The Pacific Part Nine 'Okinawa' Full TV Reaction!!
Added 2021-06-23 00:47:05 +0000 UTC
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Thank you, Nathan! We appreciate you watching along with us! Chernobyl is coming this week! We are actually about to sit down and watch it :) Thanks for the other recommendations! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2021-07-03 22:37:33 +0000 UTCThank you, Catherine! I completely agree! We hope you enjoyed the series, thanks for coming along on the ride with us! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2021-07-03 22:36:10 +0000 UTCOh boy, I'd certainly vote for Generation Kill, Chernobyl, and The Newsroom. Great choices!
Uncle 'Traveling' Matt
2021-06-23 10:46:38 +0000 UTCThat was a tough one, but great reaction as usual. I appreciate that you guys love this series as much as Band of Brothers. I see a lot of people that dislike/do not like this series as much as BoB. I think a big factor is the nature of the war in the Pacific and also the Eastern Front (Germany vs Russia), which is that no quarter was given by both sides. The brutality of the fighting is the lens that shapes the participants/viewers view of the war. Can't wait for the finale. I don't know what you guys have planned for after The Pacific, but I suggest (hint, hint) to stay on the HBO train and go with Generation Kill, Chernobyl, John Adams, and The Newsroom. Thanks!
no taeyoung
2021-06-23 03:38:49 +0000 UTCGreat reaction, guys. I reached for the Kleenex at the same time Sam did. This is the hardest episode for me, because of the suffering of civilians, especially children. The Okinawans were considered ethnically “inferior” to the Japanese and they were used in horrible ways, giving the US a taste of what awaited if we invaded Japan. The Japanese government estimated 20 million casualties among their own people if we invaded. They were training women and children to be suicide attackers. They also conscripted young Okinawan boys to fight, which is what I think that unarmed boy was. The old, dying woman was holding a baby’s toy, which made that tinkling sound. Sledge couldn’t kill her. “I didn’t come here to kill old women.” The lieutenant casually mentions the bombing of Hiroshima - I bet even he didn’t quite understand the huge repercussions of that. As they leave in their trucks, the camera pans to the sky, showing a squadron of B-29s overhead, with ominous music playing. I’m guessing they were intimating those were the planes carrying Fat Man to Nagasaki. You all mention how the big events are downplayed or cast aside by the men. That reminds me of something I read about combat having the “tyranny of the now” - you can’t think about big events because you’re forced to focus on surviving the now. I think Webster wrote about that in his book, Parachute Infantry. One last episode- looking forward to it!
Catherine LW
2021-06-23 02:44:34 +0000 UTC
