[fr_freak]

I didn’t like “The Pacific”. It wasn’t nearly the caliber of “Band of Brothers”. In “The Pacific”, it seemed like we were getting Hollywood’s Vietnam treatment of our guys, where the Marines were shown as either having mental troubles or as ruthless killers, without the brutality of the Japaneses really being shown. On top of that, the show was mostly boring. There were maybe two battles in a multi-part series about island-hopping, ferchrissake.

[edpc]

I concur.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Agreed. Using “Band of Brothers” production, effects writing and human interactions as a starting point “The Pacific” could have been so much more.

[qam1]

I didn’t like “The Pacific”. It wasn’t nearly the caliber of “Band of Brothers”. In “The Pacific”, it seemed like we were getting Hollywood’s Vietnam treatment of our guys, where the Marines were shown as either having mental troubles or as ruthless killers,

Unfortunately there's a lot of that in Band of Brothers also. The whole last episode where the once heroic soldiers all turn into drunken, violent thieves and thugs that went around terrorizing the countryside. Plus the portrayals of Lieutenants Sobel and Dyke were just so over the top that it's just ridiculous.