Though I won't pay it any compliments, I can't actually say the new storyline sucks since I don't really know much about it. To those who care about what has gone on before, however, it is so inconsistent (assuming that what you guys have told me is true and haven't left out any very important details) with all previous works that I get vertigo thinking about it. Unacceptable. (Which isn't to say it sucks...that's a different matter.)
The only audience I can see going for it (aside from the Battletech Heroclix audience, which I assume is negligible from a movie-goers point of view) are the fans of the video games that know nothing about the storyline and really could care less, along with the audience that really could care less as long as it has a cool opening soundtrack and big explosions. Sadly that's quite a bit of people, and it might make business sense for whatshisbucket to go with the new storyline for a movie. A movie from the old storyline might also hurt the Heroclix product if more people started reading the books and complaining about the new storyline...painful but true, I doubt the Battletech story will get a showing in the theaters.
