Posted on 08/03/2005 7:03:00 PM PDT by tgslTakoma
"Tonight's episode has a lot of shooting innocent people who drive up to checkpoints in cars. A burning trauma of shoot first, kill em all, write a report in the morning. Traumatized young Americans forced to kill grandma."
I thought tonights was a bit weird. They are overly cautious about opening the trunk of the one car. Then in the last scene they are pounding on the trunk lid before popping it open. Inconsistant.....but then it is Hollywood.
In the real war, as evidenced by Fallujah and other cities, the mosque would have been shot up and probably destroyed "
I don’t’ think the author’s correct in this basic and repeated premise. I don’t think that we’ve actually leveled Mosques, perhaps with the exception of the second battle for Fallujah, no matter how much fire that we’ve taken from them. Attacked, yes. Leveled, no.
Also, I think that it was last fall in Samara that we DID get held up for 2 hours by Mosque snipers while waiting for authorization to fire back, despite his claim that local commanders always immediately fire back.
The author may know 1000 time what I know of life on the ground there, but he’s still misinformed in that regard.
Too bad it's not a female, non-military series.
They could have made it much more realistic if they would have cast the Olson twins as the Hussain boys.
1. My opinion doesn't count because I'm a girl??
or 2. Females should not watch this show?
Dang, I knew if my bare-footed baby bearing self took an hour out of the kitchen, laundry and home-running duties, my Master would catch me! :)
P.S. I saw that the show was rated for language and violence, but I must have missed the rating for non-females. Tsk tsk!
Of course it does, but why should the fact that you're a female with no military experience matter at all? I guess if you were trying to show a different point of view, I can understand it. I guess I misread your post. I am sorry.
He's right, but I don't think the criticisms are all that relevant.
This show isn't really about creating a super-realistic portrayal of American troops in Iraq. It's mostly character-driven. At least in the first episode, most of the show was about the members of the platoon interacting with one another, rather than the tactics of how the Army would deal with a group of insurgents holed up in a mosque.
This guy misses the point- not every war show needs to be a hyper-realistic documentary. Is Rescue Me hyper-realistic when it comes to firefighter? Is The Shield super-realistic about what cops do?
I'm surprised FOX bought that piece of crap.
Of course, to the people who've actually been over there, this show won't be realistic, because everyone's experience is different. But, since I can't come over to your neighborhood bar and listen to your war stories (speaking collectively here) this show does a much better job of showing what it's (sort of) like Over There than the daily news shows.
And do check out the link at the beginning of this thread, it's good!
God -- I hope not. Because if anyone as drugged up as Leary, et al., try to save me from a burning building, I'll jump!
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