From: Los <los@c...>
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 07:21:18 -0400
Subject: Roughnecks: The SST chronicles
Alert! a new series has begun on TV. It's called Roughnecks: The Starship Trooper chronicles and it's a CGI animation ala Voltron of Beast Wars. I'm watching and recording as I type. Here it's on WB at 0630 daily but is also on Sci Fi.around 0730 so Look around. The Graphics if anything are even more stunning than Voltron or Beast Wars. Very Impressive. This series is a better mix of book and film. The bugs look like the movie and have tankers and plasma types also.The hoppers move in swarms up to hundreds or thousands. The MI have Power Armor that works with flip down heads up binder and lethal weapons basic weapon is a murita an over under powergun/GL kills bugs with a few shots max but you can target to single shot lethalitry if you have the time. There's crew served lasers other MLPs and combat walkers. The MI seems to move in squads as the basic element, much better tactics than the movie. Radczak is their leader, looks like most of the squad are teens. Rico's there, Ace and Dizzy (She's a little more, ahem, shall we say proportionally enhanced"). It is geared for teens so there are some subplots ala will Dizzy ever get Rico to date her or will he forever hold out his heart for Carmen. BTW Carmen and Xander are fighter pilots flying CAS for the MI so you get some fighter combat and CAS detail in the shows. Nice spaceships, fighters and overall hardware. The one grips is that there were few human casualties displayed. One guy was wounded when a bug grabbed his midsection but he survived. Carmen's fighter was down in A2A w/ the hoppers but she was rescued. Radczak has his (mechanical) arm ripped off. Other than that it was mostly the bugs dying. Probably something to do with the fact that this is after all kids TV. PLots and violence suitable adjusted for that audience. ANyway someone alerted me to the show last night so now I'm passing it along. Worth the watch. Apparently they made 40x30min episodes. Cheers..