Mobile Suit Gundum: Witch From Mercury w/ Jeff Martin

Mobile Suit Gundum: Witch From Mercury w/ Jeff Martin

From Syndicated with Lesley and Ben by Infinity Break

October 29, 2024 · 1h 6m · Season 4 · Episode 4

About this episode

Lesley and Ben discuss Mobile Suit Gundum: Witch From Mercury with guest Jeff Martin, exploring themes of mecha, storytelling, and family dynamics.

Lesley and Ben’s season on International TV continues with MOBILE SUIT GUNDUM: WITCH FROM MERCURY with returning guest Jeff Martin. Jeff has been working on a new ttrpg project called BIG ROBOTS BIG FEELINGS and that means watching a lot of Gundum anime as research, alternating between Mobile Suit and Macross shows. Jeff’s bringing that giant robot expertise to Syndicated! We talk about sad birthday songs, how storytelling pacing has changed over time, the history of mecha as a genre and werewolves. It’s a wild one!We’re watching Episode Zero, Prologue. At Folkvangr, a space based mobile suit laboratory base on the side of an asteroid, scientists and pilots are working tirelessly to bring a new type of mech suit online, one powered by the GUND format that will allow machines to interface directly with human brains. Meanwhile, two key crew members of the Folkvangr base, pilots Elnore Samaya and Nadim Samaya, struggle to raise their toddler, Ericht, on board the base. When a government takeover of the Gundam laboratory leads to its near destruction, only Elnore and Ericht survive, as Nadim dies fighting the armed intruders bent on purging the world of Gundams. Syndicated with…

People in this episode

Hosts: Lesley, Ben

Guest: Jeff Martin

Topics covered

  • International TV
  • mecha genre
  • storytelling pacing
  • anime
  • giant robots
  • family dynamics

Keywords

  • Mobile Suit Gundam
  • anime
  • mecha
  • storytelling
  • Jeff Martin
  • Folkvangr
  • giant robots
  • family
  • ttrpg

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: MOBILE SUIT GUNDUM: WITCH FROM MERCURY, BIG ROBOTS BIG FEELINGS, Macross, Episode Zero, Prologue

Places: Folkvangr, Gundam

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