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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