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Re: Starship Troopers

From: Roger Burton West <roger@f...>
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 23:59:47 +0000
Subject: Re: Starship Troopers

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:42:31AM +0900, Edward Lipsett wrote:
>I'm curious - how many of you have seen the animated series?
>It also misses a number of crucial plot elements, but it is extremely
>well-done for a kidzflick, and (IMHO) closer to the original than the
movie.

Not bad. As far as I'm concerned, the book is "about" what it means to
be a citizen, not what it's like to fight in power armour, and the
series is definitely in the latter camp. On that basis, it's acceptable
but didn't really enthuse me all that much.

Roger

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