To my mind, the mixing of gender in barracks etc. (shower scene) always felt like it had been borrowed from Joe Haldemans' "Forever War" which incidentally also had the soldiers garbed in powered armour although it was more of a secondary/tertiary concern.
And it was (to me) a shame that the worker bugs and the soldier bugs were so dissimilar in the film whereas in the book the bugs went so far as to use their similarity as a tactical feint. A very minor point when compared to the lack of powered armour, "dizzy" being female and surviving so far into the tail, the nature of the Lieutenant's demise, Carmen not going bald, Rico's nationality, Karl getting killed, etc. etc. etc. But it always niggled.
Then on the theme of powered armour comes Harry Harrison's lampooning of such a plot tool "The Stainless Steel Rat Wants' You!" where it's made to look like a horrid alien with tenticly bits, and slime, claws, eye stalks, and a grenade launcher located at the rear firing suitably disguised grenades... etc.
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Date: Wednesday, 30 July 2008 16:39 (UTC)And it was (to me) a shame that the worker bugs and the soldier bugs were so dissimilar in the film whereas in the book the bugs went so far as to use their similarity as a tactical feint. A very minor point when compared to the lack of powered armour, "dizzy" being female and surviving so far into the tail, the nature of the Lieutenant's demise, Carmen not going bald, Rico's nationality, Karl getting killed, etc. etc. etc. But it always niggled.
Then on the theme of powered armour comes Harry Harrison's lampooning of such a plot tool "The Stainless Steel Rat Wants' You!" where it's made to look like a horrid alien with tenticly bits, and slime, claws, eye stalks, and a grenade launcher located at the rear firing suitably disguised grenades... etc.