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Summary: One of the finest pieces of animation ever seen
Review: Being a huge fan of the Roughneck Chronicles series I found that this campaign offers extreme detail to every aspect of each episode. The way the roughnecks react with one another,the plot and how the animation for each different campaign got extremely better; a testament to the hard working animators from Sony, Flat Earth, Foundation Imaging and Hyper Image.
If you enjoy [rear] kickin animation in a way that you have never seen made for TV, order this dvd. I highly reccomend it.In this campaign, the roughneck come accross every type of bugg imaginable. From huge,giant fire breathing buggs to control buggs to even the queen bug herself!. And Carl Jenkins returns to the Roughnecks with a new bad-to-the-bone attitude.In all this roughneck campaign rocks!
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Summary: Missing Sequential Episodes!
Review: Great dvd, however we are missing a story arc. I have loosely named it the Frozen (or Lost) Asteroid Campaign and it directly precedes the Klendathu Campaign. The missing episodes are 121 - Ice-Olation", 122 "Mixed Signals", 123 "Hot Ice", 124 "The Inside Story", and 125 "The Ice Men Goeth". Without revealing content, this arc introduces a new bug (Fireflies) and answers the question, what happened to Zander. We still have one more dvd to wait for...and that's a good thing.
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Summary: Missing Sequential Episodes!
Review: Great dvd, however we are missing a story arc. I have loosely named it the Frozen (or Lost) Asteroid Campaign and it directly precedes the Klendathu Campaign. The missing episodes are 121 - Ice-Olation", 122 "Mixed Signals", 123 "Hot Ice", 124 "The Inside Story", and 125 "The Ice Men Goeth". Without revealing content, this arc introduces a new bug (Fireflies) and answers the question, what happened to Zander. We still have one more dvd to wait for...and that's a good thing.
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Summary: Animation in higher level
Review: Growing up in the time of Transformers, Macross, GI Joe and Ralph Bakshi animated cartoons, Starship Troopers is an evolutionary leap in the field of computer generated animation. Initially, I did not pay to much attention to the show and after watching a couple of episodes I was hooked. The Klendathu Campaign shows interpersonal differences between characters and the endless battle to defeat the bugs. I initially bought the Pluto campaign and have kept buying new compilations as they are released. I would buy all the the DVDs - its worth watching over again.
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Summary: Pretty cool
Review: I enjoyed this campaign a lot because it started out onboard the USS Valley Forge, the starship carrier that houses the Razak's Roughnecks. It is clear from watching these disks that the writers and animators borrowed a lot of ideas from other movies and television shows. Here one of the obvious influences is Aliens. There are several episodes where the troopers are running around darkened starship corridors searching for the bugs that borrow the atmosphere and look of that movie. [SPOILER] If I have any complaint, it is that occasionally the show delved into comic-book-like stories and I think this is the worst example, when one of the human characters turns into a bug but still taunts the troopers with quips and snide wordplay. It is too much like a Spiderman comic book. [MAJOR SPOILERS] There is also a choice that Rico makes late in the episode that is not really touched on later in the series that I found troubling: at one point he has the opportunity to kill the alien queen but does not do so in order to save the life of one of his friends. The problem is that the queen then makes it to earth, leading to massive warfare and presumably the deaths of millions of people. But they never again revisit Rico's bad decision.
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Summary: What Happened to Ep. 131 -- "Trackers"?
Review: I loved the original book (I have a first edition hardcover!); I thought the movie strayed too far from the original material, but the bugs were cool; and the TV series combined the best of both for a truely remarkable achievement. I have purchased all six available DVD's through Amazon, and fans of the series will not be disappointed in the episodes provided, but what happened to the Ice Asteroid episodes, and what happened to episode 131, "Trackers", where they pursue the Queen Bug escaping Klendathu? It's missing from both the Klendathu campaign and the Homefront campaign DVD's. What's up?
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Summary: Good, but not the best...
Review: I preordered Kleandathu and Homefront as soon as I saw them announced, and have been waiting patiently for their release. Having never seen the show on television, going through the DVDs in "proper" order has unfolded the Roughnecks saga for me one campaign at a time. I must in all honesty say I was a little disappointed in Klendathu. Maybe part of this is the simple fact that it's hard for anything long anticipated to live up to expectations. I thought that the animation was actually not quite up to Foundation's usual high standards. Movement at times seemed jerky, particularly that of the ships. Green bug blood shot forth in huge softball sized gobs (what happened to particle effects?). Gunfire seemed less convincing. On the plus side there were some nice looking missile trail and rocket exhaust effects, and fine explosions. Overall, I thought there was a different "feel" to this one. Not bad, but different. That's not to say I don't think you should buy it. It's an obvious must have for your collection. I'm looking forward to watching Homefront soon. BTW, why on earth (pun intended) did Sony release these two campaigns before Asteroid? I haven't seen it, and have no idea what plot developments I've missed! This makes no sense whatsoever. If they only wanted to release two at a time to keep interest up, it should have been Asteroid and Klendathu, no? Hold the finale to build up sales. Go figure...
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Summary: Excellent Release
Review: I was already quite pleased by the released of the Hydoran and Tophet campaign. This one is just as good. I look forward to the next one.
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Summary: Fantastic Animation- Horrible Back Cover Summary
Review: Roughnecks is in many ways the best animated military series ever to grace the small screen. In every way that mattered the it is true to Heinlein's vision of the future conflict and the militaristic effect war has on a society. It is a fantastic DVD worth owning. All of this said, there is one horrific flaw involved in this DVD, the back cover summary of the DVD is completely inaccurate. I wonder if this individual ever even watched the show or did he just fast-forward through it. To begin with if the summary writer had, he would know Lt. Zander is just one of the pilots who occasionally ferry the Roughnecks. Zander is not their leader and never was their leader, Lt. Razak is the leader. The fact that the unit is called Razak's Roughnecks is where the series get's its name. It's odd to me that a series which paid such excellent attention to detail is scared with a back cover summary that is so misinformed.
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Summary: Keeps Getting Better!
Review: Second to last in the series, this group of five episodes is extremely fast-paced and nicely plotted.
Best of all, in spite of this being "juvenile" action (as Heinlein originally planned to market his novel), the Klendathu Campaign has more depth of character, gung-ho humor and just plain good old-fashioned story-telling charm than anyone would ever expect from a CGI "cartoon". As I have said previously, the creators of Roughnecks deserve at
least one Hugo award for their efforts. Granted, the graphics and movement are not up to the Spirits Within level. But for all the reasons that really matter - the heart and soul of a story well told with characters that have some resonance - Roughnecks Chronicles has all the spirit that counts.
Let's hope the creators of this thing get to finish it someday. And go on to give us more quality science fiction CGI.
Live Forever, you apes!
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