Funny, I was looking back through my posts--published and drafts--to see what I'd had to say about SEAL Team previously, hoping to avoid the Old Man meme of repeating stories, and lo and behold, I found multiple entries in draft form, but nothing finished and "published." Hence this.
I was talking to a friend of mine (said a woman had hurt his pride, but that's not the subject here) and mentioned how much I had enjoyed a recent episode of SEAL Team. I told him that this particular show (it was some time back) had one of the best stories about dealing with the death of a loved one that I'd ever seen on television. He seemed vastly uninterested in what I was saying, and finally interjected, "I never watch those kinds of shows." A bit puzzled as to what "those kinds of shows" meant, I asked him why not. He said, "I just hate all of that We're So Great shit." I was baffled by that comment, as (1) he'd never seen the show, so how could he know what it was "about"? and (2) I have seen every episode of this show, and it is certainly not about how We're So Great. In fact, it runs right along the borderline of We're Not So Great.
But I know lots of people who are like that. I'm sorry to say that most of them identify as liberals, too. Not that that means that "liberals are like that," just that most of my friends are liberals. There are no doubt lots of conservatives who are "like that" as well. Anyway... "like that" meaning people who make snap judgments about things based on superficial or even no knowledge. And that certainly doesn't matter when it comes to a television show, but I have to wonder if it really stops there. Isn't that whole methodology the engine behind racism, sexism, etcetera etcetera etcetera?
ANYway. As of this writing, SEAL Team has made the jump from CBS to Paramount+. I needed another streaming service like I need another _____ , but I didn't even have to think about plunking down my $4.99 + tax every month. Cause this is a truly excellent show. Lots of interesting character development...primarily centered around
Master Chief Jason Hayes played by David Boreanaz
Special Warfare Operator Clay Spenser played by Max Thieriot
Chief Warrant Officer Ray Perry played by Neil Brown, Jr.
Special Warfare Operator Sonny Quinn played by A. J. Buckley
Lieutenant Lisa Davis played by Toni Trucks
And in some episodes we go into a character's past, and when it's past enough, they use different actors to portray the characters instead of that sad shit where they put a different haircut on somebody and expect you to believe that it's a younger version of them.
And in some episodes a main character will get upset and act like a total jerk, and you'll think, Why are you being such an asshole? But eventually things straighten out, and as a viewer I always get to the point where I think, Yeah, most of us act like assholes at some point in our lives, don't we?
In short, it's a truly great show, and I anxiously await each new episode.
The switch over to Paramount+ seems to have recked any major changes in the show, save for one: at one point in a recent episode, Jason Hayes got very frustrated and said "Fuck!" I mock-dropped my jaw and turned to Joe (who always watches this show with me) and he laughed. As anyone who has been in or around the military for more than thirteen seconds, FUCK is the favorite noun, verb, adjective, and adverb, so I think dropping it a few times in an episode (along with some SHITs) is definitely called for.
BTW, the red, white, and blue thing on the names was just my idea of poking fun at my friend, nothing more nor less than that. Okay? Okay.
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