HBO confirmed yesterday that it has green lighted a 3rd WWII mini-series co-executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks centered around the 8th Air Force. The project will use at its source material historian Donald L. Miller’s nonfiction tome Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany. Great News! http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/hbo-developing-third-wwii-miniseries-413632
Wow...didn't think it was that bad. Certainly not as good as "Band of Brothers", but I thought some of the battle sequences on Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa were incredible.
I quit the Pacific after two episodes, none of the people in that series had the charisma of Winters and Spears for it to be watchable. They should just do another Band of Brothers series following a different group. But I'll take the consolation prize of maybe getting to see some good dogfights in this new series.
Thats a shame. The last 3-4 episodes were far and away the best of the series. Can't help but agree about Winters and Spears. Also, to me the European Theatre is much more compelling for some reason. Don't know why.
You really need to study the history of WWII more apparently if that's what you think the Pacific was.
I really liked The Pacific, but it simply had too much to live up to. I personally believe that Band of Brothers is the best TV show ever created.
I actually really liked the Pacific. The last few episodes were great. I didn't care for the first couple, though.
Jeezzz, I didn't know The Pacific was considered such a bad series. I thought it was just a few notches below BOB but still compelling and ultimately heartbreaking in a sense.
Band of Brothers was produced from a single book from which its name came from. The Pacific was taken from two books and a tie in book was written. The series was all over the place. Outside of the action scenes, the series was quite dull. The European Theater is certainly romanticized from the western side. The epitome of the modern world was conquering and destroying each other. A clear "bad" guy was portrayed and it was a fight to over come evil. While the pacific was probably more brutal, the appearance was most of the fighting was over water and uninhabited islands. The massacres in China are often overlooked and ignored.
European Theater was more important to the fate of the World, imo. And they didn't have 2 atomic bombs ready to win that conflict either.
Spot on. The battle for the Pacific was really the battle for the world, while Europe was really the battle for Europe. If the Axis would have defeated China we could have easily lost the war. Japan attacking China and the German's attacking Russia are just as integral to why we won the war as our brave soldiers. The Axis bit off more than they could chew, and stretching thin for remote islands in the Pacific didn't help them.
You do realize that the war in Europe ended from April-May 1945, and we dropped the bombs on Japan in August 1945, right? We had plenty of bombs to go around had Hitler not taken the coward's way out. At that time, whomever controlled the oceans controlled the world thanks to aircraft carriers... and there was no piece of real-estate more important than the Pacific ocean. If you have the Pacific, you have a clear lane in to the Indian. This is a reason a country as small as Japan wreaked all the havoc they did, they had naval superiority. No, like Space Ghost mentioned... it was for actual cities and countries they were fighting for. Most of the battles in the Pacific were over water or deserted islands. The fighting in Europe effected more people, so there is more history and more stories to be retold. Also, the two Allied countries that lost the most lives during the pacific theater also became our enemies shortly thereafter due to communist rule, China and Russia.
To be honest, I do know some of why I find the European Theatre more compelling as my own father fought in that war. He was a replacement in the 82nd Airborne in the fall of 1944 and participated in the Battle of the Bulge. Later he transfered to the 17th airborne and participated in Operation Varsity in a gliderborne drop. On my bucket list, I have a trip to Europe planned one day to see where he fought.
Not really. The Germans never stood a chance from the beginning. They only conquered nations that either had no significant military force or those who were extremely passive. It was the German commanders who made the difference. As long as Hitler was in power, they would never make any real significant progress. Once their airforce was destroyed, German was defeated. It was mostly about ending the war after that. Japan was ready to surrender even before the atomic bombs, but not to the Allies demands. The Allies learned from their mistakes from WWI and required an unconditional surrender. If Japan never fought us, the Asian war would have been going on for a long time.
