That being said, I did catch some mistakes with canon. Mind you, I've only read a handful of sourcebooks set from the Succession Wars to the Clan Invasion, one novel (Decision at Thunder Rift) and a decent (but not all-encompassing) amount of sarna.net. I have a sense of the overall mythos of the BattleTech universe, but not specific details, so if the show makes some mistake with uniforms or exact dates, I won't spot it.
Out of curiosity, I want to know all the canon mistakes made by the show. The few I've caught so far are:
- BattleMech cockpits and the interiors of DropShips and JumpShips are large and spacious. In a few episodes, multiple people even ride in a single BattleMech's cockpit! Not sure if passengers are able to move from a docked DropShip to a JumpShip.
- Characters frequently use Enhanced Imaging without any adverse side effects.
- Major one: A Clan MechWarrior refers to her Mad Dog as a Vulture.
- Not really a canon goof, but that same MechWarrior bids that she will enter the following battle with her lasers disabled, but she uses them anyways.
- Takashi Kurita looks nothing like his sarna.net portrait.
- The "Trial of Possession" between the Wolf and Jade Falcon Elementals for the Star League base amounts to nothing more than a disorganized brawl that starts up every time the two Clans meet.
- The computer in the Star League base states that Aleksandr Kerensky founded the Clans. Not only should the computer not know that, since the SLDF was reformed into the Clans long after they left the Inner Sphere, but Aleksandr Kerensky did not found the Clans. It was his son, Nicholas who founded the Clans, after Aleksandr had died.
- Haven't paid that much attention, but I don't think any of the characters wear cooling vests while piloting 'Mechs.
- In one episode, characters are able to hijack a 'Mech quite easily, in spite of the neurohelmet security system (though, to be fair, the same thing happens in Decision at Thunder Rift, a much more canonical source).
- I believe I saw a Mad Dog do a 180° torso twist once.
- Not a single one of the Lyran characters pilots an Atlas.
I'd like the other, more veteran BT fans here to tell me what else the show got wrong. And if possible, cite where the canonical information comes from (yeah, yeah, I know this isn't Wikipedia, but I'd like to know anyway). Sources published after the series aired, of course, don't count.
Also worth noting: I'm not finished watching the series yet. I'm currently on episode 11.
Edited by RL Nice, 14 January 2013 - 06:04 PM.