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Cute, but with HUGE Tactical stupidities.

posted 10 years ago by praetorian-titus
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I am a soldier 14 years now. I have no clue about Naval procedures. However, when it comes to tactical procedures in dangerous situations, they are behaving like rank amateurs.

I mean, the stupidity of it all amazes me. From being under-armed all the time, with absolutely no clue of how to cover each other's backs.

To crew members are all to often hostages, not to mention, that their ship gets boarded on several occasions.

It is cute to watch, if you have no idea about tactics, and other military procedures which are implemented in dangerous procedures.

I think, that its realism, and overall quality would have been raised if they would use technical advisers, and actually LISTEN to them.

I do like the show, however these small things bug me. Albeit, without the stupidity of the crew, they would not have so many dramatic moments, as they would be resolved fairly fast.

[–] AardvarkRatnik 10 years ago

That happens a lot with programmes about the military, if the depictions were realistic and the personnel did everything according to the book then it would be a boring show! Programmes like Sea Patrol are primarily dramas which means they have to entertain the audience with an exciting story which means having the crew do things which if real military personnel did they would be dismissed for incompetence. The average viewer won't realise that but those of us who know how a military service really works are left going "Oh come on!"

[–] jdonalds-5 9 years ago

I agree and I blame the director for the errors and realism issues. Some of them are very obvious. I wish the series had been a bit more realistic.

On the other hand it is a TV series, not a documentary, so I give it a lot of slack. I binge watched all five seasons over two weeks. I'd be happy to see another series similar to this one.

Those small things bugged me too. I enjoyed the series a lot but would have enjoyed it even more if those issues didn't grab my attention away so often.

[–] Carlzere 9 years ago

I served in the UK Royal Navy in patrol vessels and I can guarantee that if you just showed what actually happened every day, SEA PATROL wouldn't last one episode, never mind a whole series...If you showed an entire night watch, ship on autopilot, sailors staring out of the windows, looking out for other ships etc for four hours, or day work, cleaning and maintaining, painting, chipping rust, occasionally taking one of the boats out..wow, 'excitement'.. Or in harbour, on the gangway for six hours at a time, especially at night, nothing to do and no one to talk to...sure, it'd be realistic, but you might just as well film a brick wall...also, we carried loaded Browning pistols on harbour security duties, then SA80s, but they only got fired on a range or at sea once in a while to requalify..I never drew my pistol, or fired my rifle ONCE in those years and hundreds of hours of duties except on a range..

Whit sad old loser'd be thick enough to don thon get-up?