Heavy Artillery

Welcome to the Generation Kill rewatch discussion post for
PART THREE: SCREWBY and PART FOUR: COMBAT JACK.
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 Three: Screwby
Spoiler free thread.
Spoiler friendly thread.

Part Four: Combat Jack
Spoiler free thread.
Spoiler friendly thread.

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

You can find discussion threads for previous episodes here:

Part One: Get Some & Part Two: The Cradle of Civilization
* Please note that if you participate in the discussion on the Discord server you may encounter spoilers.

After much futzing with scheduling, I am so pleased to announce that in April, Heavy Artillery will be hosting a rewatch of Generation Kill for old fans, new fans, and anyone who might be interested!

Starting Sunday, April 5th at 9 AM CDT*, we'll be watching two episodes each weekend, with a break for Easter weekend & Passover.

A discussion post for each episode will go live a half-hour before we start watching, with the Heavy Artillery 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 Generation Kill free to watch on Amazon Prime Video. At present there are no plans to livestream the episodes. If anyone has information about where else to watch the show, 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

Sunday, April 5
Episodes One & Two

Sunday, April 12
Break for Easter & Passover
for those who observe them.

Sunday, April 19
Episodes Three & Four

Sunday, April 26
Episodes Five & Six

Sunday, May 3
Episode Seven

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<center><img src="https://thrillingdetectivetales.dreamwidth.org/file/133714.png" style="width:500px;"> Starting <b>Sunday, April 5th</b> at <b>9 AM CST,</b> you are invited to join HBO War fandom community <user name="heavyartillery"> to watch and discuss <em>Generation Kill,</em> the HBO miniseries chronicling the invasion of Iraq by the 1st Recon Battalion, a group of elite U.S. Marines, as part of the opening gambit of the Iraq War. We hope to see you there! <small><u><a href="https://heavyartillery.dreamwidth.org/38806.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 Discord (thrillingdetectivetales#5966) at any time and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

I hope to see you there!

Hey guys! I'm trying to lay out the schedule for the Generation Kill rewatch, which will start at the beginning of April.

As GK has seven episodes rather than a nice neat ten, I'm waffling over how to split it up. Regardless of what day we watch, the time schedule will remain: start watching at 9 AM CST and finish up roughly two hours later. (Unless we wind up doing three episodes on the last day of the GK rewatch, in which case we'll finish up roughly three hours later.)

Let me know what day and watch order y'all would prefer!



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