Band of Brothers or The Pacific

I just watched all of Brothers last week and have two episodes to go on Pacific.

Definitely BoB. The character arcs are longer and more fully developed, and the battles are shot more coherently. However, Pacific is still pretty kino.

>almost no naval shit in the Pacific theater

>The Pacific as it is more honest with how fucked war is in general

Is it? Other than the scene where the guy is tossing stones into a jap brain soup, the brutality seemed pretty equal to me.

Weren’t these shows proven to be total fabrications and none of this never actually happened?

Neither are very good but The Pacific is a better depiction of war and also not just straight propaganda

>the brutality seemed pretty equal to me.

It's not really about the gore, it's about the conditions of the actual fighting and environment. The pacific theater of the war was a different kind of hell due to the autism of the fanatical Japanese soldiers, the bug and disease ridden island hopping experience, the jungle guerilla warfare that the soldiers were not trained for at all, logistics issues causing lack of hygiene and food, etc. Americans killing already defeated nazis in developed mainland Europe was comfy in comparison

The Pacific is constantly miserable while BoB (while miserable amd horrid at points) still looks through "idolization goggles". BoB was made to celebrate the men who fought ww2, The Pacific is meant to show how fucking awful it was.
That is basically how Bruce summed it all up. I rewatched The Pacific with my dad over the last few days and visually it is different. The Pacific is more real with its color (unfortunately the cinematography over is bland, so many pointless dolly shots) while BoB always has the almost nostalgia filter thing going on.

Band of Brothers has Baseball, so the choice is obvious. Everything's more kino with baseball, I have no idea why.

Considering both are based off of dozens (each) of interviews and books (composed of dozens of other interviews and memoirs) I'm going to go with no, and that who ever stated that is full of shit.

I wanted more navy stuff with The Pacific, but that isn't what it was about...

>He had fans of BoB write him about how much they loved the show and how it inspired them to enlist.
You simply can't base your world on these kinds of people. I've had two different guys tell me that Starship Troopers was their favourite movie and the reason they signed up as soon as they were old enough. Some people are just meant for the meatgrinder.

Bruce talked about that. Episode 2 was supposed to be Midway but it was cut in pre-prod cause the minimum budget for the episode would have been $50-70 million alone

Bummer. I really liked seeing some of the battles of Ironbottom Sound, after that I expected them to include some parts of the Battle of the Philippines Sea such as Surigao Strait or the Battle off Samar.

>watch pacific
>marines go on leave every episode and cuck the aussies
>"but its more brutal!"
>turn it off

That's how it was

Chernobyl, Olive Kitteridge, The Night Of, Mildred Pierce & My Brilliant Friend are the superior HBO miniseries kinos

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Watched BoB 3 times or so, the first when i was 14 or so. Started The Pacific but never finished it.

Actually band of brothers is pretty damn accurate. Pretty sure theres interviews or a documentary of the real people that basically say the exact same thing as the tv show lol

The Pacific was awful overall.

Band of Brothers told the story of a military unit. The Pacific told three unconnected stories to try to make it work but it didn't.

And it also had too many filler episodes from 'this guy pisses himself and spends the nights with PTSD victims' and 'let's have fun in Australia.'

I also remembered they played up the filler episode in Oz as the biggest event ever in Australia.

>almost no
The original Pacific book included a viewpoint character who was in a USMC Aviation unit and he fought in Midway. I wonder why they cut they cut it out.

no, it wasn’t

/thread, yet thread continues.

Veteran Paratrooper here, you are making shit up.
BoB reminded me why I wanted to jump out of airplanes behind enemy lines in the first place.

both are terrible american re-writes of history.

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And since it's not a video game, a better story is the only thing that matters.

>Chernobyl
>The Night Of

Interesting to note that both of these only have -1- good episode.

I'm actually rewatching Pacific right now. WHile it's somewhat better than I remember (the actual island landings/jungle combat), the filler stuff, Aussie cucking, and general uneven tone makes it feel very disjointed. Also, the opening credits and recaps really pad each episode too much.
The veteran interviews were cool enough, but BoB had that too.
BoB is superior in every category that isn't equaled by Pacific.

