I guess this sort of thing is bound to be heavy on the jingoism and right-wing cobblers .... you expect that, but it really goes beyond the pale.
Mostly it's just there for people who obviously get oddly excited by uniforms and people saluting, which is all good fun, I suppose. Sadly it's all done on a budget so the acting is wooden, the scripts shallow and unconvincing and most of the stuff gluing it together nicked from stock footage without even a crude attempt at CGI to make the continuity work (others have mentioned details like plane types and ship numbers, but even the basics ... a plane has a sodding great hole blasted in it and the next minute a mint example lands at Miramar, before, frames later, the bruised pilot is hauled out of the wreckage).
All very laughable, but does it matter? well yes it does, the political agenda strays into the story lines, and google about, people are taking this nonsense seriously.
A few episodes deal with sexual harassment, but in such a one dimensional unquestioning way, all trying to refight the tailhook controversy, but so transparently and obnoxiously they actually show whoever is behind this appalling stuff learned entirely the wrong lesson.
Just watched a ridiculous journey into Northern Irish terrorism. Belfast seems to be some sort of downtown New York with 50s London taxis and buses (hey, you can get a bus from the RUC HQ direct to Carnaby street!). RUC officers seem to have dodgy Cork accents, while the IRA spoke with voices I'd normally expect to hear from an apprenticeboy. Everyone had a nice tie and tweedy suit. Of course the English have to be baby-eating facists, and the visiting Americans can cut through decades of complex intrigue and hatred to solve the case in mere minutes, hampered only by this British obsession with not allowing them to carry guns.
I'd love to see the producers have the guts to try the same sort of insulting nonsense set in downtown Jerusalum.
The characters in this thing are so one-dimensional, the scripts predictable, and the whole thing so cheaply chucked together. I watch and love it, like a Jerry Springer show in which the participants haven't yet cottoned on ...
Mostly it's just there for people who obviously get oddly excited by uniforms and people saluting, which is all good fun, I suppose. Sadly it's all done on a budget so the acting is wooden, the scripts shallow and unconvincing and most of the stuff gluing it together nicked from stock footage without even a crude attempt at CGI to make the continuity work (others have mentioned details like plane types and ship numbers, but even the basics ... a plane has a sodding great hole blasted in it and the next minute a mint example lands at Miramar, before, frames later, the bruised pilot is hauled out of the wreckage).
All very laughable, but does it matter? well yes it does, the political agenda strays into the story lines, and google about, people are taking this nonsense seriously.
A few episodes deal with sexual harassment, but in such a one dimensional unquestioning way, all trying to refight the tailhook controversy, but so transparently and obnoxiously they actually show whoever is behind this appalling stuff learned entirely the wrong lesson.
Just watched a ridiculous journey into Northern Irish terrorism. Belfast seems to be some sort of downtown New York with 50s London taxis and buses (hey, you can get a bus from the RUC HQ direct to Carnaby street!). RUC officers seem to have dodgy Cork accents, while the IRA spoke with voices I'd normally expect to hear from an apprenticeboy. Everyone had a nice tie and tweedy suit. Of course the English have to be baby-eating facists, and the visiting Americans can cut through decades of complex intrigue and hatred to solve the case in mere minutes, hampered only by this British obsession with not allowing them to carry guns.
I'd love to see the producers have the guts to try the same sort of insulting nonsense set in downtown Jerusalum.
The characters in this thing are so one-dimensional, the scripts predictable, and the whole thing so cheaply chucked together. I watch and love it, like a Jerry Springer show in which the participants haven't yet cottoned on ...