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Originally Posted by Cowperson

A big picture review of first seven episodes of The Pacific today in the NY Post. A good commentary I thought.

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainmen...RZk14LxfwSOmiK

Cowperson

I loved the comments.

It's too bad that the likes of a snot nosed kid like this writer just sees 'entertainment' rather than a telling of their stories that they rarely spoke of. What a G-D shame.

"The Pacific" is the best show, or movie (for that matter), to ever be made on warfare. It's as close to being there as you can get, without actually tying on a pair of boots, picking up a rifle and curling in a ball in the bottom of a fighting hole, hoping that the next mortor doesn't land on your friggin head.

What Kyle wants and what I suppose most audiences want but didn't get here is a Hollywood version of WWII, replete with colorful characters and lots of style.

If that's what you want Kyle go watch Inglorious Basterds or Bridge on the River Kwai or ten thousand other "war movies".

It's not a shock or a surprise that Kyle clearly missed the point of "The Pacific". Many, if not all, of the previous films and TV series about WWII focused on the sacrifice of soldiers for each other. The clear bond of brotherhood developed as men risk their lives for a single cause. But the Pacific does something different. The Pacific shows us how these boys faced war with wide eyed innocence and in a matter of minutes they went from 18 years old to 40. These marines and all soldiers sacrificed more than lives. They gave a youth that many of us take for granted. Tom Hanks should be praised for his efforts to reminds us all what bravery, heroics, and war really is.

It shows the reality of war and the effect on the soldiers who fight it. It doesn't need a strong main character. If Kyle wants a strong main character, perhaps he should consider the US Marine Corps in it's entirety as that character. Complaining about what The Pacific isn't seems like a lame way to disparage a riveting series that reinforces the basic tenet that "war is hell". To teach the viewers what life was like for the men and women on those beaches and in those jungles should be enough to satisfy the intellectual needs of writers like Smith.