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Welcome to the Band of Brothers rewatch discussion post for
PART ONE: CURRAHEE & PART TWO: DAY OF DAYS
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 you 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!
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Part Two: Day of Days
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Re: Part One: Currahee [SPOILER-FREE]
Date: 07/11/2019 15:06 (UTC)Oh, yay! I'm glad you got to watch it before your access ended. :) Excited to see the thoughts you may have for the next few episodes, too, haha.
We're doing a rewatch of The Pacific starting in January, and while I don't have any current plans to stream it I can try and figure something out if yourself and others would be interested. (No need to commit now or anything, just to keep in mind as the new year starts.)
I wonder if Winters as leader isn't a relevant issue there.
Apologies if I've read this statement the wrong way, but The Pacific follows the USMC rather than the Airborne, so none of the characters from Band of Brothers are involved. It's basically three storylines following three different guys through the Pacific theatre, and there are things I think it does...not necessarily better than Band of Brothers, but things it expands upon that BoB doesn't get into that I appreciated from a narrative perspective.
It has its shortcomings, too, of course, and there are things that I prefer the BoB narrative for, but overall it's a great show. (And rapidly becoming my area of expertise, of the two, haha.)
Re: Part One: Currahee [SPOILER-FREE]
Date: 07/11/2019 16:31 (UTC)Sorry, what I meant was that I'd heard Pacific wasn't as good (or perhaps satisfying) as BoB, and given the importance of Winters' storyline to it, this made me wonder if it was a critical factor in the success of that series which Pacific would lack. But it sounds like it may be because it does things differently.
At any rate, yes I'd like to watch it but unfortunately it won't be until later next year. Other than Netflix and a live TV option we've been rotating through services for our third subscription and I don't expect to pick HBO up again until probably summer (by which time Max will be available). But I guess I can always pop back in here for the rewatch comments when I do :)