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Generation Kill: Best and Worst Characters

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Figured this show has earned its way into deserving its own thread and I didn't find one.

Best: Kind of obvious. Fick, Iceman, Elvis for comic relief.

Worst: There are some shitty characters on this show but I believe Casey Kasem is the worst by far.  Encino Man is a moron and Captain America is a little bitch but that dude is a conniving little asshole. 

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Brad, the Iceman, the unflappable platoon leader. 

Ray, the comedic effect.

Fick, the only competent officer, who listened to his non-coms and stopped (or at least did his best to stop) the shit rolling down from his superiors from hitting his men.

Doc, Espera, Rudy, Scribe... the ones I'm forgetting at the moment...

So many characters, all great in their own way.

So many great lines, but this one always makes me lulz:

"Ray... the battalion commander offered no sit-rep as to J.Lo's status."

 

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My other recollection, and this is more from the book, was how it was a near miracle that the unit the reporter was following had no one killed even though they were being thrown into harms way over and over for reasons that weren't entirely rational.  Really highlighted that not only were these guys badasses, but they were brilliant tactically (as well as a little lucky).

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On 5/25/2022 at 9:51 AM, Frank The Tank said:

Wasn’t he an actual Recon Marine playing himself in the show? Pretty badass. 

So was Godfather's aide-de-camp, Major Todd Eckloff, who was played by Benjamin Busch, who had a lower rank but did two tours. Busch also played a meathead detective in The Wire and is an acclaimed author and photographer.

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Sixta's accent was just too ridiculous. I grew up bouncing back and forth between Tennessee and Texas and I never heard anything like it anywhere. And he's a diddler too so fuck both the actor and the character.

 

 

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5 hours ago, Parliament said:

What is the evolutionary cause of suicide?  Some wires got crossed as our brains developed from monkeys to humans? 

I came across a situation in my family where a teen daughter, her dad, and his mom/her grandma, all killed themselves about 120 years ago - the daughter first over being denied permission to marry somebody,  poison, then the dad a few days later shot himself after being overwhelmingly grief stricken in the aftermath of her death (he wouldn’t eat and would cry himself to near unconsciousness) and then a few months later the grandmother went out a window.  The grandmother had “acted peculiar after her son and granddaughter’s deaths”.

The only people I actually knew who committed suicide did so probably because of PTSD though, and Wright could have fallen into that category.

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There is some evidence that the brain (mal)adapts to environmental factors, contributing to mental health problems such as substance abuse disorder and major depressive disorder.  And there may be a genetic component both to such disorders and to the susceptibility to environmental factors.

So, there is nature, and nurture, and nature stemming from nurture.

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The question itself (what is the evolutionary cause of suicide) also has an implicit assumption that we evolve perfectly or something like that. Given the starting point, natural selection and time have done a pretty good job but I think frequently our shit is fucked up simply because it is fucked up.

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Pain.

I've lost two friends and a doctor to suicide. I'm medicated (perfectly) for depression. 

When you're down in a trough, you can't imagine ever leaving it or having ever been happy. When you're out of the trough, you can't imagine why you were ever in a trough. I rode a largely manageable rollercoaster.

My friends had deeper, darker troughs. Despair is pain. You want out.

Both of my friends were the nicest people you'd want to meet. Smart. Fun. Caring. They went down that hole and never came back up. 

I almost never talk about them because it seems cheap to drag out their stories. You can't find or give the full dimensions of anyone's life. It usually seems foolish to me to try. 

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