The Unit Season Finale

At the risk of getting this thread moved to Whine & Cheese, I will note that I stopped watching it after three shows as I tired of the soap opera aspects of it.
 
FullerH said:
At the risk of getting this thread moved to Whine & Cheese, I will note that I stopped watching it after three shows as I tired of the soap opera aspects of it.
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I totally understand that! I saw the first episode, some episode in the middle and then the finale last night. I have to admit I cringe every time in pans back to the wives at home...
 
Is the colonel commanding "The Unit" still messing around with his subordinate's blonde wife? That was the part that really turned me off. If the guy had the smarts to run such an elite unit, he would have been smart enough to know better.
 
FullerH said:
Is the colonel commanding "The Unit" still messing around with his subordinate's blonde wife? That was the part that really turned me off. If the guy had the smarts to run such an elite unit, he would have been smart enough to know better.
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Well that was one thing that was resolved last night as it turns out. The colonel married someone else. The blonde bimbette got busted by her own daughter and the pregnant lady. It seems she kept an incriminating polaroid laying around. So then the blonde bimbette showed up where the colonel worked and wanted him to run off with her, or at least keep their little affair going because she was going to divorce her husband since she had got his reenlistment paper in the mail. The colonel told her to get lost and kept walking. So next she shows up at his house and meets his wife... who promptly gives her a box of all the old letters and various crap that she had apparently sent to the colonel. Then her husband comes home and she starts laying into him about reenlisting and it turns out that if she had read the whole thing she would have discovered that he was also transferring to some outfit near her parents. So she feels like an idiot, cause she is one. Maybe they are both leaving the show I don't know. Would be a great way to get that story arc right out of the series and I hope they do it.
 
Overall I like the show, even if it does have that soap opera aspect at times.
Besides, the military does have more than its share of marriage drama.
And sadly, it's not really uncommon for guys to cheat with the spouse of a fellow unit member.
As an unofficial rule, the company area is "off limits" to the spouses.
The last thing a Soldier wants to hear when he comes back from a 30-day field exercise is "Hey man, I saw your wife hanging around the barracks last week".

Allen.
 
I like certain aspects of the show, namely the actual action segments, but the wives bullshit is just boring as hell.
 
Spark said:
I like certain aspects of the show, namely the actual action segments, but the wives bullshit is just boring as hell.
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Yes that's what I really wanted to talk about from the show last night. In the last scene with the shoot out in the restaurant did anyone else think that the tactics emplyoyed by the team were a bit odd? Also did anyone else see the knife content? Was that a microtech?
 
Looked like a spike to me, and the tactics on the show are uniformly laughed at by people all over the web.
 
I wonder whatever happened to "E-Ring"? Now, there was a well done show that had potential and seems to have been killed off.
 
...and the tactics on the show are uniformly laughed at by people all over the web.
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And some folks take things way to seriously.

If a real BTDT can't enjoy the show for what it is then they probably need a very long break from the job.
 
allenC said:
And some folks take things way to seriously.

If a real BTDT can't enjoy the show for what it is then they probably need a very long break from the job.
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I understand what you are saying, but really did you see the way that shoot out went? Only one guy taking cover (the newbie) everyone else apparently went to the school of "I'm going to walk at a slow and deliberate pace firing as I go into submachine gun fire" school of small unit tactics. Not only that... it works!!! Apparently bad guys are the most incompetent marksmen in the world...
 
FullerH said:
I wonder whatever happened to "E-Ring"? Now, there was a well done show that had potential and seems to have been killed off.
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I wondered about that too, I never watched it but I knew you had mentioned it was good. It seems to have just disappeared. Of course so did that show "Madame President" or whatever it was with Gina Davis so I guess you win some and lose some... :)
 
It wasn't "Madam President", it was "Commander in Chief", but it won't be missed by many other than my wife. I found that they took themselves much, much too seriously. Compare it to "West Wing" which had many very funny moments and some extremely funny lines all through it, as when they did the show on the funeral of Leo McGarry. They ended with a get together in the family quarters of the White House for all of the immediate staff who had known Leo so well and they were sharing their favorite funny stories about him. 1) That is a very human reaction to grief, to try to remember the good parts of a relationship, and 2) It is a very upbeat way to end a necessary but very downbeat show.

I do wish that they had let Geena Davis actually smile once in a while, a real smile and not that tight little grin that she was using. The one part of that show that I'll miss is Donald Sutherland. he was just fantastic as the bad guy to her, oh, so good woman.
 
Well, the "John Wayne tactical manuevers go over well with the TV audience, so just smirk and enjoy the show.

While the "soap opera" aspect is definitely overworked, I really enjoyed the previous episode where the pregnant wife, working at a radio station, is rescued by her "anti-gun" boss, who brandishes HER (legally carried) pistol to dissuade a rapist!

Seriously, folks, there have been other pro-gun moments (as in, "mere civilians" CAN own & use firearms responsibly) on this series; that's more than I can say of any other network series with which I'm familiar. I'll watch this show for that reason alone!
 
Only one guy taking cover (the newbie) everyone else apparently went to the school of "I'm going to walk at a slow and deliberate pace firing as I go into submachine gun fire" school of small unit tactics.
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I never said that I think the tactics are realistic...but just for the sake of argument, consider the senario:

They were in a confined area.
They were wearing suits and dress shoes.
They had already been drinking who knows how much booze--hell, maybe they were drunk!

In any event, the wise old saying holds true: it's better to be lucky than good!;)
 
Besides, there is the old Samurai Cat truism that Stormtroopers, whether NAZI or Imperial, can never hit the broad side of a barn no matter how much they shoot. ;) ;)
 
I tried to get into that show, just kept getting worse. The last episode I remember had a pretty silly moment. Some wounded guy with the leader having his hand shoved in the guys groin grabbing for the femoral artey and telling the guy to start his own IV...I think the guy died :rolleyes: Good thing it was not a heart surgeon...here buddy, cut yourself open.
 
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