Courage, seals and courage: Who wins the medal?

Courage, seals, and courage: Who wins the medal?
After watching The Brave and Valor over and over again, I decided to revive Seal Team to establish myself as the undisputed expert on the military drama series flooding the internet this season and can tell you which of the three deserves to receive a medal award and thus be truly seen.
To do this, we will analyze the themes and characteristics of the three contestants and by comparing them accurately and closely, we will finally determine the undisputed winner.

Since we are talking about television series about special teams and military operations, I believe that one of the basic aspects to analyze is the believability of the action, setting and realism certain in showing the military as well as how the military actually operates. Now, I’m certainly no expert, but it wasn’t difficult for me to determine who was the most trustworthy of the three contenders.
Seal Team, perhaps also because of its larger financial resources, stands out thanks to its realistic sets and special effects that make the action tense and believable. Before each operation, there was tactical analysis, logistical preparation, and practical organization. The missions are backed by support groups and don’t appear to be simple desperate Rambo challenges pitting good guys against bad guys. And even if they seem that way in the end, they are never too light. That’s what happens in The Brave, where missions are left to the soldiers’ improvisation and heroism. Where four cats do the best they can to save the world, have more luck than merit, and when the last bad guy blows up, they crack open a can of beer. Two different approaches, perhaps the first is more rigid but certainly more reliable. I won’t even mention Valor because between the pathetic special effects and the truly unbelievable performance of the military, it’s better to draw a curtain of silence.
Pink quota
Because we are modern people and because I am female, the fact that women participate in films has a certain weight. In this case, the host is Valor, which features a female character flying a combat helicopter. Brave brought a female soldier into her special team who was equal to her male colleagues and then assigned a female commander to direct the missions. The Seal Team, perhaps wanting to maintain realism, assigned women to carry out tactical operations and mission preparation, but promised to study them in depth in a way that was not entirely clear, even beyond passed the Bechdel test.

The main characters
It’s a bit early to pin down the characters in just a handful of episodes, but let’s just say that none of those three characters particularly shine. Heroic corporate leaders The Brave and Team Seal both have a little something for everyone. The Brave allocates roles meticulously from the start, including ethnicities, religions, and characters evenly. Instead, Seal Team relies heavily on David Boreanaz and does so wisely because even without much material, the main character still provides enough character nuance to be interesting. For its part, Valor shines in a particularly negative way by creating rather two-dimensionally handsome characters rather than great actors.
Narrative structure
In two of the three cases, we are talking about procedures (Brave and Seal), thus presenting one task per episode. The Brave is the most intense in this section, while Seal also includes a parallel plot with the rookie who wants to stand out; it later showed that it wanted to do a more horizontal storyline involving the death of a team member while on a mission. Valor is the only one to show a conspiracy as strong as the government conspiracy within it, however sadly it doesn’t have enough power and talent to back it up and make it believable.

Emotional attachment
If The Brave aims for a more direct interaction, carried out by pure action and disproportionate heroic deeds (requiring a certain suspension from reality), then Seal with its modernism real. His alertness puts the viewer in the middle of the action and engages him with staging. a tactical part of mission planning (long live the models!). Unfortunately, Valor with its flat protagonists and summary presentation of the war’s activities at best caused raised eyebrows and yawns.

I know, a bit of a strange genre. But among the many similarities between The Brave and Seal (both of which begin with the death of a teammate) is the presence of two quite similar dogs. If in The Brave the dog is just a trusted friend waiting at home, in Team Seal the dog is one of the members of the team to the point of having to parachute face down.

Courage, seals, and courage: Who wins the medal? After watching The Brave and Valor over and over again, I decided to revive Seal Team to establish myself as the undisputed expert on the military drama series flooding the internet this season and can tell you which of the three deserves to receive a medal award…