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10 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

It was a throwaway episode. It contributed nothing. You can skip it and you wouldn’t miss anything. 

 

 

What you miss is the storytelling.  The story in your mind didn't follow the story on the screen.  It's like going to see strippers and only watching tits or ass. 

 

Watch the dance.  That's the art.  Only weirdos go to watch the flesh.  

 

 

 

 

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Just finished watching this on Netflix. I had never seen it before. Great show (obviously). The concentration camp episode was a real gut punch.

My only complaint is that, aside from a few main guys (Winters, Nixon, Donnie Wahlberg, maybe a couple others), I never had a good sense of which guy was which and what their rank/role was. There's a ton of characters and a lot of the time they're wearing helmets, faces are super dirty, etc. For example, Michael Fassbender was in an early episode I was like "oh, cool, early career Michael Fassbender". Then he disappeared (I guess?) and I forgot he was in it, and he reappeared in one of the last episodes. Not a big deal, just a nitpick, but I did feel like there were quite a few scenes where a character is portrayed as "one of the guys", or they're really sad about his death or something, and I'm sitting there thinking "wait who tf is that?".

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1 hour ago, tokamak said:

 

My only complaint is that, aside from a few main guys (Winters, Nixon, Donnie Wahlberg, maybe a couple others), I never had a good sense of which guy was which and what their rank/role was. There's a ton of characters and a lot of the time they're wearing helmets, faces are super dirty, etc. For example, Michael Fassbender was in an early episode I was like "oh, cool, early career Michael Fassbender". Then he disappeared (I guess?) and I forgot he was in it, and he reappeared in one of the last episodes. Not a big deal, just a nitpick, but I did feel like there were quite a few scenes where a character is portrayed as "one of the guys", or they're really sad about his death or something, and I'm sitting there thinking "wait who tf is that?".

My wife has a difficult time keeping track of multiple characters, as well

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On 1/25/2024 at 9:22 AM, tokamak said:

Not a big deal, just a nitpick, but I did feel like there were quite a few scenes where a character is portrayed as "one of the guys", or they're really sad about his death or something, and I'm sitting there thinking "wait who tf is that?".

You should watch Masters of the Air.  It's another show set in the Band of Brothers Universe (BBU).  Feels like characters were being dropped from the series every episode.

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I flew to London a couple of weeks ago and this was available in the in-flight entertainment, I was so thankful. Watched 4-5 eps on the way there and finished it during the return flight. Of course I got all choked up, thought about my grandfather a lot. It never gets old.

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On 1/25/2024 at 10:22 AM, tokamak said:

Just finished watching this on Netflix. I had never seen it before. Great show (obviously). The concentration camp episode was a real gut punch.

My only complaint is that, aside from a few main guys (Winters, Nixon, Donnie Wahlberg, maybe a couple others), I never had a good sense of which guy was which and what their rank/role was. There's a ton of characters and a lot of the time they're wearing helmets, faces are super dirty, etc. For example, Michael Fassbender was in an early episode I was like "oh, cool, early career Michael Fassbender". Then he disappeared (I guess?) and I forgot he was in it, and he reappeared in one of the last episodes. Not a big deal, just a nitpick, but I did feel like there were quite a few scenes where a character is portrayed as "one of the guys", or they're really sad about his death or something, and I'm sitting there thinking "wait who tf is that?".

Look up Buck Compton, be up in La. Child actor with Mickey Rooney, played football and baseball at UCLA with Jackie Robinson, Sgt with Easy Company, after the war LA PD, then in the prosecutors office, he led the Sirhan Sirhan protection, and finally a judge on the California Appellate Court. 

His biography was a captivating read.

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4 hours ago, HouTex said:

Starting my annual watch of BoB over the Memorial Day weekend.  Never gets old.  The Greatest Generation indeed.  

Working my way through it the past few weeks having never seen it before. 
 

Episode 8 with a near full moon rising in the background 

 
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so damn good 

 

 

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6 hours ago, BearSchlong said:

The Bastogne episode is the most uncomfortable hour in television history, but I persevered.

Annual Memorial Day tradition like no other.

Exactly.  I suspect in modern warfare we would have surrendered to the Germans.  The medic from Louisiana seemed to be crying out for a surrender.  Yet, the leadership did the right thing and held out even though perhaps, in the very short term, some Americans might have been saved.  I believe the leadership made the right call.  War is hell.  

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7 hours ago, BearSchlong said:

Annual Memorial Day tradition like no other.

We are probably going to rotate between BOB, The Pacific, and Masters of the Air going forward.  Last year, we did BOB with the family.

This year, because my 8 year-old had some friends over, we decided to go with The Pacific, but it was hard for 7 year-old and 8 year-old girls to follow - in hindsight, Masters of the Air would have been a better narrative choice, but they might have struggled keeping all of the characters straight.

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On 5/13/2024 at 9:48 PM, Wally Fairway said:

Sgt with Easy Company

Nitpicking but Compton was an officer-it’s an important distinction because the series touches on how it impacts the relationships the men have to one another frequently (and not just with Compton-the salute stuff with Sobel, Winters’ promotions, Nixon’s demotion, etc.)

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16 hours ago, HouTex said:

I suspect in modern warfare we would have surrendered to the Germans.

I beg your pardon?  I know we like to extol these folks as "The Generation Generation", and maybe they were, but as a USMC OIF veteran I feel reasonably well assured that there's simply no clear condition under which surrender would be considered an option, particularly so if you want to describe it as "we", i.e., it's a unit or a platoon surrender. 

All of this is just fantasizing, anyway, but I'd far rather have been freezing in Belgium than running patrols through the jungles of South Vietnam.  Those guys were very tough and by comparison get little of the glory. 

16 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

This year, because my 8 year-old had some friends over, we decided to go with The Pacific, but it was hard for 7 year-old and 8 year-old girls to follow

I tried to show it to my 7 year old boy and only got through Carentan before my wife caught us and shut it down as too violent.  I conceded mostly because I didn't think he was appreciating the parts of it that come along with the violence-the sacrifice for your comrades in arms, the devotion to the mission, the confusion and fear and how that's normal.  There's a lot to learn and as a parent you almost have to be a commentary track. 

I haven't tried to show him The Pacific yet (I was a little underwhelmed, myself), but his great-grandfather survived Bataan so perhaps he'll be more interested. 

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I tried to show it to my 7 year old boy and only got through Carentan before my wife caught us and shut it down as too violent.  I conceded mostly because I didn't think he was appreciating the parts of it that come along with the violence-the sacrifice for your comrades in arms, the devotion to the mission, the confusion and fear and how that's normal.  There's a lot to learn and as a parent you almost have to be a commentary track. 
I haven't tried to show him The Pacific yet (I was a little underwhelmed, myself), but his great-grandfather survived Bataan so perhaps he'll be more interested. 

Your kids gonna love the scene where the blood trickles into the Japs skull, thats been severed in half
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My 12th-grade religion teacher had me read most of his stuff, same thing happened to me.

Funny sidenote, a lifelong friend’s son was gifted a letter from his great-grandfather (times 5)’s collection as a high school graduation gift this past week. Historical and rare family keepsake.

I didn't have the heart to mention that his ancestor, a former US Congressman, Cabinet Secretary, and prominent slave owner, is credited in most Civil War history books as a leading secessionist instrumental in destroying the Union before serving the CSA. He was in Jefferson Davis’ inner circle, and General Sherman’s army was ordered to show no restraint in burning his place.

Judging by Facebook comments, its clear nobody else caught the significance. Or they didn't care.

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