Originally Posted by PenisFace

The first 5 sucked. Lecky is boring and I didn't give a damn about him at all. Sledge is cool and seems likeable, so what do we get? A basilone episode that twists the shit out of history to make his death more dramatic. Real life? He was killed instantly by a mortar. I guess that wasn't dramatic enough for them.

Also on the topic of basilone, they are cruel assholes, those producers. They make this entire episode about him just to kill him off in a fictional way. If someone didn't know that basilone died, then that episode would be shitty because of how they made it. And now they think he died slowly by a bullet.

The only good part of the series has been the last 10 minutes of episode 8. The rest of the battle scenes have been stuffed full of ww2 movie cliches.

Also, if someone watching doesn't know the timeline of the Pacific theatre, they have no idea when these things are happening. The show makes it seem like Sledge joined the marines like a month after his friend, in reality, it was something like 1 1/2 years later. Even as a ww2 buff, I have a hard time figuring out what year it is, and how long ago such and such a battle was.

They should have made Basilones story a 2 hour movie, ignored lecky since he is boring and no one seems to like him (and the entire australia episode is fiction), and focused on Sledge, and isntead of trying to jam every battle into it, they should have focused on iwo jima, instead of trying to stuff every single thing into a 10 part series...

Each episode is like 50 minutes long, with like 8 minutes dedicated to credits and tom hanks blowing himself, as well as the "previously on". As a result, we get 42 minutes of show, where they try to jam in 3 different stories at once. Just doesn't work, because there is simply not enough time to cover what they are attempting to cover.


4/10. Too much shit is made up. Every battle except iwo was loaded with spielberg cliches. Episodes are way to short, and even shorter with the super long intro/previously on/tom hanks talking. Some of the stuff that happens in battle scenes makes it impossible to suspend disbelief (dropping a mortar round into a tube, and then having it explode on target a second later? Really?). Not to mention a japanese tank missing a shot from like 60 feet away.

Basically, the directors all suck, everyone except for basilone and sledge suck, the battle scenes (with the exception of iwo) suck, there is too much fiction, pacing is terrible, and no one has any idea how long anything has been happening for. Going by the show, you'd be forgiven if you thought guadalcanal took 2 days to wrap up.

I understand that it is a show about the soldiers and not just the war/battles. That would be GREAT, except only two of them are likeable, and one of the episodes is 100% fiction. And now one is gone and the other is dead, so hopefully the final 2 episodes are amazing and Sledgehammer lives up to his nickname and makes me want to cum in my pants. Otherwise, what a terrible waste of a series with great potential.

If you disagree, you are wrong. Fuck you.