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[Armored Yokai]

hey guys i was wondering when mechwarrior online is as popular than most mmorpg or better than world of warcraft could anyone continue the rest of battletech animated by contacting the makers of the series
because they could not finish due to the expensiveness on the episodes?

[Kenyon Burguess]

i hope not. that series was a total failure as both lore and animation

[Armored Yokai]

how could you not like it?
story was good,animation was good,cool action between mechs and enhanced imaging it also did not treat kids like morons like cartoons these days also a lot of battletech fans like it and they say its not too childish

[jezebel]

I've been watching it through from the beginning again ...

It is horrible. Entertaining, but more to laugh at than anything else.

Nicholas Malthus' face tattoo BLINKS as he telepathically tells his Clanmates to enable enhanced imaging. O_O

[Armored Yokai]

well alot of people seem to like it and told me about it so i watched it and turned out to be good

[Armored Yokai]

but please tell me is graphics all that matters?

[Mordegald]

Dude, I enjoyed the BTech cartoon too, but there were only two objectively good things about it:

1: The writers and animators had a pretty decent grasp of how microgravity works. This is a big deal, because those mofos spend so much damn time in space. Frankly I was tickled pink to see what was clearly designed as a kids show address things like the use of magnetic boots and relative definitions of the word, "floor," especially when they combine both into a brief but fairly decent scrap between one of the Strikers and two random mooks aboard a JumpShip.

2: They actually portrayed the Clans as being technologically superior, and the Inner Sphere as having to win through guile and a double spoonful of luck. Anybody remember the episode where the Strikers try to beat a star of Jade Falcons in a desert by waiting for the Clanners to overheat, and the plan backfires because loldoubleheatsinks? That was some good stuff right there.

But let's be frank; everything else went from bad to worse. The animation was lousy and relied so much on cheap 3D sections and recycled loops that it makes filler episodes of Gundam Wing look competently executed; the characters were about as flat and cliched as the plot, a fact which was helped precisely none by the equally flat voice acting; there are plot holes an entire Lyran scout lance could take a leisurely Sunday stroll through; and while Clantech is portrayed with an attention to detail that makes me think there was at least one writer on staff cheering pretty friggin' openly for the Jade Falcons, the Clanners themselves come across as exactly the silly Saturday morning cartoon villains you loved as a kid but probably groaned at as an adult, right down to their one special bullshit superpower that they're always using (Enhanced Imaging, which wouldn't be invented for another several decades, and didn't work like that even after it was invented, thank you very much).

So no, the BTech Cartoon was not very good. I think there were parts of it that were competently executed, but they're too few and far between to watch it as anything other than a joke.

[Armored Yokai]

your right mordegald

[Iron Horse]

Do yourself a favor and read Blood of Kerensky

[CaveMan]

Yeah....it sucked even for an 80s kids' show. A few correct technical details and a smidge of moral ambiguity don't make up for miserable writing, uninspired voice acting and terrible animation.

Besides, this universe ain't supposed to be kid-friendly.

[Red Beard]

Cementblade, on 21 November 2011 - 07:59 PM, said:

did not treat kids like morons like cartoons these days

I don't know what you are watching these days, but I have two young boys, and I watch everything they watch. There are some really high quality cartoon programs going on right now. Clone Wars being at the top of the list. Yes I let my young boys watch Clone Wars. This is real life and I refuse to raise a couple of liberals. The new Thundercats is even better than the first, Ben 10 is great and so is GeneratorRex. There are others that I have seen that grab my attention but that I do not have the time to watch. Compared to my childhood, I have to say, I think that right now is a high point in the world of cartoons.

If they were to go on to make a MW animated series, I would be the first in line to see the premier.

[Yeach]

I watched the cartoon on youtube since i missed it when i was younger.

"Information is ammunition"

[The Chief]

Soon I will start watching this via youtube again. I do have to agree that it is generally a bad cartoon but I do like it and in the unlikely event it came out on DVD I would buy it because I like BattleTech that much.

I remember I saw it when it was originally on TV and watching it again I think the funniest thing I noticed is that all the IS characters have some sort of rip in their clothing like they just came back from a battle, even in the beginning when they are at their posts in the Nagelring and Somerset military academies. This was the time when the Inner Sphere was finally emerging from the dark times of the Succession Wars, but the quartermasters still can't adequately supply troops with fresh uniforms?

[Overgrown33]

I too watched this series in 1995/1996. I was not impressed by teh crappy animation, but I was impressed by the story. Not soon after the series I bought MechWarrior 2 and the rest is history.

Today I wish for the Battletech series to remain dead and buried. The original series were cheesy and stale...Let it be dead!

All the best!
/Fred - Veteran MechWarrior since 1995.

[Demi-Precentor Konev]

I liked it, but I liked everything as a 9-year-old. Now I like it because of nostalgia.

[Stormwolf]

The BT cartoon has been alluded to be a "poorly reviewed holovid series" in the canon.

I'd love to see a sourcebook that deals with the real exploits of the Summerset Strikers (yes the unit is canon, even when the cartoon is not).

[John Clavell]

Stormwolf, on 13 January 2012 - 02:09 PM, said:

The BT cartoon has been alluded to be a "poorly reviewed holovid series" in the canon.

I'd love to see a sourcebook that deals with the real exploits of the Summerset Strikers (yes the unit is canon, even when the cartoon is not).

You mean like this? 1st Summerset Strikers

Edited by John Clavell, 13 January 2012 - 02:13 PM.

[flyingdebris]

"see right here, its where they attacked my home planet"

[Elizander]

Cementblade, on 21 November 2011 - 07:47 PM, said:

hey guys i was wondering when mechwarrior online is as popular than most mmorpg or better than world of warcraft could anyone continue the rest of battletech animated by contacting the makers of the series
because they could not finish due to the expensiveness on the episodes?

The art was quite bad to be honest and I am not quite sure if it was close to the facts. I would much rather they make something else or animate one of the novels like Decision at Thunder Rift (well minus the sex I guess?) in a short OVA series.

I'd rather watch Robot Jox than a continuation of the cartoons. >_>

[Kodiak Jorgensson]

it would be really awesome if someone could make a more ...adult version of the series and closer to the fluff, dont forget guys its a kids cartoon alot of the fluff probably got stripped for the sake of the kiddies