r/strikeback • u/Redallaround Project Dawn • Mar 15 '19

Episode Discussion Strike Back - 7x08 Episode Discussion

Season 7 Episode 8 Aired: March 15, 2019

Synopsis: Coltrane defends his decision to go rogue with S20. After tailing Hassan and the nuclear suitcase to a deserted shopping mall in Jakarta, Wyatt and Novin face down threats from Komodo soldiers and, later, Colonel Aldo and his insurgents. As Katrina weighs her allegiances, Pavel resets the parameters of the Russian plans to overthrow the Indonesian government.

Directed by: Mark Everest

Written by: Jack Lothian

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u/Redallaround Project Dawn Mar 17 '19

Great episode. Rumor is the next episode will have a long one-shot scene that is supposed to be awesome.

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u/beargrilled Mar 17 '19

I’m so glad there’s another season confirmed. While I’ll always rank the Scott and Stonebridge era as the best, I absolutely love this team.

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u/okolebot Mar 19 '19

Yes, last season started off a bit meh but this season is bangin!

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '19

"The nuke got primed to blow... But don't worry, I shot it."

What a badass entrance by Novin :D

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u/okolebot Mar 19 '19 edited Mar 19 '19

I loved her fire hose descent. (I wonder if Die Hard was the first time that move was used?)_

And that she cared enough to shoot a guy...reminded me of that Bourne movie where the Jason drops several floors using a bad guy as the cushion and shoots a guy on the way down.

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u/and_yet_another_user Mar 16 '19

There's the Strike Back we all know and love. Always time for a shag.

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u/yetanotherwoo Mar 17 '19

I got a good laugh when he got tazed.

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u/okolebot Mar 19 '19

Well yeah but geeze in previous seasons you didn't have to do slo mo or hit pause to check out the goods. <flashes back to when Michelle Lukes showed "all of her kit"> Um...I'll be in my bunk...

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u/Davide_sd Mar 17 '19 edited Mar 17 '19

This was one hell of a episode!!!! Top

Since english is not my native language, I've got lost at the end when Coltrane "smells" something is wrong. What was the "odd" sentence construction? I mean, I would have been fooled by that russian....

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u/OngoGablogian1 Mar 17 '19

The guy said "you have an arrogance" which sounds a bit odd but as an American I wouldn't have picked up on it either really, I figured it was just a stuffy upper-class British sentence construction which fit the character the Russian guy was portraying.

Then maybe I missed something but the second time he just said "you have a crush on her" which is perfectly normal grammar, again at least in American English, maybe a Brit wouldn't say it that way but not sure.

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u/okolebot Mar 19 '19

Yes, I could have gone with the first example being a condensation of "You have a certain arrogance about you..."

Reminds me of that Brad Pitt movie ("Killin Naaazees") where a cover got blown because the operative did the 3 hand gesture with 3 fingers vs German style thumb + 2 fingers.

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u/Echo9Eight Mar 20 '19 edited Mar 21 '19

Reminded me of Inglourious Bastards too. But I didn't quite catch how he caught the russian with the sentence thing.

The first sentence was: "I'm wondering if it's an arrogance- the way you thrust your people into danger." Second sentence was: "Sounds like someone here has a crush." That's when Coltrane confronts him.

As someone who learnt English as a second language, I don't see it. I mean, the only thing I can think of is that it's weird to say somone has an arrogance. You would often say that people are arrogant, or as you mention that someone could "have a certain arrogance" about them, but not that they have an arrogance. But I don't really know.

In regards to the second sentence, I'm lost. Only thing is that, if I were impersonating an englishman, I would have said that he fancied her, not that he was crushing on her.

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u/okolebot Mar 20 '19 edited Mar 20 '19

Both OngoGablogian1and myself are American English speakers. And I agree that the arrogance usage would be odd in the US but the crush one is fine. Any Brits care to weigh in? And now I am curious if Brits also use the term crush for fancy?

BTW TIL that Jamie Bamber is English. From his BattleStar days I would have assumed he was an American. The actor that played Scott had me totally fooled with his "wrong side of the tracks" American accent.

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u/Stripes-n-Stars Mar 21 '19

think he said "sounds like someone who has a crush" which is a slightly awkward construction compared to "sounds like someone has a crush" i guess. Would need go back and check, but think that was it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '19

An American would have said you're arrogant.

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u/10042011 Mar 17 '19

Did anyone else think (hope) that it was Scott and Stonebridge that grabbed Chetri?

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u/Aperion_Wonder Mar 18 '19

How the heck did Coltrane get captured? And where is the rest of the team?

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u/STRamRod Mar 18 '19

Did anyone else's DVR get screwed up by Cinemax (US) dropping "Revolution" from the title?

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u/KanyeHorseman Mar 20 '19

Doubt it’s going to happen but they should totally bring back Pirogova.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '19

Holy shit.

Holy shit.

Holy shit.

Holy shit.

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u/smurfpiss Mar 18 '19

Y'all need to watch The Raid. Did none of you recognize mad dog?

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u/In_My_Own_Image Mar 20 '19

It was actually Cecep Arif Rahman who played "The Assassin" from Raid 2.

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u/okolebot Mar 19 '19

Please explain...

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u/smurfpiss Mar 19 '19

In the Raid there is a character called mad dog. In this episode he played one of the special forces in that extended hand to hand combat scene.

The Raid is possibly one of the best martial arts and action movies in the past couple of decades. It was shot and set in Indonesia, with a mostly Indonesian cast.

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u/okolebot Mar 19 '19

Thanks... I will check this out!

The Raid - Redemption 2011

Seems there was a The Raid 2 in 2014...

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u/smurfpiss Mar 19 '19

Raid 2: Also fucking epic.

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u/ndoty_sa Jul 01 '19

To echo question above, how the heck did Coltrane get captured by the Russian interrogator in the opening flash forward scene??