A Burning Dog

Season 1, Episode 5, Aired
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First Recon get their orders to cross a local Iraqi bridge, which gives them their first chance to use local Iraqi citizens. As First Recon gets closer to the bridge, they are ambushed.
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  • The war continues.

    6.3
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    By thefanof, Oct 22, 2010 Report Abuse
    I will not deny that some of the action scenes in this installment of Generation Kill were compelling and exciting. You won't find an argument from me saying that the mini-series has not been well cast and all the actors work their tails off every week. I think I've made it clear in my reviews that the dialogue is the most realistic on television.

    Still.... the show is not great. It drags on at points, and leaves the viewer asking, "What is going on?" The majority of the scenes are completely worthless. They fail to advance the story and fail to entertain the audience. You will get chastised if you criticize shows like this. "You just don't get it," people will tell you.

    I get it. I understand the message they are trying to send. Everyone is human and everyone experiences a variety of emotions from hatred to anger to confusion. We are all borderline racists, some not so borderline, and we all are sexually frustrated. That doesn't mean I want to see a show about it.moreless

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    By vishus1990, Sep 10, 2008 Report Abuse
    Bit slower for me than the previous episode, but still better than some other episodes from this show.

    The first half seemed to go a bit slower than usual for me, but from then onwards it seemed to be a great episode, alot of story being reveled and more development on the characters, which is difficult to achieve in such a short series (7 eps I think).

    Its nice to see them under pressure on the bridge, that was a very exciting scene.

    Action was the same as the last 2 episodes, which is good.

    Overall I give it a 9/10, was a good episode but not perfect.moreless

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    • "Muvaffaqiyyet", the name of the town the battalion enters in this episode means "success" in Arabic. Edit

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    • Music "On the Road Again" by Willie Nelson "Sundown" by Gordon Lightfoot "Gangsta Gangsta" by N.W.A. Edit
    • Original International Air Dates: Czech Republic: December 5, 2008 on HBO Edit

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    • Sgt. Espera (having just killed his first enemy) I don't feel nothing. Is this how true warriors feel? Sgt. Colbert: Don't fool yourself. We're not being warriors out here. They're just using us as machine operators, semi-skilled labor. Edit
    • Cpl. Holsey: The Republican Guard took over every classroom. Cpl. Stinetorf: Now we get to blow up a school. This is every fourth-grade boy's fantasy. Edit
    • [scribe shivers] Cpl. Harold James Trombley: Do you know that people shiver when they have an excess of adrenaline? Cuts the blood flow or something. They taught us that is S.O.Y. Evan 'Scribe' Wright: So it happens to you? Cpl. Harold James Trombley: No. I get a woodie. Edit

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