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Title: The Pacific
Post by: rpm on November 07, 2012, 06:53:50 PM
HBO Signature is re running The Pacific starting tonight. If you haven't seen it, it's well worth the effort to check it out.
Episode 1, 2 & 3 tonight, 4, 5, 6 & 7 Thursday night and 8, 9 & 10 Friday night.
Set your DVR. :rock :salute :rock
Title: Re: The Pacific
Post by: Banshee7 on November 07, 2012, 07:22:41 PM
Too bad we don't have HBO at school.  I have the DVDs at the house, so I guess I'll have to watch it some other time.  Pretty awesome miniseries!  Band of Brothers is still my favorite, though.

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Josh
Title: Re: The Pacific
Post by: bacon8tr on November 07, 2012, 07:51:12 PM
Caught it just as first episode started.  Thanks for the heads up.
Title: Re: The Pacific
Post by: Ack-Ack on November 07, 2012, 08:35:09 PM
Good series but some of the fictional drama stuff like the father/son conflict between Sledge and his father was needless. 

ack-ack
Title: Re: The Pacific
Post by: Wildcat1 on November 07, 2012, 08:55:23 PM
Good series but some of the fictional drama stuff like the father/son conflict between Sledge and his father was needless. 

ack-ack

There wasn't so much a father-son conflict between sledge and his dad I thought... His dad was behind him when he decided to enlist despite his heart murmur. He was really behind him when he got home.

If there was any father-son conflict, I'd say it was between Leckie and his dad.

Great series :salute
Title: Re: The Pacific
Post by: BFOOT1 on November 07, 2012, 10:13:45 PM
It'd be neat to seem them make an 8th AF series, or a series about pilots, that would be awesome.  :pray
Title: Re: The Pacific
Post by: shotgunneeley on November 07, 2012, 10:33:27 PM
It'd be neat to seem them make an 8th AF series, or a series about pilots, that would be awesome.  :pray

I'd flip for some ETO aerial combat with the style and quality of BoB/Pacific.  :aok

The Pacific was ok, but i liked Band of Brothers better for its cast and characters.
Title: Re: The Pacific
Post by: rpm on November 07, 2012, 10:40:15 PM
Good series but some of the fictional drama stuff like the father/son conflict between Sledge and his father was needless. 

ack-ack
It was taken from Sledgehammer's book unless I'm mistaken. This series differed from BOB in that it showed the homeland effects.
Title: Re: The Pacific
Post by: Ack-Ack on November 08, 2012, 01:44:31 AM
It was taken from Sledgehammer's book unless I'm mistaken. This series differed from BOB in that it showed the homeland effects.

It wasn't.

ack-ack
Title: Re: The Pacific
Post by: Masherbrum on November 08, 2012, 09:25:17 PM
It was taken from Sledgehammer's book unless I'm mistaken. This series differed from BOB in that it showed the homeland effects.

It was based (loosely) off of Leckie's and Sledge's memoirs.   
Title: Re: The Pacific
Post by: rpm on November 08, 2012, 09:51:45 PM
It was based (loosely) off of Leckie's and Sledge's memoirs.   
I was talking about the relationship between Sledge and his Dad. Thought that was in his book. Looks like I was wrong. But, Hanks and Speilberg did say they wanted to show the effects on the homefront and quite a bit of the series covers that.
Title: Re: The Pacific
Post by: Melvin on November 08, 2012, 09:59:17 PM




The guy that played "Snafu" did a fantastic job. If you ask me, he captured the essence of a Man that was beaten into submission by years of inhumanity.