XFool wrote:the director explained the gangways were more spacious than real life to allow two actors to stand together talking.
There's also just the Covid thing. On the other hand these are
much bigger boats than the Oberon at Chatham - 16,000t versus 2,000t. I understand why people get upset about it - just the archaic Sea King jarred for me, as a non-naval person - but I think you just have to roll with it, in the same way that James Bond is not an accurate depiction of life in the intelligence services.
Apparently the director has been dismissing complaints about accuracy "because the Navy wouldn't cooperate". That's patently not true, they usually love the publicity and
let Channel 5 spend five nights on a Vanguard submarine last year. So if nothing else they could have watched that, and there's been other ones such as the
2010 BBC one on building an Astute. But I think the real reason lies in where the script is going, given that their naval advisor is one
Feargal Dalton, an Irishman who became an RN submariner, then joined CND and is now an SNP councillor in Glasgow, married to SNP MP for Glasgow NW Carol Monaghan.
He's even a member of the 1916 Rising Centenary Committee (Scotland). So I think it's a fair guess that he's no fan of Westminster, and no fan of Trident.
We've already had conflict over jurisdiction on the submarine and now at the base, between the Scottish police and what will no doubt be portrayed as "London's" navy. You can see that going up the chain of command and turn into issues of sovereignty, with Holyrood accusing the imperial occupying forces of covering up the deaths of innocent Scots on the trawler.