Destroy All Podcasts DX Episode 145 - Mobile Suit Gundam: The Movie
Hosts: Jeremy, Mike, Nat, Zuey
This is about space Nazis, guys wearing stupid hats, and making your mom ashamed of you.
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Note: Sorry this is going up at the end of Monday instead of the beginning. Moving sucks and I couldn't find part of my computer.
| Posted 21 June, 2010 - 23:21 by Destroy All Pod... |
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18 comments postedBablity Blabity Blah, pedantic English major!
As bad as other people are for saying "franchise" it's probably even worse to quibble about how people choose to use words. No one likes an English major.
Also, I think guys like to have their girlfriends drawn in compromising positions with robots are probably cuckolds.
-Yeah, sure.
Complain all you want, but my issue is not that the word "franchise" is poor English, my issue is that is one of many signs of nerds internalizing marketing speak from press releases. That's what I don't like. Don't talk like a press release.
I feel the same way too. It has gone too far (I should know, I work in a franchise).
I'd never really thought or cared about the use of the word franchise before but I do actually see where you're coming from there.
Meta-series is a term that seems to get thrown about a lot these days, especially when it comes to titles where the complete cannon of works includes lots of different timelines and possibly several mediums. It's more accurate, but there is the danger of sounding too academic when using it.
But y'know we don't really need any word to describe the entirity of a *gulp* franchise. Hell in British English the word series is actually what we use instead of season, we have nothing for the entire run of a show and yet somehow we cope.
Yeah like jeremy said in the podcast that most girls dont really get into gundam and for that matter I think alot of mecha people as well. They go in expecting to see all kinds of "super robot" type action and probably a more simplistic plot line and instead get a complex story with little tid bits of secondary robot action. If your expecting super robot style action you'll be bored out of your mind. Gundam isnt for everyone. Thats my 2 cents
Just FYI, the first episode of Gundam Unicorn which came out a few months ago cleared up the whole question of when the UC timeline began, if I'm remembering correctly.
Edit: Also, the Gundam is 18 meters tall.
I haven't seen Gundam Unicorn, but there have been several contradictory "official" dates for the start of the Universal Century throughout the history of Gundam as a series. I wouldn't put too much stock in it. I've heard Unicorn is good though, and I'm interested in watching it.
Okay, so the Gundam 18.5 meters tall. Great Mazinger is 25 meters tall.
Here's a mecha height chart that shows a bunch of robots together: http://media.photobucket.com/image/mecha%20height%20chart/majingojira/SuperRobotSizeChart10metersperspace.jpg
You can see the original Gundam is NOT that big.
It's pretty big compared to any other Real Robot.
But I guess that's just more illustration of Gundam as the transition point between Super Robot and Real Robot.
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"All the dogs in this sector have turned into red monsters!...don't tell me that it's impossible!"
Yeah, real robots do tend to be much smaller than super robots, but hey, I mean, real robots didn't exist when they made Gundam.
While the release schedule for Unicorn is pretty frustrating, if what little I can judge from the first episode is any indication, at the very least it didn't feel horribly insipid the way most Gundam material has lately.
According to a website I found the life size Gundamn in Japan is 59foot tall, which accoridng to google is 17.9832 metres, I'm bad at remembering conversions so used that as it was quicker.
According to the image posted the buster machine is about 245 metres or 803 feet tall. Damn.
I was tempted to buy the movie set on release over here in the UK but never did get round to it, but GundamnZ is all we ever really got over here that I remmeber and even then I only watched an episode or two. Now on the other hand yoy mention the fact that the Gundam is what actually keeps our hero alive and does all the kick ass things and isn't made out of explodium, well remembering on it now thats kinda how the first game of Zone of the Enders opens up.
Japan had a life-size Gundam, and we have a life-size oil spill. Who's lucky now, Japan?
-Yeah, sure.
Seriously I have to ask isn't there a man made microbe thats designed to break down oil molecules, why haven't they tired using some of that.
Plus I can see vehilces as we percieve mehcs, being a reality in our lifetime, Theres two main factors to work out, a decent power source and hydraulic articulation. A real battle mech for example fully bipedal walker with canopy could be made right now, but it all comes down to money, how much are people willing to spend. It would have to made of light materials though so as such calling it a battle mech and having it go into combat would be a disaster,
Being reminded when a friend of mine got the remastered version of the movies sometime ago, his only one complaint was figuring out that some of the extra background sounds heard in one part of the film used audio from the NASA Challenger space shuttle disaster, though he didn't make a big deal out of it in the end.
I don't think we mentioned this, but there's a bit in "Wings of Honneamise" where they clearly used the Challenger explosion as the animation reference.
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"All the dogs in this sector have turned into red monsters!...don't tell me that it's impossible!"
Don't see why they wouldn't, at least it gave them something to reference in an interesting movie.
I do agree that the movie is slow moving and sometimes rather hard to watch, but its still a great film regardless.
As of the full 1/1 scale in japan, I heard that is being moved somewhere else in the coming months than in Tokyo, and on top of Mt. Fuji there is a life size gundam area you can visit and solve puzzles to sit inside a mockup cockpit.
That also reminds me, coming soon there is going to be a full scale Evangelion bust and the setup to look like when Shinji first encounters the Eva with the head and part of the shoulders above the LCL (or I forgot the liquid that its covered in, blood I guess). This will also be at top of Mt. Fuji as well. Heres a link on that: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-05-12/life-size-evangelion-bust-built-at-foot-of-mt-fuji
Oh yea, that whole moment out of nowhere with Jeremy going "The definition of Franchise is blahblah blah blah" kinda freaked me out. I was kinda like "Wow, really?" But you are the man, for me not wasting any of my time finding the current definition of what franchise means, rats off to yea!
But my own opinion on that would be if everyone who likes and watched Gundam had a share or some holding to the series, would you, in your own option, consider it a franchise? Gundam being defined the word franchise to me is like everyone owning a Sonic fast food joint, because your part of the franchise if you own Sonic because you have some ownership of that. I didnt know if that would be more or less the same reason for Gundam.