'Kay, right. I've got to admit, Day of Days is not one of my favourite episodes. It's not that it's bad, as such - I think it's just that it's so relentless and chaotic there's not much time for the little character moments that really stick with me, apart from a few great moments at the end. Not to mention that if Currahee was confusing the first time round, this one's even worse for everyone turning into one big smeary khaki blur
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*waves* Hi! I'm delurking (I have a real comment to put up later, I promise!) to note the '10 okay' thing. There would definitely be more than ten guys on the plane--I counted fourteen in the first set of shots, although I don't know if I spotted everyone. Maybe they just thought that all that counting would bore people?
Ok, first off: This is one of my favorite episodes. I think it's mostly because there's a nicely done battle scene, and (aside from Hall) there aren't any deaths of anyone we know and not many bad injuries (except for Popeye's, but he comes back so it's all good). This is a hard episode to write "things I noticed" for though, because most of the time, you can't tell which characters are which due to lighting or camera action. But I'll do my best. Anyway, things I noticed
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Do we see Harry in this episode? We hear Winters saying his name, but I looked for Harry and couldn't find him.
Someone calls "Hey, Harry!", but this is an entirely Harryless episode. And trust me, I've looked. In real life he didn't meet up with Easy until after the stuff at Brecourt Manor had happened, and didn't do any fighting afterwards (as far as I can gather), so it's just that he doesn't fit into the plotline they'd wanted for this episode.
I love Buck's surprise at Popeye's shot to the arse, and Winters' little pat on the shoulder. Both great moments. And Speirs' arrival is just classic. He's so over the top in this episode - not in his acting, as such, just his sheer ridiculous aggressiveness. This is where they start establishing the legend before we get to meet the real guy.
I wasn't around for the previous rewatch, and I apologize if any of these are repeats. This is one of my favorite episodes (although I'm not entirely sure what I would point out as an episode that isn't a favorite), so this is actually a mix of things that I think are interesting and moments that I only noticed this time through
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Hi! Your name looked familiar and I finally figured it out. I hang out in the C6D fandom sometimes, as mary_the_fan. (Not a secret identity; I just have a bit of an icon addiction *g* so I have two accounts.) So I've probably seen you on some DS discussions or something.
I can understand the icon addiction; I keep having to rearrange things and rotate them, because there are never enough spaces. And yeah, I've seen you around over there!
I was just talking to some local fans tonight about how strange it is to start over in a new fandom, and how I'm really bad at it. They sort of laughed at me, but I think I'm nervous in part because this fandom seems so close-knit. And because people say really interesting things in the posts I've seen so far, and I feel like I'll be repeating stuff that's obvious to everyone who's been around more than three weeks.
Still, I shall persevere and maybe even get to the point of writing fic. Eventually. *g*
Day of Days is notable for me because that moment where the planes come out of the clouds and you can suddenly see everything is one of the most stunning things I've ever seen on film. I remember watching back when it first aired. The episode started with that, and ended with Nix and Winters and I just wanted to tell everyone I knew "You have to watch this!"
And that's my other favorite scene. Winters is bummed about Hall's death and Nix is trying to make him feel better by telling him how important the map is. It sets up this cycle that I see (and love) all throughout the series. Winters goes out and does some brutal shit, then Nix finds him and checks on him and tells him what a big damn hero he is. <3
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So with the new faces and new commenters, let me ask you the question I've asked many times before of various people: in your opinion, taking into account everything in the scene and ONLY in that scene (no exterior knowledge), do you think the episode shows Malarkey witnessing Speirs shooting the prisoners? In the next episode this comes up again, but I've always thought here it's clear that he effectively sees the truth, whatever else he might say later on.
Yes. I mean, that's the way Scott Grimes plays it. His face says he's seeing something horrible and incredible. Whether that's Speirs shooting people or Speirs standing over bodies or some part of that...it's hard to say whether his view would have been obstructed at all. But I do think he sees it or part of it.
AND, we don't see him go back to the site and investigate, which he might do if he just heard shots fired and truly didn't know what had happened. He doesn't say "WTF" and take off running in Speirs' direction. He's stopped cold by whatever it is that he sees --- in that moment, he knows what he is seeing. Then he returns to the rest of the battalion.
So I don't quite understand his subsequent denial. Maybe he didn't actually see the Speirs during the moment he shot the prisoners. (I don't remember whether there were sounds of gunfire as Malarkey looked back or only before he looked back.) Maybe if he saw only the aftermath he could tell the others that he didn't see what happened and not feel like he was lying.
I went on for a bit about how Winters' little talk to Hall, after they landed, is awesome in about seven different ways. It's such a nice bit of character enhancement for Winters.
I just finished skimming back through your rewatch, and I meant to comment on that--it's a fantastic way to set him up as a commander, rather than an XO, and I think that's the scene that really made me love Winters as a character--because he gets to be human, and be saying exactly the right thing, too.
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Hall has his gun cocked and ready to protect his Lieutenant as they're creeping through the trees.
Skip breaks his cricket on the plane ride over and looks really guilty about it. He also nearly gets hit by shrapnel as they're lining up to jump.
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Cricket: *BREAKS*
Skip: *glances around* did I do that?
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Someone calls "Hey, Harry!", but this is an entirely Harryless episode. And trust me, I've looked. In real life he didn't meet up with Easy until after the stuff at Brecourt Manor had happened, and didn't do any fighting afterwards (as far as I can gather), so it's just that he doesn't fit into the plotline they'd wanted for this episode.
I love Buck's surprise at Popeye's shot to the arse, and Winters' little pat on the shoulder. Both great moments.
And Speirs' arrival is just classic. He's so over the top in this episode - not in his acting, as such, just his sheer ridiculous aggressiveness. This is where they start establishing the legend before we get to meet the real guy.
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I was just talking to some local fans tonight about how strange it is to start over in a new fandom, and how I'm really bad at it. They sort of laughed at me, but I think I'm nervous in part because this fandom seems so close-knit. And because people say really interesting things in the posts I've seen so far, and I feel like I'll be repeating stuff that's obvious to everyone who's been around more than three weeks.
Still, I shall persevere and maybe even get to the point of writing fic. Eventually. *g*
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We now return the thread to its original purpose. Sorry. :-D
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And that's my other favorite scene. Winters is bummed about Hall's death and Nix is trying to make him feel better by telling him how important the map is. It sets up this cycle that I see (and love) all throughout the series. Winters goes out and does some brutal shit, then Nix finds him and checks on him and tells him what a big damn hero he is. <3 ( ... )
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AND, we don't see him go back to the site and investigate, which he might do if he just heard shots fired and truly didn't know what had happened. He doesn't say "WTF" and take off running in Speirs' direction. He's stopped cold by whatever it is that he sees --- in that moment, he knows what he is seeing. Then he returns to the rest of the battalion.
So I don't quite understand his subsequent denial. Maybe he didn't actually see the Speirs during the moment he shot the prisoners. (I don't remember whether there were sounds of gunfire as Malarkey looked back or only before he looked back.) Maybe if he saw only the aftermath he could tell the others that he didn't see what happened and not feel like he was lying.
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I just finished skimming back through your rewatch, and I meant to comment on that--it's a fantastic way to set him up as a commander, rather than an XO, and I think that's the scene that really made me love Winters as a character--because he gets to be human, and be saying exactly the right thing, too.
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