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Band of Brothers - (2001 show)

2017-01-29

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185906/
https://www.hbo.com/band-of-brothers

Follows a unit in the 101st Airborne Division during World War 2.

Quite a good story. It's full of faces I know. Great acting and spectacular realism.

Note: This video style is shaky.

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Roughnecks - Starship Troopers Chronicles (1999-2000) dvd

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190198/
(archive of the original website)

A military unit is sent on missions in a future where all of humanity is at war with alien insects.

The show is animated, and not "anime". As such, it has not held up well with time. The music is fantastic, though. Truly. However, its other high points do not make up for the visual issue I have.

While it doesn't do it for me, I would recommend this for fans of the movie or movie series who can also handle the visual style and jerky movement that to me is reminiscent of ReBoot - (1994 show).

Properly titled Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles
Ran from 1999-08-30 to 2000-04-03
Based on Starship Troopers - (1959 book), by Robert A. Heinlein
Based the movie Starship Troopers - (1997 movie), and is definitely not a sequel to it.

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Stargate Atlantis - (2004 show)

2016-01-05

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374455/
https://mgm.com/television/stargate-atlantis

A stargate is shown to connect to another galaxy, but the trip proves to be one-way and fraught with new evils.

Fairly good, I guess. It's definitely not as good as Stargate SG-1 - (1997-2007 show) but is a mandatory view if you like that show.

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118480/
https://mgm.com/television/stargate-sg-1
https://www.stargatecommand.co/

Having discovered an interplanetary teleporter, humans bumble around by sending teams through to other worlds.

Pretty good. It's definitely got the "TV series" feel to it, which explains how many seasons there are.

See Stargate viewing order. This series follows from Stargate - (1994 movie)
- Watching that movie is not mandatory to watch this series.
- This series has different actors.
The stylized "A" in the title (with the middle bar missing and the circle over it) is a reference to that symbol representing the Earth when programming a stargate.