SAS and Irish Rangers now doing the big hostage raid and kicking the shit out of a much larger Libyan force with supreme elite training and technoporn megaguns. YEEEAHHHHH
(Two soldiers then die in a car crash on the way out in a blunt random reminder that Shit Happens)
Now with the hostages rescued, the Taoiseach and others are interned as they abruptly refuse cooperation - "punching the senior adviser in the face when he asked why. The Taoiseach who had played rugby for Ireland in his day knew how to punch." The Libyan heavy's reaction is even more jackboots, with heavier curfews and armed goons taking TVs and radios. Army officers interned now sent to a freezing gulag with no toilets and irregular food and a commandant who gets drunk & shoots people who piss him off - what about the Geneva Convention??? A Libyan translator: "The captain says this is not Geneva." Deprivation all round.
The Palestinians are also at odds with the Libyans, with an armed standoff at a checkpoint to get the Libyans to let a bus of children go*. And the buachailli have turned parts of the countryside and Cork into no-gos.
Meanwhile, an American film guy is helping ensure the volunteer forces on the border looks like the biggest pile of shabby shit to anyone watching, like a reverse of the infamous fake armies & tanks of WW2.
Very silly bit where we're meant to go GASP! Those mean tabloid journos sneering Maeve is a figurehead! That mean tabloid journo saying this needs more than just looking pretty and shouldn't someone more professional do this when the professionals and systems caused the problem!! Well, the tabloids are right, a random nineteen-year-old given a fake monarchy and made head of government-in-exile is obviously dumb and figureheady.
* I am interested in this very period bit, that the Palestinians can be powerful united and are the ones behind everything but the Libyans are the main heavies, nasty and brutish and crony-run, while the Palestinians are noble smarties despite the violence and feel awkward about the boot being on their foot. A very clear sense of sympathy for the cause, except then you don't have nasty baddies we can hate & shoot dead without qualm, so here comes the savage Libyans! (IIRC didn't Red Dawn have that, a sympathetic Cuban occupier who wasn't one of the dastardly Russkis?)
(Two soldiers then die in a car crash on the way out in a blunt random reminder that Shit Happens)
Now with the hostages rescued, the Taoiseach and others are interned as they abruptly refuse cooperation - "punching the senior adviser in the face when he asked why. The Taoiseach who had played rugby for Ireland in his day knew how to punch." The Libyan heavy's reaction is even more jackboots, with heavier curfews and armed goons taking TVs and radios. Army officers interned now sent to a freezing gulag with no toilets and irregular food and a commandant who gets drunk & shoots people who piss him off - what about the Geneva Convention??? A Libyan translator: "The captain says this is not Geneva." Deprivation all round.
The Palestinians are also at odds with the Libyans, with an armed standoff at a checkpoint to get the Libyans to let a bus of children go*. And the buachailli have turned parts of the countryside and Cork into no-gos.
Meanwhile, an American film guy is helping ensure the volunteer forces on the border looks like the biggest pile of shabby shit to anyone watching, like a reverse of the infamous fake armies & tanks of WW2.
Very silly bit where we're meant to go GASP! Those mean tabloid journos sneering Maeve is a figurehead! That mean tabloid journo saying this needs more than just looking pretty and shouldn't someone more professional do this when the professionals and systems caused the problem!! Well, the tabloids are right, a random nineteen-year-old given a fake monarchy and made head of government-in-exile is obviously dumb and figureheady.
* I am interested in this very period bit, that the Palestinians can be powerful united and are the ones behind everything but the Libyans are the main heavies, nasty and brutish and crony-run, while the Palestinians are noble smarties despite the violence and feel awkward about the boot being on their foot. A very clear sense of sympathy for the cause, except then you don't have nasty baddies we can hate & shoot dead without qualm, so here comes the savage Libyans! (IIRC didn't Red Dawn have that, a sympathetic Cuban occupier who wasn't one of the dastardly Russkis?)