Man, oh man, The Punisher is excellent! They have given Frank Castle so much depth, gotta give it to Marvel for that. I never thought that I would get to see a true portrayal of Castle, but they have succeeded mightily! And Jon Bernthal is a Godsend cast choice, great job, again by Marvel casting.
Now that I have your attention, I want to talk about the real thing that I love about this show. The thing that I really love, too, is the way that they're giving the truth about how this government has played us all, especially these brave men/women who pledge their lives to this place.
Although the show is fiction, the way that this government exploits and manipulates patriotism in this country is very, very real, indeed.
It's also real the way that these brave people are discarded when no longer usable, and forced to try to re-adapt to an environment that they are no longer trained to exist in, like a flu virus trying to get a body to accept it. They've been brainwashed into a state of societal abnormality and so many have seen horrors that will haunt them forever, on top of having to deal with the struggle to re-adapt.
Mental/physical trauma, psychological scar tissue underneath the very real physical scar tissue obtained in the hell that is war, only to be sent back to a country that has no treatment for their trauma, or alternative to give them. Their loyalty betrayed, and their suffering given no aid, by the very entity that put them in that state. The lucky ones have a support system of family/loved ones that can get them to a sense of stability, but what about the country that they pledged their lives to protect? Shouldn't it be that country that provides them every outlet needed to compensate them for their sacrifice?
And on top of that, they're used as sacred cows for political football(pun intended) purposes, to manipulate the patriotic mindset of the masses of this place to keep them loyal and obedient, knowing that they've been screwed over by the very people who are prodding the symbol of the American soldier as sacred symbols of patriotism, and demand that they be treated with the utmost respect and reverie!.....both of which are deserved.....neither of which are actually given to them by the very government pushing it to everyone else.
I have the ultimate respect for these men/women, I will never besmirch them in what they stand for, because I see that they're in it for the right reasons and are braver than I can ever be, in that regard. That's why I feel so sorry for them, seeing how they're being played and how they're being used to play the rest of us.
But, at least I can watch Frank Castle get his retribution. That's the beauty of comic book heroes.......
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