A Meta WIP Post
I started this essay which I called In Defense of The Pacific back in Jan. pretty much a week before a) I got sick b) my grandmother died on my 27th birthday c) I then had to go to said grandmother's funeral d) my sister got sick e) my sister was in the hospital for a month most of that time spent in scarily bad health status we're not going to re-
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And yeah, I never did get to the part of the essay where I talk about the show's clear and obvious weaknesses (something that happens to all three of these shows in various forms, of course). I just never felt that disjointed in the watching of it the first time, b/c I'd already read the memoirs so I was expecting the broad approach to things, but I completely get that pretty much everyone else feels that way. And I do feel like Basilone was shoe-horned in, and you don't really get to connect to him until it's through the character of Lena, and the show could've def. benefitted from at least 2 or 3 episodes more (or longer episode run times) to clear out things which get fuddled along the way.
And re: the advertising. To me, even though it's clearly the flipside of BoB in terms of production, creation, etc, idk, I just never expected it to be the exact carbon copy. I think it actually really hurt them by trying to push the selling point of being the "continuation" of BoB.
It's different, that's all.
And that was essentially the point I was trying to make. I love BoB, Gen Kill, and TP all for very different reasons. They all do some things really well, they all screw some things up, there are aspects I really can't stand about all three, but they're all different. And just b/c it's not what a person expected or wanted, doesn't mean you can dismiss it completely.
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