The re-boot of "Quantum Leap" needs to get some better writers.
In the most recent episode, the main character leaps into the body of a World War II veteran paratrooper. At one point, he discusses his service in the war by saying “I did four tours in Normandy!”
Anyone who has ever actually studied the war, however superficially, knows that ground forces didn’t do “tours” of duty back then. They were in the fight until they were killed, disabled, captured, or until the war was won. Air crew, like fighter pilots and bomber crews, did finite tours, so many missions, and then they could go home. But not ground forces.
The writer must be some young kid who thinks every war we ever fought was like Vietnam, Iraq, or Afghanistan; endless, pointless conflicts into which the same soldiers were rotated into and out of over and over until the war comes to a whimpering end. It must come as a surprise to learn that once, we fought wars for just reasons, with clear purpose, a clearly identifiable enemy, and a plan to effect a definitive victory.
Anyway, that piece of poorly researched writing leapt out at me. Thought I’d try to get it out of my system.
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