I'm a big fan of strike back so after watching the previews for the new season, I was a bit underwhelmed but it's just a trailer so I checked out the first episode. Here is the bad---First as others have mentioned, there has been a drop in the production value and I'm not exactly sure why. I don't think it's just because they are not shooting in Africa any longer, but something is definitely off. Second, the story arc in the first episode was way too rushed. A lot of that could have been fleshed out in two better episodes versus one bad one. Third, the fight scenes weren't great. Again, the production value did not stand up to the past seasons. Fourth, a little bit of cheesy. When the new commander goes into the prison to meet Mac, what is he doing? Of course push ups on his prison floor. That's too cliche and 90s action movie for this type of show. Fifth, we don't need four heroes, two is perfect... enough said. Sixth, in the beginning Mac's team gets wiped out and the villain points a gun and pulls the trigger but it is out of bullets.......so he gets to live! Lol WTF, they just massacred everyone, why not tell one of the several henchman to shoot him. This was just lazy writing, they could have come up a better reason for him to survive, seriously. Finally the women hand to hand fights don't look realistic. At least the women aren't perfect 10s, which does add some realism. If one of the goals is to make a more diverse cast, why not just cast an African American man as one of the leads? Especially given that Strike Back doesn't cast big known stars, they aim more for international folks. After all, this is an international group of characters and this would be a little more palatable than having women in cock tail dress and a little aussie girl with a cool hair cut kicking ass. I will continue to watch the next few episodes and probably the whole season, just to give it a chance, but so far not so good.
