[TP REWATCH] Part Five and Part Six

[thrillingdetectivetales]

Welcome to the rewatch discussion post for PART FIVE and PART SIX of The Pacific.
You are welcome to discuss any and all aspects of the episodes in the comments on this post. Please recognize that others may hold different opinions than yours and continue to abide by our #1 rule: don't be a dick. Additionally, I ask that y'all take care to keep spoiler content off of spoiler-free threads. Otherwise, have fun!

Part Five
Spoiler-free thread.
Spoiler friendly thread.

Part Six
Spoiler-free thread.
Spoiler friendly thread.

If you'd like to chat about the episode in real time, join us over on Discord.*

To participate in discussions about previous episodes, you can visit the posts below:

Part One & Part Two
Part Three & Part Four

* Please note that during this rewatch, we have done away with spoiler friendly and spoiler-free Discord channels and will simply be using the dedicated channel for The Pacific. As such, if you participate in the discussion on the Discord server you may encounter spoilers.

Comments

Re: Part Six [SPOILER-FREE]

[muccamukk]

The ships were supposed to supply water, but they put it on shore in used oil drums that were contaminated, so mostly people didn't drink it, and the ones that did often got sick.

(In Leckie's book, I think, he talked about how smoking made the thirst worse, and was stupid, and he knew it was stupid, AND YET.)

Series was filmed in Australia. I play a game of "Been camping there!" when watching it. Though I suppose a lot of that has been destroyed by the fires.

Re: Part Six [SPOILER-FREE]

[yourlibrarian]

Ugh! Unbelievable decision.

Ah, that makes sense (re: locations). And such a horror what's happening with the fires.