[Sainters7]

Just saw the new one last night, I thought it was a great character building episode. As much as I hated the previous episode, what happened between him and the Aussie girl at least helped me to understand how it, followed by the conditions on the new island, and witnessing a suicide ended up landing Leckey(who I've been calling "Lucky" to this point) in the loony bin briefly. I thought they really painted the ugliness of this theatre of the war(and war in general) well in this episode.

I hear ya about having some trouble relating to Leckey, this was the first episode where I started to sympathize with him a little, up to this point I didn't like him, and now I'd say I just don't mind him. He definitely is tough to relate to, unless you're a brooding Dillon from 90210 type I guess. I don't find the characters themselves near as likeable as I did in BoB, there's definitely no Winters or Nixon in this one. But I'm fine with that, because as mentioned before, that's not what this series is all about. And at least I can sympathize and understand them more now, unlike the first couple episodes when I didn't even care if they died.

I'm really enjoying the Pacific angle of the war, its just a completely different vibe. You can feel the lower sense of morale by the troops. I like it because, in BoB, even though they had to fight some tough odds, it still all took place at a point in the war when it wasn't really a matter of if they'd win, but when. The Allies were on the attack, knew their enemy well, and were pushing hard for Germany. Whereas in the Pacific, where we are now, the enemy is largely unknown and misunderstood, and this is at a point where victory was very much in doubt. This isn't a joint Allied attack, this was simply the U.S. vs. Japan. And at the point they're at now in the story, it was not looking good for them.