Umm, people? A new episode aired this past Wednesday night.

[full-metal-ox.livejournal.com]

(a_blackpanther, I'm hazarding a guess that you may have had your hands full with Real Life; my apologies if I committed a faux pas in usurping your prerogative.)



This is the discussion post for Episode 8x07 - "The Fallen". Watch out for SPOILERS in the comments.

Comments

[eiko82.livejournal.com]

I was also very confused by how Rossi and Scott were saved by the other soldier. I saw that he was there, and I could not figure out at all what exactly happened.

The way I understood it, he jumped on top of the mine, thus absorbing most of the blast with his body.

[full-metal-ox.livejournal.com]

I'll agree that the action was rather confusing*, but falling on an explosive is such a common war-movie trope (and real-life tactic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_on_a_grenade)) that I assumed that that was what happened.

*And perhaps intentionally so, given that we're dealing with a stressful situation in unfamiliar (to the viewpoint characters) surroundings, reported from multiple points of view. I recall a workshop from Confluence 2011 on writing battlefield scenes, and Tamora Pierce's haunting metaphor for the common soldier's perspective:

It's like the blind men and the elephant--only the elephant has gone musth and is trying to kill everything within reach.