Another Series
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Jaxluvstelly — 9 years ago(October 08, 2016 07:49 AM)
Not sure I am going to be watching if there's another series.
I was always interested in this as an ex female soldier, but so much of this just does not seem real. Medics don't do half the stuff the 'stars' of this show have. I know it's hyped for dramatisation effect, but the relationships and everything are unrealistic. I don't even understand how she left the army with a week's notice. And why is she living at her parents, who gets posted to their home town I could go on, but I've wasted enough time on this. -
fn-sj — 9 years ago(October 13, 2016 09:25 AM)
They are 'series' in UK and 'seasons' in USAsimple as that.
I can understand the frustrations these programmes cause ex military, I've got no experience of the military but even to my thinking there's a lot that is 'very creative' in all of it. -
CobblersAwls — 9 years ago(October 13, 2016 09:49 PM)
I just hope that Michelle Keegan isn't in the next series.
Agree. No matter how much people like her as an actress in a role that's suitable for herthis one wasn't it.
Unfortunately, in the olden days casting was seriously taken. Appearance, demeanor, age acting chops to carry off the challenges of whatever role was ahead were all absolutely required.
Now, in many cases they just cast the popular one who's been in a soap or who has a high twitter following in order to bring in the viewers. It's gotten silly. They clearly don't care the way they used to back in the day about finding just the right person who fits the role to a T in appearance especially.
The right young woman with the correct appearance and intensity in this role (Lacey was pretty close to right for it, even though Captain James falling in love with her was a bit of a stretch) could be a very intense and fantastic story.
But whoever makes this show decided evidently they didn't want a serious drama about woman medics. They just wanted known soap stars to go through the motions in ever increasingly ridiculous soapy type crisis events. The production values were good with even foreign filming. Yet they never got their heads of out soap land.
Yes, I'm quite sure medics working long stretches in the desert at war have perfectly shaped Scouse Brows every day. And just the right false eyelashes with proper brown shadow when you are being beat up by terrorists. Ahem.
Too bad. This series had potential to be so much more. But they've decided to reach for the bottom and go for some demographic that isn't very picky.
Casting someone who looks so unsuitable for the role in the second series was a down turn even from the first series. Though Lacey looked much better after seeing them pick Keegan. -
fn-sj — 9 years ago(October 14, 2016 02:44 AM)
A lot of this is down to subjective filters we apply to everything we digest culturally. A lot of it is subliminal conditioning that the BBC especially have invested in for decades.
Keegan s appearance would instantly cause viewers to focus on her looks rather than her acting ability. Keegan surprised me immensely in that she proved she can act and carried the more intense scenes very well. She actually showed more solid action skills than the 'cheeky chappy' characature we got in the 1st series.
Agreed, Keegan was seen with too much make up etc but was also roughed up a lotso it's about 50/50 on that score.
I watched both series but prefer Keegan. If casting was dictated by prolific Twitter users then we'd be seeing Rylan Clark in leading drama rolesnow that's a scary thought!!