[TP REWATCH] Part Nine and Part Ten

[thrillingdetectivetales]

Here we are, friends! Welcome to the rewatch discussion post PART NINE and PART TEN, the two final episodes 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 Nine
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Part Ten
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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
Part Five & Part Six
Part Seven & Part Eight

Thank you for participating in this Heavy Artillery rewatch! Up next: Generation Kill. I'm not sure yet when that will be, so keep an eye on the announcements post on the front page of the community for updates.

* 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.

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Part Nine [SPOILER-FREE]

[thrillingdetectivetales]

This is a comment thread for spoiler-free discussion of The Pacific: Part Nine.

For spoiler friendly discussion of the episode, please see the thread below.

Re: Part Nine [SPOILER-FREE]

[yourlibrarian]

It seems there's never any lack of misery in these campaigns. Having to dig up somebody else's recent grave to share it is a new one though. So is the booby-trapped mother. The use of the civilians as human shields was pretty upsetting.

interesting to see Eugene"s transition from a new guy into the experienced one on the team. The fact that they were almost shelled by their own side was apparently not that new.

Given all that rain, it seems amazing to think that any kind of paper could survive it, much less mail actually getting to people in the middle of battles. I'd like to know what it was carried in that it could repel that sort of water!

Similarly the way that they were basically sitting in their own wet latrines, and Sledge's fall onto the decomposing soldier, made me wonder how anybody avoided getting all sorts of diseases. After all how could they possibly get clean? Did they carry disinfectants with them?

The shooting of the Japanese who ran into the clearing was probably the only efficient use of ammunition I have seen yet -- usually it's just a barrage of shooting.

Not that Snafu and Sledge are particularly good friends anyway, but by the time Hamm dies it seems like there's hardly anyone left.

I can't imagine a child growing up after that kind of experience. Sledge and Snafus' reactions seem to be an inability to respond normally after everything they've seen. It's almost surprising that Eugene can't euthanize the woman he finds.

Good writing to see Eugene's words turned back on him. I wonder if that actually happened or if it was just written for that purpose.

The almost casual way the news of Hiroshima was referred to seemed anticlimactic.