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Goodsport
15 Mar 2006, 10:05 AM
Pretty interesting TV series (http://www.cbs.com/primetime/the_unit/) so far. First series I've watched on CBS in quite a while. :)
And filmed in 16:9 HD, no less (which isn't true of all new series'). :cool:
GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! http://home.pacbell.net/torvic1/soldierface.gif
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dfb547490
15 Mar 2006, 11:09 AM
I missed this last night but saw the premiere and thought it was absolutely awful--interesting premise, but the plotline was completely disjointed and there was almost no sense of continuity, almost as if the writers were just making it up as they went along....was it any better last night??
billreeves
15 Mar 2006, 12:29 PM
Heh heh, he said "unit".
JMichaels
16 Mar 2006, 02:26 PM
Heh heh, he said "unit".
Ladies and gentlemen...Let's give a hand to BillReeves for typing in for LDB...
JMichaels
16 Mar 2006, 02:26 PM
I missed this last night but saw the premiere and thought it was absolutely awful--interesting premise, but the plotline was completely disjointed and there was almost no sense of continuity, almost as if the writers were just making it up as they went along....was it any better last night??
I still prefer 24. http://www.fox.com/24/
Goodsport
16 Mar 2006, 07:36 PM
was it any better last night??
It was pretty good and had a somewhat-surprise ending, not so much in what happened as how it happened. :eek:
GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! :cool:
-G
Goodsport
22 Mar 2006, 08:01 AM
Yesterday's Episode 3 was pretty good, though the episode's entry on the Episode Synopses (http://www.cbs.com/primetime/the_unit/synopses/) page includes an error:
Jonas attempts to rescue a group of American missionaries in hiding in The Philippines ...
Actually, the group of American missionaries were hiding in Indonesia, not in The Philippines.
Still, the series keeps getting more interesting with each passing week. :)
GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! :cool:
-G
Goodsport
29 Mar 2006, 06:45 AM
Another interesting episode this week, with battles (in varying degrees of discretion) on the streets of Los Angeles, out in the boonies, in the White House and among the wives at home. :D
GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! :cool:
-G
Goodsport
05 Apr 2006, 08:02 AM
Yesterday's episode was yet another interesting one. :)
Though it was bit irksome (but perhaps realistic) to see what at lengths operatives will go to escape capture, particularly in implicating an innocent unsuspecting American tourist as an assassin just to throw off the local authorities. :(
GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! :cool:
-G
ggayle
05 Apr 2006, 11:37 AM
Had a damn good outing against the A's opening night.
Oh, wait.
bigdumbgod
06 Apr 2006, 11:05 PM
Had a damn good outing against the A's opening night.
Oh, wait.
That Unit is Big.
Goodsport
12 Apr 2006, 02:37 AM
Good episode tonight. Lots of tension between the Unit and the CIA, as well as between the Colonel and the wives.
A note about the different languages spoken in this episode: while the U.S. embassy lady early in the episode spoke three lines of Russian (with the fourth line apparently in Farsi) grammatically correct (though with a thick American accent), the subtitle-writer got the second and third Russian lines wrong:
First line:
Subtitle: "Do you know what I'm saying?"
What she actually said: "Do you understand what I'm saying?"
Second line:
Subtitle: "I don't think he understands."
What she actually said: "You're lying."
Third line:
Subtitle: "He doesn't understand."
What she actually said: "I think you're lying."
And it wasn't that something got lost in the translation - she clearly spoke completely different lines. I suppose that the CIA (or at least the show's producers) needs to get a new subtitle writer. ;)
The actors who played the Russian ambassadors, on the other hand, actually spoke and sounded like their parts. :)
All-in-all, another good episode. It appears that the Unit actually return to the combat zone next week.
GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! :cool:
-G
Hawkeye17
12 Apr 2006, 02:47 AM
Heh heh, he said "unit".
Ladies and gentlemen...Let's give a hand to BillReeves for typing in for LDB...
Had a damn good outing against the A's opening night.
Oh, wait.
That Unit is Big.
Brilliant! Good thing we're not talking about some dude named Wang.
Damn I'm miss the Blueshirts
Goodsport
12 Apr 2006, 02:50 AM
And it wasn't that something got lost in the translation - she clearly spoke completely different lines. I suppose that the CIA (or at least the show's producers) needs to get a new subtitle writer. ;)
Though I can't speak for the Farsi spoken in the episode, as I don't understand Farsi. ;)
GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! :cool:
-G
Goodsport
19 Apr 2006, 01:45 AM
Yet another good episode with the Unit more in their element this time (i.e. on a more typical SpecOps mission), even though helicopter mechanical failure ultimately causes them to abort the mission with a not so happy ending for some. :(
It's too bad that Jonas' former commander (now wheelchair-bound) is hooked on pills, but at least he'll now have a new job on the base. Meanwhile, it was good to see how Brown's wife got that internship at the base's radio station.
Interestingly, this was the first episode in which the colonel, the blonde lady and their affair was nowhere to be seen.
Next week's episode appears to involve a survival training drill gone horribly wrong. :eek:
GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! :cool:
-G
Goodsport
26 Apr 2006, 04:29 AM
Brutal yet interesting episode this week about how the Unit overcame their S.E.R.E. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SERE) (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) drill. :eek:
Next week, the Unit has to deal with a Brazilian arms dealer who employs a child army. :eek:
GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! :cool:
-G
JMichaels
26 Apr 2006, 02:39 PM
Next week, the Unit has to deal with a Brazilian arms dealer who employs a child army. :eek:
GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! :cool:
-G
Babes in Toyland?
Goodsport
03 May 2006, 02:22 AM
Another action-packed episode tonight with the Unit dealing with the aforementioned Brazilian arms dealer who employs a child army, with the near-civil war among the wives at home that eventually puts some heat on Lucky Larry the Loanshark, and Hector first impressing his potential fiancee but not her father, only to have those roles suddenly reversed. :eek:
The only negatives in the episode include Jonas not keeping his word to take a Brazilian boy back to the U.S. in exchange for help locating the the helicopter flying away with most of the SAM's, and a soccer ball getting shot up (by a Brazilian, no less). :(
Next week: two new one-hour episodes, so don't forget to set those TiVo's, Comcast DVR's, VCR's or whatever else you record TV shows with.
GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! :cool:
-G
Goodsport
09 May 2006, 07:17 PM
Don't forget: there'll be two new episodes tonight! :)
GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! :cool:
-G
Goodsport
11 May 2006, 03:33 PM
Interesting episodes this week.
The first had Brown foiling an attempt on the visiting U.S. Secretary of State to a newly-democratic African nation, Kim surviiving an attack at the base's radio station and Molly helping a lady out of a real-estate scam, ony to be swindled herself ($40,000 of the wives' real-estate fund).
The second had Keith Soto, son of a former Unit member, threaten to write about the secretive Unit in the New York Times - Jonas decides to tell him the "truth" about how his father was killed under the condition that he promises not to publish the story. Both men keep their word, though what Jonas didn't reveal was that former Unit member Soto ended up being the very "Araņa" guerilla leader that they were sent to kill in Panama in 1999.
Meanwhile, Molly and Tiffy track down the swindler lady, though they're only able to retrieve $15,000 back. Also, Brown gets a "initiated" at the widow's annual "Day of the Dead".
Next week: the show's two-hour season finale, which means that there won't be any new episodes afterward until the fall. :(
GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! :cool:
-G