Comments on: Army Wives Season 2 Premier: Oh No They Did Not!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:33:04 +0000

is the character Evelyn different from last season? And if so why the replacement?

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:54:22 +0000

Ok, Roxy was a little over the top on the premiere, but I can also relate to her. As an Army (reserve) wife who’s husband spent 12 months over in Iraq, I can see where you could easily let this happen. You can become obsessed with watching the news, and don’t want to leave the house for fear of missing a precious phone call from your spouse. When the CID (??) men came to the house in the show, I can completely understand why Roxy would loose it. That is your worst nightmare, that the military shows up on your door step with news (and they don’t come with good news) about your soldier. I really like Roxy, I just think the combination of the hightened terrorist threat, her soldier depolying, and the bomb was too much for her. I think by the end of the episode, she was finally coming to terms with having a deployed soldier and everything else and she will be able to move on in the coming shows.

By: cammy

cammy — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:26:46 +0000

ugh, I cried when I found out Amanda had died. I liked her character a lot, and her & Jeremy were so cute (even though she broke it off with him last season.) Roxy..yes annoying through out the episode, made me want to yell at her too to get off her lazy ass and do something else besides mope & think, which only gets the worst of any human being! And finally, Joan…Joan, Joan Joan…I cannot express words if she decides to terminates this baby,,,I hope Rolland leaves her if she does. I wasnt a big fan of this couple anyways…but Roalland doesnt deserve to have this baby be terminated!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:21:05 +0000

Oh, I didn’t think of that. Good idea, Dustin.

Here is a link to the article I was talking about:

http://www.charleston.net/news/2008/jun/08/military_soap_opera_army_wives_premieres43708/

Upon rereading it, the spoilers seem to be for the season premiere. The article was published the day before it.

By: Angie

Angie — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:11:59 +0000

I loved this episode. I bawled my eyes out when they declared that Amanda had died. At first I thought they both died. I like what they did with Amanda’s death. I think this season will be even better than last. I’ve been looking forward to this all year long. I really hate that’s it’s a summer show though.

By: B

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:12:40 +0000

Did you guys think the actress who plays Roxy looked like she might be hiding a pregnancy? Or were her jammies just unflattering?

By: Dustin

Dustin — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:00:55 +0000

Jennifer,

If your paper has the article online maybe include a link? That would work.

I have to say in the “seasons preview” at the end of the show, they showed a lot of what was to come. Like it appears Denise is going to have an affair?

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:54:32 +0000

We know Marilyn’s husband, the bomber, died. Marilyn also died, as they showed a brief scene of her funeral in one of the montages towards the end. I think we can also assume that Eddie, Marilyn’s boyfriend, died as he is tackling the bomber last time we see him. Amanda died in the hospital so she might have been one of the critical ones from Joan’s speech. I remember three critical, about 15 injured and hospitalized, and more than one dead, I think four is right. Joan seemed to have been giving her speech right after the incident so the status of survivors may have been incomplete or fluctuating.

Like Roxy and her husband not discussing his being a career army man, I don’t think Roland and Joan really discussed, at least not recently, whether or not she wants a family. I think mostly Joan doesn’t want kids, at least not now, but still wants a marriage with Roland. A career seems more important to her than children. I’m not particularly defending her, this is just my impression, as she is not one of my favorite characters either.

Lastly, I live in Charleston, SC where Army Wives is filmed so we have articles in the paper about the show sometimes. This weekend, they wrote about how the show is now approved by the Department of Defense (a devision dealing with media representation of the military) after they evaluated the last season so instead of using retired military personal, now all the military expertise will be supplied correctly by them and the show will also be allowed to film on the base, instead of just showing shots of the planes, hangers, etc in the background. They also mentioned that the show would focus more on the husbands’ military experiences overseas than it has last year. There were also blurbs about where each major characters’ storyline was going for the season, but I’m not sure it that’s spoilers or should be posted here.

By: B

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:59:50 +0000

I thought 4 died- Marilyn, her boyfriend, the bomber and Amanda. I was pretty shocked by Amanda’s death. No greater loss for a parent than to lose a child.

I am also annoyed by Joan and her baby dilemma. I agree she seems to not want to tell Roland so he won’t leave her.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:32:30 +0000

I was under the impression it was either mariyln or the boyfriend who died, but at the news conference they had said one person had died, 3 were still critical. Maybe it was 4 people who died? I can’t remember. I guess I confused Pammy talking about the person who died as it being one person died.

Also re the book, is it one book or a series of books, and is the show following it pretty closely?