SlickWilly223
Time ta STEP IT UP
Well, last night I saw an episode of over there. As a big military fan myself, I was not only expecting a "Band of Brothers in Iraq", but I was actually expecting to watch this show religiously.
Well not anymore.
To be honest, my friends and I smoked 3 or 4 bowls before the show came on. Maybe that's why we laughed so hard, or maybe it was because the show really was that bad. Either way, let me get some things off my chest that made the show suck.
I guess I'll do a spoiler tag here just in case someone didn't see this particular episode...
This show is not "Band of Brothers in Iraq." It's more of a comedy to me, anyway, and I'll be sure to tune in for some cheap laughs.
Well not anymore.
To be honest, my friends and I smoked 3 or 4 bowls before the show came on. Maybe that's why we laughed so hard, or maybe it was because the show really was that bad. Either way, let me get some things off my chest that made the show suck.
I guess I'll do a spoiler tag here just in case someone didn't see this particular episode...
I found it funny when one soldier was recording one of those personal videos to his wife, telling her that "We're all savages" and stuff, and then after he's done recording you see that his wife is actually sleeping with another man (and they show her quietly riding on top of another man in her bed, while her unclothed back shines in the moonlight). I guess why I find that whole scene funny is because if this show was on HBO, instead of doing things that way they probably would have had that lady getting trucked against a fridge by some jacked up guy and you would here so many vulgar words/sounds to really drive the point home. Obviously, FX lacks these kinds of details. I'm confident that some of you here at GA now EXACTLY what I mean here.
The show is not authentic in any way. Towards the end of the episode, a convoy is driving down an empty road and one of the drivers yells "Wait, I think there's something in the road! It looks like a paint can! Don't drive over it, pull over." I was going to stop watching the show right there, because the last thing any army personell would do in that situation is pull over on the side of the road where more hidden bombs could be. Sure enough, one of the trucks hit a road side bomb as he pulled over to the right, and it exploded, killing several and also destroying the legs of one of the young men you followed throughout the episode. The real clincher is when the show goes into the credits, and they play some shitty acoustic song with a Southern guy singing "Oooover Theeere." It was something straight out of South Park
The fighting scenes sucked, and again were very unauthentic. 7 American soldiers were pinned down behind a sand bunker, and you see them shooting at these highly clothed terrorists (You can't see any of the terrorists faces, maybe for Politically Correct reasons, which doesn't help the show). First off, I'm pretty sure it was the 3rd Infantry Devision doing all this crazy shit during the show. I was surprised, because my friend is in the 3rd Infantry Devision, and aside from doing patrols, they never come across any shit like this. Either way, you see one American soldier launch an RPG at a terrorist and it blows his torso clean off and you see a pair of computer generated legs continue running without a torso. They did it in slow-mo, and for half a minute. It was ridiculously funny and absurd that they would do something like that, as I was expecting a real gritty show here, not bullshit like that. Anyway, immedietly after that, the officer in charge actually yells out "CHARGE" and the Americans go running into a HOT SPOT of terrorists that are all shooting at them. BULL SHIT!! No one would EVER do that, EVER. It was 7 American Soldiers vs. countless number of terrorists, and they decide to go running towards them with guns a blazing?!?! Nooo... you see one guy with a SAW lighting up a bunch of people, but the only question in my mind was "What if someone is hit? What if you run out of ammo? Where are they running towards, anyway?"
This show is not "Band of Brothers in Iraq." It's more of a comedy to me, anyway, and I'll be sure to tune in for some cheap laughs.