One thing folks just have to do with works of fiction is to divorce it from the actual realities of history that the piece wishes to change. So what if maybe a Captain never left his ship? So what if the actual turning point of WWII was some other historical event? Talk to 10 folks, get ten different opinions. Facts are still facts but fiction is just that, fiction. Factually based fiction has its critics, like me. My wife didn't enjoy U571 because I kept whispering to her about the discrepancies with history. What I should have done was just sat back and enjoyed the movie for what it was, a piece of artistic fiction. Das Boot has been said to have been unreal by just as many ex-u-boat captains as there ones that may have supported the movie. So what! I am going to go see the Seaviper movie in the theater or via DVD. If you want the movie to be 100% based on actual events then it is no longer a movie but a documentary. The Midway movie was fiction based on actual events but it was still fiction. Pearl Harbor (the movie) had its good points but it was still fiction (I didn't like it that much). Thus, my take on any movie is to sit back, enjoy the popcorn, and if the movie is good, stop analyzing it and enjoy it (if it is a well done movie). I loved Countdown until the very end. I saw it in the theater once and never saw it again. I so wanted our guys to not go back through the wormhole in time and just blast the Zeros with F-14s (or whatever they had). That would have been awesome (even though the whole thing was ahistorical to begin with).