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hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe.......eh

I think the free episode on HBO.com or wherever was the first time your crack is free kinda deal.

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I thought episode 2 was good, but I liked the first one better so far. The second episode just kinda ended, the intro showed it to be a long drawn out fight with near staving GIs, but I really didn't get that from this episode. They looked dirty, ate rice, and one five minute fire fight, but I think they really missed the mark with one.

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I agree...but it was nice to bring some of my Marine Corps knowledge back with the name John Basilone.

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Well, with Episode 3 we certainly got some character development. :tu

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I watched it on demand last night. Pretty good episode, and there were some funny scenes mixed in there too :tu

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Gratuitous booby shots don't hurt either. :r:r:r

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They've gotta keep me watching somehow if there isn't any fighting going on!

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HBO.com allowed you to view the episodes for free after registering.

Seems they didn't get the ratings they wanted, so now they've stopped showing them online :rolleyes: And they've pushed back the release of the DVD/Blu-ray as well.

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I thought the last 2 episodes were a bit better. Are we just dealing with a difference in the fact that Band of Brothers was just a much better book and story as a whole than what The Pacific is taken from?

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I think it's multiple things, the primary one being that BoB was based on a single book that had taken many different individual experiences and used them to create a single cohesive storyline with a standardized narration style because it's written by a single author. The Pacific is based on 2 primary works written by very different men with different viewpoints and opinions, and that naturally leads to the story line being more disjointed than BoB. Both those works were also personal memoires written more as exercises in self-catharsis than as the historical essays/analysis which BoB was intended to be before HBO turned it into the mini-series.

Ultimately The Pacific is a very different mini-series that BoB, but that's fitting considering the PTO was a very different war and experience than the ETO.

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just started watching the series first 2 episodes were good and on 3 now

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Don't want to ruin it for you James, But my favorite part was when.................... :sleep: :sleep:

Never made it through!

I assume we won :sh

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I hear thats how it turns out

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Picked up several books the series was based on including the companion book to the series. The Series is on my Netflix queue.

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watching episode 4 now and enjoying the series
it is a lot easier for me to get into shows when I can marathon through them

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I thought it was a pretty good series. They hyped it up to be better than Band of Brothers, but I thought Band of Brothers was better.

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I agree with this. I don't think The Pacific was as good as BoB simply because of the source material. As much as I wanted to enjoy The Pacific, I just found myself not caring for the characters in the way that I did in BoB.