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* BetterOnDVD: The series takes place during seven separate campaigns consisting of five episodes each (save for a few stand-alone episodes). On DVD the episodes for each campaign are edited so that they run together like full length films.
** It didn't help that the original TV run was plagued by so many production delays that arcs were often interrupted by reruns until the studio could complete the next episode.

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* BetterOnDVD: The series takes place during seven separate campaigns consisting of five episodes each (save for a few stand-alone episodes). On DVD DVD, the episodes for each campaign are edited so that they run together like full length films.
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films. It didn't help that the original TV run was plagued by so many production delays that arcs were often interrupted by reruns until the studio could complete the next episode.



* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: As a kids' show, it is a very brutal series that could be even compared to WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars except this show is 9 years older, however since this show is aimed at a younger audience it is signifcantly tamer than the film based in the same novel.
** This even led to Germany rating it 16 due to ValuesDissonance.

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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: As a kids' show, it is a very brutal series that could be even compared to WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' except this show is 9 years older, however older. However, since this show is aimed at a younger audience audience, it is signifcantly tamer than the film based in the same novel.
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novel. This even led to Germany rating it 16 due to ValuesDissonance.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: As a kids' show, it is a very brutal series that could be even compared to StarWarsTheCloneWars except this show is 9 years older, however since this show is aimed at a younger audience it is signifcantly tamer than the film based in the same novel.

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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: As a kids' show, it is a very brutal series that could be even compared to StarWarsTheCloneWars WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars except this show is 9 years older, however since this show is aimed at a younger audience it is signifcantly tamer than the film based in the same novel.

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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: As a kids' show, it is a very brutal series that could be even compared to StarWarsTheCloneWars except this show is 9 years older, however since this show is aimed at a younger audience it is signifcantly tamer than the film based in the same novel.
** This even led to Germany rating it 16 due to ValuesDissonance.
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Uncanny Valley is IUEO now and the subjective version has been split; cleaning up misuse and ZCE in the process


* UncannyValley: While the show has some pretty damn impressive and detailed CGI for its time, especially for a animated series on a TV-show budget in the late-1990s, it still had typical aspects of 90s-CG that haven't held up, such as stiff moments, weird facial animations, and plastic-looking skin and surfaces that look like they were drenched in baby-oil.

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* UncannyValley: While the show has some pretty damn impressive and detailed CGI for its time, especially for a animated series on a TV-show budget in the late-1990s, it still had typical aspects of 90s-CG that haven't held up, such as stiff moments, weird facial animations, and plastic-looking skin and surfaces that look like they were drenched in baby-oil.
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* UncannyValley: While the show has some pretty damn impressive and detailed CGI for its time, especially for animated series on a TV-show budget in the late-1990s, it still had typical aspects of 90s-CG that haven't held up, such as stiff moments, weird facial animations, and plastic-looking skin and surfaces that look like they were drenched in baby-oil.

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* UncannyValley: While the show has some pretty damn impressive and detailed CGI for its time, especially for a animated series on a TV-show budget in the late-1990s, it still had typical aspects of 90s-CG that haven't held up, such as stiff moments, weird facial animations, and plastic-looking skin and surfaces that look like they were drenched in baby-oil.
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* UncannyValley: While the show has some pretty damn impressive and detailed CGI for its time, especially for animated series on a TV-show budget in the late-1990s, it still had typical aspects of 90s-CG that haven't held up, such as stiff moments, weird facial animations, and plastic-looking skin and surfaces that look like they were drenched in baby-oil.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Before its self-sacrifice to save the Roughnecks, C.H.A.S. reminds Higgins that he "[[JustAMachine was never alive.]]" Was this really C.H.A.S.'s evaluation of its own status as a living being, [[ObiWanMoment or just something it told its only friend in the squad to reassure him in its last moments?]]
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* FridgeBrilliance: In the episode featuring it, the Cybernetic Humanoid Assault System is a OneManArmy, massacring bugs by the score until its HeroicSacrifice. In later episodes, [=C.H.A.S=] units [[TheWorfEffect are effortlessly taken down by a handful of regular bug troopers]]. This seems ridiculous, until you remember something: at the end of the episode [=C.H.A.S=], Higgins explains via voice-over that the [=C.H.A.S=] project was scrapped; apparently, it's cheaper to train, feed, maintain and equip a human soldier than it is to build and program a single [=C.H.A.S=]. This means that the subsequent appearances of [=C.H.A.S=] units are actually cheaper knock-offs, built with less expensive parts and inferior tech -- naturally they're less powerful than the first one; they're using substandard versions, making the original practically a SuperPrototype.



** This article on [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19259_6-mind-blowing-ways-starship-troopers-predicted-future.html Cracked]] explains it.

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** This article on [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19259_6-mind-blowing-ways-starship-troopers-predicted-future.html Cracked]] explains it.it.

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* FridgeBrilliance: In the episode featuring it, the Cybernetic Humanoid Assault System is a OneManArmy, massacring bugs by the score until its HeroicSacrifice. In later episodes, [=C.H.A.S=] units [[TheWorfEffect are effortlessly taken down by a handful of regular bug troopers]]. This seems ridiculous, until you remember something: at the end of the episode [=C.H.A.S=], Higgins explains via voice-over that the [=C.H.A.S=] project was scrapped; apparently, it's cheaper to train, feed, maintain and equip a human soldier than it is to build and program a single [=C.H.A.S=]. This means that the subsequent appearances of [=C.H.A.S=] units are actually cheaper knock-offs, built with less expensive parts and inferior tech -- naturally they're less powerful than the first one; they're using substandard versions, making the original practically a SuperPrototype.



** This article on [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19259_6-mind-blowing-ways-starship-troopers-predicted-future.html Cracked]] explains it.

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** This article on [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19259_6-mind-blowing-ways-starship-troopers-predicted-future.html Cracked]] explains it.
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* BetterOnDVD: The series takes place during seven separate campaigns consisting of five episodes each (save for a few stand-alone episodes). On DVD the episodes for each campaign are edited so that they run together like full length films.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The nickname for the alien race that T'Phai belongs to, "skinnies", was originally from the novel. It was later used as a term denoting enemy combatants in the [[UsefulNotes/{{Somalia}} Mogadishu]] conflict of the '90s.
** This article on [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19259_6-mind-blowing-ways-starship-troopers-predicted-future.html Cracked]] explains it.

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