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bernsteinschroeder t1_ixtwsid wrote

Reply to comment by sethcarus in Echo 3 - Series Premiere Discussion by NicholasCajun

Contrast this to SEAL Team where the team leader (due to TBI) forgets they found explosives in a part of the building and tries to breach a door near it with, you guessed it, explosives. Nearly blows his entire team to pieces and they all wind up in the hospital.

When they piece it together, what happens? No pissy treatise, no acrimony, nada. They rallied around him even though HIS error nearly killed them.

> special forces teams are so bonded to each other this would never happen

And if it did need to happen, it'd be behind closed doors, with just the team, and absolutely not in a public place with someone who is not part of the team, family or not.

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sethcarus t1_ixu0p6j wrote

Thank you. Sometimes on these threads I start to wonder ior worry that at sone point f I've quietly switched places with some other version of myself in a different dimension where my subtext and cultural references are incongruous with everyone who are at home there...

I feel relieved to hear someone reframe what I was hoping to discuss in a helpful way.

I grew up in a household where I never had the honor of serving but my father was from rhat world. So the men and women in our armed forces deserve faithful representation at the very least. If nothing else I think we can try to do them proud with accurate and credible stories of the kind of service and sacrifice that isn't as common as it was once.

I think it deserves to be revered. I really loved rhe terminal list. Something about that movie really moved me. But this apple series Echo 3 just turned me.off twice before i reached the halfway mark in the first episode. No promise it can offer is enough to forgive how awful that writing is.

Anyway... has there been any other recent series or films which do provide insight and respect on military service that you've have seen?

I'm definitely aware of the void left bu the echo 3 disapointmwnt...

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