Re: 1st Season New Amsterdam - Soldier's Heart - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

In article <fr8tib$k22$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 "Obveeus" <Obveeus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> "jewahe" <j.hanvey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > Obveeus wrote:
> >> "Zombie Elvis" <DELETEMETOREPLYrobertocastillo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
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> >>> I guess it's official now, Iraq is the new Vietnam.
> >>
> >> What show were you watching?  The civil war flashbacks were used to 
> >> introduce Amsterdam's 'soldier's heart', but the storyline had
nothing to 
> >> do with Iraq or Vietnam.  It was, in fact, about FALSE memories being

> >> introduced into the minds of people by the psychiatric care they 
> >> received.
> >
> > The OP is picking up on the senior detective's statement about being
in 
> > the first Iraq war.
> 
> A 'one liner' comment that had nothing to do with the plotline of the
show 
> or any substanative comparison with Vietnam.  The only war this show
focused 
> on was the one that took place on 'our' home turf.

I think he got fooled by the red herring that PTSD was the issue, by 
focusing much of the episode on Orlando Jones's character.

But even if it were the point of this show, it's hardly new that Iraq is 
the new Vietnam.  It's been an unpopular war practically since the 
beginning.  But at least no one is being drafted to go there.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 MA
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