[geeks] e.e. smith "lensman" series

[Michael A. Turner]

	As an action movie I thought it was ok. As a small time military
buff and an arm chair strategist it ran me up the wall. Apparently in the
23rd century(or when this happened) WWI military doctrine has been
determined to be the best. Massed waves of foot troops with rifles charging
the enemy. No support weapons (mortars, heavy machine guns), no tanks, no
APCs, No artillery, Planes are used only as a bombing mission on emptied
territory, no helicopters, ETC. That was not an army, that was a mob lead by
no one.
	I figured this was probably because they did not have these items in
the book. The reason they were not in the book has each suit was all of
these by itself. Someone should have pointed out that if they changed to no
suits , they needed to change tactics also. Then again, it's hard to show
individual heroism for the camera if everyone is doing their job.... 

Michael A. Turner
Systems Engineer
WHRO
michael.turner at whro.org
http://www.whro.org


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Bradford [mailto:mrbill at mrbill.net]
> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:42 PM
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [geeks] e.e. smith "lensman" series
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 02:12:55PM -0400, Michael A. Turner wrote:
> > 	Speaking of badly corrupted versions of his work. WTF 
> was Starship
> > troopers the movie?!? I was Soooo totally confused by that 
> movie. I have no
> > idea why they even started to claim that it was based off 
> of his original
> > book. Advanced civilization, check. Bug like aliens, check. 
> Battle suits
> > armed like tanks, uh nope. Strong social commentary, not 
> even. Hell they
> > should have just taken the movie aliens and changed the 
> title. Would have
> > been just as close to the book as that movie was. 
> 
> Apparently they had to cut out the power suits due to 
> budget.. The movie
> is good, *if* you forget you ever read the book.
> 
> I've never watched the anime/cartoon though; anybody have 
> commentary on
> that?  They've got the suits in the cartoon.
> 
> Bill
> 
> -- 
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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