DJariya

Synopsis:



Next week is the series finale.

whoopdido

Haven't watched the episode yet, but the synopsis mentions Shelton. Who's that? Snafu?

MrX

Yep

Decent episode, but it was pretty much more of the same. Sledge and Snafu fighting with a bunch of people who we have no clue of who they are.

I can only imagine how big a train wreck next week is going to be when they try and wrap up the three stories.

Mopower

I knew who they were. If you pay attention you know who they are. Peck and Hamm were obviously fresh soldiers that came on after Iwo Jima. They even explained it.

DaveNinja

2 of the stories are already wrapped up.

i'm going to re-read Sledge's book. it will probably work well with the show.

Dave99

Another "more of the same" episode. At this point, the only interesting character is snafu. I think they focused on all the action and special effects, and forgot how to create a story.

covenant

They should of just did a series on Sledge and called it With The Old Breed.
Then we'd have a core group of people we could follow from episode to episode and actually have some emotional investment in what happens to them.

Chew

Will there be a "We Stand Alone Together"-type documentary in two weeks like BoB did?

dino88

One thing that confused me:
Were the 2 new soldiers the same 2 that Basilone trained?

Sorry, but all white people look alike to me.

MrX

No

wishbone

No, I think those were the marines Basilone told to hold their position no matter what while he went for ammo at the end of the Iwo Jima episode.

McHawkson

If you remember Basilone trained two guys in heavy machine gun and Sledge is in mortar squad. So it's not them.

dino88

That's right. I completely forgot that we saw them in battle at the end of last week's episode. I just wasn't sure if we were supposed to know these 2 previously or not. Thanks guys.

Big Worms

Such an intense episode! This series has had some fantastic action! The sound is some of the best I have heard for a War movie! Can't wait for this to come out on Blu-Ray!

wmansir

This was easily the best episode, perhaps the only one, to bring the soldiers around the main character of the story to life. It's amazing how much better a series can be when they spend the time to give each doughy white boy some individualism and personality. The FX and fighting were also the best to date, although I think they could have done a better job dressing the set. This show is absolutely horrible when it comes to conveying the passage of time but I got the impression we were witnessing weeks, if not months, of the unit under battle conditions and yet they seemed to be fighting over the the same little valley the whole time.

If this series were doing better I might view this episode in a more favorable light, but I'm still just seeing a bunch of war cliches. The series doesn't say anything new and I could forgive that if they were doing an authentic portrayal of real events, cliches have to come from somewhere after all, but they aren't even doing that.

For example, the scene with Sledge and the dying woman felt very Hollywood, and a little research shows that's exactly what it was. In his book Sledge doesn't shoot her, but he doesn't hug her while she dies either. He does the thing I was mentally yelling at him to do the whole time, he fetches a corpsman. While he is gone another soldier shoots her and then gets his ass chewed out by an NCO for doing it. That sequence sounds a lot more authentic than what we were shown. Then the writers created the scene with the young kid (soldier?) Sledge doesn't shoot and the marines yucking it up when they kill him.

Also, I don't know if it's from the book or not, but it seemed odd for Sledge to have a carbine, a Thompson and a revolver, considering he was a mortar man.

Red Dog

I have the same impression of this series. The only guy I can tell apart (except for the 3 'central' characters) from the rest is the guy who looks like a psycho.

I've already forgotten where they left off with Leckie.

wmansir

Leckie was wounded at Peleliu trying to find a corpsman for his buddy. Episode 6 ended with him and the buddy on the deck of a hospital ship, sailing away from Peleliu, presumably out of the war.

Red Dog

That's right. Thanks.

wishbone

Leckie and Runner, aka "Peaches" and "Old Faithful." Leckie asked about "Hoosier" below deck.

DaveNinja

When did he have the thompson? I assumed they gave the mortar crew carbines since they had to carry extra stuff. did he shoot a thompson after he fell in the muck with the corpse and his carbine was gunked up?

wmansir

He had a Thompson in the end sequence as they were mopping up the bunkers and the scenes in the hut and with the boy/soldier.

Here's what someone posted over at IMDB