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** Lipton has to send one of the soldiers to the infirmary when he catches the terrified man digging obsessively with his bare hands to the point his fingernails were gone.
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** Lipton has to send one of the soldiers to the infirmary when he catches the terrified man digging obsessively with his bare hands to the point his fingernails were gone. It's as much for the benefit of the other men, however, as seeing something like that is not good for morale.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Played with. It's not the jerk himself making the point but, after he comes across a group of men openly griping about Lt. Dike, Lipton makes a point of coming to his defence by pointing out that, from Dike's point of view, he's a fresh replacement who has been thrown into the command of a unit of hardened, bonded veterans and so much be struggling with the responsibility that entails. The playing with stems from the fact that Lipton confesses in narration that he doesn't really believe his own defence, but is bringing it up to try and prevent the griping about Dike from undermining morale.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Played with. It's not the jerk himself making the point but, after he comes across a group of men openly griping about Lt. Dike, Lipton makes a point of coming to his defence by pointing out that, from Dike's point of view, he's a fresh replacement who has been thrown into the command of a unit of hardened, bonded veterans and so much be struggling with the responsibility that entails. The playing with stems from the fact that Lipton confesses in narration that he doesn't really believe his own defence, words, but is bringing it up to try and prevent the griping about Dike from undermining morale.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: After Lipton comes across Luz impersonating Dike in the "I'm going for help!" exchange that the two had with him during the bombardment, Lipton makes a point of acknowledging that the impression is spot on and he fully agrees with the overall sentiment before asking Luz to keep what happened to himself in future, as spreading it is only going to undermine morale further.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Played with. It's not the jerk himself making the point but, after he comes across a group of men openly griping about Lt. Dike, Lipton makes a point of coming to his defence by pointing out that, from Dike's point of view, he's a fresh replacement who has been thrown into the command of a unit of hardened, bonded veterans and so much be struggling with the responsibility that entails. The playing with stems from the fact that Lipton confesses in narration that he doesn't really believe his own defence, but is bringing it up to try and prevent the griping about Dike from undermining morale.
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** As in episode 1, Lipton comes across a group of men openly beefing about a mediocre commanding officer. In that episode, he lets it slide, but in this episode he makes a point of carefully defending Dike in such a way that won't antagonise the men. In the former case, it was one thing when they were just in a training scenario, but in a combat situation undermining the CO, even if there's valid reason, will only undermine the men and the mission.
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* ExactWords: The men congratulate Lt. Peacock on his promotion and transfer back to the States in a warm yet careful way that conceals from him, but not from the viewer, the ''real'' reason they're relieved he's transferring out of there: that they really don't want him to be leading them into battle.
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* {{Foil}}: Lt. Dike and Lt. Peacock. Both are subpar commanders, but Peacock has at least gained the goodwill, if not respect, of the men because he is clearly trying his best despite his shortcomings and at least makes efforts to bond with and show solidarity to the soldiers he commands. As such, while no one is exactly sorry to see him go, there is at least genuine warmth on both sides when he does. Dike is similarly inept, but on top of that is distant from the men, doesn't share in their hardships and spends more time at command HQ or in his foxhole than bonding with his soldiers. A subpar commander who nevertheless genuinely tries to rise above his limitations can be forgiven; a subpar commander who doesn't bother cannot.
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* {{Foil}}: Lt. Dike and Lt. Peacock. Both are subpar commanders, but Peacock has at least gained the goodwill, if not respect, of the men because he is clearly trying his best despite his shortcomings and at least makes efforts to bond with and show solidarity to the soldiers he commands. As such, while no one is exactly sorry to see him go, there is at least genuine warmth on both sides when he does. Dike is similarly inept, but on top of that is distant from the men, doesn't share in their hardships and spends more time at command HQ or in his foxhole than bonding with his soldiers.soldiers, and makes only token attempts to get to know them. A subpar commander who nevertheless genuinely tries to rise above his limitations can be forgiven; a subpar commander who doesn't bother cannot.
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* {{Foil}}: Lt. Dike and Lt. Peacock. Both are subpar commanders, but Peacock has at least gained the goodwill, if not respect, of the men because he is clearly trying his best despite his shortcomings and at least makes efforts to bond with and show solidarity to the men. As such, while no one is exactly sorry to see him go, there is at least genuine warmth on both sides when he does. Dike is similarly inept, but on top of that is distant from the men, doesn't share in their hardships and spends more time at command HQ or in his foxhole than bonding with his soldiers. A subpar commander who nevertheless genuinely tries to rise above his limitations can be forgiven; a subpar commander who doesn't bother cannot.
