The Pacific - Anyone else a little disappointed?

As an entertaining tv series ive not really been gripped by this so far, it seems very disjointed with the action/drama drifiting all over the place rather than BoB which stuck with Easy Company for the most part.

Can't fault it for its historical value though :).
 
Tombstone said:
Well you just admitted that its a good show, so why not watch them as you have them recorded. Could understand not watching a bad show, but not watching something which you consider to be good doesn't make much sense to me.
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I did indeed admit that it is pretty good, but I feel let down and disappointed that it isn't as good, if not better than BoB, like it was made out to be before it released. That is why I'm not sure I will watch it just yet. Once I start feeling that way about a show, I find my interest in watching it just disappears.
 
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The battles I've seen saw far in the pacific seem to follow:

Wait till dark.
Unload belt after belt of ammo at the other side of the field.
Wait till light.
Discover millions of dead japs.
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This is true to events at least. Move by day, dig in and wait for the night attack then count coup and move on in the morning. Probably the best bit so far was the tail end of last weeks episode where they were scouting out the machine gun nest. AS has been said in a lot of other posts you generally have no idea what is going on (erspecially the airfield part last week) fair enough if this was what it was really like but atleast in BoB when they said we need to get to the other side of this field/encircle this village and clean out the Germans then you knew what the end game was.
 
Shamed to say i've never watched Band of Brothers but im still finding the Pacific fairly poignant.

I can't help but think about how much relevance these men will have to the next generation. We will be the last generation that will have known them :( Many of our Grandfathers will have fought in the war.
 
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I agree its all over the place and I can't even put a name on a face. Lucky or whatever it is might be the only one.

Tonights episode was mouth watering, best one so far and I hope it can only get better from now on.
 
The focus is more on the feelings and impact all the killing had on the soldiers. Its a different take on WW2 which I find refreshing. I like the pacific, they have developed the characters nicely, although as scream says I doubt I could name them, but I know their faces when I see em :P

I know sledgehammer...dunno his weird looking, jap gold teeth lovin' mates name though...
 
icedbullet said:
The focus is more on the feelings and impact all the killing had on the soldiers. Its a different take on WW2 which I find refreshing. I like the pacific, they have developed the characters nicely, although as scream says I doubt I could name them, but I know their faces when I see em :P
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No, no they haven't! Just look at the replies in this thread. The only character they have developed in any way is Leckie. They have started to work on Sledge, more than halfway through the series.

Everyone else is a complete non-entity. I recognise their face only through the simple fact they are either in the title credits or they hang around with Leckie. I can't name them, no idea what their role is, no idea how they feel. Nothing.

I get they're trying not to be Band of Brothers, but I think they went too far in the wrong direction.
 
cheets64 said:
Its storyline and smoothness is not a patch on BoB, not sure if it every was intended but the action and settings is amazing and beats BoB hands down.
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What the hell are you on about? There's far less action in The Pacific, it's not a patch on Band of Brothers at all. Not in any form.

The characters just seem so dull oh and that Snafu is a complete ****, hate the actor who plays him he's just awful and sounds like a complete tool.
 
SiriusB said:
No, no they haven't! Just look at the replies in this thread. The only character they have developed in any way is Leckie. They have started to work on Sledge, more than halfway through the series.

Everyone else is a complete non-entity. I recognise their face only through the simple fact they are either in the title credits or they hang around with Leckie. I can't name them, no idea what their role is, no idea how they feel. Nothing.

I get they're trying not to be Band of Brothers, but I think they went too far in the wrong direction.
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Eh? So you haven't been watching like, the last 8 episodes with the entire Sgt John Basilone saga? Perhaps the only person who has been in every episode?
 
I thought last nights episode was easily the best so far. You knew where they were at the beginning and the end and in the middle it concentrated on the same core group of characters rather than cut from group to group
 
I think whoever said it above may have had a point. BoB was set in the European theatre, and for anybody that was taught about WWII in school here it's the main, most important and biggest point of action. The teaching's based around it too heavily to the point that after finishing it in year 9, I was left with the impression that what the Americans did was nothing more than a footnote.

There's less for us to be able to relate to here, from where we are, to our own veterens' experiences.

Though saying that, I'll echo what I said above, there are parts which are very dull. Episode III was just dire, it was very interesting to see him wander around chasing tail. And then for them to do it again for a large part of a later episode just worsened it slightly. Ok, this series unsurprisingly is very American dominated, but there's a massive amount of 'flag waving' too.
 
its basically too slow or no real pay dirt on people its started to become ok from ep 5 but now seen six and im like its ok .

theres only ten so you need to skip 5 eps before it gets decent so a bit fail there. maybe its just cause bob was so good we expected better when basically it wasnt or couldnt much happen.
 
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