E-Ring is tonight

[Del]

Once again filmmakers will try to tackle espionage. This should be interesting cause I don't know much about Pentagon ops which is what this show is about.

You gotta know tho that actual operations modus operandi and tech portrayed in spy fiction are usually about 10 years old when they make it to the screen.

Maybe it will be a fun show.

edit: ok Martha's Apprentice is on before E-Ring and it sucks. Definitly going to be in the mood for E-Ring.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

The best show I watched tonight. (Then again I don’t watch Lost. My wife works nights she really likes the show but we lost it somewhere mid season last year and haven’t made it through the DVDs yet.)

As for its accuracy… Pretty darn close, I didn’t see anything that really bugged me. (Though admittedly I’ve never been to the pentagon)

 

[Del]

Spoilers.
















I liked it too. It was fun watching the agent tear across Shaing-Hai with her knowing full well what would happen to her if she tripped up.

The climax being a speech to the brass was kinda cool too. They didn't feel they had to end the show with bodies everywhere.

Overall it was a good lesson on intel politics.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Yeah, it did a good job in many ways and made me think of some of my favorite authors in the process.

Much better than JAG ever was which blew my sense of disbelief all the time. (To the point where I stopped watching it very early on.)

 

[AIM-54]

I really enjoyed the show, as well. The writing was surprisingly good and the tension between the mindset of a special operative and the rest of the Pentagon bureaucracy was well played.

I'm really looking forward to seeing if they can keep it up.

 

[Taren Seeker]

I always hoped they would spin a show like this off of West Wing, and even link it to events in WW occasionally. Missed E-Ring tonight, I should be able to catch it next week.

 

[Ranger REG]

Meh. It didn't quite have the kind of The West Wing drama I expected. Then again, I'm used to the war room scenes in The West Wing, where audience are in the room with the Joint Chiefs of Staff without actually knowing what's going on but what is described in the communications.

I think if you didn't actually include the scenes where the SEALs coming to rescue the operative and her family and just stick to what the Pentagon is watching on satellite and communication, that would have me on the edge of the seat.

 

[KaosDevice]

I had my e-ring removed in a delicate 12 hour procedure.

 

[Del]

"Ooh la la. Why don't they go save the gay whales or something?"

I love this show. The major is stupid. The colonel is insane. The African American clerk sergeant does all the work.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

I love this show. The major is stupid. The colonel is insane. The African American clerk sergeant does all the work.

Yeah, it’s got that uncanny true, "the enlisted make the military work" vibe going for it.