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Originally Posted by Sliver
I hope so. The Pacific has been really boring so far. I don't know or care who anybody is yet, and I can't tell WTF is going on.
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I think we all know the European theatre so much better the BoB story flows better for us and we know how it all goes together. We've heard of Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, but only as single fights not all put together. I doubt most of us had ever heard of Peleliu before this series. I think that'll be an interesting part of this series to see the Pacific battles all put together.
This will be a bit more difficult to care about people as they are following individuals not a specific company so there's less build up. This episode did seem a little...rushed? The preamble talked about all the hardships of the fight and while they did touch on the shelling, being cutoff, and the lack of supplies, it never seemed....a huge struggle? I dunno how to describe it. I guess it seemed like in 10 mins it went from eating maggots and rice to canned peaches. I never got the sense or hardship I was expecting them to portrait. I was expecting something more like "The Breaking Point" (BoB ep 7) where they are stuck out freezing in foxholes and getting massively shelled. I'm sure it will get there.
I also have to remember I watched BoB off the box set so I didn't have a week in between each episode which I'm sure helped in the character development and remembering who's who. I kept thinking "where's the 3rd guy" all through the first half of the movie and then realized he was still stateside.