[EVENT] Band of Brothers Rewatch

[thrillingdetectivetales]

It's official, everyone! Heavy Artillery will be hosting a Band of Brothers rewatch for old fans, new fans, and anyone who might be interested!

Starting Saturday, October 26th, we'll be watching both episodes in order starting at 10 AM CDT*.

Since we have a handful of members across various continents, the current plan is to watch-along individually with discussion posts for each episode going live a half-hour before and a Discord chat open for participants at any time. While all are welcome to join in, you don't have to be available at the time of the watch-along to participate in the discussion posts or Discord chat. I encourage you to watch at your leisure with the assurance that fellow fans will be around to flail with you as your schedule allows.

If you're in the U.S., you can find Band of Brothers free to watch on Amazon Prime Video. If you're in Canada, you can find it streaming on Crave TV, and HBO Nordic has it for folks in Scandinavia (and possibly other European countries). At present there are no plans to livestream the episodes. If anyone has information about where to watch the show overseas, please let me know and I'll add it here.

*If you're not sure what time that is for you, you can check out the current time in CDT here and convert accordingly.

SCHEDULE

Saturday, October 26th
Currahee & Day of Days

Saturday, November 2nd
Carentan & Replacements

Saturday, November 9th
Crossroads & Bastogne

Saturday, November 16th
The Breaking Point & The Last Patrol

Saturday, November 23rd
Why We Fight & Points

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<center><img src="https://thrillingdetectivetales.dreamwidth.org/file/5168.png"> Hi everyone! Starting <b>Saturday, October 26th</b>, you are invited to join HBOWar fandom community <user name="heavyartillery"> to watch and discuss <em>Band of Brothers,</em> the iconic miniseries chronicling the exploits of Easy Company, an elite group of U.S. Army Paratroopers, from boot camp to the D-Day landings at Normandy and beyond. We hope to see you there! <small><u><a href="https://heavyartillery.dreamwidth.org/1985.html">For more information, please see the community announcement.</a></u></small></center>
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If you have any questions, comments, or concerns leading up to the airing of the first episode, please feel free to comment on this post or reach out to thrillingdetectivetales here on DW or Tumblr at any time and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

I hope to see you there, familiar and fresh faces alike!

Comments

[muccamukk]

Band of Brothers is streaming on Crave TV if you're Canadian.

[thrillingdetectivetales]

Awesome! Thank you!!

[sailorkitty]

Ok, I'm going to be out of town and will probably miss day one.

That said! HBO Nordic has it in Scandinavia! This might be where other EU people might be able to find it!

[thrillingdetectivetales]

Aw, sorry you'll miss the first day, but thank you for the Scandinavian platform tip! We'll still be here watching when you get back. :)

[kore]

THANK YOU for not making this totally depend on everyone being on Discord at the same time.

[thrillingdetectivetales]

Of course! I wanted to keep it as accessible as possible.

I know how busy life can get and also that we have people from, like, I think four continents at least who have expressed a desire to participate. I’ve played D&D for years and it’s a nightmare to align schedules just among people who are all in the same city, haha.

Hopefully we’ll see you around for a bit of it!

[kore]

we have people from, like, I think four continents at least who have expressed a desire to participate

Aww, that's neat!

I'm a bit of a shut-in, so I don't go anywhere really, but my sleep schedule is really messed up (plus I just don't do Discord, mostly because of RSI issues). This sounds like it might be more like the old school LJ watchalongs! Those were very fun. (And thank you for doing it!)

[yourlibrarian]

I've had the show queued now that I have HBO -- will the discussions focus only on the episode or will they have spoilers for future eps? I haven't seen the series yet.

[thrillingdetectivetales]

Hi there! Excellent question!

Every episode will have its own dedicated discussion post here on Dreamwidth, and my intention is to keep the Discord chat as spoiler-free as possible, as well. Of course, people make mistakes sometimes so I can’t 100% guarantee that there won’t be slip-ups in a live chat but the goal is that it will be a spoiler-free space, and anyone who continually or maliciously tries to ruin the experience for anyone else will be booted.

Does that help?

[yourlibrarian]

Yep! Great, I haven't done a timed watch before so it sounds like a good way of getting to watch the show :)

[thrillingdetectivetales]

Awesome! I look forward to seeing you there!