[Closed] Anyone else watching The Promise?

Aye, been enjoying it.

One day that region will go back to nature again to become desert and both side will be sorry ...

just recorded to watch with g/f 🙂

Anyone else still blubbing like a little girl? In front of the Mrs. too, how embarrassing!

Great series, will be buying the DVD, so glad we aren't licking US (i.e. pro Israeli) arse on every topic.

Was good.

I thought the older storyline was excellently done - and the guy playing the Para Sgt did a sterling job. The modern storyline was a bit mawkish in places, and the old Arab lady appeared to be a younger actor in not-very-good prosthetic make-up - which kinda ruined the 'key' moment for me.

But it certainly renewed my appreciation of what my grandfather (Royal Artillery) went thru out there. Ugly stuff indeed.

I though the older storyline was better done too. Erin reminded me too much of a more wooden Anna Friel - which is saying something! It was never going to end well, but Jeebus on a banana boat, it was a bloody miserable conclusion. Mohammad's boy could have survived or something.
Excellent though.

it was a bloody miserable conclusion

I once looked after a pretty hardbitten tank commander of some thirty years' service. He had obviously seen a few things in his time - but seemed particularly haunted by the British withdrawal following the end of the mandate. In his words, "we just had to drive straight through them - and ignore the wounded". IIRC, a number of Brits fought on both sides.

I think a certain amount of naiveté was necessary to Erin's character, so as to structure the (invariably conflicted) plot. But sometimes she was just plain irritating! Her IDF friend was gorgeous, mind. 😀

Compelling viewing and quite odd seeing Israel again for the first time in 20 years. Seemed a very even handed approach of what's a profoundly complicated part of the world.

Reflected the views of an infantry platoon commander of WW2 vintage I used to work with. He was there in 47/8 but left before partition and never forgave me for going to a Kitbbuz, despite there being sunshine and foreign ladies. 'Bl00dy shonks' was his expression - I think he'd got to the King David Hotel not long after the bomb.

You couldn't halp but dislike the Erin character, but I suppose that was part of the point as it was pretty unsympathetic viewing.