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Was the A-Team a Right Wing Show

Started by Savonarola, June 29, 2009, 01:14:14 PM

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Was the A-Team a Right Wing Show?

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Admiral Yi

#15
June 29, 2009, 06:03:19 PM
I can't remember the plot to a single A Team episode. :huh:

Barrister

#16
June 29, 2009, 06:06:29 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 29, 2009, 06:03:19 PM
I can't remember the plot to a single A Team episode. :huh:

Well if you ever manage to remember the plot to a single episode You'll be glad to know it works for all episodes.
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Caliga

#17
June 29, 2009, 06:10:03 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 29, 2009, 06:03:19 PM
I can't remember the plot to a single A Team episode. :huh:
There was this hilarious one set in New Guinea where the A-Team was transporting a crystal skull back to the states and their plane crashed over the jungle.  A native tribe found it and, long story short, Murdock was worshipped as a God, a bunch of phony Catholic monks tried to steal it, and many explosions later, the skull was retrieved and the Team was only mildly yelled at by Robert Vaughn.
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Neil

#18
June 29, 2009, 06:10:26 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 29, 2009, 06:03:19 PM
I can't remember the plot to a single A Team episode. :huh:
Someone was in trouble with a criminal gang/evil business interest
They alert the A-Team by meeting with the leader, who is always disguised, or with their pet reporter
The A-Team shows up, but falls into a trap or somehow fails
The A-Team builds a ramshackle device to help them chase off the bad guys, along with some non-lethal gunplay
The A-Team escapes, usually right ahead of the army guys who are hunting them
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Caliga

#19
June 29, 2009, 06:14:52 PM
The episode I outlined above doesn't fit that formula, but I think it was late in the show's run so maybe they were experimenting more in an effort to save the show.  That Mexican dude who they added late in the series was in it IIRC.
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Jaron

#20
June 29, 2009, 06:51:02 PM
Fuck Robert Vaughn. That was Fake-Team.
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garbon

#21
June 29, 2009, 07:03:32 PM
I love wikipedia:

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#22
June 29, 2009, 07:08:05 PM
The A-Team was not right wing (they organized a labour union in one episode) nor left wing (they fought Nazis in one episode) they were entertainment and a means of dealing with the Trauma of Vietnam. They were good guys treated badly after they returned after honourable service. They suffered persecution with good grace. They had their own little dolchstoss to deal with like it seems every vet feels he did.

I read the first review by the Guardian of the A-Team which did a marxian review of the tv show. It's a show about good guys doing good things, and these guys self identify with the Vietnam Vets.
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A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
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Jaron

#23
June 29, 2009, 07:12:33 PM
What does left wing have to do with fighting nazis? :mellow:

I'm left wing and I fight derspiess almost every damn day.
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Savonarola

#24
June 29, 2009, 08:03:40 PM
Quote from: Neil on June 29, 2009, 06:10:26 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 29, 2009, 06:03:19 PM
I can't remember the plot to a single A Team episode. :huh:
Someone was in trouble with a criminal gang/evil business interest
They alert the A-Team by meeting with the leader, who is always disguised, or with their pet reporter
The A-Team shows up, but falls into a trap or somehow fails
The A-Team builds a ramshackle device to help them chase off the bad guys, along with some non-lethal gunplay
The A-Team escapes, usually right ahead of the army guys who are hunting them

Between falling into a trap or somehow failing and building the device; the A-Team was invariably locked in The Tool Shed.  You would have thought villains would have watched a couple episodes of that and learned not to lock MacGyver up in the tool shed.
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Savonarola

#25
June 29, 2009, 08:04:59 PM
Quote from: Caliga on June 29, 2009, 06:14:52 PM
The episode I outlined above doesn't fit that formula, but I think it was late in the show's run so maybe they were experimenting more in an effort to save the show.  That Mexican dude who they added late in the series was in it IIRC.

They switched things around a lot in the last season.  Then they were working for the army as they waited for their pardons to come through.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Razgovory

#26
June 30, 2009, 12:22:46 AM
No group of conservative vigilante's in the early 70's had a black guy in their ranks.
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PRC

#27
June 30, 2009, 12:30:50 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on June 30, 2009, 12:22:46 AM
No group of conservative vigilante's in the early 70's had a black guy in their ranks.

The Avengers?

They weren't State sanctioned 'till the late seventies.

citizen k

#28
June 30, 2009, 01:35:35 AM
Quote from: Iormlund on June 29, 2009, 06:00:50 PM
Maybe because Americans are at heart Frog wannabes. It is hard to be as annoying as our neighbors without speaking their damned language and burning our trucks, though.
I thought the French had their revolution because they were American wannabes.  ;)

BVN

#29
June 30, 2009, 04:03:58 AM
Quote from: Neil on June 29, 2009, 06:10:26 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 29, 2009, 06:03:19 PM
I can't remember the plot to a single A Team episode. :huh:
Someone was in trouble with a criminal gang/evil business interest
They alert the A-Team by meeting with the leader, who is always disguised, or with their pet reporter
The A-Team shows up, but falls into a trap or somehow fails
The A-Team builds a ramshackle device to help them chase off the bad guys, along with some non-lethal gunplay
The A-Team escapes, usually right ahead of the army guys who are hunting them
And every show there were a few car accidents where the cars invariably hit something with their wheels on one side of the car and landed on their roofs...  <_<
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