Family Fun Mom
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Military wife with a tiny vent here...
Is anyone else a touch irritated that they seem to be pulling away from portraying what life in the Army is really like? When the show began it was much more real. Pamela and Roxy living in small quarters on post, hanging laundry together, gossiping. Lots of post politics going on, especially among the wives. Pamela and Chase were in debt, Roxy worked at the Hump as a waitress desperately trying to make ends meet.
Denise and Claudia Joy (and Roland) showed the other side as officers wives. Both were stay at home moms struggling to raise teens in a difficult lifestyle for families. Both had put off their personal dreams for the sake of their husbands careers. That might not be popular with modern women but it is extremely realistic for military wives. Now they are all employed with fabulous careers, including Roxy who I don't think even has a high school education. None stay home with the kids, which MANY military wives do (or they work part time, it's hard to keep a job when you move around that much.)
Now with Treavor joining OCS and Chase leaving the service there will no enlisted men at all, and they are the heart and soul of the Army. The show has gotten much more politically correct, too.
I still loved this show. They get some things right. Jeremy's stuggles with combat was done very well. I cried my eyes out when he was killed. The way Roxie and Trevor struggled during his deployment was right on, too. The Homecoming scenes are wonderful! I love these characters and know they need to evolve to keep the show fresh, and it is a TV show after all. I just wish they'd stick with the original realism. That's what made me love the show in the first place.
That's just my little vent for the day. It's been bugging me for the last two seasons. I'm still looking forward to next season, though. Can't wait to see what they come up with.
Is anyone else a touch irritated that they seem to be pulling away from portraying what life in the Army is really like? When the show began it was much more real. Pamela and Roxy living in small quarters on post, hanging laundry together, gossiping. Lots of post politics going on, especially among the wives. Pamela and Chase were in debt, Roxy worked at the Hump as a waitress desperately trying to make ends meet.
Denise and Claudia Joy (and Roland) showed the other side as officers wives. Both were stay at home moms struggling to raise teens in a difficult lifestyle for families. Both had put off their personal dreams for the sake of their husbands careers. That might not be popular with modern women but it is extremely realistic for military wives. Now they are all employed with fabulous careers, including Roxy who I don't think even has a high school education. None stay home with the kids, which MANY military wives do (or they work part time, it's hard to keep a job when you move around that much.)
Now with Treavor joining OCS and Chase leaving the service there will no enlisted men at all, and they are the heart and soul of the Army. The show has gotten much more politically correct, too.
I still loved this show. They get some things right. Jeremy's stuggles with combat was done very well. I cried my eyes out when he was killed. The way Roxie and Trevor struggled during his deployment was right on, too. The Homecoming scenes are wonderful! I love these characters and know they need to evolve to keep the show fresh, and it is a TV show after all. I just wish they'd stick with the original realism. That's what made me love the show in the first place.
That's just my little vent for the day. It's been bugging me for the last two seasons. I'm still looking forward to next season, though. Can't wait to see what they come up with.
Why would you expect any television drama to be realistic?
