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This week on the podcast we finally start talking about the movie Gundam F91 with an episode focused entirely on the plot.

There is no research in this episode.

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Mark Simmons

As one of a handful of loyal F91 fans, I really enjoyed your in-depth scrutiny - tough but fair! I was wondering why Thom was so hung up on the timeline (or rather, why *this* was the one where it suddenly started to bug him), but I have a little better understanding of that now. Perhaps at some point you should recruit a special guest commenter on Long-Term Injury Recovery, just in case it comes up again in future works...

Mark Simmons

Anyways, as usual, some of the story mysteries are addressed in Tomino's novels. (For example, we're told that Seabook and a couple of his friends are engineering students, so they have some experience with worker machines that makes them plausible pilot candidates.) Tomino throws around a few references to the passage of time, which I haven't pondered in detail but seem consistent with about a week passing before Seabook sneaks back into the conquered colony. For what that's worth...

Angel Jaimes

About Tomino and/or his team wanting new Federation ships: Every sequel to Gundam has a surprising amount of new ships. Zeta has a couple of returning or modified versions of new ships like the Salamis Kai or what seem to be original Musais that both the Titans and AEUG uses but there are WAY more new ships: the Argama, the Radish, the Alexandria, the Dogosse Gier, the Jupitris, the La Vie en Rose, the Gwadan and the Gwanban. Even though ZZ takes place directly after it, Axis uses new ships too: The Endra class, and the Saddalahn. And even though the Argama survived Zeta, the writers chose to introduce the Nahel Argama for the AEUG. In Char's Counterattack, even though the Nahel Argama survived, Bright is captain of a COMPLETELY NEW SHIP the Ra Calium as well as the rest of the Londo Bell fleet's Clop class(like the Ra Chutter) and Char's Neo Zeon also uses new ships like the Rewloola. For the team working on F91 they might've been told by the sponsors to introduce new ships to sell toys of them.

Angel Jaimes

It might also be a story thing, from UC 0088 to UC0093 the Federation had built a lot of new ships for their new fleet but in the 30 years span to f91 the Federation has NO new ships might seem a little ludicrous to the writers. I don't mind it so much because as Thom says, ships stay in service for a very long time in our world and the Federation might not have wanted to design new ships to use.