Post by oscsusnret on Feb 1, 2019 16:58:47 GMT
Here is a review:
The TV series is a dark shadow of the original movie. The books on which it is supposedly based....or was 'inspired' from, certainly didn't have events influenced by lesbian lovers ashore, mutiny at sea, strange characters who can't seem to see why the captain would need to obey orders from U-Boat command. An 'affable' Gestapo man, rape of a Jewish girl on a boarded ship, followed by murder at sea, suggestions of gay submariners, dour French detective etc. The new series is all 'modernist' ideas of what a story must contain these days, and the result is bloody awful for those who read the books. Even without having read the books the theme and storylines are highly improbable. The Lesbian love affair dominates the first series more than the U-Boat stuff. I watched the whole of the first series mostly out of curiosity to see how far the modernist producers were prepared to go while messing up the original theme of U Boat war. I kept doggedly watching in the presumption that surely, somewhere, the episodes would revert to something believable, but I was sadly disappointed. If I was the author of one of the books that story was supposedly inspired by, I'd sue them!
One might hope that if there is to be a second season they concentrate on the bloody U-Boats and what is happening at sea.
Oh......and why? Oh, why have great screenshots of a British corvette complete with flag superior and pennant number being sunk as an American destroyer? Were they hoping that single mention of Americans at the start, and the sinking of a supposedly American ship, plus scenes of US Destroyers depth charging, would win them an American TV time slot? Perhaps that is also why there were so many guns being waved about and people getting shot in gruesome circumstances. I think using torpedoes for action at sea would be far more appropriate for a U-Boat story. Filming standard high, U-Boat filming standard high, storyline silly. The director would have found himself stood up against a wall and shot if he tried it in WW2. (Allied or Nazi)
The TV series is a dark shadow of the original movie. The books on which it is supposedly based....or was 'inspired' from, certainly didn't have events influenced by lesbian lovers ashore, mutiny at sea, strange characters who can't seem to see why the captain would need to obey orders from U-Boat command. An 'affable' Gestapo man, rape of a Jewish girl on a boarded ship, followed by murder at sea, suggestions of gay submariners, dour French detective etc. The new series is all 'modernist' ideas of what a story must contain these days, and the result is bloody awful for those who read the books. Even without having read the books the theme and storylines are highly improbable. The Lesbian love affair dominates the first series more than the U-Boat stuff. I watched the whole of the first series mostly out of curiosity to see how far the modernist producers were prepared to go while messing up the original theme of U Boat war. I kept doggedly watching in the presumption that surely, somewhere, the episodes would revert to something believable, but I was sadly disappointed. If I was the author of one of the books that story was supposedly inspired by, I'd sue them!
One might hope that if there is to be a second season they concentrate on the bloody U-Boats and what is happening at sea.
Oh......and why? Oh, why have great screenshots of a British corvette complete with flag superior and pennant number being sunk as an American destroyer? Were they hoping that single mention of Americans at the start, and the sinking of a supposedly American ship, plus scenes of US Destroyers depth charging, would win them an American TV time slot? Perhaps that is also why there were so many guns being waved about and people getting shot in gruesome circumstances. I think using torpedoes for action at sea would be far more appropriate for a U-Boat story. Filming standard high, U-Boat filming standard high, storyline silly. The director would have found himself stood up against a wall and shot if he tried it in WW2. (Allied or Nazi)
