This series would have been so much better if they had compressed the 37 episodes into about 20 by throwing out all the mind-numbingly repetitive blasting of everything in sight.
That's the biggest problem, but maybe all that carnage is there to try and distract you from the fact that the majority of what's happening is self-contradictory.. Flying bugs on airless worlds is a common nonsensical theme and just one example of the plot problems.
The animation is laughable in 2021, but was state-of-the-art at the time so I don't mark it down for this, but it is distracting.
The quality of the original source material, Heinlein's book, is the only thing that saves it from being a total loss. But Heinlein certainly deserves better than this mess.
That's the biggest problem, but maybe all that carnage is there to try and distract you from the fact that the majority of what's happening is self-contradictory.. Flying bugs on airless worlds is a common nonsensical theme and just one example of the plot problems.
The animation is laughable in 2021, but was state-of-the-art at the time so I don't mark it down for this, but it is distracting.
The quality of the original source material, Heinlein's book, is the only thing that saves it from being a total loss. But Heinlein certainly deserves better than this mess.