== My issue with the zero-G sequences in *Moretsu Pirates*

*Pirates* has made the unusual decision to not use artificial gravity
in the sole spaceship that we've seen; instead all of the areas of the
ship we've seen so far have been in zero G. (It's possible that part of
the living quarters have gravity from spin, but the bridge and main ship
areas don't.)

Unfortunately there is one bit of how *Pirates* is handling the zero G
sequences that gets to me. It's not how everyone's skirts are apparently
nailed down (yes, the schoolgirls are still wearing their uniform skirts
in zero G); [[as noted http://chizumatic.mee.nu/messages]], this is not
that sort of show, and I'm perfectly willing to accept that.

What gets to me is how people maneuver in zero G. *Pirates* has
repeatedly had people floating still in the air, not in contact with
anything, and then had them just start moving again without pushing off
anything or otherwise having some source of thrust. Sometimes people have
stopped in midair (not coasted to a stop, just stopped). It's as if
*Pirates* is treating people in zero G just like people walking along
the ground, except they can coast and float and move in any direction.

(Unfortunately this isn't the kind of thing that can be illustrated
without an animation clip of some sort.)

*Pirates* doesn't do this all of the time; a lot of the time people do
push off things and stop themselves on things. But not always, and the
exceptions make me twitch. I wish that *Pirates* would either commit
wholesale to real zero G or just give up and give the ship artificial
gravity.

(Perhaps the clearest example of this happens during parts of the
spacewalk in the third episode. I'd try to handwave that as their suit
backpacks having some sort of maneuvering thrusters if it wasn't for all
of the other times this happens.)