SeagullinExile
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Bit like most Hollywood action movies then!
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[TV] SAS- Rogue Heroes….New drama
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I enjoyed it.
Light_Bulb
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- Aug 20, 2024
- 30
I quite like it for a bit of escapism. And it's a nice touch the way they splice in real footage.
Mrs Bulb likes it and she's been fairly silent whilst watching. No interruptions, no questions, no having to explain anything. For that alone it gets a thumbs up from me!!
Mrs Bulb likes it and she's been fairly silent whilst watching. No interruptions, no questions, no having to explain anything. For that alone it gets a thumbs up from me!!
Go on, admit it, you're just annoyed you didn't get a part in it you lovey
SeagullinExile
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Exactly. As for the music, what’s not to like about a bit of Sham 69 in a period drama? It’s something different, and I quite liked it!I quite like it for a bit of escapism. And it's a nice touch the way they splice in real footage.
Mrs Bulb likes it and she's been fairly silent whilst watching. No interruptions, no questions, no having to explain anything. For that alone it gets a thumbs up from me!!
Some of the men portrayed had colourful lives it seems. The real Reg Seekings for example, survived an attack on truck carrying his platoon because he got out to adjust the tail gate, one of only two survivors out of 24. In France he was shot in the neck, just missing his spine, he lived the rest of his life with the bullet lodged in him! A charmed life indeed.
Anyway hoping series 3 won't be too far away, and we can follow the team to Berlin from D Day
Not sure that they were involved after the initial drive and immediate lead up to Berlin.
I could be wrong here, but the top brass might have considered their work (SAS) done by
then. I do seem to remember them being dropped behind German enemy lines later on, but for intelligence
and sabotage stuff only with the resistance.
Balls of Steele
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- Oct 3, 2023
- 76
As others have said an enjoyable escapism watch and binged watched all on Sunday when weather was awful. Look forward to a third series
herecomesaregular
We're in the pipe, 5 by 5
Tried a few episodes of series 2 but it's such an oddity and just so.... dislikeable. What a missed opportunity as it seems to have had a decent budget. I usually lap up all WW2 films but this is strangely unwatchable and an utter fail.
I used to know an army PT instructor who had worked at some point with the SAS and I remember his quote about them to this
day that: 'they could disappear in a shadow'. That aspect of lying low watching, meticulous preparation and then pouncing seemed
to be missing from the series. They come across as far to boozy and fighty, noisy and not that measured imho.
The Clamp
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This series does a huge disservice to the SAS and to Paddy Mayne in particular.
He was disciplined, fair, and highly intelligent. He was a solicitor.
He could be fierce but he cared for his men. He would never have allowed the behaviour depicted by his men in briefings and training.
He was a warrior but the embarrassment of every one constantly referring to him as MAD!! Just never happened.
He was disciplined, fair, and highly intelligent. He was a solicitor.
He could be fierce but he cared for his men. He would never have allowed the behaviour depicted by his men in briefings and training.
He was a warrior but the embarrassment of every one constantly referring to him as MAD!! Just never happened.
Played Rugby for Ireland too I believe.
GOM
living vicariously
Weren't the Maquis operating mainly in Southern France, a bit far from the D-Day landings. They were a part of the resistance movement but not all of it.
Insel affe
HellBilly
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I am sure it has nothing to do with the ample naked shower scenes, or shirtless buff soldiers occasionally changing and showing their firm buttocks to the world.....
This is not a history lesson......