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Originally Posted by flamingreen
Probably because they were two completely different wars. Hard to gain that camaraderie when everyone you know is dying around you. I think the series is called The Pacific for a reason. The Pacific theatre of war is the main character and all the actors in it are just bit players.
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Exactly. This is the last comparison I'll make between the two because I'm beyond sick of reading it in this thread, but its not like they tried the same camaraderie formula as BoB in Pacific and failed, but rather they took a whole other direction entirely. Yes I understand two 10 part mini-series about WWII done by the same people opens it up to comparison, but you just have to realize it was purposely done differently.
I mean how many times in Pacific, aside from the first couple episodes, have you seen the guys horsing around and bonding? In BoB it was pretty much every episode. In Pacific, its been non-existent. Because that's not the point of this one. If you don't like it, fine. But just realize it wasn't
trying to be BoB, which I think many of you were hoping for. BoB seemed to glorify the battles - and soldiers - more. Kind of like a Rememberance Day heroes thing. Pacific meanwhile seems to paint war in a much more negative light. It focuses mainly on the emotional and psychological toll it takes on the individual soldier.
Anyway, I agree that I think the last one will be a little dull(as was BoB). I was hoping they'd save the H-bombs for the last episode and it'd be a main theme, but I think that passing remark about it at the end of the last episode(when the one guy said "Hey I hear they dropped some new bomb that wiped out an entire Jap city") will be all we get on it. Probably will just show them returning to their families and seeing how much they've changed, etc. Should still be decent though.