#GENERATION KILL KOCHER PLUS#

Plus Godfather calls him by his first name. He may be the brass's biggest critic, but they don't know that yet. If the discontent with his refusal to tow the line does result in Fick's removal, I predict a promotion for Colbert. Another lesson from the bard (I know Simon doesn't like the Shakespeare comparisons, but still, it's a compliment), is that you don't make enemies of flatterers as Fick has done with Gunny. Lieutenant Fick is, of course, the counterpart to Captain America's madness, but there is surely the real possibility he will be stripped of his command in the final episode. I can believe that there are officers who let their subordinates and their mission down, but to do so while channelling Jim Carrey? Really? It's also unsettling for this viewer, though, as the character seems to border on caricature. The way he switches from fear to glee so quickly is unsettling for his men, disastrous for the victims of his recklessness and just another example from Simon and Burns of how institutions throw handfuls of grit into their own machine.

The gurning, gleeful face he pulls at the beginning and the end of the show as he looks to traumatise (or worse) a captured enemy combatant is like that of a five-year-old child hopped-up on additives. In what I found the most disappointing episode of the series so far (Colbert's huff didn't convince, and Person's 90 click-per-hour version of a Shakespearean fool is beginning to grate), he very much took the biscuit. It takes a chance midnight encounter with Godfather - the lieutenant colonel appearing out of nowhere like the ghost of Hamlet's father, urging him to action - and the news of the mission to Baquba to raise him out of his funk. Colbert's chin is just about dragging across the floor for most of this episode, so disconsolate is he at the absence of the activity for which he signed up. Quite how well any marine would be suited to occupation is a subject for debate.

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