YMMV / Space: Above and Beyond

• Harsher in Hindsight: The network executives objected to a scene where a prisoner is tortured, saying that Americans would not do that. A few years later such torture had become such a fact of life in the War on Terror that it had become its own trope.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Rodney Rowland plays a vat-grown Marine in this show. Several years later, he plays a series of cloned Red Shirts in The 6th Day .
  • One of the rejected nicknames for Chigs in the pilot? Walkers.
  • Given Vansen and Damphousse, it's apparent the Marines have opened combat jobs to women in the Verse. As a side-effect of The War on Terror, in December 2015 Defense Secretary Ash Carter ordered all combat jobs opened to women starting in 2016, despite resistance from USMC General Joseph Dunford.
  • "Eyes" has a brief mention that a far-right party led by Nicholas Chaput was responsible for France seceding from the European Union. 20 years later it was actually France's traditional frenemy Great Britain that wanted out, led by the right-wingers of the UK Independence Party. France's subsequent presidential election had the anti-EU party get only a quarter of the vote total in the first round, enough to make it to the runoff but not enough to avoid a trouncing by pro-EU center-right candidate Emmanuel Macron.
• Nightmare Fuel: In one episode, the Chigs are testing a weapon that basically weaponizes Nightmare Fuel. It causes your deepest fears to be cranked up to eleven. The only way the squad is able to escape is by marching in lockstep out of the weapon's area of effect. Through a minefield. It helps them overcome their fears because they trust each other that much.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The space CGI for the series holds up pretty well for TV even twenty years on, though budget constraints obviously mean a lot of Stock Footage.

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