Australian 🇦🇺 Watches THE PACIFIC s1ep10 for the FIRST TIME 'Home' Reaction!
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2024
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Hi, my name is Elie Moses and I am a 24 Year-Old Law and Film student here in Sydney, Australia. I have decided to watch what is considered one of the greatest and highest rated war TV SHOW's of all time 'THE PACIFIC' for the FIRST TIME!! This show is created by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks and is a follow up to Band of Brothers! Here is my reaction to episode 10 of season 1. A HEART BREAKING AND BEAUTIFUL EPISODE!
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First time watching the pacific (reaction)
The way most people interpret Snafu not saying goodbye is him not wanting to disturb Sledge's sleep. Just a good night's sleep would've been a commodity back in the pacific, and Snafu respected that.
There is an automatic nostalgia with Band Of Brothers. And it begins with the color gradient they used. It was like looking at those old pictures. The score was epic and the places we were already familiar with. That's why the BOB stands out. There's a lot about The Pacific that most Americans were not used to. First, they are Marines...not soldiers. Their terminology was different as well as their uniforms. The names of the battles were not as recognizable nor were the ways in which the enemy fought. And the environment in Europe compared to the Islands in the Pacific cannot be more stark. Jungle warfare is absolutely hell on earth. It's unimaginable to many of us today as we sit on our sofa or in our big soft lazy boy chairs in our air-conditioned or heated homes as we follow these characters along 10 episodes. I am an Army veteran of 8 years and I wholeheartedly respect what our grandfather's did during WWII...especially the Marines in the Pacific.
"Im not crying.. you are" me neither.
A truly magnificent movie about men coming home and struggling to fit in with post-war America was "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946). It was quite contemporary. Brilliant everything. It won 7 Academy Awards.
Fun fact, Eugene never hunted again. His dad got him into bird watching, which was a hobby of his for the rest of his life.
I like that moment between the cabbie and Leckie where you see the veterans of Europe and the Pacific coming back together in the states and the respect between them despite fighting half a world apart. Especially the army acknowledging how hard the marines had it.
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More than anything, what helped my father-in-law get past his experience in the war was the woman he married and the family he supported. He raised 3 children. I believe this was the best therapy for àll soldiers returning from war.
Actually Sid Phillips told a funny story about his Australian girlfriend from the Melbourne episode. I think her name was actually Shirley and they had a strictly platonic relationship unlike what is shown in the series. Years later Sid's wife called him at work to tell him that Shirley was visiting the states with her family (she married an Australian Spitfire pilot). Sid was confused and said Shirley who? To which his wife replied you know... Shirley. So they stayed in Mobile and in that time Shirley's son fell in love with Sid's daughter and eventually they both got married. So Sid and Shirley ended up sharing grandchildren after all.
I believe one of the things that helped the men returning from WW2 was the fact they returned in units. The soldiers that returned from Vietnam came back one at a time, a support system just wasn't there.😢
This episode is just so tragic. You can see on Eugene’s face and through his actions how much he is struggling being back. Always thinking about the events he went through over the past year, never being comfortable in his own skin. Something thousands of Marines struggled with when they came home.
Sledge's book is considered one of the greatest combat memoirs ever written. He wrote China Marine about his time in China after the war. Masters Of The Air is based on the great book of the same name by Donald Miller. It is excellent and the tone is more like The Pacific. I would strongly recommend it. I enjoy your commentary as it is genuine and designed for anything. As a young person you have a good understanding of this time and history.
KILLED IT BRO.
Those were Leckie's parents. He mentioned them briefly in the Melbourne episode. Talked about how he was the youngest of many children and how they have lost a few kids and his dad was crippled in the head because of it. Like when his dad was so awkward dropping him off in the beginning. Emotionally closed off to him to avoid the pain he already had to endure. My guess is they just already accepted he was going to die, didn't expect him to be back and used his room as storage.. I hate to break it to you but Stella wasn't real. That love story was just added to the show. Didn't actually happen in real life haha
"Greyhound" WWII movie with Tom Hanks.
The show does Leckie some favors. From his book, he was a more chaotic and roguish person than his onscreen counterpart, but still very determined and strong. Whereas Sledge gets underplayed by the show. He wrote his book more methodically, so gives a deeper sense of the exact experiences.
Those are leckies real parents and to explain their relationship before the war one of his bothers passed away and his farther never seemed to recover. Seems alot of people miss this, but i believe one of the reason SNAFU doesnt wake up sledge is in the words of one veteran “the Japanese killed sleep” so to see him peacefully sleeping probably for the last time he decided to let him rest in peace.
Masters of the Air is definitely worth the watch
the part where the family is saying prayers during dinner. bob was looking at vera essentially saying "i fought to get back home to you"
Definitely do Masters of the Air! You will love it!