I thought it was really good also. It's definitely on my list (my rather short list these days) of shows I watch. It was (for the most part), technically accurate, procedurally accurate, and realistic even though describing an extraordinary scenario. And yeah, a lot of really good tension. I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes. I've got some theories as to what's going on, and I'm interested in seeing how close I am.
Some of the things that I think are going on:
There's an attempted military coup in the works or taking place, with a few like minded politicians in league with them...but it's a very small group involved.
I think the SEAL's were sent in to Pakistan to assassinate somebody. The SEAL's think they screwed up due to bad intelligence. I think they were given bad intel on purpose. I think the coup members want a war with Pakistan.
I think Captain Chaplin was expecting something like this to happen. He seemed a little too prepared to me for the situation.
I could be way off on some of these, but I definitely like a show that get's my mind working and trying to figure it out like this.
But yeah, I'm with Danny also on not understanding why they could be saying it's in trouble already. I understand the reasons they give, but it just doesn't add up to me.
They said it had about 9.3 million viewers (for a share of 2.2), and with next day DVR info, it climbed to 11.5 million viewers (for a share of 3.0). That's pretty respectable. Metacritic is showing a positive score of 74%. However, the critics are saying that despite the good numbers, the show didn't hold over enough viewers from it's preceding show (Jeopardy...???). Uhmmm...okay.
That seems like pretty thin data to form an assumption like that. But I guess the critics need something to write about...right?
