@fido Very nice video.
New Pacific Series
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I am really enjoying the series. I watch it every week and will 100% be getting it on DVD when it is released.
However I have to agree with some that there is to much Drama in some episodes. That is the only thing holding this series back from being better than Band of Brothers
Great show! Highly recommended +++
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@Imperious:
I wish they would get rid of the ‘sex episodes’, where the decorated war hero rides around selling war bonds. I just want the battles and campaigns, not the soap opera riffraff to keep young adults from changing the channel.
The episode on Australia threw me off a bit because of the drama part but at the same time you kinda start wondering how it affected Leckie on the events afterwards. I’m not disliking seeing what happened to Basilone afterwards since the scenes are brief and it is getting to know what he was doing before getting back to combat. It might look more of a soap opera than Band of Brothers but that’s because it focus on those 2 soldiers and Ledge unlike the officer and the whole company on Band of Brothers.
Still, the thing that sets it a notch above Band of Brothers are the battlefield scenes. On Band of Brothers the pace was lower and there were plenty of drama involved (the little Dutch boy eating chocolate the first time, the medic meeting the french nurse on Bastogne, the captain becoming a drunk, etc.). On Pacific everything is a lot darker: mutilating bodies, torturing wounded Japanese soldiers, killing your own men, etc.
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My favorite character was the ‘skipper’ who was killed in last weeks episode :x He was alot like Sgt. Saunders. The episodes don’t need to show people having sex to convey the shenanigans going on behind the lines.
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@Imperious:
My favorite character was the ‘skipper’ who was killed in last weeks episode :x He was alot like Sgt. Saunders. The episodes don’t need to show people having sex to convey the shenanigans going on behind the lines.
He was my favorite character also… it was disturbing to see him crack at the end.
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Yea and they had another ‘sex episode’ making it 4 out of 7?
Its almost like having Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars… you know he’s in it and you cringe at the thought that they stopping fighting for another soap opera detour.
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I don’t know what to think of this series the intro and music are really good. The fight scenes are well done and realistic, I especially liked the Guadalcanal episode glad they showed Savo Island in the distance. But I don’t think it had those emotional moments like BoB did like Speir’s run to I company or the bombardment of Bastogne. I just don’t feel for the characters in the Pacific as much as the ones in BoB.
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@Imperious:
My favorite character was the ‘skipper’ who was killed in last weeks episode :x He was alot like Sgt. Saunders. The episodes don’t need to show people having sex to convey the shenanigans going on behind the lines.
He was my favorite character also… it was disturbing to see him crack at the end.
It was actually Gunnery Sgt Pop Haney that cracked at that end. The capt. that was killed was Andrew “Ack Ack” Haldane. In his book “With the Old Breed” E. B. Sledge recorded that when Capt. Haldane was killed he felt that the last of the old breed was gone.
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I was disappointed by the last episode. The entire Iwo scene was just 10 min long? The rest was all drama about the home front!
I just watched BOB last week, the difference I hate to say is Night and Day.
In the entire series there was just ONE sex scene, and that was in POINTS after the war was over.
I’m disappointed because as my Son gets older I would like to watch these with him to get him interested in History and WW2. All the needless Sex in The Pacific makes it difficult to introduce to your children… regardless of their age.
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Tom Hanks jumped the shark. He included too much sex in the end. I got bored way early on.
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The last episode looks like another sex episode. The focus is too much on people trying to skirt around their duties and how they cope with downtime. The battle is window dressing to “how they are feeling” about what and where they are. Rather the focus must be on the gritty battles and how they overcome these challenges. I can care less about their ‘feelings’ and how they behaved when on shore leave with women. It needed to be more like Combat!
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@Imperious:
The last episode looks like another sex episode. The focus is too much on people trying to skirt around their duties and how they cope with downtime. The battle is window dressing to “how they are feeling” about what and where they are. Rather the focus must be on the gritty battles and how they overcome these challenges. I can care less about their ‘feelings’ and how they behaved when on shore leave with women. It needed to be more like Combat!
If my grandfather is a good representive of the common soilder in WWII, he prefered talking about his sexual conquest rather than his combat in France.
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But that is not what we wanted to see. Sex is everywhere on TV and the internet. Has little relevance to WW2 History.
People have sex all the time, in all wars… that is why the human race is still here. We don’t need to see more of it on TV when it has no bearing on the story line or events.
This series is really lacking when compared to BOB.
Sad… :-( :-( :?
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They basically gave it the Battlestar Galactica treatment….The focus is on ‘how people feel’ and how they enjoy sex, rather than surviving total extermination and coping with attacks against the fleet. I guess having ‘battles in space’ is not enough eye candy for young adults, so they went with plan B… soap opera in space (SOS)
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But that is not what we wanted to see. Sex is everywhere on TV and the internet. Has little relevance to WW2 History.
People have sex all the time, in all wars… that is why the human race is still here. We don’t need to see more of it on TV when it has no bearing on the story line or events.
This series is really lacking when compared to BOB.
Sad… :-( :-( :?I agree 100%. I was hoping to see a little more of the history of the Marine Corps in the pacific.
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OK The Pacific was not Europe that by itself meant that the two series BOB & Pac would be different. The Marines had long reset periods between actions unlike Europe which was war 24/7 after D-Day. One series was Action, BOB, becuase it coud be, the other was drama,Pac, becuase it had to be, there were 6 action episodes out of 10, one coming home episiode (In which there was NO sex) and 3 R&R episiodes which with 2 of thse having sex (Surprise!). Easy company didn’t have sex because they were fighting but a few of the episodes did showe the mental effect and strain the men were going through, which Pac did as well. Pac was lucky in that one of the main charaters was rotated home for war bond duty and another was just lucky to come home period. One of these two wanted to go back into action and did so at the cost of his own life.
Frankly some the post here have been boarder line crying becuase there was not enough blood and guts being thrown around on scene and to much “kissing” with girls, grow up it was a big a^& war and it had room forevey thing seen in both films!!!
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Your point is well taken, but the issue for me at the end of the day…
This can not be shown in class rooms or to my children due to the graphic nature of the sex scenes involved. It is a loss to “popular History” and will not reach a larger audience telling this crucial story in US history because of this unnecessary flaw.
That is a shame.
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Seen a few on the web as no one I know has HBO. They are pretty good but I like Band of Brothers better.
The intro is nice, but they should have kept the long one for the 1st episode and shortened it for the rest.
The sex doesn’t bother me…I think it’s a good indication of what did (and does happen). In fact, I think it’s silly how in the US you can’t show a boob but you can curse and kill up a storm. Seems bass ackwards.
I’ll try and catch the rest of the series as soon as I can.
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Watch them in sequence. Its real important to understand the story.
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