portwineboy

Did anyone watch this?

I enjoyed it despite the lukewarm critical reviews. I should point out though that I also enjoy watching war movies so I have a positive bias towards the genre as a whole.

The reviews mostly harped on one theme...that it lacks substantive political commentary on the Iraq war. I'm okay with this as I get plently of talking heads whenever I turn on the evening news.

Being the pilot it had a lot of exposition so it felt a little disjointed. A couple of the characters seem pretty interesting and I hope to see them developed, others seemed one dimensional. The main plot theme for the episode Spoiler: a mosque full of insurgents who pretend they want to surrender and instead attack was pretty weak. I also didn't enjoy the Spoiler: reality tv "video email" and the el fako computer receipt of it by the cheating wife.

I couldn't figure out who Spoiler: lost their leg at the end. Bo?

What did you folks think?

This is no Band of Brothers and suffers for it but isn't exactly bad.

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