There isnt as much content but it has all been quality from what I've seenWatch For All Mankind, Foundation, and Severance next.
I think Apple has the best quality shows of the streaming services now. At least relative to cost.
There isnt as much content but it has all been quality from what I've seenWatch For All Mankind, Foundation, and Severance next.
I think Apple has the best quality shows of the streaming services now. At least relative to cost.
The Eugene Sledge parts of The Pacific were riveting. I enjoyed all of it, but the multiple stories were broken up enough that I can see why some people didn't stick with it. The Sledge part could have been it's own stand-alone miniseries.I started watching The Pacific, but bailed on it after about 3 episodes. Posters here recommended the older Band of Brothers and I thought it was great. Hopefully this proves to be more like BoB.
If you go into this expecting Band of Brothers I think you’ll be disappointed. That series is the pinnacle of prestige TV imo, certainly among war dramas.I started watching The Pacific, but bailed on it after about 3 episodes. Posters here recommended the older Band of Brothers and I thought it was great. Hopefully this proves to be more like BoB.
I liked The Pacific almost as much as BoB. It had a bit of a different feel to it, and it definitely was darker in places but damn probably my second favorite series ever outside BoB.I started watching The Pacific, but bailed on it after about 3 episodes. Posters here recommended the older Band of Brothers and I thought it was great. Hopefully this proves to be more like BoB.
Band of Brothers is an easier watch because it covers their training and then their 9 months of combat. The Pacific covers 4 years of battle from Guadalcanal which occurred in 1942, all the way to Okinawa which occurred in 1945. There were no soldiers in the Pacific that fought in all the major land battles, while the BOB soldiers fought in all the battles on the Western front from D-Day till the end of the war. It's easier to get to know the soldiers from BOB, than the Pacific.I started watching The Pacific, but bailed on it after about 3 episodes. Posters here recommended the older Band of Brothers and I thought it was great. Hopefully this proves to be more like BoB.
I fear it suffers from the problem that The Pacific had, which was too many different characters always coming and going, making it difficult to get to know and like them.Anybody keep watching this one? Planning on watching episode 8 tonight and there is only one more after that. Sioux City got a little mention a couple of episodes ago.
I agree with you on the character development. It feels rushed to me. Every episode feels like and it has more meat on the bone, then boom, preview of the next episode and credits.I fear it suffers from the problem that The Pacific had, which was too many different characters always coming and going, making it difficult to get to know and like them.
Overall, it's very good, the hell these men went through is unbelievable and yet they continued to do their duty and keep flying. Upping the number of missions from 25 to 28 and then 30 had to be a kick in the balls for many of these airmen, knowing it was difficult to get home with just 25, but 30 might as well be a 100 mission.
Anybody keep watching this one? Planning on watching episode 8 tonight and there is only one more after that. Sioux City got a little mention a couple of episodes ago.
With the Old Breed was an absolutely brutal book to read as it makes you despair for humanity and what it is capable of.The Eugene Sledge parts of The Pacific were riveting. I enjoyed all of it, but the multiple stories were broken up enough that I can see why some people didn't stick with it. The Sledge part could have been it's own stand-alone miniseries.
This series has had its moments but as much as I want to like it, it's just not that good. The CGI is particularly bad.
What Sledge and the rest of the men went through was pure hell it's hard to believe that people lived through events like that and then came home and had a normal life. Sledge had nightmares for years and the only thing that saved him was throwing himself in his education when he got home. I have seen interviews with him, and he was very quiet and reserved person after all the death that he had seen.With the Old Breed was an absolutely brutal book to read as it makes you despair for humanity and what it is capable of.
If you go into this expecting Band of Brothers I think you’ll be disappointed. That series is the pinnacle of prestige TV imo, certainly among war dramas.
Im enjoying it, but I’m an absolute sucker for aerial combat scenes (will without question watch Midway or Red Tails whenever they’re on). The script and characters are weaker, but some of that could be tied to the causality rates the 100th actually suffered. I think it was a mistake to not have a bootcamp episode to attach the viewer to the airmen.
The story has a number of ties to Iowa but I haven’t seen any mentioned in the show. The narrator Harry Crosby went to and taught at the U of I and part of the 100th was stationed at Sioux City for a time.