Jul 27, 2010
This is my first review, and likely my only one, since I'm not good at reviewing (consequently, I expect the number of people finding it helpful will be low). But if my review helps even one person to decide to watch the show, I'll have felt it worth it.
I saw this show some months ago now, watching it in a single sitting, and I'll be yet another person to say that this show was underrated. Yes, it had many flaws, (and I wasn't too fond of the veiled anti-Americanism near the end), but it also had a lot of good points, in my opinion.
I liked
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how they used a lot of realistic physics, realistic weapons, how most of the battle strategies were logical and believable, and many of the characters made believable decisions/actions, although some of the characters (esp the villains) made very unrealistic and/or rash moves, which was one of the flaws to the show.
I also liked how they gave realistic considerations for things like money and supplies, and political support. Many shows in this genre tend to gloss over those, or do it in a haphazard/unbelievable way.
But this is one of those show were I personally found it easy to suspend my disbelief. A lot of sci-fi shows put in so much PSG (pseudo-scientific garbage) that suspending disbelief becomes impossible (and thus the show unintentionally becomes a comedy).
In Starship Operators, I didn't feel like my intelligence was being insulted, for the most part, until the latter half of the show. I guess that's kind of a good and a bad thing.
As for discussions about a second season... They did use up many clever battle strategies in the show, so I don't see how they could ever pull-off a second season. They'd have to be really inventive, but I can't see how they could do that without making it unrealistic/unbelievable. Plus it aired 5 years ago, so....
I'd still recommend this show to people who lean more towards hard sci-fi/realism, in spite of it's flaws.
Almost forgot to mention, I watched the dubbed version of this show, and I thought it wasn't bad (I normally watch subs by the way). To anyone thinking of watching it, I'd say, at least give the dub a try, unless you're a total dub-hater, in which case, nothing I say will matter, so just stick to your subs, you closed-minded weeaboo. :D (just-kidding XP )
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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