The Pacific

[Chuckman]

It's on Amazon Prime, I am a quarter into episode 7. I have really enjoyed this. A common 'complaint' is in comparing it to Band of Brothers; it's a different story, a different type of story, so I think comparisons are not realistic or accurate.

My biggest gripe is how the protagonists all become these thousand-yard-stare, stoic, mind-numb zombies. If you read their books (Leckie's Helmet for my Pillow and Sledge's With the Old Breed) it just didn't go down like that.

Given the vastness of what happened in the Pacific theater and how the Marines staffed their battalions it would have been hard to do a real Band of Brothers-type of story, and I like how it focused on just a handful of guys.

I will be OK not owning the series, but I wouldn't mind watching it again.

 

[SLM]

With the Old Breed....I see someone's up to date on the Commandant's reading list.

 

[Chdamn]

It's hard to not compare it to Band of Brothers. My only real complaint, besides the one you already voiced, is the disjointed nature of this series. With BOB they followed one group of people through the war and it was an excellent series because of that.

With this series, it jumped around so much it was difficult to become vested in the people portrayed.

 

[11B CIB]

I liked it. My great uncle fought in Okinawa; unfortunately I didn’t have the experiences I had before he died to connect to him as a fellow warrior and really appreciate some of the similarities in our service, perhaps just divided by time.

When my tours all ended, I got on a plane. He had to get on a SHIP and wait a few more weeks...just things like that are what I would’ve wanted to talk about...grunt life

 

[Chuckman]

I liked it. My great uncle fought in Okinawa; unfortunately I didn’t have the experiences I had before he died to connect to him as a fellow warrior and really appreciate some of the similarities in our service, perhaps just divided by time.

When my tours all ended, I got on a plane. He had to get on a SHIP and wait a few more weeks...just things like that are what I would’ve wanted to talk about...grunt life

My mother had a cousin who died in 1995, he retired as a master gunnery sergeant after serving as a China Marine and in most campaigns in WWII, in Korea, and did one tour in VN. I was too young to appreciate his history and what he could share, and when I was old enough, he had already died. Now, I would have loved to sit and just chat him up.