I was surprised to see so many comments for this show. Then, i realized its all Phelps and Banacek
I find that most any TV show thread has only a few dedicated people who discuss it at any length. I guess the others who watch the shows treat it as the passive endeavor it's often said to be. Ironic, isn't it? I read posts at this board of people saying what fans they are of such-and-such a program, yet they never comment. Kind of like the people who listen to film music but never see the movies the music is from!
compared to I SPY -which clearly influenced it - two things stand out:
1. the generic quality of the places, people, names. Where SPY explicitly battled RED CHINA & Russia , IMF do battle against "unfriendly nations". COLD wAR HOKUM ALL THE SAME.
"Hokum"? That's the reality of the time we lived in. One might as well say it's "hokum" to have things set in the 1940s doing battle against the Germans!
And MI was hardly groundbreaking in being generic. "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea" (which MI story editors Woodfield and Baltar had previously worked on) when it was doing spy oriented shows had a habit of being explicit in mentioning the Soviets only if the mission was a cooperative endeavor but if the foe was hostile they got generic.
i hate to break the news to you Eric. The IMF (read CIA) was not out here protecting democracies from the Soviets it was OVERTHROWING democracies and installing dictators (Iran et al.)
The whole fiction of US vs. Soviets is pure hokum contrived to cast the USA & Britian as "good guys battling "bad guys".
But then you knew that , right? Your a history teacher
i hate to break the news to you Eric. The IMF (read CIA) was not out here protecting democracies from the Soviets it was OVERTHROWING democracies and installing dictators (Iran et al.)