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* {{Foil}}: Lt. Dike and Lt. Peacock. Both are subpar commanders, but Peacock has at least gained the goodwill, if not respect, of the men because he is clearly trying his best despite his shortcomings and at least makes efforts to bond with and show solidarity to the men.soldiers he commands. As such, while no one is exactly sorry to see him go, there is at least genuine warmth on both sides when he does. Dike is similarly inept, but on top of that is distant from the men, doesn't share in their hardships and spends more time at command HQ or in his foxhole than bonding with his soldiers. A subpar commander who nevertheless genuinely tries to rise above his limitations can be forgiven; a subpar commander who doesn't bother cannot.
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* GallowsHumor: After both Guarnere and Toye have had their legs blown off, Doc Roe orders Guarnere to be evacuated by the jeeps first while he tends to Toye. As he's being carried past Toye, Guarnere quips "Told you I'd get back to the States before you, Joe."
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Of a sort; Lt. Dike is shown to completely fall apart when he faces a real battle in Foy and gives hopelessly confused and contradictory orders out of panic, getting men killed and forcing Winters to replace him with Speirs due to his incompetence. In actuality, Dike's apparent incompetence was the result of severe injuries sustained in the battle.
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* {{Troll}}: After a few of the men swap rumours about Speirs shooting one of his own men and a platoon of Germans after offering them cigarettes, Speirs shows up to check on them. While no one brings up the rumours, he pointedly offers each man a cigarette when he's done. It's heavily implied he's messing with their heads.
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* {{Troll}}: After a few of the men swap rumours about Speirs shooting one of his own men and a platoon of Germans after offering them cigarettes, Speirs shows up to check on them. While no one brings up the rumours, he pointedly offers each man a cigarette when he's done. It's heavily implied he's he knows full well about the gossip behind his back and is messing with their heads.
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* StealthInsult: When Peacock is transferred out of combat, his soldiers warmly congratulate him and tell him how glad they are he's getting out of there. He fails to pick up on the hidden meanings in their ExactWords that it's because he's a bad commander and they really don't want to have to go into combat with him. Though that said, his likability means that the insults are couched in genuine warmth and sincerity as well.
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* StealthInsult: When Peacock is transferred out of combat, his soldiers warmly congratulate him and tell him how glad they are he's getting out of there. He fails to pick up on the hidden meanings in their ExactWords that it's because he's a bad commander and they really don't want to have to go into combat with him. Though that said, his likability means that the warmth the insults are couched in genuine warmth and sincerity as well.''is'' sincere.
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* {{Troll}}: After a few of the men swap rumours about Speirs shooting one of his own men and a platoon of Germans after offering them cigarettes, Speirs shows up to check on them. While no one brings up the rumours, he pointedly offers each man a cigarette when he's done. It's heavily implied he's messing with their heads.
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* {{Foil}}: Lt. Dike and Lt. Peacock. Both are subpar commanders, but Peacock has at least gained the goodwill, if not respect, of the men because he is clearly trying his best despite his shortcomings and at least makes efforts to bond with and show solidarity to the men. As such, while no one is exactly sorry to see him go, there is at least genuine warmth on both sides when he does. Dike is similarly inept, but on top of that is distant from the men and spends more time at command HQ or in his foxhole than bonding with his soldiers. A subpar commander who nevertheless genuinely tries to rise above his limitations can be forgiven; a subpar commander who doesn't bother cannot.
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* {{Foil}}: Lt. Dike and Lt. Peacock. Both are subpar commanders, but Peacock has at least gained the goodwill, if not respect, of the men because he is clearly trying his best despite his shortcomings and at least makes efforts to bond with and show solidarity to the men. As such, while no one is exactly sorry to see him go, there is at least genuine warmth on both sides when he does. Dike is similarly inept, but on top of that is distant from the men men, doesn't share in their hardships and spends more time at command HQ or in his foxhole than bonding with his soldiers. A subpar commander who nevertheless genuinely tries to rise above his limitations can be forgiven; a subpar commander who doesn't bother cannot.
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* TheDitherer: Lipton identifies this as Dike's fundamental problem; he over-delegates and never takes any responsibility for anything.
