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Roughnecks Starship Troopers Chronicles - A Hidden Sci Fi Gem

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Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles was a CGI-animated TV series that first debuted in August of 1999.

It was based upon the 1959 novel Starship troopers by famed science fiction author Robert Heinlein, and the 1997 film adaptation directed by Paul Verhoeven. The TV show focuses upon Razak's Roughnecks which is a Mobile Infantry squad.

The focus of the series was on the Roughneck's missions rather than the larger war. The show combined elements from both the novel and film.

It lasted one season for a total of thirty-six episodes that were thirty minutes in length. This was a darn impressive looking series with the CGI technology (now 21 years old) available at that time. The ambitious show was able via CGI to greatly expand upon the scope established in the novel and live action movie.

It introduced a wide variety of high tech gadgets, a variety of alien "Bugs," and a multitude of planets and other alien races. The show was played very seriously and with a unrelenting grim atmosphere.

It might have been considered a kids' TV show but I would have monitored just how old a child had to be to be allowed to view this show.

It is a shame it did not run longer than one season given its marvelous CGI, along with the well written scripts.

Krel · Guest

It was a pretty good show, at least I enjoyed it. The show only lasted one season, because the animators couldn't render the shows fast enough to supply enough episodes for a weekly series.

David.

Pow · Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 6:03 pm Post subject:

I'm wondering, Krel, if with much better advanced planning & scheduling and today's state of the art CGI, if they could manage to do a far better job with a TV show such as this one?

Krel · Guest

Perhaps, another way would be having several teams using the same modeling files, each working on an episode. As they finish one, they start on another. But I don't know how cost effective that would be.

David.

Gord Green · Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2020 12:39 am Post subject:

Locally this program was shown at 7:00 am and I set an alarm to watch. It was a superior animated program to the host of the usual network junk!
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