Its strange. I enjoyed BoB but it never struck a nerve. I enjoyed the action and fighting but never really got a sense of the psychological side from BoB. This one so far seems to really reach my soul. I would probably rate them both 10/10 but for different reasons. I'm up to episode 6 now.
It seems to be the other way round for me Batty. Pacific didnt grab me in the way BoB did. BoB I could relate to as ROTC (Air Training Corps for you and me, ROTC for Americans), the way you see these guys all the time, you eat, sleep, run, work and in war time fight and die together. I dont do the fighting and dying obviously as Im too young, but all the other factors I could relate to instantly. The way you know this person for about a year or two, but it feels like a lifetime is true, living in some hole with a bit of canvas over your head with two other people and a warm stove with food on it is something no one else but military people do and it makes that person next to you way more real than anywhere else.
Pacific however, was more like a romantic drama to me, it was a mini series US version of that film "Atonement". Little Johnny goes to war and either gets cheated on or killed. The fighting scenes were brilliant and it really did capture the brutality of the pacific war. But they did not cover the war and soliders themselves, more their home lives and their own personal feelings, not the unit's activities and role and how it affected their group as a whole. I dont want to see how some Italian American falls in love in Melbourne and then run around the city for a whole episode. I want to see him and his fellow soldiers in the jungles of Okinowa or the ash of Iwo Juma, and how they reacted and coped with it.
but that said, I still love the Pacific because its made by the same guys as BoB, so while its a bit off, I still give it 8/10
