It's so incredibly cool to see awsome Kurdish women taking up arms to fight the terrorists. I love a good badass movie female, so I'm surprised we get so little of actual historic or contemporary examples of such in media. How about the soviet night witches? Keeping lil' nazis up at night, because they're scared of some lil 90-pound Russian girl. If I understand it correctly, there have been attempts to make a Night Witches movie, but aside from one Soviet one back in 1981, they've not gotten anywhere. Then there's the Soviet sniper women, or angolan women fighting with axes, or viking shield maidens? Got a little of that in "Vikings," but mainly a woman, as opposed to lots of them.
I like this motto by People's Protection Units (Yekîneyên Parastina Gel (YPG)):
"YPG dimese, erd û ezman diheje" which means from a translation of Kurmanjî to English: "YPG is marching, and the earth and sky (or heavens) tremble."
I've always believed that YPJ could lead to treasure trove of powerful stories and they are all true. The show is entertaining, and they clearly did their homework in some regards. I dig that they actually speak Kurmanji. However, the situation is very simplified for the sake of being entertainment, and trying to avoid too much controversy. Nonetheless, it's cool that they weren't afraid to directly use YPJ, instead of making up a fake name, or something to avoid triggering people.
One thing I disliked about this show is that they picture Syria as a desert, and it's generally like that in media. This is just part of it.
Some background: The United States destroyed Iraq, and turned it from a secular state into an Islamic state, affiliated with Iran, and now it is doing the same thing in Syria, and the purpose of that is to steal oil and enter the Middle East in total darkness. A lot of Kurdish lives were shed in destroying ISIS.
I like this motto by People's Protection Units (Yekîneyên Parastina Gel (YPG)):
"YPG dimese, erd û ezman diheje" which means from a translation of Kurmanjî to English: "YPG is marching, and the earth and sky (or heavens) tremble."
I've always believed that YPJ could lead to treasure trove of powerful stories and they are all true. The show is entertaining, and they clearly did their homework in some regards. I dig that they actually speak Kurmanji. However, the situation is very simplified for the sake of being entertainment, and trying to avoid too much controversy. Nonetheless, it's cool that they weren't afraid to directly use YPJ, instead of making up a fake name, or something to avoid triggering people.
One thing I disliked about this show is that they picture Syria as a desert, and it's generally like that in media. This is just part of it.
Some background: The United States destroyed Iraq, and turned it from a secular state into an Islamic state, affiliated with Iran, and now it is doing the same thing in Syria, and the purpose of that is to steal oil and enter the Middle East in total darkness. A lot of Kurdish lives were shed in destroying ISIS.