Nerys Myk wrote:
Dale Sams wrote:
Gary7 wrote:
This is another one of those "dated" qualities about the show. You can't avoid it, because it was produced in the 1960's.
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I'm more annoyed with the occasional disregard of rank...then I am with subsurface racism. They are after all...'human'. |
Most fictional militaries do the same. Especially comedies. The higher the rank the higher the ridicule. |
Remember this was the era of McHale's Navy and Gomer Pyle and F Troop and all sorts of service comedies. Like Nerys said, it was a TV show, not a documentary on military protocol . . . .
Heck, even today, detectives on cops shows routinely go behind their commander's backs. "Damnit, Beckett, you're off the case!" Etc.
Is it realistic? Who knows? But it makes good TV.