Critic’s Ranking: 2.5 / 5.0
2.5
Welcome to the portion of SEAL Staff after we’re retconned with a little bit of unknown historical past.
“A Good Storm” introduced the entire simmering battle between members of Bravo workforce to an explosive conclusion. I feel, and I hope, as a result of I don’t assume I can take rather more of it.
For my part, it simply didn’t work. Actually, I used to be so dumbfounded by the tip of this episode that I’m experiencing a little bit of author’s block. The place do you even begin when issues take a flip like this? Properly, the most effective a part of the episode was the photographs, so get pleasure from them.
A Brewing Storm
There have been points brewing inside Bravo for some time, however I didn’t anticipate everybody to activate one another like they did on SEAL Staff Season 7 Episode 5.
The inventive workforce behind the present put everybody in an untenable place to realize the result, however it didn’t really feel earned.
Being caught in a small, sizzling house brings out your worst, however that is Bravo workforce. They’ve historically had one another’s backs by means of every little thing, even after they’ve had disagreements.
On SEAL Staff Season 7 Episode 4, the workforce performed collectively whereas trying to haze Drew. As reader Diddy identified within the feedback part, they behaved like youngsters.
I suppose it may very well be mentioned that they’re nonetheless behaving like youngsters, discovering faults the place there are none and twisting phrases and actions to learn their perspective.
Blowing Off Steam, SEAL Staff Model
There’s no time for childlike conduct when lives are at stake, and every little thing Bravo does falls into that class, whether or not their very own lives or these they’re despatched to guard are on the road.
However what selection have they got?
There’s reality to the saying “work exhausting, play exhausting,” particularly when your job is high-stress. The one method to retain your sanity is to go a little bit off the wall at times.
Bravo spends an inordinate period of time ingesting, however after they’re on the highway, that’s their solely launch.
They don’t have fitness center memberships or household days. All they’ve is one another and a bottle of booze to launch pressure.
That’s not an excellent coping mechanism in any circumstance, and I can’t assist however marvel how a lot of their troubles come from booze and subsequent hangovers.
Sweating out alcohol is a factor, and it’s not a factor I’d need to do on the common.
No person was feeling their greatest, and every little thing was compounding, resulting in the right storm.
Blowing off steam is a double-edged sword that may dig a deeper gap than the one you’re attempting to flee.
No person’s Head Is Within the Recreation
Everybody was so busy poking and jabbing at one another that they overlooked their mission.
I don’t know how Drew didn’t slug Sonny when he pulled off his sock and put his sweaty foot on the console. It was nauseating.
Omar (who, I swear, I didn’t know was formally Bravo 2 already) noticed purple each time Ray moved throughout the room or opened his mouth.
Jason’s son had a hockey accident, so as soon as once more, his thoughts was at house reasonably than on job.
Ray stood up for Jason, who was laying into Omar and defending Drew. Sonny was offended on the world, particularly Jason, for providing up his Trident. It was a multitude and really exhausting to observe.
The one one who had their eyes on the ball was Drew, who was additionally on the heart of the controversy.
Drew Was a Member of Echo Staff
Welcome to Retcon 101.
Based on my data, Echo Staff was an entire loss on their ultimate and fateful mission.
There’s no manner on this planet that each SEAL wouldn’t have recognized about Drew and his scenario. He was supposedly on Echo for a 12 months earlier than catastrophe struck.
Sonny mentioned he had no thought they have been a person down on the time. How did he not know?
Echo was handing off the mission to Bravo. The chances that the groups weren’t absolutely conscious of each other are unattainable.
Look, I perceive the necessity to make Drew’s story dramatic, however this was an excessive amount of. We have been there when Echo was misplaced. We had the knowledge. Now we uncover there was one other man, and Bravo had no thought.
Shedding your complete workforce like that’s the stuff of nightmares. They’d have reached out and commiserated. Irrespective of how nicely they knew him beforehand, they’d have been there to assist after one other operator misplaced their comrades.
In order that’s the massive secret and why Drew doesn’t need to get near anybody.
After all, that’s additionally why he’ll be such an excellent asset to Bravo down the road. This will likely be his breakthrough second, the place he turns into part of the workforce dynamic.
Once more, it doesn’t really feel earned.
Blood on His Fingers — Possibly His Personal?
Studying about Drew was sobering. It spurred the workforce into motion, and so they saved a household, which was completely off-mission. However I can’t even inform what’s on mission at this level since they go in opposition to orders so usually.
And the struggle on terror was straightforward to comply with. This worldwide racket to kill one another with Fentynal is past my realm of comprehension. I suppose that’s the brand new warfare. Properly, I don’t prefer it.
On the finish of every little thing, Jason was a wreck. Once more. He noticed literal blood on his fingers.
They’ve pounded that house by means of SEAL Staff Season 7 to the purpose that the literal interpretation of it was pointless.
Then once more, this season isn’t straightforward to comply with. Studying interviews with David Boreanaz means that the story they assume they’re telling isn’t being revealed on display. There’s a disconnect someplace that hasn’t occurred in earlier seasons.
These interviews additionally talk about SEAL Staff Season 7 Episode 6 and that no matter occurs with Mike may very well be life-threatening.
That state of affairs might do much more injury to Jason’s psyche, as he blames himself for wreaking havoc at house and on the battlefield.
Boreanaz has additionally been clear that he’s not against seeing Jason’s final finish be a flag-draped coffin, and if issues proceed as they’re now, that’s the place he’ll find yourself.
The saddest a part of that potential finish wouldn’t be what occurred to Jason however how the opposite Bravo operators would take it. Even worse? We wouldn’t be round to see the fallout.
A Continuation?
Paramount+ isn’t in the most effective form proper now, however SEAL Staff is a hit story. Does that success hinge on David B?
Sonny pointed fingers on the Bravo operators who have been tapped out, and Boreanaz tapped out of SEAL Staff, which is why the sequence is ending.
Might the story proceed with a brand new chapter with out Jason Hayes? If Max Theriot was nonetheless with the present, I’d say sure. Because it stands now, the dynamic resembles the pent-up nightmare in that hothouse. And not using a standout character who could lead on a brand new ensemble, hopes for a derivative are slim.
General, I’m actually disillusioned on this season. It doesn’t have the magic of the earlier seasons. However credit score the place it’s due? The forged acted the hell out of their scenes on “A Good Storm,” even when the story itself didn’t land.
The place’s your head at with the ultimate season? Are you as pissed off as I’m? Can the sequence be salvaged and stick the touchdown in a mere 5 episodes? Inform me your ideas in a remark beneath!
