I watched The Pacific just this past summer for the first time, and yeah, it was quite different. Not in a bad way, but still very different. I think the narrative issues came into play in terms of the three focal characters, and how they kind of bounced around. One guy's back at home doing recruitment...another guy is in a hospital for an episode...another dude is still waiting to join up, etc., etc. Instead of being with a single unit and following it with various characters showing up and leaving/dying, you had several units that each of these men happened to be in, but also focused on the men specifically and their own experiences there and outside of combat. In that sense, it felt a bit uneven, but I also took that to be kind of representative of the war experience for those men. It wasn't a constant slog thru the warzone with maybe some R&R sequences here or there. It showed how the experience itself could be disjointed.
Great to see the Tuskegee flyers in there too
DEI...not HistoryI wonder why the Tuskeegee fighters are covered at all in a series purportedly about the 8th AF?
The only historical beef I have with this series is this question: where is the RAF? Anybody?
The American came in '43 and it seems that the series is showing them acting alone in Europe...sure
Haven’t you seen all the 100% historically accurate films/series over the years that show that nobody did anything before the USA showed up…..The only historical beef I have with this series is this question: where is the RAF? Anybody?
The American came in '43 and it seems that the series is showing them acting alone in Europe...sure
Well…
I watched the first two episodes.
These actors look like kids putting on their fathers’ uniforms and “playing soldier”; I’m sorry…(Particularly Butler. As a tangent, I understand that he is an actor born in Anaheim, CA who has seemingly adopted what sounds like a meandering southern drawl that is equal parts Harry Connick, Jr.’s New Orleans sound and Matthew McConaughey’s South Texas sound. Strangely, he has brought this affectation into a role portraying a character from Wyoming. I can say with authority that people living in the larger Rocky Mountain Region don’t speak with a drawl and it’s a bit distracting.)
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Legendary singing drunk “punch me in the face so that I know I can still feel something” Best Friend Guy, who is “too good at holding the stick to be stuck behind a desk” and highly disrespectful of authority…but grudgingly tolerated by those above him, of course…is the cliche of all cliches…
Will he be treating us all to a slurring, drunken version of “Oh Danny Boy…” followed by fisticuffs with an RAF pilot in a future episode? If I were a betting man…
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A lot of cliches in the first few episodes and it hasn’t really pulled me in, yet.
Exactly; those were young people going to war and doing what had to be done. Average age for a G.I. was 26 years old. Pilots were, on average younger: 20-22; 25 was considered "old".The average age of a B17 pilot in WW2 was between 20-25, and gunner crews usually younger, so I’m not sure what you were expecting.