SEAL Group Season 7 Episode 4 Evaluation: Heroes and Criminals

Critic’s Score: 3 / 5.0

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If, after SEAL Group Season 7 Episode 4, you, like me, are nonetheless making an attempt to wrap your head round what’s completely different this season, I could have stumbled upon a solution.

While you look again and take a look at what hasn’t been for the primary 4 episodes, you possibly can see a path of clues as to what could be.

To danger sounding like Kamala Harris being unburdened by what has been, Bravo crew is adrift, and with it, its closing season.

A Story of Two SEALs

It’s additionally attainable that I’m on the lookout for extra with so few episodes remaining. Hoping for closure for any collection is all the time a need, however whenever you’re speaking a couple of army present, what does that even appear to be?

Fortunately, Ray’s retirement is looming, which supplies us a good suggestion of what an individual in a wholesome, loving relationship could discover after 20 years of service.

On the flip facet, although, we’ve got Jason, who exhibits the harm that may be accomplished by serving your nation.

Ray has a supporting spouse and a brand new enterprise enterprise that ties him on to the work he’s accomplished for many years. It offers him objective. He sees gentle on the finish of the tunnel.

Jason has no such endeavor lined up. Though he may in all probability retire or is no less than near it, he hasn’t proven any need to let go. He’s tied up in what was and sees what number of lives it claimed.

What’s Going On with Jason?

What’s scary about Jason is that he retains every part buried deep inside. He’s bottled himself as much as the purpose that persons are guessing his strikes primarily based on previous conduct, they usually’re getting it fallacious.

His relationship with Mandy is a saving grace. Another person might not be as forgiving of his faults. However he’s hiding issues from her, too. You’d assume that with as a lot as she has seen and suffered herself, he’d share extra freely of himself. Not a lot, from what we’ve got seen.

On the one hand, the army that gave them life for many years is on the way in which out. It’s beneath new administration to cope with new enemies. The mission focus stays, however the reasoning behind the missions has modified.

They’re being requested to be taught from the bottom up however produce the identical outcomes. It’s not straightforward for these making the choices, and it’s even tougher for these taking orders.

Bravo escaped SEAL Group Season 6 with their jobs intact, however their pleasure was wounded as they have been grounded and given menial shore duties. Being sidelined so quickly after dropping Clay wounded the crew.

So, what does this imply for Bravo and particularly for Jason?

New Conflict, New BRAVO

After having their toes held to the fireplace for thus lengthy, discovering their approach again is hard. For probably the most half, they’re making the most effective of it. Sonny took Clay’s loss of life exhausting, however he’s turned that into one thing optimistic.

Who would have guessed that Sonny would make such an effort to make Drew part of the crew? But when Sonny is bringing Drew into the fold, Jason is making excuses for him.

Jason is in the course of one thing important, and flippant remarks just like the one above don’t assist.

SEAL Group had to usher in a substitute for Clay, however I get the sensation that Drew represents one thing bigger within the scheme of issues, as if he’ll be instrumental in no matter it’s that Jason wants to find about himself to maneuver on.

That popped into my head when Drew astutely noticed that Jason was spooked, and Sonny realized that Drew might need been the one to see it as a result of he’s gone by one thing related.

So, they’re tied collectively not directly. Hopefully, it received’t take the entire season to find what it’s.

Simply Who Is Jason Defending?

Jason kanked (by no means heard of that phrase earlier than, however I appreciated it… whether or not it’s spelled proper is one other story) the Myanmar op simply earlier than go time as a result of it didn’t really feel proper to him. Particularly, the potential lack of life was unacceptable.

That’s a valiant effort, however not if it places your crew in danger. Bravo scrambled to provide you with one thing that made Jason snug with the op, nevertheless it began falling aside virtually instantly. That it didn’t tank isn’t a testomony to his management however to the capabilities of his crew, together with Drew.

In the end, Jason’s concern for civilians may have been disastrous for his crew, and it was beneath the guise of defending the crew that he known as for change within the first place.

That didn’t escape Ray, and he known as Jason out on it, however till Jason is prepared to speak with somebody about what’s happening in his head (it’s NOT TBI associated), this can proceed.

Our completely happy ending for SEAL Group requires Jason to seek out peace along with his existence, together with the entire losses he’s skilled over time and the components he’s performed in them.

It additionally calls for that Ray retires, switching his focus to serving to different souls like Jason’s — misplaced after years of loss of life and destruction in his wake.

I additionally surprise if Jason’s newfound want to guard civilians can be on account of Clay’s loss of life. Clay died as a civilian, in spite of everything, by the hands of one other veteran. You simply by no means know what is going to flip the swap.

Fortunately, It Wasn’t All Darkish and Pondery aka Random Ideas

I can’t lie; a part of the rationale I can’t stand LCDR Kirkpatrick is from different roles Derek Phillips has performed, notably Billy Riggins on Friday Night time Lights. However he received me over when Lisa received him over.

I used to be sort of misplaced on the “goal package deal” and the way and why Bravo is enjoying with the DEA within the first place. A lot jargon, so little time.

With all of this give attention to Drew this season, it will likely be prison in the event that they don’t usher in Kirk Acevedo to play a relative. It’s like Beau Knapp went to Kirk Acevedo College to play this position.

Sonny’s random conspiracy theories, together with the flesh-eating coconut crabs that ate Amelia Ehart and that Stevie Surprise can see, along with his hazing makes an attempt, have been vibrant spots in an in any other case dreary episode.

It was a bummer to listen to that Hannah is engaged and her fiance is shut with Leanne. I used to be sort of hoping that they could discover their approach again to one another. Sonny and Lisa? By no means going to occur.

That is the primary time I’ve seen throughout an op that nothing appears international — not the road indicators, the roads, and even the sunshine switches within the manufacturing facility. And would Myanmar employees actually stroll off the job if the payroll truck didn’t present up?

How did they discover a dive bar in Myanmar? Bravo all the time finds a dive bar that appears suspiciously like all the opposite dive bars they frequent.

Your Flip!

Initially, thanks for studying! I recognize it, and your feedback have been most welcome.

What do you assume is occurring with Jason? Do you’ve any concepts the place the season will take him?

Does the ultimate season really feel as unmoored to you because it does to me? Pontificate under!