How could I forget this one? Complete with drop out module.
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Another Cutter: the ISSAPC
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You know I never saw that one....
Never watched it, but then I don't watch much TV anyway....Net addiction, still this one is pretty groovy for a low tech smallcraft.
Never watched it, but then I don't watch much TV anyway....Net addiction, still this one is pretty groovy for a low tech smallcraft.
pendragonman
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That show had possibilities. Just didn't get enough veiwership.
far-trader
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I'll third that. And put the blame the same place I do for Firefly not having a chance. The network bigwigs. In the case of SA&B they bounced it around timeslots and evenings (as I recall) making it hard to build any kind of audience. That would make it hard enough to get viewers with a simple show but this one required that you actually pay attention sequentially to figure out the story as it developed. That made it great television imo but it probably turned some off, especially when they missed an episode because suddenly it was on another night and time without any warning.
A pity, but the writers at least had the integrity to wrap it up in a decent way when it got canceled.
Wait, is this that Space Marine thing?
I may have seen this, or a couple episodes...still I don't remember much of though.
I may have seen this, or a couple episodes...still I don't remember much of though.
far-trader
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Yep. A little bit Starship Trooperish (in a good way, the way it should have been done)
I came to it late, but SA&B was fantastic in many ways. a bit cheesy in others. I LOVED the attention to detail regarding the US Marine tradition. The language and culture of a US Marine squad (though a bit romanticised).
I LOVED the comparison with WW2 and (did you notice?) the total lack of reference to the Vietnam War. That was a definate snub.
Great series.
Really great.
I LOVED the comparison with WW2 and (did you notice?) the total lack of reference to the Vietnam War. That was a definate snub.
Great series.
Really great.
Ahh, well perhaps on Disk then?
MI takes care of it's own!
I just dig on that....and I do love the Corps so, I suppose I'll have to catch this SA&B someday....someday.
And yeah, the Good Starship Trooper. BTW are you familiar with the CG version Roughnecks: The Starship Trooper Chronicles, that rocked, they too paid attention to the details...well most, still had dudes flying ships...but they did get the Skinnies and they did a good job with the various planetary details, the Skinnies being one the best, had a weird atmo and the tracer fire looked different because of it. Yep it rocked compared to the movie, but still not the book.
MI takes care of it's own!
I just dig on that....and I do love the Corps so, I suppose I'll have to catch this SA&B someday....someday.
Hi
Hi,
I think I saw most all the episodes of this show, and I kind of liked it, except it suffered a little from stuff you see in a lot of shows, where the same group of people seem to have to be at the center of everything. As such, you ended up with pilots serving as ground troops, etc depending on the story that week. If they had just made the story about the ship they were on, with some of the characters being ground troops, and some being fighter pilots, and some being ship's crew, maybe it might have not seemed so odd. I especicially did like the look and feel of alot of the ships and tech, in he show though.
Anyway, like I said, I kind of liked it and some of the episodes were really great.
Regards
PF
Hi,
I think I saw most all the episodes of this show, and I kind of liked it, except it suffered a little from stuff you see in a lot of shows, where the same group of people seem to have to be at the center of everything. As such, you ended up with pilots serving as ground troops, etc depending on the story that week. If they had just made the story about the ship they were on, with some of the characters being ground troops, and some being fighter pilots, and some being ship's crew, maybe it might have not seemed so odd. I especicially did like the look and feel of alot of the ships and tech, in he show though.
Anyway, like I said, I kind of liked it and some of the episodes were really great.
Regards
PF
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Some of the references were a little odd, though. The Doolittle mission to fly that Chig bomber and bomb the home world was called Case White. That was the code name for the Nazi invasion of Poland. Also, during his go-get em' speech to the crew the commander says this mission will be the beginning of the "final solution" to the Chigs. A wee disturbing hearing those two references that kinda marred the show for me, even if only because that whole two-part episode was so unsubtle and unimaginative in its writing.
And the whole "Chiggy von Richtofen" thing was really out there. Why a red Chig fighter with a reference from Dante painted on it? Who the heck among that alien race would know any of that?
Otherwise I loved the show, just wish it had stayed on long enough to really mature.
Oh yeah, to this day I love to use the expression, "Easy as eating pancakes."
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