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The resolution is much sharper than I was expecting - excellent video quality! The first time I saw the series it was on a 32" tv and the broadcast quality was only mediocre, so I was expecting it to be really blurry on my tv which is more than twice the size (72"), but was really pleasantly surprised. It's like watching the series for the first time!
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Disappointed with the no-frills DVD release. It's better than nothing, but...no commentaries. Special Features are limited to a narrow selection of TV teasers for the show. Menus are clunky. Like I said, I loved the show. Some of the best-written sci-fi to ever air on TV, and I watched every episode multiple times. It was a victim of being ahead of its time (the tone of the show would have resonated brilliantly a decade later, but it was too dark and suspicious (for lack of a better term) for the optimistic mid-90s. And it certainly desetved a better DVD release than this (it got one, in Europe...but apparently, Fox felt the American audience wasn't worth treating to the expanded content.)
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This show ran for one televsion season starting in 1995. I had never heard of it until browsing on eBay one day. I love sci-fi and especially space sci-fi. I have every Star Wars & Star Trek Movie. I have 9 seasons of Stargate SG-1, the new Atlantis, and many more. Anyway, I read a few of the reviews where other people really enjoyed it, the price wasn't too high so that if I didn't like it I wouldn't feel like I was wasting money, and so I went for it. It has an interesting story line. It is in the future, after a war with the AI (artificial intelligent) beings. Not all the AI beings were eradicated and they regularly show up on distant planets and cause trouble. To fight the AI war, mankind created a population of invitro human beings. These people, born in a testtube, are actually grown in the lab until they are the equivaltent of 18 years old. They are referred to as "tanks" because that is what they are grow in within the lab. They are bred to fight and treated like second class citizens, but humankind is in a new war with an evil alien species and is trying to incorporate the "tanks" into the mainstream. The main story line follows a group of pilots that includes a "tank" and is actually led by a "tank". The first episode tries to provide some background on each pilot as well as what is going on currently in the universe. That is not an easy task for a 2 hour pilot, but they pull it off reasonably well. As with most new TV shows, the first couple of episodes are rather stiff and the actors are very two dimensional. You hope that the characters will begin to develop and become more personable, and they do. I especially like the "tank" pilot on the team as he seeks to establish his humanity; the "tank" that leads them who is very military but thinks of his pilots as his family; and the Commadore of the Galactic Battleship that cruises the universe with the crew of pilots aboard. In his "off" hours he plays a mean blues guitar. The special effects are not amazing but very good for 1995. I watched the whole series and was sorry to see the last episode, knowing that it was only one season and I wouldn't be able to see the continuing drama. I would say that if you liked the first Star Wars series, episodes IV, V, VI, then you will enjoy this series. It is not the of the first Star Wars quality, but if you really enjoy space sci-fi, I do not believe that you will be disappointed with this TV series.Read full review
So, basically the story is goes like this: evil aliens attack Earth, the only marines that aren't completely useless are the Wildcards. For coming out in, what, 93(?) the special effects aren't terrible. I mean, it's no new Battle Star Galacitica, but it's no old Battle Star Galactica either. I actually just got done watching the series and, yeah there are lots of those annoying sci-fi cliches. Like, if they introduce a new character, their dead within a couple of episodes. This series has "red shirts' everywhere. And the characters can be more than a little whiny at times, but for the most part the show isn't terrible. The Pilot starts a genuinely interesting concept, but it quickly breaks down into new week, new set down on some random planet... at least they didn't have a cowboy world. I give it a 4/5, which is pretty good considering I only remembered one scene from when it was on television. Basically, it's as good as it was when I was 9, what more could you want?Read full review
I remember loving this show when it was aired in '96, and how frustrating it was that it's time slot kept changing, and that it was gone too soon. So thankful it's now on dvd. Great Sci Fi story telling,,,basically a fusion of Aliens and Starship Troopers, but more gritty and realistic. Watching it again makes you grateful that many shows these days are filmed in HD. You can tell that the film quality was not up to snuff back in the mid-90's. Also, it's fun to go back and watch the evolution of CGI, which was still in it's developmental stage at the point of this show. I recomend that fans who originally watched this short-lived show buy this dvd set. Strongly wonder what would have happened if the show ever got a second season.
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