Beheadings, burning prisoners alive, stoning gays to death, cutting off the private parts of young girls, suicide bombings, car-bombs, kidnapping for ransom, etc. etc. etc.
But no. We are all supposed to watch this movie about a hot MILF Special Forces wife-and-mother, where the REAL enemy is a bunch of white American men.
There are plenty of shows/movies/books out there where the enemy is not a domestic one. Some are actually quite good. Some are even very recent. This show decides to create an action/spy thriller starring a woman. In those stories, having an enemy at home greatly increases the stakes, especially when the intelligence/military community involved is the U.S. on, which happens to be more powerful and usually more capable than any other.
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Hollywood has basically three go to villains evil white corporations, evil white crooked officials, or evil white russians. They are afraid of the backlash whenever anyone else is depicted as villains despite real world evidence of who the worst bad guys are. Any such betrayals are "racist."
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"evil white corporations, evil white crooked officials, or evil white russians" are far more real threats to your average American than some fundamentalist in the desert.
share"evil white corporations, evil white crooked officials, or evil white russians" are far more real threats to your average American than some fundamentalist in the desert.
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Excuse me? It's white men who run Hollywood, and there have always been evil white villains in movies,so what the hell are you complaining about? Just shut up your whining already!
Real world evidence shows that white people are and always have been the real bad guys. Do you think Muslim extremists just suddenly rose up one day because there was nothing good on TV? Grow the *beep* up!
We Brits at least acknowledge that we've always had a tendency to put our paws in to other people's honey jars, it's about damn time Americans had the balls to admit the same instead of all this "We spread democracy like an army of angels!" nonsense.
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. -Isaac Asimov
So the 250+ terror attacks in just the last 25 days of Ramadan are the fault of power brokers in Washington and London? I'm not the one that needs to grow up.
shareIt's like you've never watched a movie before.
share"hot MILF Special Forces wife-and-mother". Do you drink,...heavily?
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I've only seen the first two episodes so far. But for what I've seen, the majority of the U.S. Military are portrayed as the good guys.
It would seem that one high ranking Officer might be corrupt (the shock of the possibility that a Col. would sell out for money...).
It seems to be one of those themes where: the U.S. Military gets betrayed by Politicians and Private Corporations. Not like that never ever happened in real-life.
It's not like thousands of US Servicemen/women were killed and wounded in Iraq, getting only a pittance considering the responsibilities and risks they had, against what Private Security Contractors were receiving, and giving their lives to protect Business Interests.
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Jackson Browne nailed it perfectly 30 years back. It's no less relevant today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3YcZ233MIs
You can't palm off a second-rater on me. You gotta remember I was in the pink!