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Not 1 but 2 Navy SEALs in the same episode

posted 8 years ago by jptrugger-84-585771
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One dead (the victim) the other alive (Riggs).

What are the odds?

Writers: Hey, let's make everyone Navy SEALs that is the current "hip" thing that everyone will recognize!! Yeah, that's the ticket!!

[–] Mulleted1 8 years ago

Veterans in poorly written fiction are always SEALs or other Speical Forces, Andy they usually have a few "Congressional" Medals of Honor on their resumes (though it's only correctly referred to as simply the "Medal of Honor"). For some reason cooks, clerks and orderlies are underrepresented in bad fiction. This show sucks badly. It features every stupid cliche in the Hollywood repertoire of crap. And the chick who plays Damon Wayans' wife is insanely hot and much too young.

[–] jptrugger-84-585771 8 years ago

The "Congressional" Medal of Honor thing always drive my wife nuts (she is in the military).

It is full of a lot of cliches. They haven't fully identified the young smart a$$ tech person yet on the LAPD side.

[–] joluboga 8 years ago

They haven't fully identified the young smart a$$ tech person yet on the LAPD side.

It's gonna be a freshly-out-of-college feminist girl, that always has her headphones on, and admires the show's generic strong female character.

Her name will be something like Adriana Hackerman-Lopez.

[–] krisdl 8 years ago

"the chick who plays Damon Wayans' wife is insanely hot and much too young" not really she is 44 and he is 56, it's about the same gap as my wife and I and you wouldn't know there was a gap.

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[–] magemaximus 8 years ago

i thought that was weird too. when i heard him say seal, i thought i misheard. i was like whoa, another seal!?

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[–] Jack_LesCamela 8 years ago

One dead (the victim) the other alive (Riggs).

What are the odds?

Writers: Hey, let's make everyone Navy SEALs that is the current "hip" thing that everyone will recognize!! Yeah, that's the ticket!!

And in the first LETHAL WEAPON movie, Riggs and all the main villains are ex-Special Forces who served in Vietnam.

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[–] robocop-37224 8 years ago

Where's Don Shipley when you need him?

[–] TheAdvocator 8 years ago

The movie had Riggs and one of the antagonists as Special Forces too. Did you not watch the original? It's streaming on Netflix. Give a go.

A good review of "Inside Out": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXC_205E3Og

[–] jptrugger-84-585771 8 years ago

Yes, of course I did. Riggs was SF. And the team of commandos hired by the former general hired other special forces to comprise Shadow Company who were his security / enforcement detail since he was a drug runner. They were a major underground ring.

Riggs is a SEAL in this TV show. OK fine. But the other random guy had to be a SEAL? There are plenty of other SF forces to pick from if they "have to" go the SF route. But even that seemed unnecessary. SEALs are not a dime a dozen unless you are at McPs on Coronado.

[–] TheAdvocator 8 years ago

Yes, of course I did. Riggs was SF. And the team of commandos hired by the former general hired other special forces to comprise Shadow Company who were his security / enforcement detail since he was a drug runner. They were a major underground ring.

Riggs is a SEAL in this TV show. OK fine. But the other random guy had to be a SEAL? There are plenty of other SF forces to pick from if they "have to" go the SF route. But even that seemed unnecessary. SEALs are not a dime a dozen unless you are at McPs on Coronado.

"Have to" in quotes, huh? Interesting, it's like you don't even have enough confidence in what you're trying to say.

But this is the pilot and whether or not you think Seals are so rare or not they chose it for a reason. You're just being contrary because God knows why. You don't like the show that's fine but you don't understand what parallels are. That's less fine.

A good review of "Inside Out": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXC_205E3Og

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[–] Legendary_Badass 8 years ago

Special Forces, Ranger, Delta Force... nowadays its always going to be Navy SEAL in fiction. No character is simply going to be a marine. I can't even recall seeing a TV character who was in the reserves.

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[–] Jack_LesCamela 8 years ago

That's probably due in part to the character of Martin Riggs in the original movie. He was the "Lethal Weapon" of the title, ex U.S. Army Special Forces and highly trained killer. When your hero is established as being extremely dangerous you can't really put him up against bad guys who were ordinary servicemen in comparison.

[–] jptrugger-84-585771 8 years ago

Oh great, so we are going to have Special Forces (SEALs naturally) in every episode of this show? Sounds so off the wall!!

[–] Shadowkisss 8 years ago

So? The more the merrier.

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