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Just finished the final two episodes and both left me all misty-eyed. The very last scene, with E company playing baseball I find to be incredibly sad and oddly uplifting. It's just a shame that a few of the men were left out of Winters' narration.

It is a show that benefits from watching a few times though. I think the first time I saw it, I was still unsure as to who certain people were halfway through the series (and it must be said, that the details and processes of ranks and military organisation still puzzles me a bit)

It's been a long time since I enjoyed watching a TV show so much, certainly in my top 3 shows. Excellent.


If you look at the wikipedia page for the town of Foy, featured in episode 7, there are some photos of the monument to Easy Company.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foy,_Belgium


And what happened to Sgt Ranney, played by Stephen Graham. He was in the first twp episodes, and was involved in the fight at Brecourt, but not after that and I don't recall seeing him die.

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Just finished the final two episodes and both left me all misty-eyed. The very last scene, with E company playing baseball I find to be incredibly sad and oddly uplifting. It's just a shame that a few of the men were left out of Winters' narration.

It is a show that benefits from watching a few times though. I think the first time I saw it, I was still unsure as to who certain people were halfway through the series (and it must be said, that the details and processes of ranks and military organisation still puzzles me a bit)

It's been a long time since I enjoyed watching a TV show so much, certainly in my top 3 shows. Excellent.


If you look at the wikipedia page for the town of Foy, featured in episode 7, there are some photos of the monument to Easy Company.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foy,_Belgium


And what happened to Sgt Ranney, played by Stephen Graham. He was in the first twp episodes, and was involved in the fight at Brecourt, but not after that and I don't recall seeing him die.

I actually visited Foy as part of a Battle of the Bulge battlefield tour two years ago. I have some pictures here for anyone who's interested:

http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/597/1313036xeapdeoq.jpg

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/4083/1313425namirn3f.jpg

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/1435/1313619ku4ohnrj.jpg

http://img580.imageshack.us/img580/603/1313730istdgs9p.jpg

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/2037/1313914cspgmnol.jpg

http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/6879/13131140x5lud2n5.jpg


The last one is overlooking the memorial to the other side of the clearing, the woods as seen in the last but one photo are behind me in that shot.

"BoB" is a fantastic series and certainly the best one I've ever seen. I have both the DVD and Blu-ray box sets (embossed)! I watched a few episodes of "The Pacific" and I couldn't quite take to it. There was one very good episode where they're enjoying some R'n'R in Australia and you see how they try to explore relationships with women, and how one lady broke it off with a marine as she didn't want her mother to be heartbroken if he was killed. But for some reason, I wasn't compelled to keep watching. I wasn't sure whether some of the sex thrown in was just there for titillation, which is kind of the norm these days.

I do think there's potential for a two/four-part adaptation of Stephen E. Ambrose's "Pegasus Bridge":



I've been to the site of Pegasus Bridge (well technically it's a replica as they removed it and rebuilt the bridge) and of course to Café Gondrée. Amazing how they landed those Horsa gliders exactly where they wanted to and pull off that attack.

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theieuan, the episode where they rest and recuperate in Australia. I guess that's more of a standalone when compared to the rest of the series? Seeing as after that one, they're off fighting in the pacific again? I thought it was quite an affecting episode as it shows how they were lonely and being far away from home meant that they could find solace for a shortwhile, before being shipped off to one of the islands again.

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The next episode after the Melbourne episode, Pavuvu, is pretty similar in terms of the emotional strain of combat and is pretty good. It looks at the conditions that the Marines have to live in and how they cope with it.

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The next episode after the Melbourne episode, Pavuvu, is pretty similar in terms of the emotional strain of combat and is pretty good. It looks at the conditions that the Marines have to live in and how they cope with it.

Personally, I'd put the Okinawa episodes right up there with the best of BoB for showing the strain and horrors of war.  There were some truly disturbing images in that one - Sledge's friend flipping stones into the bloody brain pan of a dead japanese soldier sticks in my mind!

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The Breaking Point. THE finest hour (and 9 minutes) of television drama ever committed to film.

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Is BoB worth an upgrade to BR?

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Is BoB worth an upgrade to BR?

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The Breaking Point. THE finest hour (and 9 minutes) of television drama ever committed to film.

Fixed that for you

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Is BoB worth an upgrade to BR?

I saw a noticble increase in picture detail and sound quality, and for the price it's going for these days makes it a no brainer. To be honest it's probably worth it just for the picture-in-picture video commentaries....

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I've wanted to get into this but I am reluctant as I've heard it suffers from typical American bias and most of the British characters they encounter are portrayed badly. Any truth to this?

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I've wanted to get into this but I am reluctant as I've heard it suffers from typical American bias and most of the British characters they encounter are portrayed badly. Any truth to this?

There are only a few Brit characters featured here and there and they seemed to be portrayed in a fairly decent style (Nerd-favourites Simon Pegg and Tom Hardy have blink-and-you'll-miss-it scenes too).  I mean, that doesn't bother me. It's still my favourite U.S. made TV/Mini-Series of all time.