To think the ex-special forces guys on Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins are all a bit dramatic?

[TonicWasp]

I get that they’re meant to be intense but some of them act like they’re in a Hollywood war film rather than a reality show with celebs crawling through mud. The shouting, the brooding, the constant monologues about pain and honour… it’s a lot. AIBU to think it’s a bit performative?

They will be people who the service screening tests managed to miss and who I imagine are making serving members shake their heads. They are by definition and their own self selection atypical of the sort of people the specialist military services want and certainly not representative.

I really don't mean to be this kind of poster @TonicWasp but you do realise it's TV, and everything is hyped up and contrasted and made "bigger" to capture attention, and make for better trailers before ad breaks to keep people hooked?

It's not a stage play or a fly on the wall documentary - the producers will have part scripted or induced these monologue scenes because they need the audience to have a proper sense of what the people are about to go through.

So YABU - if you don't like it, save yourself some time etc and switch off.

Same with shows like EastEnders, just full of drama 🙄

Yeah, I get they are hard men and have done hard things, but sometimes I want to say to them oh get over yourself.
I knew an ex SAS soldier once. He couldn't have been less like these men: cultured, suave, urbane, gentle, kind.

I do get that, it’s just funny how over the top it gets sometimes. I’m not expecting a documentary but when they start growling about honour and pain while celebs are army-crawling under netting, it tips into parody for me. Still entertaining though!

Frankly, they are an embarrassment to the service ...

Who remembers the ending of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ?

Real men - heroes and mainly white. Great cannon fodder. 🙄

An embarrassment to the service???? Really???

It's a "reality" TV show. It is all a performance carefully scripted to provide "entertainment".

It's a TV show. They have to ham it up. I saw an interview with Jason Fox and he seemed like a decent guy. Did something like a decade in the Royal Marines, same again in Special Forces. Medically discharged (PTSD), struggled with mental health, was broke so started SASWDW. They tried to talk him out of it and he's now banned from the old base. Says he doesn't care because he wanted out and hadn't been back in the 3 years since leaving anyway. Also says he is careful not to reveal anything sensitive.

So the training that do isn't anything like the training in RL? Honor seems to be something that features in the military. It stops the men running away like the rest of us would.
Dramatic is stuff like strictly, British bake off, hells kitchen etc, even deal-or-no deal, has a sob story for every contestant these days, but some people like that, so leave them to it.

Billy Billingham spent 27 years in the SAS and received an MBE for leading the mission in Iraq to rescue a British hostage and won the Queen's Commendation for Bravery after capturing an IRA sniper by using himself as bait.

Complete embarrassment to the service? Yeah right. Sure.

Having a successful and lucrative career after leaving the service? Gosh, how dreadful of him.

I think they deliberately do the brooding dramatics because that's what the majority of the public assume SAS must be like?

In reality, they always try to appear as a 'gray man' in public, completely innocuous etc. They want to pass unnoticed by everyone. My DB used to work with an ex SAS officer and apparently he looked like an accountant. Average height, average build, mild mannered. Although someone did try and mug him for his laptop on the tube and he broke the mugger's wrist and dislocated his shoulder.

I know who I would want to see if me and my family were in serious danger. It's just another excuse to beat up on the strong, confident man. Pathetic really.

No, you're completely wrong. They are all former special forces members who have been in combat, several have won medals for bravery. Most have written about their services, some have had books written about them and the missions they were on!

Why comment on something you know absolutely nothing about.