Anime/Suisei no Gargantia

Didn't he do that one already?

(On a semi-serious note, "Starship Troopers" can pretty much just be read as "Robert A Heinlein" up there.)

I am betting the main character will be the one to cause Earth becoming abandoned... or he will be forced to do so to make sure the future he came from occurs

edited 8th Apr '13 2:59:01 AM by MarquisDev

This hasn't been revealed in-show yet, but Earth is flooded. So if he did travel back in time he did so to a point that's still far in our future and honestly that'd be pretty weird from a narrative perspective

I am pretty sure he didn't travel to the past.

The AI made a brief reference to "space-time coordinates", so it's possible.

Episode 1: Loved it. Gorgeous visuals, all that sci fi and mecha stuff, and the story's got a nice flow goin'. I already adore Chamber.

Given the sheer distances where they could have traveled, obviously you'd take into consideration time as well, ESPECIALLY when we're talking about literal light years of travel between two points. And take note, this is before the six months he's spent in stasis is taken into consideration. Depending on how far away from the front Earth is, well, from where Ledo's standing the war might have already been won or lost.

This show isn't bad. Quite interesting actually, seems like it might be more than just Mecha. And yep, the AI is a great character. It's quite adventurous so far.

Indeed. If we take into account that relativistic effects may have messed with the internal clock, it may not be a matter of "where have we ended up in time?" but more "how much time has passed according to the place we left?"

Wormholes generally ignore relativistic effects. The entire point of them in most SF stories is to completely bypass the speed of light and any considerations that causes. Not that it really makes a huge difference anyway, given the whole "eternal war" feeling his society had going for it.

Well he could have fell really fast... Past some really dense stuff... Okay probably not off by too much. But still, synchronising clocks over such a large distance would be a problem.

Well yeah. Wormholes made time travel possible too as I recall. Though anything's possible if you mess with them in fiction.

In this case, the wormhole was clearly artificial because of that structure surrounding it. Makes you wonder who built it, because the system was occupied by those aliens. Anyway, we don't know what it is capable of, simply because it was, at the very least, stabilized.

It was clearly implied that the Alliance built it, in complete secrecy, to facilitate their surprise attack.

I enjoyed it, knowing little about Urabutcher other than his name and the stuff her worked on (which I didn't like) but I see no reason why I should dislike the show for that alone.

Chamber was cool.

I'm going to follow this thread closely and wait and see if Gen can keep the depressing and retarded grimdark out of this before picking it up.

Second episode is fun.

However, apparently, earth defrosted somehow, and Red didn't travel in time.....

The Hideazu are basically Space Monsters, Heh.

edited 9th Apr '13 6:14:28 AM by Demongodofchaos2

I have feeling Red might not be welcomed as he though after this "Heroic deed".

I mean I hope there is conflict like any mecha, but yeah I hope that Urobutcher's Signature Style is held off on here "HAHA EVERYONE IS HAPPY NOW THEY DIE"

edited 9th Apr '13 3:33:10 PM by Thorn14

This is really good! Crazy awesome animation, an intriguing plot, non-graphic shiny violence and I really, really like Chamber. Only problem is, it's rather lacking in the fun department.

I just want Red and Chamber to be friends with everyone. You know, before everyone dies horribly because Gen Urobuchi. Just as long as the fun times happen first. Yes.

There's no way Red and Chamber traveled back in time. The world was already frozen, many humans fled, some remained on Earth and survived somehow, then it defrosted. This was stated. Timespace affects the rate at which time passes, not the direction. Of course there is every possibility that he is in another dimension from his own.

edited 9th Apr '13 4:42:46 PM by Ruise

What groups are subbing this? The version I watched was apparently subbed and encoded by a tag-team duo of chimpanzees.

I believe UTW-Vivid did the first episode. The second one was done (very kindly, I say) by one person who's never subbed before and isn't a native english speaker, hence the lowered quality of the translation and encoding.

This is officially my favorite show of the season. Everything about it is hitting all the right notes with me, and I can't wait to watch more. If this follows the path of a normal Urobuchi series I will be severely disappointed. But, I have faith that he will keep his word on this being a different kind of story from his usual stuff, and failing that, that Murata will keep him check.

Quite a few groups have subbed the first episode, not sure where the second came from

The second one is an .ass file for the Blu-Ray release of the first 2 episodes.

@Tenzen: the thing is, Led isn't actually trying to do a "heroic deed". He was doing it to gain leverage. He is far more pragmatic and isn't idealistic as you might think.

And I am not as naive as you might think. What I wanted say was he did it earn some points (or leverage as you said) by helping them (That's why I put phrase heroic deed in quotation marks, which I belive is often used to emphasize irony), but his efort might be rather contraproductive instead. He might be kicked out of Gargantia and that in better case.

...Actualy I can't see ANYONE to be so naive to actualy think that way about Red.

edited 9th Apr '13 8:44:42 PM by Tenzen12

After he wrecked a pirate fleet in seconds, I think they're going to think twice before giving him the boot. Or antagonizing him at all, for that matter.

I dunno, fear can make people do crazy things. While they were cautious around him before, they may decide that he's too much of a risk to merely "hope" he doesn't attack them.