- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Sardonic13
Somehow I seriously doubt that Halo recieved any inspiration from the abomination that was Starship Troopers. If Starship Troopers counts as sci-fi, the genre must be dead, or at least comatose.
I suspect you've missed the point of Starship Troopers . . . try watching it with Irony set to 'on'. A lot of the incidental stuff in it is hilarious - the news bulletins with kids stomping on bugs as their contribution to the war effort, the neo-fascist society that Earth has become where you have to serve in the army in order to gain the right to vote, the 'experiments' they do on captured aliens - it's a work of comedy genius.
Anyway, I don't think Starship Troopers was a big influence on Halo - clearly the Alien franchise was - I mean the little Floods are virtually identical to face-huggers . . .