Just doing some back of the napkin math here, more than half of all friendly fire

episodes are about World War II films and half of those World War II films are

ones where the heroes are pulled from a jail cell and recruited

into impossible missions where they are deemed expendable.

What mean?

That makes this genre of friendly fire episodes more numerous than ones about submarines, B-17s, and

atrocities that happen in Vietnam told in flashback where we start out not understanding why our main character is such a short fuse before realizing that no one ever really leaves Vietnam combined.

And how many spins on the theme of assembling a unit of specialized commandos out of ex-convicts that

rises above their reputations, proceeds to kick ass and save the day, as well as the free

world, will we get before we interrogate why any prisoner

would ever agree to this deal.

It's like being on a chain gang except with a Nazi attacking you and that doesn't sound better to me.

In fact it sounds like jail right now. In jail at least you get three square meals

in a bed and you're telling me that eating tree bark and

sleeping in the snow has that beat? No thank you sir. Perhaps this non-submarine

related sub-genre of a sub-genre actually is a case for prison reform.

There's a film paper right there.

It's confusing that in Age of Heroes, you're expecting a colon and a subtitle where none exists.

The main character freed from prison is played by the positively cherubic Danny Dyer and not Sean Bean.

The actor at the top of any casting agents list titled Resting Prison Face.

It's this guy that punches out an officer and it's up to Sean Bean to trust him.

Sean Bean has prison face but also trust someone who's been to prison face so we

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