Pacific comparison
I just rewatched the pacific for the first time since it aired on HBO - back when my wife and I had to actually catch it when it came on TV - unless we were smart enough to record it.
I’ve rewatched Band of Brothers at least 15 times since it aired. And i borrowed buddies dvd set. Maybe 20.
I was reminded rewatching it why that is the case. I couldn’t wait for it to be over, but with each episode, I was drawn in and couldn’t wait to watch the next.
Each battle is a miserable as the next, and the combat scenes are disorienting. It’s impossible to tell where they are going, what the objective is. Maybe that was intentional.
Scenes where they’re in the hills were just excruciating.
Could’ve done without the extended sex scenes.
BoB seemed more linear. You could visualize their progression towards Berlin. While the maps in Pacific showed you what island they were on, trying to figure out what they were doing and where they were going was impossible.
I felt closer to the people in BoB, like I knew them more. It was exciting, you witnessed strategy and planning.
Pacific was like figuring out how to get through the misery.
But by the end of the pacific, I felt like I understood what they went through more than in BoB. The last episode grabbed me more with the human condition than BoB I think, at least as far as the trauma these guys went through and the different ways they dealt with it.
I’ll probably rewatch BoB another 5 times before I rewatch pacific again - but a damn good show.
I just rewatched the pacific for the first time since it aired on HBO - back when my wife and I had to actually catch it when it came on TV - unless we were smart enough to record it.
I’ve rewatched Band of Brothers at least 15 times since it aired. And i borrowed buddies dvd set. Maybe 20.
I was reminded rewatching it why that is the case. I couldn’t wait for it to be over, but with each episode, I was drawn in and couldn’t wait to watch the next.
Each battle is a miserable as the next, and the combat scenes are disorienting. It’s impossible to tell where they are going, what the objective is. Maybe that was intentional.
Scenes where they’re in the hills were just excruciating.
Could’ve done without the extended sex scenes.
BoB seemed more linear. You could visualize their progression towards Berlin. While the maps in Pacific showed you what island they were on, trying to figure out what they were doing and where they were going was impossible.
I felt closer to the people in BoB, like I knew them more. It was exciting, you witnessed strategy and planning.
Pacific was like figuring out how to get through the misery.
But by the end of the pacific, I felt like I understood what they went through more than in BoB. The last episode grabbed me more with the human condition than BoB I think, at least as far as the trauma these guys went through and the different ways they dealt with it.
I’ll probably rewatch BoB another 5 times before I rewatch pacific again - but a damn good show.