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11-21-2012, 10:20 AM | #21 |
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Yeah, who cares?
If GI Joe were a real military unit, it stands to reason that there'd be lots of cross-training with SEALs and what not, and MOST of the members would have special ops backgrounds. It's not realistic that there'd be only TWO guys with SEAL training on the team anymore. Most would be qualified Rangers, Special Forces, SEALs, etc. Even those who weren't in those special ops units might have the course under their belt, at least. And who cares if she's a woman? This might be all top secret, hush hush stuff. And, of course, fiction. And there never was one established "canon" for GI Joe, anyway. Maybe the file cards, but that's it. It's not a fiction first and foremost, like Star Wars - they are toys first.
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11-21-2012, 12:14 PM | #22 |
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canon was the wrong choice of words, I meant continuity.
I for one think it is a HUGE deal that they are portraying a woman as a SEAL. Mainly due to the real life fact that the US is about one of the only countries that does not have women in Special Forces roles. This puts her way up on the skill ladder, adds a new dimension to her character, for todays audience. Now perhaps in the future of Retaliation movieverse, women as SEALs are commonplace. To today's eyes however it is something not the norm. and as mentioned above they may not even say she is a SEAL. I don't know what kind of actor Palicki is but a lot of actors want to know as much backstory as they can for the role. If there is none available they will build it up in their own mind. It is highly possible that to help her with the role, a writer or writers had in hand or created a bible for a backstory. Depending on the writer that may have just been stuff made up on the fly. Maybe Chu came up with it on set. "ok imagine you were a navy SEAL so you know how to rappel" etc etc etc. It makes for interesting conversation fodder.
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11-21-2012, 12:20 PM | #23 |
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11-21-2012, 12:26 PM | #24 |
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I'm on board for this. Its a change that makes sense to me without taking anything away from the character...in fact it just adds another layer to the characters. Lady Jaye has always been a strong female and I think, given the opportunity, she is the kind of person that wouldn't hesitate to undergo SEAL training.
I may have my own Lady Jaye character go through the same thing.
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11-21-2012, 12:38 PM | #25 |
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Remember, Retaliation is in the future so maybe there are female SEaLs then.
They probably just picked it at random because the movie going public is familiar with SEaLs, especially right now after Osama Bin Laden. The public knows that a SEaL is bad-ass. This is just a case of using that knowledge to sell the character. SEaLs are bad-ass, Lady Jaye is a SEaL, Lady Jaye is a bad-ass. |
11-21-2012, 01:18 PM | #26 |
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If they wanted to have a Joe that was a Seal then why not add a character that is already a Seal in canon like Wet Suit? I wonder what they are gonna make Flint. Is he now Border Patrol now? Might as well.
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11-21-2012, 01:25 PM | #27 |
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You know what never mind. It would be impossible to just add another character since its already done. They obviously decided this a while before filming and we are just hearing about it now. Still if they wanted to have a Seal in this movie they should have just added Wet Suit from the get go.
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11-21-2012, 01:32 PM | #28 |
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You know what never mind. It would be impossible to just add another character since its already done. They obviously decided this a while before filming and we are just hearing about it now. Still if they wanted to have a Seal in this movie they should have just added Wet Suit from the get go.
Like Troynos said, it's just a shorthand that most audiences are familiar with. That's if they reference it in the movie at all. |
11-21-2012, 02:13 PM | #29 |
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Women's lib and the liberal's social agenda corrupting an effective military.
The bottom line is in America, there are laws set up to maintain a firewall from females being in active combat positions. The last thing we need are female soldiers who are kidnapped and sexually abused which is what happened to Private Lynch. America is about freedoms and liberty. It is not about tossing in the physically weaker sex into a combat situation. America is better than that. Too bad the feminists fail to realize this.
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11-21-2012, 02:16 PM | #30 |
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i always had envisioned that lady jaye is either a green beret or a spook.
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