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Originally Posted by Table 5
Gotta agree that so far things are pretty scattered and hurried. With the intro that was given, I was expecting this to be a long-drawn out battle for the island, and yet the whole shebang wraps up by the end of the hour (or more like 40 minutes), and in such a way that it feels insignificant. The proportions are all wrong....right now it feels like snapshots of an event instead of a storytelling. SPR and BOB had great pacing...this one just feels off.
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This is one thing I can agree with. The bouncing around between companies doesn't really allow you to feel the battle in its entirety, but more just little snippets of it. I'm not sure why they took this approach. Perhaps they want to allow the viewer to experience EVERYTHING major that occurred to soldiers during the Pacific War, and thus they need to focus on different companies. But it definitely does take away from getting to really know and like different characters, for sure.
I noticed after two episodes I'm not a big fan of most of the characters. They just seem more prettyboy'ish, cocky, and over-all more "Hollywood" types than BoB, who just seemed like regular dudes. I was actually happy when that Italian-looking guy died at the end of yesterday's episode, he was getting on my nerves.