Well, Hoob finally got his Luger and clearly more than he bargained for.
Ugh, he really did. That's one of the most heart-wrenching parts to watch, for me. Like there's plenty of tragedy throughout the whole show but that one just hurts, y'know?
I'll confess, Peacock's departure made me laugh.
I always find that scene so funny, too. Just his not getting while they're like, "THANK GOD."
It was also interesting to hear an episode narrated since we haven't had that happen until this point.
I'll be honest, I don't love that this volume of narration comes out of essentially nowhere. It bothers me from a narrative standpoint that we don't have any internal dialogue at all and then an entire episode of it out of nowhere from Lipton. There's a little bit in one other episode but I'm pretty firmly of the belief that if you're going to use a convention like that in a show setting, you either need to establish that it's going to be a thing right off the bat and use it as a tool accordingly, or steer away from it altogether. Dropping it in to add context to a story just illustrates to me that the writer/director failed in the pursuit of "show don't tell."
I don't mind narration overall, I just wish they had picked one and stuck with it instead of sprinkling it in randomly more than halfway through.
I wondered, seeing everyone hacking up trees with axes, what the standard equipment for these soldiers was
That would be a perfect time to call back to the list Joe Toye gives in the first episode, lol.
I wondered why Winters hadn't given his instructions to Dier with the sergeants looking on, so that multiple people would be clear on what needed to be done and what the orders were.
I'm sure that he did, in reality. I'd imagine it's one of those things where they're trusting the audience to make some assumptions that they probably shouldn't trust the audience to make because the audience has no way to know, lol. I think the bit where Buck and Lip and the rest of the non-coms are circled up talking to each other and Buck calls over his shoulder for Dike's confirmation and he gives it is probably meant to implicate that kind of thing, but you're right in that it doesn't do a very good job.
Someone with his level of incompetence would have a high likelihood of getting himself killed.
Because he spends so little time there it's difficult to say what the motivations could be for his being given command of Easy. Dike has a bit of that Sobel thing going on, where he's painted to be a guy who's trying to make it career military and is just utterly unsuited for the job, but I feel a lot less sympathy for him than for Sobel because he doesn't engage at all. Even though he was kind of a raging asshole in many ways, Sobel was very concerned with Easy's wellbeing.
I quite like the scene with the choir, and the images of all the men who have been lost.
That scene was nice, and the music was lovely. It was a little heavy-handed but it's not like this show has been especially subtle up until this point, lol.
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Ugh, he really did. That's one of the most heart-wrenching parts to watch, for me. Like there's plenty of tragedy throughout the whole show but that one just hurts, y'know?
I'll confess, Peacock's departure made me laugh.
I always find that scene so funny, too. Just his not getting while they're like, "THANK GOD."
It was also interesting to hear an episode narrated since we haven't had that happen until this point.
I'll be honest, I don't love that this volume of narration comes out of essentially nowhere. It bothers me from a narrative standpoint that we don't have any internal dialogue at all and then an entire episode of it out of nowhere from Lipton. There's a little bit in one other episode but I'm pretty firmly of the belief that if you're going to use a convention like that in a show setting, you either need to establish that it's going to be a thing right off the bat and use it as a tool accordingly, or steer away from it altogether. Dropping it in to add context to a story just illustrates to me that the writer/director failed in the pursuit of "show don't tell."
I don't mind narration overall, I just wish they had picked one and stuck with it instead of sprinkling it in randomly more than halfway through.
I wondered, seeing everyone hacking up trees with axes, what the standard equipment for these soldiers was
That would be a perfect time to call back to the list Joe Toye gives in the first episode, lol.
I wondered why Winters hadn't given his instructions to Dier with the sergeants looking on, so that multiple people would be clear on what needed to be done and what the orders were.
I'm sure that he did, in reality. I'd imagine it's one of those things where they're trusting the audience to make some assumptions that they probably shouldn't trust the audience to make because the audience has no way to know, lol. I think the bit where Buck and Lip and the rest of the non-coms are circled up talking to each other and Buck calls over his shoulder for Dike's confirmation and he gives it is probably meant to implicate that kind of thing, but you're right in that it doesn't do a very good job.
Someone with his level of incompetence would have a high likelihood of getting himself killed.
Because he spends so little time there it's difficult to say what the motivations could be for his being given command of Easy. Dike has a bit of that Sobel thing going on, where he's painted to be a guy who's trying to make it career military and is just utterly unsuited for the job, but I feel a lot less sympathy for him than for Sobel because he doesn't engage at all. Even though he was kind of a raging asshole in many ways, Sobel was very concerned with Easy's wellbeing.
I quite like the scene with the choir, and the images of all the men who have been lost.
That scene was nice, and the music was lovely. It was a little heavy-handed but it's not like this show has been especially subtle up until this point, lol.