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Re: I am sorry but Daas Boot is boring
Posted by:
J.T. McDaniel
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Date: July 27, 2002 08:53PM
<HTML>Probably something along the lines of, "This is much too noisy and exciting." The whole point of using a submarine is so that you can sneak up and sink the enemy, then sneak quietly away without him noticing you. Really exciting patrols tend to be the ones you don't come back from.
On one of those History Channel shows, Herbert Werner suggested something along the lines of the viewer may as well enjoy it as fiction, since in real life the whole American crew would probably have died within a few minutes of trying to submerge. Just reading labels probably wouldn't have been sufficient to dive safely.
In a reverse situation, I could see an American skipper helping out by looking at the depth gauge, seeing 60 feet, and saying, "Okay, now push the lever with the round knob on it away from you." Should pretty much take care of the whole "we've been captured" problem.
In actual fact, there obviously were parts of Das Boot that could be considered a bit tedious, if not boring, but when you come right down to it, that's probably more a sign that they got it right than anything else. Some of those old US Pacific patrol reports could be 150 pages of mostly really boring spiced up with two or three pages of actually doing - as in shooting at - something. Military life in general is pretty boring if you're doing it right.
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On one of those History Channel shows, Herbert Werner suggested something along the lines of the viewer may as well enjoy it as fiction, since in real life the whole American crew would probably have died within a few minutes of trying to submerge. Just reading labels probably wouldn't have been sufficient to dive safely.
In a reverse situation, I could see an American skipper helping out by looking at the depth gauge, seeing 60 feet, and saying, "Okay, now push the lever with the round knob on it away from you." Should pretty much take care of the whole "we've been captured" problem.
In actual fact, there obviously were parts of Das Boot that could be considered a bit tedious, if not boring, but when you come right down to it, that's probably more a sign that they got it right than anything else. Some of those old US Pacific patrol reports could be 150 pages of mostly really boring spiced up with two or three pages of actually doing - as in shooting at - something. Military life in general is pretty boring if you're doing it right.
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