Show Notes

It's parallels all the way down as our coverage of War in the Pocket continues! This week we're talking about episode 3: And at the end of the rainbow...?

Al shows his potential, Bernie shows how he really feels, the commandos show us a new mobile suit, and Chris shows off her batting average. They're all one big happy(?) family(??) on this week's episode of MSB! Plus for research Thom digs into the references hiding in plain view in the title sequence, how they might connect to other contemporary works, and what it all might mean for the show...

You'll find it all in Mobile Suit Breakdown 5.4: Child & Soldier. And don't forget to check out our website gundampodcast.com for visual aids to accompany this week's research piece!

The 0080 Title Sequence Visuals

The Aerial Steam Carriage 

• Article about the aerial steam carriage design.
• Article about other early experiments in powered flight.
• Wikipedia article for the aerial steam carriage.
• Wikipedia pages for William Samuel Henson and John Stringfellow.

The Carrack 

• "Carrack" on Wikipedia.
• An early Japanese depiction of a Portuguese carrack.
• Artist's rendering of Christopher Columbus' ships,  Niña (on the left, a caravel), and the carracks Santa Maria and Pinta. In truth, the Santa Maria was the only carrack. The Pinta was a second caravel.

Guernica 

• Ishaan Tharoor for The Independent, "Eighty Years Later, the Nazi war crime in Guernica still matters." 
• Toby Saul for National Geographic, "The horrible inspiration behind one of Picasso's great works." 
• Guernica (the painting) and Guernica (the bombing of) on Wikipedia. 
• BBC article on the legacy of Guernica, which notes how Franco and the nationalists tried to blame the bombing on Communists, and the ongoing struggle to define the history of the Spanish Civil War.
• Le Drapeau noir (The Black Flag) by René Magritte, which may also be a response to the bombing of Guernica.

Lilliput

• Alt, Matt. Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World. Crown, 2021.
• A tweet from the author Pure Invention specifically about Lilliput and its origins. 
• An original Lilliput sold for a