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blackwiggle
16th March 2010, 02:38 PM
I saw that this much anticipated WWII mini series The Pacific started on HBO in the US on the 14th.
The first of 10 episodes.
Made by Tom Hanks & Steven Spielberg,like Band of Brothers a few years back.
I watched it and thought it was OK ,and it's very early days yet in this series,but I thought there wasn't as much character development at the same stage as there was in Band of Brothers.
I realize that one of the main characters of the story has yet to join the others,so I'm expecting the story to fill out considerably.
There was a puzzling moment though ,for some strange reason the fighting at Alligator Creek, at the end of the first program, seemed to unexplainably drift out into a semi retrospective dreamscape of the machine gunner,which I found a weird way of telling a story.

Never the less,I'm looking forward to next weeks installment.

RedScar
17th March 2010, 07:00 PM
a few years back? BoB was aired in 2001 (thats 9 years now fyi :P)
I'm only now watching BoB, half for school as well. Its a good series, but since I have to analysis it for my history course I see more of the faults in a larger sense then if I was just watching it for pleasure.

Don't plan on watching the Pacific, I prefer documentaries.