It's weird because a lot of people really love "Currahee" the first episode of Band of Brothers where we meet the characters while they're in training, and then spend an episode doing that before they go into combat in episode two, then we'd be invested in them living or dying, even if I don't think BoB killed off that many PoV characters. (Though there's a whole side story about a character who was supposed to be the PoV character in Currahee, and then die in a training accident to prove that the situation was serious, but the actor playing him pissed off TPTB so much they rewrote AND reshot the episode to cut his character).
Then The Pacific didn't do that, just had a brief intro of the characters deciding to go to war (TRAGICALLY cutting the bit in Leckie's book where he introduces himself in the first paragraph as limping due to a USMC-mandated circumcision), then skips forward to combat and two episodes of yelling in the dark, where no one can tell who anyone is. It takes multiple watches of that show to get a sense of the characters, but then again the structure is... creative. And many people complained about that! (I'm sure at the time too.)
And the Bloody 100th had a HILARIOUSLY cursed time at training too, at one point they were trying to do a cross country flight from Nebraska to California, and one of the forts ended up in Tennessee!
Plus Marge (the blonde from the first episode) and Cleven were actually childhood sweethearts who met up again while he was training in Texas, which is kind of a sweet story, if they had to include her.
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Then The Pacific didn't do that, just had a brief intro of the characters deciding to go to war (TRAGICALLY cutting the bit in Leckie's book where he introduces himself in the first paragraph as limping due to a USMC-mandated circumcision), then skips forward to combat and two episodes of yelling in the dark, where no one can tell who anyone is. It takes multiple watches of that show to get a sense of the characters, but then again the structure is... creative. And many people complained about that! (I'm sure at the time too.)
And the Bloody 100th had a HILARIOUSLY cursed time at training too, at one point they were trying to do a cross country flight from Nebraska to California, and one of the forts ended up in Tennessee!
Plus Marge (the blonde from the first episode) and Cleven were actually childhood sweethearts who met up again while he was training in Texas, which is kind of a sweet story, if they had to include her.