YMMV / Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles

• Alternate Character Interpretation: Before its self-sacrifice to save the Roughnecks, C.H.A.S. reminds Higgins that he "was never alive." Was this really C.H.A.S.'s evaluation of its own status as a living being, or just something it told its only friend in the squad to reassure him in its last moments?
• Better on DVD: 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.
• Harsher in Hindsight: 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 Mogadishu conflict of the '90s.
  • This article on Cracked explains it.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: As a kids' show, it is a very brutal series that could be even compared to Star Wars: The Clone Wars 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 Values Dissonance.

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