X Company?

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lagatta
X Company?

Has anyone been watching this CBC wartime drama, a (highly) fictionalized take on an actual spy centre in Ontario, with input from London and Washington as well as Ottawa?

I just watched the pilot, and simply from social history (and having interviewed several actual resistance fighters and supporters) found several large and small bloopers, but it remains of interest in describing "moral dilemmas". Evidently there is an almost "superhero" incongruity that has them crossing the ocen back to Canada between missions, which is utterly ludicrous. What do you think?

6079_Smith_W

Haven't seen it, as I don't watch much TV, but I am curious for the historical reasons.

On the flying around, yes it seems hard to believe, and likely isn't true, though I was shocked to read in a biography of Winston Churchill how much he regularly flew and boated around, including across the theatre of war to Moscow.

lagatta

I watch almost no TV; I haven't had a TV in years (I had one my mother gave me, as she had two, but gave it away) but you can watch it online at any time at the CBC site.

It is rather extraordinary that Churchill would be allowed to do that, given how devastating his disappearance would have been to the Allied side.

Churchill was a racist, rightwing bastard, of course, but the guy on the other side was a much worse one...

6079_Smith_W

Yeah, by that time in his career he was. And he did have handlers to keep him back from the front. During the first war (when he wasn't such a bastard) he actually went straight to the front the one time he was defeated in an election. Not out of grief, either.

As for the show, I'll probably check it out at some point. When it comes to mystical war stuff, the pinnacle of course is Trevor Ravenscroft's Spear of Destiny.