shows awesome. when i was a kid i always used to write short stories about some operator who comes home and his family is killed as part of some vast conspiracy. i was reading and playing a lot of tom clancy books and games. this series scratches all of those itches. its more than just operator kino though, its a great political thriller. virtually no woke or pozzed concepts at all.
Every episode has an action scene, usually a gun fight. One of the episodes is an hour long chase sequence, for fricks sake.
How much more action do you need? Should it have forgone plot entirely and just been a lot of shooting on the screen?
He gutted a man in Mexico and blew a guy's brains out all over the sidewalk in downtown SF. I didn't think anything about it was polished beyond him having plot armor, but if the show was gonna make it to the end he at least had to live until the end. What exactly did you want? Because I often feel like I have unrealistic expectations for action in films and I was content with this. I'm a little surprised this wasn't enough for some.
After Mexico is when I found that it jumped and became another show like 24, very unrealistic compared to the first episode. The Rambo lite episode was also not good.
It needed a more dark and realistic approach to the gun fights, that would have elevated to great, it's was an enjoyable show to binge but that's about it for me.
My favorite of all of them was honestly 5 and 6. I liked him setting off the bomb despite the journo being in his way I honestly didn't think he'd do it or she'd move or some shit. And I liked the clever ways he used to evade the manhunt and how he stunted on the glowie boys and stole their shit. But I guess I can understand wanting it to be a bit more grounded.
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He tells her to her face that if she inserts herself into this conflict again the consequences are on her. He still hesitates.
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yeah dude I watched the show what the frick is wrong with you?
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That is all true. I still, on top of that, did not think he would do it. I was not sure it was that kind of show until that moment, which is why I liked it. Even the guy getting straight gutted was justifiable but he really just violated his promise not to harm civvies and let rip with a focused blast pointed at a fricking crowd lmao
nta but the only thing I was really disappointed in was how they cut the escape from fbi short
they should've at least shown him escaping in the river and some of the followup
it just cuts like it didn't even happen
The flashbacks were overused in my opinion. Tbh I can't blame them. There wasn't really much content there. In my opinion they should have >had more initial content of the unit
Not action stuff. Just guys being bros and humanise them so that we as the audience care. I don't care when I see his friends die or the flashbacks because I don't know them. 30 seconds of screen time prepping a mission isn't enough. Do more of what the intro to lone survivor did. >more time with the main character before the mission
I want to see the man he is before his brain gets fried. >more clues to the tumor beforehand
Very subtle impossible to pick up details you won't realise until you think about it later on. That 10 second, "ooo are you alright bro" moment was irrelevant. >literally anything that shows his brother was feeling guilty
That reveal was so bad because it was a random subversion. "ooo look his brother who helped him the whole time with no sign of anything off until the last 10 minutes was actually feeling guilty all along, couldn't you tell bro".
I liked the idea, I liked the action, I liked the plot. Decent show but it could have been so much better
> Do more of what the intro to lone survivor did.
Complete waste of time for 10 morons killt by an rpg immediately. Did nothing but highlight American military incompetence in the war
I'm just saying from a story telling perspective you can't just show meaningless deaths. Means literally nothing to the audience when you say an entire unit die. Why tf would they care about people they can't even name if they tried. Like that commie frick Stalin once said "One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic" so showing me multiple seals die doesn't exactly make me tear up. Even when his friend whoever the frick died, we didn't care. The intro to Lone Survivor was good because it showed the human side of the guys we are supposed to care about and fear for when they're in danger later on and cry about when they die. Even if its a quick death from a RPG by Achmed the inbred goat fricker. One thing they should have done was show someone like Alexander Ludwig tearing up just before he crashed. Pull some more heartstrings in their death scene.
Here's the 10 minute intro. Way better than what they did with the terminal list. In my opinion the first episode should have ended with the failed mission. 30-40 minutes of content with the team would have meant a lot more to the story than 1hr of flashbacks to that dumb bird hitting the window.
I enjoyed it, but many aspects of the plot are moronic >Anti-PTSD drug working in animals, immediately jump to dosing SEALs
Starting with the most high value individual soldiers? Not doing an initial human run in mercenaries, foreign soldiers, or US grunts?
>kill his wife and daughter because???
