It all starts with a asteroid hitting earth, blamed on the bugs. But we never again see any indication the bugs have orbital capability or space travel or hell even technology, the best we see is beetles capable of firing energy bursts into orbit, not launching asteroids across vast space precise enough to hit other planets.
Was the asteroid just a natural asteroid, or even launched by earth forces as a false flag attack?
This would fit perfectly with the satire nature of the movie, but I’m not sold.
How long would it take for a giant rock launched by Beetles to cross interplanetary place? :smack:
And be accurate enough to hit Earth after travelling for ages? :smack::smack:
Not to mention infantry is about the stupidest way to fight the bugs, when they were training them in hand to hand knife combat how was that to come in useful? The base bug has two damn scythes for arms! And we know the humans had nukes.
What did they want the bug planet for? It has oxygen but appears to be a desert wasteland. Just get rid of excess humans on earth?
The story made no sense-it was just a backdrop for Heinlein’s ideas about patriotism, country, and sacrifice. Yeah-fighting the bugs with infantry made little sense-when a few tons of DDT would have worked much better. the bugs are a type of collective consciousness beings-they are directed by the tick-like master queen (the one that eats human brains). Makes as little sense as “star Wars”.
That is explained in the book. The book named Starship Troopers. There is no Starship Troopers movie. Never has been. Maybe some day there will be. Read the book. In the book there are other races besides the bugs.
Here is the part that explains it
As kind of a compromise view, I got the impression that the war might have been being deliberately allowed to happen, and be prolonged needlessly through poor and wasteful strategy, in order to prop up the Earth-government’s society. Kinda like in “1984.”
And, oddly enough, on terms of similarity to the source material, I thought that the direct-to-video “Starship Troopers 2” actually felt closer to Heinlein’s style, in terms of dialogue and characters, than the original film. Kinda like if Heinlein had been hired to ghostwrite a sequel to a story he’d had nothing to do with.
It had the same scriptwriter, but maybe it was the change in directors that had something to do with it.
My favorite line: “Dizzy gets nailed by a bug! In fact, it puts a couple of three-inch diameter spikes through her torso, penetrating both lungs. So what does she do? She screams!”
Odd half asleep fanwank, what if the bugs have recently had a sort of explosion of knowledge?
See the queens learn by sucking brains right? What if they just recently had human contact, sucked the brain of a scientist or military higher up and learned about physics and orbital mechanics or what the government had planned for bug world?
There’s a similar “throw a rock, watch it cross interstellar space in a reasonable amount of time” bit in The Last Starfighter. Heck, movies that depict space travel in a consistent manner (let alone a plausible one) are rarer than snake armpits.
I think the Movie strongly implies that the Government launched the asteroid itself. I also think most of the complaints about it being stupid were all by design because the movie is satire.