Skarsgard, I Love You, But Clearly Not Enough To Keep Watching Generation Kill

I'm fairly convinced that Alexander Skarsgard is a perfect human being- he's Swedish, he's a pacifist, he's really really funny, and well, HAVE YOU SEEN HIS FACE AND ALL THE REST OF HIM?! Ahem, but no really, I think he's the shiz, and so naturally, I'm all about wanting to see all the things he's ever done ever that exist on film. Especially if they involve him getting all topless and stuff. Ahem.

So anyway, naturally after watching ALL THE TRUE BLOOD and sitting through Melancholia (GOD, Melancholia...) and watching the Paparazzi video over and over again on YouTube, I figured it was time to watch Generation Kill, because full episodes! Much Skarsgard! Plus there's always the possibility of his taking his top off, because, you know, I hear it gets all hot in Iraq!

But. I totally forgot that I really really really hate watching war things. Like, literally all war things. I've been lured into watching a fair few war things because they involved actors that I basically want to jump all over and do bad things with (Black Hawk Down: Orlando Bloom/Josh Hartnett/Ewan McGregor, Platoon: Johnny Depp, Jarhead: Jake Gyllenhaal) but about 15 minutes in I'm bored out of my MIND. Here are a few reasons why:

• I really fucking hate war: I do. So I don't especially like watching people doing it, and I find it really hard to sympathise with soldier characters when I do especially in conflicts that I don't necessarily agree should have happened (aaand, this is where I stop before I insult anyone who knows anyone in the military. Which isn't what I'm trying to do! This is just how I feel about fictional accounts of wars and things.)
• Face blindness: When there are loads and loads of actors all wearing the same uniform, I get this ridiculous face blindness that completely invalidates the point of watching things because there are cute boys in them. Admittedly, I can usually find the person I watched it for (although, I swear, it took most of the Black Hawk Down to find Orlando Bloom) but not being able to distinguish between anyone else's faces sure does make it hard to figure out relationships between characters, and thus work out a lot of plot points. So that's kind of a problem.
• There are no ladies!: Or rather, there are ladies, but they're always always victims of some kind because they're the civilians whose lives are being destroyed by whatever conflict. They don't get a voice, obviously, and since we still live in the dark ages, there obviously aren't any women in various dangerous situations, even though they let women in the army these days. Go figure. Oh wait, sorry, I did forget one other lady thing- there's the women that they left at home that they talk about in rarely a respectful or loving manner. Cause that's what has to happen if you get a bunch of dudes together...

So. Just a tiny taster of the issues I have with war things. And so, clearly, Generation Kill wasn't the best thing for me to make a priority on LoveFilm, but did I not explain about the Skarsgard thing? I did, right?

So, his face propelled me through 3 and a half episodes (where, honestly, I can't really tell you much about what went on. Things got blown up and the Marines didn't have enough batteries) and then I just decided that I had to move on with my life because I'm never going to like war things. Never. Even with Skarsgard. Even with Depp, for gods sake! As far as I can tell, though, Generation Kill seems like it's probably a good example of a war thing, so by all means, if that's a thing you like, then you should probably give it a go. Just don't get sucked into the Skarsgard trap, because even he's not worth it. Wow, that was difficult to write...