AT the end of the day BoB was showing us heroes and how they stuck together and came out the other side of a brutal but crucial war against an evil tyrant with battles showing some coherance and planning.
The Pacific really doesn't do one battle start to finish, as someone said they'll go in, see the shelling, see some guns, and kind of skip bits or just end the battle all of a sudden out of no where.
I'm thinking back to the 2nd ep probably of BoB where they know an objective(the 3 small arty guns in the field) gather up a team and ammo, go, start the attack, have various stages of the attack, take out the guns, get reinforcements, finish the job, withdraw and some aftermath of it.
its so much more complete in everything it did basically.
The Pacific seems to be focusing solely on how harsh and dehumanising that campaign was, Spielberg seems to want nothing more than to explain why so many soldiers came back from that campaign and were totally screwed up. A worthwhile story but unfortunately its also underwhelming in terms of story telling and also in terms of why they got so screwed up.
The battles and loses are horrible, but are they any worse than the European theatre and the BoB squad, no they took awful loses, and had their own beach landings to deal with on a seemingly much larger scale, though really just the once rather than repeatedly.
The character growth seems to be, naive through to torture and ripping gold out of peoples mouths, with nothing in the middle.
In BoB you cared that someone died/got hurt, because they were established as relatively good guys, heroes who really went the extra mile for each other, while these guys half hate each other, aren't that friendly don't seem to get to know each other and its rather like faceless/nameless people dying.
I'm sure part of it is wanting to differentiate itself from BoB, and partially a very expensive film making process and a LOT of different island battles to try and cover in even less episodes than BoB.
It really doesn't matter what happens in the final, errm, two(?) episodes, it isn't a patch on BoB, and while its got all the usual hallmarks of good TV, I'm not actually finding it that compelling or immersive.
I think the faceless enemy you barely ever see, and complete lack of character involvement and some characters that I actually just dislike just make for a fairly average show in reality.
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