Thank you. Sometimes on these threads I start to wonder ior worry that at sone point f I've quietly switched places with some other version of myself in a different dimension where my subtext and cultural references are incongruous with everyone who are at home there...

I feel relieved to hear someone reframe what I was hoping to discuss in a helpful way.

I grew up in a household where I never had the honor of serving but my father was from rhat world. So the men and women in our armed forces deserve faithful representation at the very least. If nothing else I think we can try to do them proud with accurate and credible stories of the kind of service and sacrifice that isn't as common as it was once.

I think it deserves to be revered. I really loved rhe terminal list. Something about that movie really moved me. But this apple series Echo 3 just turned me.off twice before i reached the halfway mark in the first episode. No promise it can offer is enough to forgive how awful that writing is.

Anyway... has there been any other recent series or films which do provide insight and respect on military service that you've have seen?

I'm definitely aware of the void left bu the echo 3 disapointmwnt...

They are part of the same unit. You have one guy who is pouting for awhile before condemning his brother in arms for an op going wrong when he is actually the reason why everything went all wrong. It's just the high school soap opera vision of a special ops thriller. They may as well should be arguing over who used the last roll of toilet paper. It's just a joke...

As soon as the guy who just got married ambushed his brother in law at a dinner and accused him of blowing the mission, I could almost predict the rest of the show. His entire speech about military accountability made my sphentic pucker up. Wasn't it the fault of the guy who just got married that the op went sideways?! The guy who died on the mountain was left there because the guy throwing accusations was wounded and everyone had to completely go off script to rescue him. So how does this character have any credibility after the total snow job he just pulled on everyone.

First of all... special forces teams are so bonded to each other this would never happen except apparently in this woke wet dream of a pseudo military story. They just don't think like that whatever th3 reason. The loyalty between members of a squad like this runs so deep rhat there's almost an irrational kind of faith in their other squad members.
They wouldn't risk the dynamic changing which would expose them to incredible vulnerability when in combat.
This puff piece of a film is out of its depth . This is why the entire industry is collapsing. They have lost their self awareness about stuff they cannot understand... this is abysmal...