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re: The Pacific or Band of Brothers?
Posted on 7/1/14 at 9:49 pm to SportsGuyNOLA
Posted on 7/1/14 at 9:49 pm to SportsGuyNOLA
i cant take anyone seriously that has breaking bad as a top 3 series ever
and BoB is much more enjoyable than the Pacific
and BoB is much more enjoyable than the Pacific
This post was edited on 7/1/14 at 9:51 pm
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Posted on 7/1/14 at 10:15 pm to LasVegasTiger
Band of Brothers. Not even close in my opinion.
Posted on 7/1/14 at 10:33 pm to LasVegasTiger
You should watch The Pacific first because Band of Brothers blows it away.
Posted on 7/1/14 at 10:50 pm to Marciano1
The two primary books that The Pacific used as source material were much better than the series IMHO.
Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leickie
and
With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge
Both definitely worth the read.
Helmet for My Pillow by Robert Leickie
and
With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge
Both definitely worth the read.
Posted on 7/1/14 at 11:39 pm to BloodSweat&Beers
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Pacific first so you don't compare it to Band of Brothers and judge it by itself.
This. BoB is incredible
Posted on 7/5/14 at 5:13 pm to LasVegasTiger
Bump, since out of curiosity I looked & HBO had The Pacific on demand. I already knew every episode of BoB.
The watch Pacific 1st advice is right. If you compare based on depth & number of characters you connect with, no contest. The overall scope was different, too, as the series spent more time in America, love interests & family. They were clearly not trying to use the same template.
What the Pacific did very well, in pretty unflinching detail, was portray the greusome, brutal conditions soldiers faced in the island hopping campaign. It was hard to watch at times, but I give them credit for not holding much back, and not trying to copy & paste BoB.
The watch Pacific 1st advice is right. If you compare based on depth & number of characters you connect with, no contest. The overall scope was different, too, as the series spent more time in America, love interests & family. They were clearly not trying to use the same template.
What the Pacific did very well, in pretty unflinching detail, was portray the greusome, brutal conditions soldiers faced in the island hopping campaign. It was hard to watch at times, but I give them credit for not holding much back, and not trying to copy & paste BoB.
Posted on 7/5/14 at 8:42 pm to BloodSweat&Beers
quote:
Pacific first so you don't compare it to Band of Brothers and judge it by itself.
Great suggestion. Unfortunately, Pacific will suffer in comparison because it was an amalgamation of several books and BOB was one book, one author and one subject. Both are very, very good.
Posted on 7/7/14 at 1:04 pm to ffishstik
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The setting is something that made the Pacific less...well, romantic, for lack of a better word. Unlike the European theatre of operations, the Pacific theatre was just ugly. Those men fought and died under brutal conditions against a very different foe on little islands that most people had never heard of. The show does a good job of telling that story, but it is story that is tougher to watch.
That is mostly what I took away from it. Hellish fighting in brutal conditions in sparsely inhabited and very foreign looking environments made the Pacific theater a more difficult story to tell.
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