The Pacific

So I just finished the DVD set of the HBO miniseries, The Pacific. I've been looking forward to this one for awhile, as I was a huge fan of Band of Brothers. The Pacific covers the marines fighting in the South Pacific. The locations range from Guadalcanal to Iwo Jima to Okinawa. As well as an episode depicting leave and training in Australia. The miniseries differs with Band of Brothers in that it seems to drift in the characters it follows and also focuses much more on the psychological tribulations endured by the marines fighting a stubborn unrelenting enemy in the hot fetid environs of the pacific tropics. You feel apathetic for the marines as they endure horrors of the war and then on leave or after the fighting is over have to try to outlive the horrors they remember. The marines were fighting in the Pacific in 41'. That's a full 3 years before the U.S. entered into the European theater, the fighting was drawn out, toilsome, and costly. Watching this show, I feel that it did about as good as TV series can do in depicting the actions of the war in the Pacific. I will gladly keep this in my collection right up there with Band of Brothers.

"You can't dwell on it. You can't dwell on any of it."