Re: [OT] Starship Troopers

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 10:42:29 +0000 Jeremey Claridge 
<jeremy.claridge@kcl.ac.uk> wrote:

> Wasn't there a Japanese cartoon series of Starship Troopers that went 
into depth about the bugs? So that was all artistic licence then? <

Almost certainly -- along the lines of what was done to the Lensman 
series. In what little I saw of the Japanese version, there was hardly 
anything common to the books except a couple of names. Now watch all 
the fans tell me how much I missed... <g>

>> Don't think they're in-built, IIRC; they're _weapons_ -- y'know, 
tool-users and all that? <g> <<

> Great. So assaulting a bug position means being shot at on the way up 
and getting your limbs ripped off when you get close :) <

Hence the PA, and the flamers, grenades, mini-nukes, "tanglefoot", etc. 
ISTR MI and bugs mixing it up in melee a few times, and the bugs tended 
to come off the worse on an individual basis -- but then, they could 
afford to.

Phil, who was really P.O.'ed to see they left the armour out of the 
movie. That's why I never saw it; that wasn't ST, it was a travesty.
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