[BOB REWATCH] Part Nine: Why We Fight & Part Ten: Points

[thrillingdetectivetales]

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PART NINE: WHY WE FIGHT & PART TEN: POINTS
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Part Nine: Why We Fight
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Part Ten: Points
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Part Nine: Why We Fight [SPOILER-FREE]

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Re: Part Nine: Why We Fight [SPOILER FRIENDLY]

[thrillingdetectivetales]

The bit with Luz and the farm girl always strikes me as weird. Points to Perco for trying to get him to leave the poor fraulein alone, but seriously. The whole episode is uncomfortable, tonally, for very obvious reasons, but this seemed like a weird place to start the thing off, particularly given the deeply serious violin number with somber discussion of composers that immediately precedes it.

Re: Part Nine: Why We Fight [SPOILER-FREE]

[yourlibrarian]

One of the things that amazed me about this episode was to think about how quickly military infrastructure got set up. So, the oak leaves that Winters got in the last episode -- someone had to think of that, order that, deliver that. The same with the shipment of all of the stuff that Speirs is sending out.

Nixon certainly has plenty of cynicism by this time. The men are adapting quickly to different circumstances. Yet the attitudes have not changed given O'Keeffe's experience.

The line at the card game seems to encapsulate the episode's theme, which is that the war is no longer about who wins but who gets what.

With the liberation of the camp, this episode is again one of those splits where the first half misleads one's expectation of where things are going. They did a great job what's the grimness of the discovery.

Nice circle around with the woman whose house Nixon broke into. Also with the opening scene where we don't realize what the cleanup is going to be about.

Re: Part Ten: Points [SPOILER-FREE]

[yourlibrarian]

I have to say the shippiest moment I've seen in this series so far was between Nixon and Winters as they discussed a possible future, and in Nixon's case, together. I was amused by the red-headed Eskimo line.

The trip up to the Eagle's Nest made it clear why this company was chosen for the series. Lots of stories have focused on D-Day, but this allowed us to follow them all through the difficult year ahead well, and yet still placing them at the mountain high finish line.

It's interesting to see not just the looting but what happens after you've taken all the social brakes off of soldiers who are not yet back in civilian life. Definitely not a pretty picture. Just goes to show that the men who like war too much are as much of a danger to their fellow soldiers as the enemy. I can imagine Winters' despair as one man after another is lost or wrecked.

I was amused to hear Peacock's name again. I don't recall anything about his return since his departure to the States. Also interesting to see that Sobel turned up yet again.

Just as well that Winters wasn't given the opportunity to go to the Pacific. Pretty interesting how some of the men's lives ended up afterwards. Webster's life was certainly curious.

I'd skipped the veterans' recollections throughout the series because I figured it was a spoiler in how things would end up. But I did watch the one at the end of this one, so it was the first time I reconciled the characters with the men who lived those lives.

It was bittersweet to see the last of them all as the series ended. I was glad I'd watched the series though, really rewarding.

Re: Part Nine: Why We Fight [SPOILER FRIENDLY]

[yourlibrarian]

Agreed, it seemed rather out of place. It made me wonder if it was the HBO effect of always trying to worm nudity into shows just to set themselves apart from other networks.