About a week ago, a fellow weekend warrior (reservist) lent me all of his "Over There" DVD's. I know I'm sinfully late on this, but the year this came out, 2005, I was in a military school. I really didn't have the time or energy to watch some TV show. 
But now I realize that maybe I should have. I was hooked to the screen the entire time.
I was riveted by the story and I "knew" the people they portrayed. Of course there were some things that needed to be forgiven: the soldiers seemed wholly untrained for what they were about to do and were naive of what culture they were stepping into (since this was supposedly during the beginning of the war, maybe it was the case... I wouldn't know).
Did they get everything write? No way. At one point, I think I even spied a Huey in there! The Military Gaffe police would probably have a field day with all the technical faults, the exaggerated (or underplayed) circumstances and things that are against protocol but it's a more accurate portrayal of soldiers than other military dramas (*cough cough* "Army Wives" Sucks *cough*... don't kill me for that opinion please).
I think what I appreciate most about this TV series is that they show the dynamic between soldiers. The Army is a cooperation between all kinds of people! The educated, the not-so educated, the urban, the rural, the maternal female and the Mrs. B's (B is for B!tch). The Army is incredibly diverse and the media rarely ever portrays us as such.
Aug 2008
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"Over There" came out when I was over there, I got TeVo dvds sent to me with the series.... While we were there we called it "Over here".
I thought it sucked. They took Viet Nam type stereo types -missfits, un-employed, not very bright... and made them the characters. The battles were dumb etc. Most of the troops I knew in Iraq were very bright, well motivated, knew there business and were not dysfunctunal like the people in this show were. I'm glad it went off the air as soon as it did...it sucked.
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