At first I thought he was going to get framed for their murder and have to clear his name, but that never happened. In hindsight, the family killing makes no fricking sense outside of trying to force character motivation
only 3 eps in and im enjoying it. it isn't something fantastic and it isn't shit. i'm at about 7.5/10 now. i want to give it more points just for not being pozzed bullshit.
A real veteran is your 300lb lab partner who smells like a dispensary all the time claiming weed is a good antipsychotic and mentions how his artillery position at the Battle of Fallujah was overrun by insurgents and how in the confusion he killed Iraqi children in close-quarters hand to hand combat. He looks nothing like Chris Pratt either.
>in the confusion he killed Iraqi children in close-quarters hand to hand combat.
The image of this makes me laugh so fricking hard. I'm imaging a guy going full Bruce Lee on children with nothing obscuring his vision at all, then just suddenly stopping and going >oh god what have I done
What Unit?
Fobbit Team Six; second brekkies. we corned the bagram dip market.
Hooorah I was alongside you guys in the A0 on "Operation Hastings "
147th Quartermaster water purification Detachment US Army Reserve.
Thank you for your service
You're welcome. Just doing my part.
shows awesome. when i was a kid i always used to write short stories about some operator who comes home and his family is killed as part of some vast conspiracy. i was reading and playing a lot of tom clancy books and games. this series scratches all of those itches. its more than just operator kino though, its a great political thriller. virtually no woke or pozzed concepts at all.
>virtually no woke or pozzed concepts at all
Except when:
(1) Reese escapes by landslide. And then helps the asphyxiated FBI c**t
(2) Ben taking a cut of the action, then letting Reese executing him without a fight
(3) the last pair of Talos PMCs killed instead of simultaneously rushing Reese, and killing him
(4) Ching Chong Buranek surprising the hitman with one shot in the Transbay Terminal stairs despite having no firearms training
(5) FBI loser-cuck not shooting Reese in the back on the beach
Yeah. "Not pozzed". LOL
So glad I didn't pay for it.
Female commanding the men.
Who hurt you?
>wtf is a poz and what happens when it isn't asleep?
-that anon probably
>So glad I didn't pay for it.
You shouldn't pay for any tv or movies because israelites always get a cut.
>i'm fighting for no healthcare at home
Oh shut the frick up, all the people who deserve healthcare have it.
kino is back on the menu brother
i bet someone at amazon is getting fired over the lack of woke shit in this
Me too. I love Amazon and Bezos, fellow non-shill.
>inb4 I'm not a shill
Imagine shilling this show for free.
hell yeah brother
*secret handshake*
Even Generation Kill had more operator action than this shit.
Every episode has an action scene, usually a gun fight. One of the episodes is an hour long chase sequence, for fricks sake.
How much more action do you need? Should it have forgone plot entirely and just been a lot of shooting on the screen?
I wanted proper gritty special forces operator action, not ultra polished clean 24 gun fights.
He gutted a man in Mexico and blew a guy's brains out all over the sidewalk in downtown SF. I didn't think anything about it was polished beyond him having plot armor, but if the show was gonna make it to the end he at least had to live until the end. What exactly did you want? Because I often feel like I have unrealistic expectations for action in films and I was content with this. I'm a little surprised this wasn't enough for some.
After Mexico is when I found that it jumped and became another show like 24, very unrealistic compared to the first episode. The Rambo lite episode was also not good.
It needed a more dark and realistic approach to the gun fights, that would have elevated to great, it's was an enjoyable show to binge but that's about it for me.
My favorite of all of them was honestly 5 and 6. I liked him setting off the bomb despite the journo being in his way I honestly didn't think he'd do it or she'd move or some shit. And I liked the clever ways he used to evade the manhunt and how he stunted on the glowie boys and stole their shit. But I guess I can understand wanting it to be a bit more grounded.
He tells her to her face that if she inserts herself into this conflict again the consequences are on her. He still hesitates.
yeah dude I watched the show what the frick is wrong with you?
That is all true. I still, on top of that, did not think he would do it. I was not sure it was that kind of show until that moment, which is why I liked it. Even the guy getting straight gutted was justifiable but he really just violated his promise not to harm civvies and let rip with a focused blast pointed at a fricking crowd lmao
nta but the only thing I was really disappointed in was how they cut the escape from fbi short
they should've at least shown him escaping in the river and some of the followup
it just cuts like it didn't even happen
Generation Kill is literally them in the middle of an active war.
