JAG (TV Series) Angels 30 (1998) User Reviews

Not your day to die - but rather unrealistic

[hindsonevansmike · 6/10 · 23 February 2021]

This is the weakest episode, so far, in Season Four. Harm gets to fly a Tomcat whilst "Mac" comes up with a solution to a problem, but taking oxygen masks off at 30,000 feet is a short-cut to anoxia and death.

The representation of Harm's close-formation flying is well-simulated on the TV screen, but every instinct was telling me to shout "pull away" during the flying scenes.

Back at home, The Admiral informs Harriet of the facts of life around pregnancy and cravings. Their interplay was a bright spot during today's relatively-pedestrian episode.

Very weak episode

[Ralpho · 4/10 · 28 July 2012]

Spoiler here.

I love JAG, but this episode is a stinker apart from the subplot about Harriet's weird pregnancy behavior and how it affects the admiral. Harm and MacKenzie investigate after an F-14 pilot doesn't pull the trigger when he has an enemy plane in his sights. The pilot claims to have heard a disembodied voice saying "Don't fire." Harm and this pilot take two F-14s aloft to try to "re-create" the mission on which the incident occurred. That would normally be the point where the explanation for the heretofore inexplicable occurrence appears. But instead we are treated to (and here is the spoiler) contaminated oxygen causing the suspect pilot and his back-seater to remove their oxygen masks and fall unconscious due to lack of oxygen. This right after maneuvering to intercept imagined Klingons (seriously) on account hallucinations brought on by hypoxia. Nevertheless, the autopilot has somehow been engaged by the time pilot and RIO are unconscious. That sets the scene for Rabb to do some skillful flying to disengage the autopilot and save the lives of the unconscious men (who recover consciousness at lower altitude). So they return to the carrier, and everyone seems to feel that the problem has been solved. But it hasn't. Rabb even says the oxygen must have been fine on the original mission, and the voice the pilot heard remains a mystery. Hard to believe the Navy would be happy with that ending. It still has a pilot who might not shoot when necessary on account of another "voice."

garbage in garbage out

[sandcrab277 · 5/10 · 23 January 2019]

I can't believe the navy allows this kind of stuff to get in print ... so much for realism .. tomcats would not be playing airflow games even with experienced pilots like the blue angels ...the writers are really reaching for stories ... writing a letter to resign your commission is a myth and doesn't work ... if you are a reserve officer you will appear before a board and if you are a regular officer you can't resign and are subject to recall even after retirement.