When Heroes Fly

I haven't finished watching, but I'm emnjoying this and unlike some of the other commenters the flashbacks don't confuse me at all. First of all, they're clearly marked, secondly, they all have very different haircuts during the different phases of their life.

As for subbing the show? I'm watching in the Netherlands with subtitles. Everything is in local languages, so I hear the Hebrew, Spanish and English as spoken by the actors.

This series starts out with some great action and a compelling story line but by episode 3, it quickly slides into mediocrity. Thank goodness I only have 1 more episode! How a production company allows so many talented actors to waste their time trying to make this yarn credible, is really difficult to comprehend. There are just too many gaffes and faux pauses but probably the 2 biggest was depicting trained Israeli soldiers (even if it's been a few years) stomping around in the jungle, acting more like frat boys looking for a place to drink their case of beer than battled hardened veterans and especially Israeli veterans. And I don't know who did the closed captioning (a necessity with the multiple languages), but they were awful. Oftentimes the captions didn't match up to the screen dialogue and there were large gaps with no captions at all. All kinds of wasted potential here.

I feel a lot of reviewers missed the point of this drama: this is essentially a story about trauma and how four friends became a brotherhood that were there for each other and had a bond that I am sure most of us would envy. And, yes, some of them did fall out but their coming back together depicts real life well and shows us the meaning of humanity.

And I cannot disagree with a lot of reviewers who said this series was a few episodes too many. And I get the disparity between the emotionality of the mother language of those actors who are Israeli and those who are South American when it is dubbed into English and whatever language you are watching it in your country.

But this is to take from Netflix bringing mainly great drama to the masses. You can't have it every way.

I sometimes think viewers overlook the central theme of a drama series or film by being too narrow in their judgment of the acting, script, direction, plot holes and yes, language dubbing. Criticise these if you must but always bear in mind the bigger picture.

And no pun intended.

The first half of the series was quite good but I felt the last 4 episodes became very predictable and tedious. If I hadn't invested so much time in getting to the half way point I'd have given up. As long as you go into this with fairly low expectations you'll be ok !!

Found this on the off chance when browsing netflix; pleasantly surprised; thought it was well written and good acting; enjoyed it