'Kay, right, bundle of stuff I noticed/wondered about:
- So Dick traded a pair of Lugers for that photo album. Where'd he get the Lugers? I never thought of him as the sort of guy who'd go looting dead bodies. (Then again, maybe they were just left lying around in Berchtesgaden and Austria, or he got them from surrendering men. Even so. He didn't seem the type to collect guns.) - Speirs has a hell of a character arc. When we first meet him he's just a killing machine; by Points, he's an excitable little kid who wants to run up the mountain and grab all the goodies. (I love that he sees a dead guy in the Eagle's Nest and, completely unfazed, lifts him up and swipes his gun.) Oh, and now I remember, another thing too - he might be a dead-eyed nihilist in Carentan, but now he's the sort of man who'll hold his sergeant's hand when he's in danger. - When the first bunch of guys head up to the Eagle's Nest, one of them randomly tackle-hugs Malarkey. - This isn't new, but god, I love the sheer mass of mutual respect you can feel in the scene between Winters and Shifty. Ditto, of course, the huge amount of gleeful friendship in the balcony scene. - As Liebgott and his buddies head up to the commandant's house, Liebgott says something about being 'under direct orders'. From who? Surely he can't have been told to actually hunt a guy down and kill him; were they meant to arrest him as a POW? - When More's bullshitting Speirs about the photo album, you can hear the sound of the guys doing calisthenics outside.
Oh, and one thing: anyone got any resources about how the points system actually worked? I was just wondering what different actions earned you what. Presumably it's something to do with combat experience and medals earned.
And that's that. This episode gets me every time. It's a strange mix of the happy and the tragic, with bits that get a bit more ominous as you become more familiar with it all - at first I didn't really pick up on the importance of how Tab finally shows signs of cracking in this episode. But ah, the happy bits are so excellent. Fun, and sunshine, and Harry Welsh giggling like a schoolgirl at stashing cutlery into his hat. Beautiful.
- Maybe from all the firearms that got stacked at the hotel and the church and the airfield. Loot!
- I think that was Grant? It's a Grant-y episode.
- I think Speirs gave an order. It was like, one of the refugees tagging along had fingered this guy as a work camp commandant, Speirs ordered Liebgott & Sisk and Moone Webster to take him in for questioning, and it all spiraled down into a clusterfrakk. Not that I don't believe Liebgott had only innocent motives as he strode up that mountain. The long while they sat there staring, he had hardened his heart against whoever lived there.
- So Dick traded a pair of Lugers for that photo album. Where'd he get the Lugers? I never thought of him as the sort of guy who'd go looting dead bodies. (Then again, maybe they were just left lying around in Berchtesgaden and Austria, or he got them from surrendering men. Even so. He didn't seem the type to collect guns.)
- Speirs has a hell of a character arc. When we first meet him he's just a killing machine; by Points, he's an excitable little kid who wants to run up the mountain and grab all the goodies. (I love that he sees a dead guy in the Eagle's Nest and, completely unfazed, lifts him up and swipes his gun.) Oh, and now I remember, another thing too - he might be a dead-eyed nihilist in Carentan, but now he's the sort of man who'll hold his sergeant's hand when he's in danger.
- When the first bunch of guys head up to the Eagle's Nest, one of them randomly tackle-hugs Malarkey.
- This isn't new, but god, I love the sheer mass of mutual respect you can feel in the scene between Winters and Shifty. Ditto, of course, the huge amount of gleeful friendship in the balcony scene.
- As Liebgott and his buddies head up to the commandant's house, Liebgott says something about being 'under direct orders'. From who? Surely he can't have been told to actually hunt a guy down and kill him; were they meant to arrest him as a POW?
- When More's bullshitting Speirs about the photo album, you can hear the sound of the guys doing calisthenics outside.
Oh, and one thing: anyone got any resources about how the points system actually worked? I was just wondering what different actions earned you what. Presumably it's something to do with combat experience and medals earned.
And that's that. This episode gets me every time. It's a strange mix of the happy and the tragic, with bits that get a bit more ominous as you become more familiar with it all - at first I didn't really pick up on the importance of how Tab finally shows signs of cracking in this episode. But ah, the happy bits are so excellent. Fun, and sunshine, and Harry Welsh giggling like a schoolgirl at stashing cutlery into his hat. Beautiful.
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- I think that was Grant? It's a Grant-y episode.
- I think Speirs gave an order. It was like, one of the refugees tagging along had fingered this guy as a work camp commandant, Speirs ordered Liebgott & Sisk and Moone Webster to take him in for questioning, and it all spiraled down into a clusterfrakk. Not that I don't believe Liebgott had only innocent motives as he strode up that mountain. The long while they sat there staring, he had hardened his heart against whoever lived there.
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