I suppose that the takeaway from that episode is supposed to be that the war has left everybody tense/on the edge, but the nonsensical, perplexing and contradictory path to that moment doesn't quite justify it. Even more than usual, nothing makes sense and we're not explained anything - Assassin Actual knows the nature of the mission purely by the coordinates and refuses it, but the other guy is blankly told it's demining and still accepts. How does that make any amount of sense, from either the command (if they're trying to get demining done under the radar, why explain the mission's nature to the second guy, after being blown off for being against the divisional orders by the first?) or the second officer (the outcome and the following shortcut scene are predictable and cliche as ever, I'm tired of no mid-tier officer being able to get anything done). Furthermore, are we supposed to take away that the Lt. is at this point blindly self-righteous, where first he was bugging the command to patrol overnight to maintain order and then, when told to do just that, refuses so as to not endanger his marines - can he make up his mind already? Does he always do whatever is against orders?
And then they throw in some American football and so much boring and cliched nonsense with not even the usual witty dialogue that I was just waiting for it to be over.
And then they throw in some American football and so much boring and cliched nonsense with not even the usual witty dialogue that I was just waiting for it to be over.
