Kind of like Battlefield V, a game that re-wrote history and claimed that WW2’s outcome was decided by scowling feminists (my new favorite term!). My guess is that it’s spiteful sabotage, to take a 20th century classic about the toils of war and male sacrifice, in an arena with obscene attrition rates, and use it to essentially troll. Just what the fuck any of this has to do with the War in the Atlantic is anyone’s guess. And yet in this show, we have a bunch of scowling feminists (because to smile is weak, y’see, gotta be a butch try-hard badass) calling the shots. Even less were fighters – of 1,000+ honored by Charles de Gaulle in the Order of Liberation, only six were female. In the French Resistance in WW2, around 10% of its members were female. In this show, about a U-Boat, but focusing squarely on feminists in France, they couldn’t even get that part right and instead deferred to insane propaganda. Upon interrogation, she is beaten up, but shakes off full force punches to the face from a powerful man, throwing up a ‘badass defiant’ glare back at him, as the camera zooms in on her communist tattoo in an endearing manner. One scene depicts the capture of a feminist communist. Yet this show, clearly spitefully, depicts them as cowardly, inept and ill-organized thugs.Īnd in Europe, where most of this takes place, the cringe is off the charts. In all of WW2 recorded history, there is not one instance of a mutiny on a German U-Boat, and such crews were generally very close and disciplined, even more than special forces in some sense. New recruits are violently beaten for trivial throwaway comments, and the Captain is questioned and disrespected. The crew of the boat are ill-disciplined and even mutinous. And even though they’re in the narrative and visual minority, the scenes at sea are a complete departure from historical reality. To be clear, this is not a reboot, but a loose ‘sequel’, with the two central characters being a female French resistance member and the Captain of the boat. Astonishingly, in this show about a U-Boat, the majority of it follows French feminists skulking around Paris, kicking ass, taking names and winning the war, in scenes that have little if anything to do with the War in the Atlantic. ![]() In this series, perhaps 30% of the show takes place on a U-Boat. In the original series/movie, we rarely left ‘the boat’, there were some scenes at the start on land before departure, or another scene here or there (such as the Captain boarding another Kriegsmarine vessel to receive some orders and supplies). Das Boot (2018) has to be seen to be believed, insofar as just how bald-faced it is as little else other than extremist propaganda. Funded partly Sky TV, it is a big-budget TV series (the original also got an extended run as a TV series, I recommend finding that extended version instead of watching this.) that is currently running in Germany. They rebooted Das Boot, maybe somewhat quietly. ![]() Julia Jaensch (Sky), Caroline Fischer and Judith Niemeyer (Bavaria Fiction) act as producers, and Sebastian Rybing as line producer.What To Expect: Scowling feminists kicking ass and taking names, on land Kaiser, Fabian Wolfart and Nina Maag from Bavaria Fiction, along with Sky Deutschland’s Nils Hartmann and Jastfelder, and Sky Studios’ Jason Simms. Petra Albert, who was awarded with the German TV Award earlier this month, is the set designer. ![]() War knows no winners – that has not changed to this day.” ![]() The terrible effects of war become glaringly visible though our gripping storylines and multi-layered characters. Marcus Ammon, managing director content at Bavaria Fiction, said: “An anti-war series like ‘Das Boot’ has a special significance in this day and age. He added: “Especially in the current political climate, ‘Das Boot’ is a statement against the senselessness of war.” Rosalie Thomass as Hannie Lessing Johann von Buelow as Gustav Gruber Anna Schudt as Bettina Gruber Courtesy of Stanislav Honzik/Bavaria Fiction/Sky Deutschland
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