For a long time I thought this show was one of those "false memories" from your childhood you hear you can have.
Years ago me and a friend were talking about starship troopers and how we both remembered there being an 'animated' show on, early in the morning for kids, which at the time was much more violent than things like Pokemon. I searched for it and couldn't find mention of it and assumed this friend was simply having me on as he was a fairly well known BSer.
I had gotten through reading the novel (which is a must read and makes the movie look like more of a joke than the movie tries to be) I've only just gotten into this series and I love it already, they seem to have taken more from the novel than they have from the horrible satire which is the movie (I would pay to see an *actual* starship troopers movie that follows the novel again and again, rather than the tries too hard to be funny satire movie that was released and the absolute stinker sequels) so I like that already.
Considering it aired on what would be considered "children's TV" hours I don't expect it to get too bloody, I'm only a quarter of an hour into the series so I may be wrong but I distinctly remember it outgunning, out-nuking and out-goring anything else that showed on kids TV. I guess the people aired it never watched the movie and thought "hey it's a CGI animation like Toy Story, run with it!" Without ever previewing it's content I also assume this is why people have said it's "incomplete" around the Millennium kids shows had to have a "moral to the story" and "tone down the violence" something which has only gotten worse in recent years, so if and when I have kids, they'll be watching real kids TV like Ren and Stimpy, Cow and Chicken, Courage the Cowardly Dog and most definitely this.
The animation has aged okay, I guess. I mean it's by no means art (though I see where Master Chief from the Halo series of games got inspiration for that iconic armour) but it still looks okay for CGI, at times like something I would expect from Metal Gear Solid 3 cutscenes on the PS2 and at other times it actually looks quite good for it's time.
The whole 90s-ish feel, the bad lines, terrible puns and the slightly bad and occasionally out of sync animation coupled with what would be considered gratuitous violence for a kids show (these days) definitely gives me a huge grin when watching. Not to mention that I thought I had imagined this show for about ten years, because "who would adapt Starship Troopers for kids, right?" especially considering it's timeslot here, other shows like Stargate SG1 ran at a time your parents were awake. This didn't and that alone really makes me miss the 90s. Solid 9/10 I would give it 10/10 if they had made more of it, though the increasingly "politically correct" thinking of the 00s and later has sadly made that impossible.
However this and the (Japanese) Anime series (which sadly only exists now as a low quality copy off the only surviving laserdiscs) both need to be preserved, as they are both better representations of the Robert Heinlein's future universe than the satire movie.
I'll make sure this show lives forever; apes.
The animation has aged okay, I guess. I mean it's by no means art (though I see where Master Chief from the Halo series of games got inspiration for that iconic armour) but it still looks okay for CGI, at times like something I would expect from Metal Gear Solid 3 cutscenes on the PS2 and at other times it actually looks quite good for it's time.
The whole 90s-ish feel, the bad lines, terrible puns and the slightly bad and occasionally out of sync animation coupled with what would be considered gratuitous violence for a kids show (these days) definitely gives me a huge grin when watching. Not to mention that I thought I had imagined this show for about ten years, because "who would adapt Starship Troopers for kids, right?" especially considering it's timeslot here, other shows like Stargate SG1 ran at a time your parents were awake. This didn't and that alone really makes me miss the 90s. Solid 9/10 I would give it 10/10 if they had made more of it, though the increasingly "politically correct" thinking of the 00s and later has sadly made that impossible.
However this and the (Japanese) Anime series (which sadly only exists now as a low quality copy off the only surviving laserdiscs) both need to be preserved, as they are both better representations of the Robert Heinlein's future universe than the satire movie.
I'll make sure this show lives forever; apes.