Sunday - October 09, 2005
Over There?
I just finished watching the FX TV show, "Over
There." There is almost nothing worth watching about this show. I can imagine
that there are several things I would expect to be interesting such
as:
Plot, or story
line
Depiction of the military in
Iraq
Demonstration of some aspect of TTP,
Tactics, Techniques, Procedures
Showing what
the US is doing in the war
But none of
these things were worth it.
The story line for the episode I watched was
pathetic. An orphanage is being turned into a police station and the army is
being asked by the Iraqi government to move the poor kids out. That's it.
That's the plot. Oh, except that the Staff Sergeant sleeps with the French
orphanage woman.
Oh, and it's such a
tragedy and no one can stop it from happening until the Staff Sergeant finally
agrees to re-enlist. At that point, suddenly a way is found to save the
orphanage. What a stupid plot, but the smelly, stinky soldier beds the smelly
stinky Frenchwoman, or is that redundant to call a Frenchwoman
stinky?
So, the story line wasn't worth
it.
The soldiers in this show got to
sleep with women. That ain't the Iraq I was in. There are no women worth
seeing, let alone sleeping with, but then maybe the cushy spots in Baghdad, if
there are any, has some. The soldiers get into discussions of blacks versus
whites. So deep, you know.
Okay, so
maybe there is some effort to show the actions of soldiers while on missions.
Nope. They leave a Staff Sergeant in mujville, right after a bomb goes off, and
no one seems the wiser until they decide to go pick him up the next day. They
move around with only one, sometimes two vehicles. Now, I can easily forgive
that these are not armored properly, and I can even forgive that they move
around with only two hummers instead of four, That's a petty point. But no
one leaves anyone behind. Absurd!
They show a small boy, injured by the
bomb attack, dying as they wait for a helicopter. They're all angry that it
will take more than 30 minutes to get a bird to them. Well, what the heck were
they sitting around for? Why didn't they drive the kid to the firm base? Why
didn't they have a medic with them?
The
same little boy carried a chess set with timers on it. They thought it might be
a bomb, so after they got him to set in on the ground, they decided to shoot it
with one round of 5.56mm. There are good reasons why this would never happen.
You don't disable bombs, or suspected bombs, by shooting at them. It's more
likely to make it harder to disarm the bomb than make it blow up.
But the real reason I hated the show
was its blatant anti-American attitude. The primary message, beyond that the
French chick puts out, is that the US will throw orphans into the street simply
because the Iraqi government told them to do so. In a war that is mostly
centered on public relations and maintaining the will of our nation to fight,
there could be no stupider thing for the US to do, yet we're expected to believe
that little children are thrown into the streets regularly because we're puppets
of the Iraqis, who in reality would never do this either. Yet at the same time,
suddenly we can ignore the Iraqi government simply because some guy re-enlists.
This is the purpose of the show, to
tell Americans that we're throwing orphans into the street for no reason, and
that America shouldn't be supporting the war.
The makers of this show should be
tried for treason. It's not that they're anti-war, it's that they're on the
other side.
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