Salvage Marines

What a total waste of time. First I HATED all 28 commercials per episode you are forced to watch. Second, the acting was awful and the story line was even worse. Do not waste a second of your life watching this. Horrible ending too!!!

This show is obviously made on a shoestring budget, which maybe mostly used on actors' salary, and not on CGI. I agree that it wakes some memories from (then not so cheap) 90's SF series.

But earlier this year there was another cheap SF show, 'The Ark', and I must say I found 'Salvage Marines' more entertaining, though I am surely no friend of any military, para, or legit.

There are a also lot of similar (non-SF) shows focussing on troopers or platoons and their problems, amongst other the questionable legitimacy of their fight.

I did not find the acting as bad as stated here by others, nor the script, in general, as condemnable. For sure, both are not legendary, but at least the acting is solid. Sometimes the direction seems to be a bit helpless, but there is seemingly a strong determination to hold a certain level of consistency.

Or, I was just in the mood to watch something not.highbrow, that tries to deliver a simple story and some basic insight. Yes, mercenaries are still humans...and yes, they die for money...and yes, if "government" is replaced by "corporation" or vice versa, it's all the same, humans fighting against humans for advantages that do not reach the fighters, who risk their lives.

I hope, CvD got a bit of a salary out there (he doesn't seem old enough to retire) and give this little show 5 stars.

I came of age in the 90s, and this show reminded me of the type of low budget action sci-fi shows you could catch on weekend afternoons. I'm also a big Starship Troopers fan, having watched all of the movies and also read the book. So it's safe to say I'm right in the wheelhouse as far as demographics for a show like this.

This show is not designed to be very good. It is however designed to be entertaining, and honestly it struggles with that at times.

The armor, helmets, and props are superb. Like really badass looking. The soundtrack is spot on awesome. And the intro with all the artwork is the best part of the show.

The acting is what we all expect. I love some overreacted "I'm from Buenos Aires, and I say kill'em all!" lines, but there was nothing like that bravado. Cardboard thin characters are fine by me too, but there was just too much boring dialogue. I think it's really a writing issue. Takeda did a decent job displaying PTSD and grief though.

Overall if you're a sicko like me who enjoyed the Starship Troopers sequels, you probably can slog through this. It's not very good though. And I do feel for fans of the Necrospace books. I had never heard of them before, but after watching this I can tell there's a good concept in there, but this wasn't the series that could display it. In fact I'll probably pick up those books to find out, so thanks for the book recommendation Mr. Van Dien!

I personally really connected with book series, but this show representing the book is a whole lotta trash. Terrible actors? Check. Sets made of cardboard? Check. Terrible special effects? Check. This would be bad if it was released in the early 90's. How was this ok'd and allowed to air? I hope Crackle didn't pay any money for this. With all the amazing series out there, this is what you come limping to the starting line with? Wow. This would have at least be somewhat enjoyable if it was a satire comedy, but the cast tries so hard to act cool and badass, but it's just a joke all around. This whole show is a complete joke.

Came across this on Crackle, they were hyping it up, I told my roommates I got something good to watch... and I have been apologizes ever since. CRACKLE! HOW ON EARTH DID YOU THINK THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA?! To explain to you how bad this series was, we turned it into a drinking came, but that couldn't even save this pile of crap. Even the Starship Troopers guy couldnt save this, he was terrible in this too. Whoever made this should be emailing everyone who got swindled into watching this terrible terrible show and apologize. The acting was bad, the special effects were bad, the studios were bad, the costumes were bad, there was NOTHING good about this! My roommates will NEVER let me live this down.

TIME TO CANCEL CRACKLE!