The Pacific

Haven't seen it yet, but I look forward to it. Have any of you seen it yet?

I saw it last night.

Fucking. Epic.

Looks like it will probably spend alot more time focusing on how things are from both sides of the war as well though. There was a scene after a fight with the Japanese including a soldier pretending to be injured using a grenade to suicide against two marines.. The Marines then semi-tortured an injured soldier who was stumbling around shellshocked and crying by repeatedly shooting him in the arms and shoulders so he wouldn't die.

I'm really loathe to ever view the Japanese sympathetically during WW 2 after things like suicide attacks, the way they treated prisoners(including the Bataan Death March), and the Sealed Evil in a Can their development labs were already developing and testing to use on us during the war.. (all sorts of nasty bio and chem weaponry, vivisection and other experiments on prisoners highly reminiscent of Mengele...)

I'd say the nukes even all that out.

edited 16th Mar '10 5:37:39 AM by Barkey

Yeah it was pretty awesome. Doesn't seem QUITE as polished as Bo B yet, but I'm sure it'll pick up, what with different directors throwing their techniques at it all the time.

Also, anyone else reckon the guy on the machine gun, who gets made corporal at the end, looks shit loads like Stifler from American Pie?

I saw it on Sunday and it was fucking EPIC. I'm falling for Gene and Sid already. We need to make a tropes page for The Pacific.

Dammit! I missed it, it's not on HBO is it? I don't get HBO. Tell me it's on the history channel or something.

HBO. Sorry. I managed to see it though.

I can't use bit torrents on this IP.

HBO's website has it the day after it airs.

I think it's also viewable on hulu if you are in the US region.

Yup, there it is on Hulu, thanks Major Tom.

Odd that this series hasn't attracted too much attention on these boards.

I watched the first episode, and the idea is essentially the same as Band of Brothers: give a realistic, gritty, modern view of the Pacific Theather from a grunt's point of view. It's good, but I think they're trying too much to be like Band of Brothers.

Here's to hoping they try to shake things up or add something new in the later episodes.

Deboss: Oh, right, I didn't think of Hulu.

So far I've seen the first three parts and the first two were awesomesauce.

But the third was a goddamned Romantic Plot Tumor. I swear they couldn't find anything interesting historically to base their inspirations for that part so they went back Strictly Formula and threw in some Filler and gratuitous romance.

Dethroning Moment Of Suck Mr. Hanks! Dethroning Moment Of Suck! Your fourth part better make up for it or else!

I thought three was pretty good and the first two were basically live action Sergeant Rock cartoons. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

Just why did there have to be a freaking nudie scene!?!

Do they actually have the episodes on Hulu? I can't find em. All I find are trailers and links to hbo.com, and it doesn't have them.

We're watching it right now. Why isn't there a page for this yet? Do I have to make one?

edited 11th Apr '10 6:32:24 PM by kittenmommy

^ Somebody should make one. Why not you?

Oh and today's part was not bad at all. They went to bloody Peleliu.

Next week they take the airfield.

By the way, did you notice the Type 97 Chi-Ha tank?

There's a page.

Haven't watched the show itself yet, though — thought I'd wait for all the episodes to air and then watch them together.

This might be a dumb question, but why were the C Mo Hs and C Mo Fs removed from the page??

Time. To. Get. Beyond. World. War. II.

Started watching, and now just finished episode 3.

There are many things I can say about this, but to sum, this is the one of most intense and depressing story about a war I've seen, although maybe not as intense as Saving Private Ryan and not as depressing as Platoon.