The Code

As has been mentioned before, this show seems like a JAG reboot. Which is ok, since that show went away many years ago. Story was good, acting is ok. My big problem was uniform mistakes. In the 3rd scene where "Abe" request to prosecute the case. He is wearing the MC dress blue uniform, or more commonly known as "blues". One of the junior officers in the room asks him " What's with the clothes?!" No Marine would EVER say that. The Marine Corps dress blue uniform is a cornerstone of who the Marine Corps is. She would have said "Why are you in your blues?!" The other big mistake was the Base Surgeon's uniform. The Navy's officer blue uniform is adorned with gold bands around the lower portion of the sleeve. They kept addressing the accused as "Commander", O-4 grade, which is equivalent to a Lieutenant Colonel in all the other US branches of service. However he was wearing 2 gold bands which is equivalent to O-2 grade, Lieutenant (Navy)/Captain (all others). An actual Commander would have 3 gold bands not 2. Hopefully they'll improve the show by hiring a military technical advisor, to fix these problems.

All the reviews complain about how the marines hair and clothes aren't accurate, nobody mentions the writing or show, the acting, camera work and directing is seemingly not important, because some guy has long hair when it should be short.

I'm not American so I would've never noticed the mistakes, nor cared about them, it's a fictional show about fictional events. Next post you'll see people complaining "they use actors and not real marines" or "they don't use real court cases, it's all made up". It's a show people.

A very poorly done imitation of JAG/ A Few Good Men. Hopefully gets better or will end up being a mid season cancellation.

Where to start, male Marines hair would never be that long, Marines never walk around outside without wearing a cover (hat) nor do they walk around outside with their jackets unzipped. All the actors uniforms seem ill fitting and often wrinkled. I've been around Marines my whole life and none of these infractions would fly.

Who knew eh?

Imagine if every review section was cluttered with whinges about how tv shows aren't faithfully and accurately representing a group... Just imagine - they'd be completely cluttered up with the carelessness that gets taken when representing women, minority groups, the underprivileged, disabled, older, younger, people.

But marines, you can tell how important they think the world needs to take their own jargon, codes and systems via the way they've thrown their toys out of the pram that their oh-so-important hierarchical structure of power asn't been faithfully reproduced in this DRAMA.

Snowflakes, indeed.