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Goodsport
15 Mar 2006, 10:06 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:
-G
Chicago1871
15 Mar 2006, 10:40 AM
Saw a bit of it last week. It comes off as a cross between E-Ring and the film Navy Seals. Liked what I saw the first time, didn't catch last night's episode.
metroflip73
15 Mar 2006, 10:42 AM
Is E-Ring still on?
Chicago1871
15 Mar 2006, 10:54 AM
Is E-Ring still on?
Not sure. Only saw one or two shows, never watched it regularly.
metroflip73
15 Mar 2006, 11:49 AM
Saw the 1st episode. Definitely felt like a Rainbow Six kinda thing (the book). Didn't watch the 2nd episode, but will probably catch it sometime soon.
Ismitje
15 Mar 2006, 05:36 PM
Liked the second episode - some tense moments of negotiation between hostile parties. The end of the show was interesting (is there an 'R' here? Yep, good). When the Haysbert character gave the terrorist his watch back, I assumed something with the watch would happen. I liked the lack of predictibility that what came was not related, at least not overtly.
sch2383
15 Mar 2006, 05:46 PM
This show has pretty good pedigree, so I'm going to give it a while.
spejic
15 Mar 2006, 07:37 PM
A Fresh Air interview with show producers Shawn Ryan and David Mamet(!):
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5261072
sch2383
16 Mar 2006, 11:38 AM
A Fresh Air interview with show producers Shawn Ryan and David Mamet(!):
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5261072
Shawn Ryan should get at least a partial ! as the man behind The Shield
Foosinho
17 Mar 2006, 10:55 PM
I'm watching the first ep right now, and the "new wife" is frickin' annoying. I'm half way thru - she just found out she's pregnant - and I'm already tired of the "we are going to live off base" screeching.
Goodsport
22 Mar 2006, 07:58 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. :)
-G
Sine Pari
22 Mar 2006, 08:28 AM
Not bad
At least they got the big watches part right :)
metroflip73
22 Mar 2006, 10:47 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:
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. :)
-G
Yeah, caught part of the show last nite. I was listening in, and the language was unrecognizable, I had dismissed it as one of the Filipino dialects from the deep South (Muslim).
Goodsport
29 Mar 2006, 06:49 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. :cool:
-G
TheSlipperyOne
29 Mar 2006, 12:11 PM
Anything with just the wives bores and annoys the hell out of me. Luckily I DVR the episodes and fast forward through parts that only feature them.
cdpconrad2119
03 Apr 2006, 10:24 PM
I really like this new show and it has been getting great ratings so far.
Goodsport
05 Apr 2006, 07:57 AM
I really like this new show and it has been getting great ratings so far.
I'm glad to hear that. :)
For some reason, most shows that I really get into end up getting lousy ratings and subsequently (and prematurely) cancelled. :(
-G
Goodsport
05 Apr 2006, 08:00 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. :(
-G
Sine Pari
06 Apr 2006, 07:13 AM
Good one last night
Getting a little annoyed with Bob's wife however
Goodsport
12 Apr 2006, 02:33 AM
Good episode tonight. Lots of tension between the Unit and the CIA, as well as between the Colonel and the wives. :D
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.
-G