The flashbacks were overused in my opinion. Tbh I can't blame them. There wasn't really much content there. In my opinion they should have
>had more initial content of the unit
Not action stuff. Just guys being bros and humanise them so that we as the audience care. I don't care when I see his friends die or the flashbacks because I don't know them. 30 seconds of screen time prepping a mission isn't enough. Do more of what the intro to lone survivor did.
>more time with the main character before the mission
I want to see the man he is before his brain gets fried.
>more clues to the tumor beforehand
Very subtle impossible to pick up details you won't realise until you think about it later on. That 10 second, "ooo are you alright bro" moment was irrelevant.
>literally anything that shows his brother was feeling guilty
That reveal was so bad because it was a random subversion. "ooo look his brother who helped him the whole time with no sign of anything off until the last 10 minutes was actually feeling guilty all along, couldn't you tell bro".
I liked the idea, I liked the action, I liked the plot. Decent show but it could have been so much better
> Do more of what the intro to lone survivor did.
Complete waste of time for 10 morons killt by an rpg immediately. Did nothing but highlight American military incompetence in the war
I'm just saying from a story telling perspective you can't just show meaningless deaths. Means literally nothing to the audience when you say an entire unit die. Why tf would they care about people they can't even name if they tried. Like that commie frick Stalin once said "One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic" so showing me multiple seals die doesn't exactly make me tear up. Even when his friend whoever the frick died, we didn't care. The intro to Lone Survivor was good because it showed the human side of the guys we are supposed to care about and fear for when they're in danger later on and cry about when they die. Even if its a quick death from a RPG by Achmed the inbred goat fricker. One thing they should have done was show someone like Alexander Ludwig tearing up just before he crashed. Pull some more heartstrings in their death scene.
Here's the 10 minute intro. Way better than what they did with the terminal list. In my opinion the first episode should have ended with the failed mission. 30-40 minutes of content with the team would have meant a lot more to the story than 1hr of flashbacks to that dumb bird hitting the window.
>I won't tell you again. Stay off my board.
if i'm being critical it went a bit too Punisher-y i was hoping it might go into a more conspiracy-type direction. still enjoyable though
was it stinky down range in the sandbox like what did you do to make sure everyone wasn't stinky and farting all the time
It personally reminded me of that time i went to a shooting range in vegas
there should be more shows about me and the boys shooting things and stuff
I enjoyed it, but many aspects of the plot are moronic
>Anti-PTSD drug working in animals, immediately jump to dosing SEALs
Starting with the most high value individual soldiers? Not doing an initial human run in mercenaries, foreign soldiers, or US grunts?
>kill his wife and daughter because???
At first I thought he was going to get framed for their murder and have to clear his name, but that never happened. In hindsight, the family killing makes no fricking sense outside of trying to force character motivation
That said overall it was a fun series
>Starting with the most high value individual soldiers? Not doing an initial human run in mercenaries, foreign soldiers, or US grunts?
Coof vaccine
Yeah but with the coof vaccine they did they opposite and started with the elderly.
only 3 eps in and im enjoying it. it isn't something fantastic and it isn't shit. i'm at about 7.5/10 now. i want to give it more points just for not being pozzed bullshit.
I've got one question for you. Can you operate?
Not anymore brother. I lost my medical license.
that's a lot of cringe
A real veteran is your 300lb lab partner who smells like a dispensary all the time claiming weed is a good antipsychotic and mentions how his artillery position at the Battle of Fallujah was overrun by insurgents and how in the confusion he killed Iraqi children in close-quarters hand to hand combat. He looks nothing like Chris Pratt either.
>in the confusion he killed Iraqi children in close-quarters hand to hand combat.
The image of this makes me laugh so fricking hard. I'm imaging a guy going full Bruce Lee on children with nothing obscuring his vision at all, then just suddenly stopping and going
>oh god what have I done
i dont watch series about government sanctioned killers perpetuating a circle of revenge
What about unsanctioned killers perpetuating a cycle of revenge? Would you watch that?
revenge from whom? their ghosts? is that what the inevitable 2nd season will be about? that's pretty spooky.
I liked it but for frick sake everything doesn't have to be shot dark