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Originally Posted by Cowperson

I guess you can look at it one of two ways.

In "The Pacific," you are likely seeing the war a lot of grunts would see, that anything beyond a few hundred yards of where they happen to be sitting is irrelevant to their own war, their own fight simply to survive to the next hour or the next day.

In that sense, they may well be communicating that story pretty well. It's just a day to day grind in the rain, muck, dying and killing, mind-numbing, as one of the real veterans of the campaign said before one of the episodes, "to the point where you just don't give a damn anymore."

They're also doing a pretty good job communicating the fanatical nature of their opponent as well plus the overt racism felt by one side and the complete contempt the common Japanese soldier felt for the Americans.

"The Pacific" is the story of the individual while BOB, even though it had stories of individuals, was more a story of the "team," that being Easy Company, from start to finish, and it's place in history.

I don't "hate" "The Pacific" . . . . . . I just find it more difficult to relate to. That doesn't diminish the importance of the story being told.

My two cents.

Cowperson

You nailed that on the head. I find the experience of the Marines particularly Sledge and his unit to be very interesting. Every year I officiate a Remembrance Day ceremony. I always want to express how great the sacrifice was for the men who served, particularly the ones who died. This series is really portraying how awful the experience is. Still its probably impossible to ever know just how horrible the whole ordeal was.