Part 6 the Pacific

[TequilaChaser]

TC, I'm wondering if we can talk turkey via Telephone or PM?   You already know what I'm gettin at.

sure Jay........

[Saxman]

Wow, that episode was certainly more intense than any of the BOB series...I'm not sure what was harder to watch, the poor guy counting nonexistent japs or the one who went crazy during the night

 Tronsky

My vote almost has to go with Leckie having to cross that stretch of hell in the charge, and then being ordered to go BACK.

I got a HUGE kick out of the psychotic old Gunney in these two episodes. "Woof!" LOL!

I also loved the payoff of the scene of Sledge boarding the landing craft in Part 5 when Snafu offers him a cigarette and Sledge refuses because he doesn't smoke. The smile on Snafu's face after Sledge declined just screamed to me, "You will." Then in Part 6 when he offers him another smoke Sledge accepts.

[Nefarious]

I am normally pretty ok with the ultra-violence. But last nights episode left me tense and ready for a smoke and I have been smoke free for over 3 years now.

[WMLute]

My vote almost has to go with Leckie having to cross that stretch of hell in the charge, and then being ordered to go BACK.

I got a HUGE kick out of the psychotic old Gunney in these two episodes. "Woof!" LOL!

I also loved the payoff of the scene of Sledge boarding the landing craft in Part 5 when Snafu offers him a cigarette and Sledge refuses because he doesn't smoke. The smile on Snafu's face after Sledge declined just screamed to me, "You will." Then in Part 6 when he offers him another smoke Sledge accepts.

That scene stuck w/ me as well.

Something about Snafu's eyes when he said "Is that so...."

Great series.  Liking this better than BoB as well.

[SKJohn]

I thought this episode was very intense.  My youngest son is 18, the age of a lot of those marines on Peleliu. (He was planning on joining the US Marines this summer until he blew his knee out a couple of months ago...)  I can not imagine him going thru the horrific experiences that those men were shown going thru.  It brought tears to my eyes thinking of what the youth of that generation went thru so that we can have the freedoms we enjoy today.  Like the Lt. was explaining to Sledge during the night after the airfield battle, they were indeed fighting for a "just cause."

BTW - just finished reading "With the Old Breed" by Eugene Sledge, and "Helmet for My Pillow" by Leckie. (Got them in a special paperback set from Military Book Club).  If you haven't read these, I would highly recommend them.  Of the two, I enjoyed Leckie's style of writing more, but would definitely read both of them if I had the chance.  Am now reading Basilone's biography; "I'm Staying With My Boys" by Jim Proser. Only a couple of chapters in, but it also looks like it's going to be a good read.

[fudgums]

Wow, that episode was certainly more intense than any of the BOB series...I'm not sure what was harder to watch, the poor guy counting nonexistent japs or the one who went crazy during the night

 Tronsky

part where the guy went crazy at night got me more. Wonder what part 7 will be like?

[rpm]

This is a very good series. I'd like to see the people that said Hanks inserting his politics into the script comment on the last few episodes. Crow is a bitter bird to eat. The series is based on reality, not a John Wayne script. Hanks and Spielberg took great effort to make sure it reflected what happened to these men before, during and after the battles.

Gunnery Sgt. Elmo Haney is definitely a great character and a helluva Marine that earned the Silver Star. The shower scene, the dressing down of a Shavetail on the range and... WOOF!   

[John Curnutte]

 I think its better than BoB also , and the scene where they were sharing in the last bit of water from a canteen , well that is just awesome .
 I have both books and Leckies is my favorite , but in both it tells alot of how they name each other , and why .
                   Nutte

[Saurdaukar]

Gunny is great.   

[gyrene81]

My only gripe thus far is the actual run time of each episode... ...very short.

My vote almost has to go with Leckie having to cross that stretch of hell in the charge, and then being ordered to go BACK.

Yeah, especially when he found that corpsman that was trying to help the guy that just got hit and BOOM!!!...gone. 

Did anyone else notice the part where Leckie was running back across the airfield and after one series of explosions he got hit in the helmet by a boot?

I also loved the payoff of the scene of Sledge boarding the landing craft in Part 5 when Snafu offers him a cigarette and Sledge refuses because he doesn't smoke. The smile on Snafu's face after Sledge declined just screamed to me, "You will." Then in Part 6 when he offers him another smoke Sledge accepts.

I like the part when Snafu asks Sledge if he has a smoke, and Sledge pulls out a pack, grabs 2 and hands one to Snafu...the look on his face was classic..."I told you so".

[Ack-Ack]

For those of us that don't have HBO, is there a site where we can watch the episodes? 


ack-ack

[Saxman]

I'm really liking the Snafu character. He's REALLY creepy and definitely comes across as a bit unhinged, but turns out to be a pretty decent guy in the end. It also gives us a MUCH different perspective on what it was to be a replacement.

In Band of Brothers we tended to see the replacements from the perspective of the veterans we'd been following since Episode 1: unwanted newcomers replacing your best friends who might have just been killed a few days or weeks before. It's definitely a much different outlook The Pacific gives, of being that guy coming IN to replace someone's best friend and seeing the generally rotten treatment they received (IE: Snafu tossing his gear to "claim" empty bunks to force Sledge and his group out of the tent, or the way he treated them when scrubbing out the oil barrels) but also being "shown the ropes" (IE: Snafu trading his opened tin of rations for the one Sledge was having problems with).

[Saxman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2LCQ3W6V-g

This always makes me want to 

[fudgums]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2LCQ3W6V-g

This always makes me want to 

Hans zimmer is amazing.

[rpm]

For those of us that don't have HBO, is there a site where we can watch the episodes? 


ack-ack

You'll have to search the torrents. I think I saw a link over at FW.