to each his own...

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@audioidkid

I liked the drinky and punchy aspect of the episode, but I got no feel of how much time it covered. The pacing still feels wrong to me.
Were these relationships that developed in a matter of weeks or months?
Kinda makes a difference if I'm supposed to buy into the character's emotional state.

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“Mmmm. Move over, eggs. Bacon just got a new best friend - fudge.”

i got the feeling they were there at least a week, possibly up to 2 or 3. i don't think they were there for a month.

That's the feeling I got also. I actually didn't mind this episode.
Favorite part of this one was when they were on the train and they just got the new rifles and he was having target practice with the cows.They are for dairy asshole

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You never miss your wealth, till your well went dry
Seem like only yesterday, you were here smiling
Now you gone away, but I know you in a better place
No traces of you, what can I do?
Alone and confused

I thought I heard on the black & white intro that it was longer, so I did the wiki search.



They were in Melbourne around 9 months - see what i mean about the pacing
That gives the Leckie romance a little more emotional baggage.

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“Mmmm. Move over, eggs. Bacon just got a new best friend - fudge.”

yeah...and he banged her on like day 2.

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@audioidkid

You sound like a gay

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observation or insult?

I think during the "Tom Hanks intro" for the episode he says something about the guys being there close to a year, but it's quick. You're right in that during the episode there really isn't any feel for time. everything they showed could have just as easily been 2 weeks. Although, the lack of respect for the MP's and the guys sleeping at other people's houses probably wouldn't happen that fast.

haiku.

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Last night was pretty blah. Kinda like this whole series so far.

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I kind of felt the same way about the championship match in the CSFMB hockey league. My opposition was "pretty blah". Ain't that right, shaker?

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Last night was better than week 3, but worse than week 1 or week 2.

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@audioidkid

I know not of what you speak.


But on a totally unrelated note, Alex Ovechkin will be receiving a letter bomb this afternoon from an irate fantasy owner who's team fell apart in the finals thanks to the "great" 8's spectacular 0g, 2a, -2 performance.

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Part Six was pretty intense.
Part Seven looks even more graphic and disturbed.

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President of Blake Shetlon fan club

Series has been picking up steam since they hit Pelileu if you are in it
for the action. I expect a strong finish to the end. They have a long way
to go before the end of the war and only 4 hours to wrap things up. I
thought the last two weeks have been really good.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

This has been disappointing overall. I'll finish the series out, but I really have not been impressed.

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I agree, its been getting better. But, overall, a little disappointing. Last night was the first time it had that Band of Brothers feel to it.

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Yeah...

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@audioidkid

Doug, you posted earlier about "Bastogne" and "Why We Fight". Those were episodes 6 and 9 of BoB.
I believe it's awfully premature to call it disappointing.
Part Seven looks pretty intense, and episodes about Iwo and Okinawa remain.
If "meh" is still the impression after the ninth episode, disappointing would be an appropriate description.

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President of Blake Shetlon fan club

I don't get your point. I think Doug posted that those were his two favorite BoB episodes, but its not like he said he was underwhelmed by the rest of BoB. On the other hand, he has been underwhelmed by the entirety of Pacific so far. So even if a couple stand out episodes show up it might not be enough to save this series as a whole.

Nomination rejected.

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We'll see.

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President of Blake Shetlon fan club

My response was to Zack calling the first episode "great."

Episode 7 was pretty damn good.
the glassy eyed crazy dude tossing rocks in the blown up head of the Japanese machine gunner was worth the wait...

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@audioidkid

More reason to anxiously await the next two episodes.

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President of Blake Shetlon fan club

It's still not nearly as good as Band of Brothers...

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@audioidkid

Truer words haven't been posted in this thread.

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President of Blake Shetlon fan club

True. But last night's episode was probably the best so far.

There are just too many moments in the series where the "War" part of the story loses focus. The Austrailia episode, and the Lecki in the the nuthouse episode really come to mind. Just stick with the guys hunting down Japs and the soldier's bonding on the battlefield and you can probably have a great story.

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some pretty gruesome stuff last night too...seems like they're ramping up the violence.

Tom Hanks should hold his shit to a higher standard then.

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@audioidkid

its definitely been getting better, but there are still some issues with character development. Too many times a person has died, they show the guy on the stretcher, and I have no idea who that person is. That shouldn't be happening 7 episodes in.

Also, would it have killed the creaters to come up with a title for each episode? Everyone remembers "why we fight" and "bastogne" as well as several other titles from BofB so I don't understand why they would skip that in favor of the always catchy "episode 5", "episode 7" etc. Poor decision by Hanks and co.


One thing I must say is that the opening credits music has really grown on me. At first I was like, ok this is pretty good. But now I really like it.

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Really good episode last night. Just like people have said probably the best one yet, I truely enjoyed the "shitting" incident.
"what the hell took you guys so long to shoot him?"
The glassy eyed dude is FUCKING CRAZY! Just that look in his eye says it all, and from what I am getting it seems like he doesn't want his boy to turn into what he has become.

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You never miss your wealth, till your well went dry
Seem like only yesterday, you were here smiling
Now you gone away, but I know you in a better place
No traces of you, what can I do?
Alone and confused