No, her old man is the captian still. She will take over when her father dies.

>Gunner is blind for life now

Both seconds of it.

Also I can't be the first person this has occurred to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3ZlwGrxYtQ

For the world, for the people, Odette 2 will smash the ambitions of Lightning 11. If you don't fear the shine of the Sun, then bring it on!

>>60955478
>I honestly doubt anybody in the other ship died, or they would have mentioned it in some way.

They did mention how ruthless the Bentenmaru and Barbalusa were being.

>>60955345
Hey if its good enough to be a super weapon of doom in Gundam its good enough for this anime.

>>60955530
She specifically mentions not wanting them to burn, just unable to see.

>>60955625
Which is why they stopped when the ship showed no signs of resistance, thus letting them live.

i rewatch it again. blinded, the lighting 11 moved, then the other ships came.

>>60955682
>the lighting 11 moved
It didn't, they had it confused with the other ships at first.

>>60955478
I agree with you, I think Marika said she didn't have to kill them which may be a hint that she didn't, but whether the two pirate ships filled Lightning 11 with holes, whether Lightning 11 had proper insulation layers to prevent too much heat getting in, whether the targeting scope had decent light-adjustment tints, whether Marika left the beam unfocused enough so it wouldn't kill is all left to interpretation and I like it like that. This can be a brutal murderous pirate show if you want it to be already, or highschool girls talking around computers in space still if you want.