Posted on 07/13/2008 6:45:54 PM PDT by wastedyears
I don't know what to make of this so far. It's been on for 45 minutes.
The show follows Force Recon Marines, so some of the stuff mentioned might be following what Recon Marines say and do.
Greyhawk at the Mudville Gazette has a commentary on the show: http://www.mudvillegazette.com/
So far I like it, saw a god review of it too. It’s based on the embedded reporter’s book.
My friend at HBO said it smears the Marines in later episodes.
Say it ain't so!
Wow. I’m just SHOCKED, I tell ya! /s
Those marines are my kind of guys.
Watching HBO will turn you into a liberal.
Great book, but I don’t subscribe to HBO.
My Marine watched it and said it was good.
Most of the guys I know who smear the Marines are rock-ribbed conservatives. Of course, they're also Army...
When they named it ‘Generation Kill’ they insulted me. I won’t watch this trash.
This is ‘Generation Freedom’ if anything, and these bastards at HBO will stop at nothing to give our men who risk their lives to protect it’s freedoms, the back of their hand.
If they want me to watch, they can be respectful. If they don’t, they took the right move.
Screw ‘em.
I saw a piece of it tonight, viewing the rest tomorrow. Was actually thinking that shortly we will have a brand new and refreshed offensive in Iraq thanks to this series as they depict American Marines belittling the Iraqis. I’m sure it’ll be good for a few more IEDs and suicide bomber recruitment. Just what they want in Hollywood.
The MSM is on a jihad to label our Troops as wacked out ptsd types...
There was a showtime diddy called “Home of the Brave” that portrayed three returnees from Iraq as such. Viet Vet ptsd redux.
Another show on hbo had called “Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq” that had Soprano star James Garfolano (sp?) directing that was composed of Iraq Vets interviews of their injuries and cause... not bad actually. Unfortunately the anti war mantra was heralded at the end of it...
I’m going to break down and watch this series. I watched about five minutes of it last night, and that was long enough to see more than I cared to.
There are a number of ways a show like this could be produced. This one is going to pride itself on showing the real deal, the nitty gritty, day to day.
What it will wind up doing is denegrating the men who risk their lives for us. And hey, wasn’t that the plan all along? Hell yes.
HBO is going to fool a lot of folks who will watch this program with their brain disengaged. It could have shown the though situations that these men find themselves in, and how their sacrifice to overcome those situations. It could show the noble things these men do. It could find many projects and firefights that depict the character and valor these men exhibit.
Instead HBO will water all that down by showing how vile these men actually are. It will focus on racial comments, negative comments about women, conflicts between troops, and any other negatives they can throw in.
In the end, what mattered in Iraq? Was it the flippant racial views of some men who didn’t conduct themselves as I would have liked, or was it the liberation of tens of millions of people to live more peaceful and productive lives in peace?
HBO would have us believe that the flawed humans who exist in every environment are what we should focus on. For if you focus on that, you can see the futility of war, the unfairness of it, the brutality conducted in your name.
Columbus, Apollo, WWI, WWII, Vietnam, the Manhattan Project, the great discoveries of mankind... you could find something negative to report about some of the people involved in each of these subjects. Would that destroy the positive aspects of them?
This obcession to humanize those who do the right thing, is an effort to destroy our national heroes. It says that you are a fool if you respect a person for doing good, because that was not the real man.
We can’t respect the effort expended in Iraq, because the troops were severely flawed. Who cares if tens of millions of people are benefited, freed, given reasoned lives... this was “Generation Kill”. Now come to grips with that.
F HBO.
That was spot on!
Thank you. I appreciate it.
I saw the first installment on Sunday.
Not impressed. Way overdone. I think it disses the Marines.
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