Re: SAAB hits the can.

Comments about Space: Above and Beyond

Darren Douglas wrote:
> Its like they took the scripts from Tour Of Duty and crossed them with
> some of the visual effects from B5 and removed all the good bits. 

I wouldn't even compare it to Tour Of Duty.  I enjoyed Tour of Duty,
military
inaccuracies aside (I was about thirteen or fourteen when it came out,
so 
I didn't even notice most of them), and the pilot of SAAB was
interesting.

Unfortunately, it all went downhill from there.  After the third
episode, 
I stopped watching.  After hearing about the fifth or sixth, I was
hoping that
people out there wouldn't take this to be an example of what sci-fi 
is like.  

On retrospect, I think the mistake was to take an organization that we
know 
of today (the US Marine Corps), and try to extrapolate it out into
space.	
When authors do that, they have to be extra careful to make sure that
they
don't break any "rules" of how the Corps works.  When you're doing
something
like B5, or ST, you can just say "Well, that's the way it works in MY 
universe", and what can you say about that?

Hell, we're already supposed to be in the middle of World War III right
about
now, in ST Canon.  (8-)

Ahh, work calls.

J.
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