American war vets? Are nearly all either 1) homeless 2) suffering from debilitating PTSD and paranoid delusions about killing their families 3) in wheelchairs, embittered, wishing revenge on other American soldiers 4) otherwise homicidal, or 5) some combination of the above.
— Except 6) those who profit off of the mayhem — become addicted to it, crave it, become sociopathic mercenaries, and take advantage of the psychicly wounded vets looking to make peace with their many moral trespasses.
Maybe if men just talked about their problems instead of going to war, we wouldn’t see the 300 homeless vets on the streets of Boston alone. Is the actual paraphrase of several lines from the show.
Honestly: there had better be an undercover women-in-prison episode soon, or I’m taking this shit off my DVR — and I’ll just wait for a Maura / Jane sex tape makes its way to YouTube like everybody else with any self respect left.
I wasn’t an expert on Sixties cravenness until Mad Men. Then it all made sense.
As a great and demented mind once wrote:
Have they done an episode where there is a terrorist attack (or foiled attempt), and after harassing as few followers of the religion of peace, it is traced back to a US soldier?
Every other cop show has pulled this “clever” plot twist, so R&I will probably do it soon…
What I learned from Rizzoli and Isles?
Jason Seahorn (Mr. Angie Harmon) is one lucky guy!
Other than that?
Meh……
Since Batman 1989, Superhero movies have been stuck on this trope that the supervillain wants to dose a whole city with a gas or a virus or some mutagenic compound
I guess in cop shows the biter ex soldier performing terrorism and blaming good muslims is the new fall back. Oklahoma City and Timothy McVeigh left a bigger impression on some people than both attacks on the World trade Center. Ironically most of those people so affected probably could not find Oklahoma on a map and don’t see why people don’t like Bill Ayers, Ted Kaczynski, and Bernadine Dorn. They seem like such nice people.
My dad is a WWII vet and none of those conditions apply. I guess he’s an outlier.
Timothy McVeigh left a bigger impression on some people than both attacks on the World trade Center. Ironically most of those people so affected probably could not find Oklahoma on a map and don’t see why people don’t like Bill Ayers, Ted Kaczynski, and Bernadine Dorn. They seem like such nice people.
Isn’t that the truth. I gave up talking to my sister-in-law about the terrorists when she kept saying that it was exactly the same as OKC. I told her that was bullshit, since her father was retired Army and she didn’t even know any Muslims. I happen to know some Muslims and I don’t find them trustworthy. But, I am the suspicious type.
I wonder if any one has ever done a study about how much more money a drunken bum can take in if he claims to be a veteran rather than admit he is just a fuck up.
I onced yelled at a panhandler in Pittsburgh (I was stuck in traffic and it was hot) who had a sign that read “Homeless Vietnam Vet”. This was in about 1996 and the guy looked like he was in his 20s. Anyway, I yelled at him, “Vietnam vet? What were you, a fucking drummer boy?”
Most likely a trust fund brat who headed to SE Asia to “find himself” during/after college, and Vietnam is where he picked up his heroin habit.
Yeah, I figured Trustafarian or he found the sign next to a sleeping homeless guy and decided to give it a whirl.
I haven’t added that show to my queue-line….waiting for the R rated version. The script is pretty bad? – not surprising. I’ve tried watching some of the network coppy shows but they’re almost as preachy as MASH got to be. IMHO the only show worth viewing is Breaking Bad.
I just ignore the plots and laugh when the one dude passes out.
“Maybe if men just talked about their problems instead of going to war…Is the actual paraphrase of several lines from the show.”
War is a continuation of blah-blah-blabbing your face off by other means.
Good luck in talking through your issues with the Taliban.
NCIS wasn’t bad to start with but they’ve pretty much mined out all the ore….
I like the witty mildly homo-erotic banter. In general, I’ve never seen this show.
For at least the past two weekends, NPR has had stories about oil pipelines that broke, and the horrible effects on the people in the areas around the breaks – as reported by NPR. (I listen to “Click and Clack” at 10:00 AM every Saturday – FOR THE ARTICLES, so the car radio tends to stay on NPR from Saturday morning until Monday.)
Anyway, it’s almost as if somebody needs some propaganda about the evils of oil pipelines.