It really does get better every time I read it. Truly some of the best writing of our time.

Congrats on your duck user. Do you have anymore pics?

Also I loved how hilariously brutal the pacific was. Japs just tripping over mounds of their dying brothers, all while getting machine gunned to pieces. The scene with the civvies were crazy violent and disturbing too; everything that moved was a valid target.

Story, characters, historical consistency (yes I'm aware of a few miscreants), overall thematics, BoB is superior in these terms but I would recommend at least giving the Pacific a watch.

In terms of action scenes The Pacific had higher peaks, but Band of Brothers was better on average.
In terms of story Band of Brothers had higher peaks and average.
Both are good though.

BoB follows closely a company from June 1944 to April 1945 in 10 episodes.

The Pacific follows loosely 3 main characters at different times who rarely if at all are in the same area at the same time, and it follows them from December 1941 to August 1945, in a theater that frankly the common public isn't familiar with, in the same amount of episodes.

They are extremely different but because they have to be, the ETO and PTO were not the same.

The Pacific

They're both amazing.

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please implore us on what actual, historically occurred in the case of the 506th Infantry Regiment's activity during the Second World War euronigger.

the pacifics opening is pure kino

Also another reason most people prefer BoB, is that even though they were the enemy, there's a romanticized version of the Germans, playing soccer on Christmas, being friendly with PoWs, they were equals, they were white, they were just like us, ect.

Where as the mindless killing machines known as the Japs, who literally ate alive PoWs and beheaded their enemies much like our current modern day Muslim threat, is off putting and not something the average pleb wants to confront for entertainment.

I wonder what the vets would say to Sarah Yeong.

which series had premature ejactulation? because that's the bad one.

>forgets the concentration camp
>forgets spiers mowing down 50 g*rmoid prisoners

bob is certainly more easy to consume. i showed it to my gf but would never try to get her to watch the pacific

>BoB
Jewish propaganda

>The Pacific
Honest tale of brotherhood, comradeship and war is hell tier themes.

>forgets the scene showing the American German being friendly with Easy Company
>forgets the scene where Winters shoots a wide eyed German teen.

Also you weren't supposed to root for Spiers when he shot the unarmed PoWs...

I dunno but how good is Speirs. What a chad.

Im amazed the actor didnt get any more roles after that. He did play a total bitch in U-571 though.

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Which show has Speirs? Oh, it's BoB. So I think i'm gonna stay with BoB.

its not about rooting retard. point is both series had war is heck and humanizing the enemy scenes

Do you know what the safest location an allied pilot could bail out over enemy territory in the ETO was? German airfields. Because fellow pilots would treat them with respect. There was a P-51 pilot who spent the last 6 months of the war as a 'prisoner' drinking German beer and hanging out with German pilots because he was shot down near an airfield in western Germany.

Allied pilots who were shot down over Japanese territory were considered lucky not to be set on fire and burned alive.

Don't confuse lower accessibility with quality, pseuds.

t. soiboy who can't handle the sight of his anime overlords being killed by Americans

BoB is great but it's also Greatest Generation Porn,

Pacific is superior because it's more "Horrors of War" reality.

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BoB every fucking time, what sort of question is this?

I guess idiots like you miss the whole fucking point of band of BROTHERS you fucking idiot

I never saw Pacific, but didn't it have a lot of juxapositions back to the homefront and romance nonsense? I guess having that juxtaposed with horrid violence is good but I remember watching The Unit at that time which did the same thing (minus the violence) and having to watch those dependapotamuses made my eyes bleed. For some reason at the time I had heard The Pacific had a lot of that cutbacks to civilian life and I'm not interested in a lot of bimbo thots prattling around as seems to imply.

>I guess idiots like you miss the whole fucking point of band of BROTHERS you fucking idiot
Being this angry and triggered.

I read the book 3 times kid. I get the point.

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Episode 8 of BoB turned out to be made up but the rest was accurate