Band of Brothers 1x4 | Watch Along
Added 2025-05-12 14:01:07 +0000 UTC
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Y'all must have missed right after Cobb said he wasn't going back up there, the next shot was him with the patrol going to look for Bull. He was also the one in the ditch as the tanks rolled by muttering, "Stupid, stupid." So he kinda did stand on business.
PP82
2025-06-04 08:25:47 +0000 UTCThe failure of Market Garden was especially hard on the Dutch people. The Germans had been relatively lenient in their occupation compared to a lot of other countries they occupied, but after this, they clamped down hard and confiscated as much food as they could. And the way the war unfolded, with the western Allies breaking through along the French and Belgian border instead, much of Holland wasn't liberated until the very end of the war. Many Dutch people starved over the 9 months left in the war. The Netherlands has the tallest average height in the world, but a ton of people who were kids in 1944-45 wound up being very short from malnutrition.
Ryley
2025-05-13 18:27:22 +0000 UTCYeah. Its important to remember that this is a screen adaptation of a book written by someone who wasn't there but was taking the accounts a couple dozen guys who were in one clique within Easy Company. Not to take anything away from any of those guys, but there are a few things that are questionable in their accuracy. Blithe's fate was one of them. Dike is another - dude was in a very similar situation as Compton in that he'd been wounded previously, and then wounded again in the assault on Foy.
Ryley
2025-05-13 18:21:30 +0000 UTCThis is a weird thing about Cobb in the show, he seems like a dick and a coward, but he was one of the only Easy Company members to have fought before D-Day, he fought in Operation Torch, invasion of Africa, and then joined the Airbourne after. So some of these aspects he has i believe is Ambrose misconstruing how he was perceived by the other members (Ambrose did that ALOT from everything I've read about the interviews with Easy post the book and shows release), since he had already fought in some skirmishes/battles and probably had a jaded personality after the action he saw. Also a fun and interesting fact, Buck was friends and teammates with Jackie Robinson at UCLA before both joined the war.
PurportedGrey
2025-05-12 22:39:49 +0000 UTC
