 | Tour of Duty Season 1
rating: 5
I loved this show when it was on TV and now I am thrilled to relive those episodes again. I hate when the show was pulled...I guess a little too realistic for some. Great acting and realistic scenarios. A+!
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Tour of Duty
rating: 4
Love it! Would be perfect with the orignal soundtrack!! Miss the Rolling Stones and Paint It Black!!! But if you enjoyed Tour of Duty on TV bought it anyway. I have all three seasons!
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Awesome, except for lack of music and terrence knox acting
rating: 4
I remember watching this back in the 80s and it was very cool watching those hueys zoom by. I'm glad the series is out on DVD and I still enjoy watching it. I'd rather have it with generic music than not have it at all.
The acting, on the other hand is not the best. T.Knox especially is atrocious. Have you seen the one where they save the baby? I mean what kind of acting school did he go to anyway? Did they just pick him up from the street? I guess he came cheap, like all tv actors usually do. Another annoying little tidbit is teh fact that T.Knox hardly ever puts on his helmet, while everybody else does. Oh well, at leat I can criticize it while I'm watching it on DVD. Lets hear it for the 80s.
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Timeless
rating: 5
With fighting in Iraq and Afganistan, and Democrats telling us we have to go fight in Darfur, the limited brush war and fear of further engagement is still with us. And they still have to take the same hill, over and over again (though to be fair, this was also the complaint of the Nissei in WWII, and others).
It's a great series, though there's something odd about Knox (his inner pixie seems to want to escape, or something). There is a plot about the drug trade in Vietnam, about corrupt Vietnamese officers, foolish American command, the letdown of knowing what it really cost to win this medal or that, the strain of returning home and re-enlistment, and of course the loved one going off 'with Jody', which is literally part of the old WWII drill cadence.
I understand that seasons 2 and 3 showed China Beach envy syndrome, or something, and that the show declined as a result. But the first season in Hawaii was very well done, in my opinion. As for the music, I never saw the original series. But I do think that the score compliments the action, very well, on these DVDs. And to include the old 60s music, the greatest hits in fact, might only have served to call attention to the datedness and era, rather than the timeless decisions, situations and struggles faced by soldiers.
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Tour of Duty
rating: 5
I just love this series, especially the first season. It incorporates tasteful humor to the seriousness of the topic itself.
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