This is your (belated; I'm actually wondering if we should switch to a monthly posting schedule and call it a win) general discussion post for Episode Nine, "Why We Fight". Remember, this post is UNLOCKED.
D'oh! I was hoping this post wouldn't be until February. I hope no one's looking particularly forward to the Crack Post until February because I have dial up right now and 2 hrs downloading per cap batch is not time I want to spend. :P
It's really just any images that I look at and literally LOL. Which, in an episode about alcoholism and the Holocaust, would just reinforce my ticket to hell.
Ooh, how unsettling, I've literally only just finished watching this episode. (I decided to finish off the rewatch myself so I can watch Points tomorrow for Dick Winters' birthday.)
Wasn't taking notes, but... usually, this episode is so sad I move straight on to Points and don't let in sink in, but today, not doing that, it got me even more than usual. Nothing I can say that's new, or anything, just the usual ponderings on man's inhumanity to man.
Also - this episode is beautifully directed. The framing device of the string quartet is one of my favourite images from the entire series.
Oh, and one thing, I was kind of amused by the little touch of the commander's wife's dog barking at Nixon, as a callback to how pissed off he was about losing his own dog.
Just a shame they screwed up the dates. The opener says they're in the bombed-out city on the 11th April, and FDR's death is mentioned in flashback, but he died on the 12th. How'd they miss that one?
I rewatch this episode less than the others, it is such a hard watch, especially Leibgott in the camp. The part where two men (Luz and Bull?) enter one of the huts also gets me every time - the scene inside is so like pictures from the real liberation of Belsen. I saw an Imperial War Musuem exhibition commemorating the liberation of Belsen years ago, and that scene brings back so many details and images, very disturbing
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I felt Webster's 'meltdown scene' before and after finding out about the camp was all about himself and his rage. Liebgott's breakdown felt more real. But I liked how Webster turned into anger while Liebgott broke down and cried.
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(We should chat over email, actually, about plans and such for the comm. I'm at work, but I'll send something your way after I get home tonight.)
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Wasn't taking notes, but... usually, this episode is so sad I move straight on to Points and don't let in sink in, but today, not doing that, it got me even more than usual. Nothing I can say that's new, or anything, just the usual ponderings on man's inhumanity to man.
Also - this episode is beautifully directed. The framing device of the string quartet is one of my favourite images from the entire series.
Oh, and one thing, I was kind of amused by the little touch of the commander's wife's dog barking at Nixon, as a callback to how pissed off he was about losing his own dog.
Just a shame they screwed up the dates. The opener says they're in the bombed-out city on the 11th April, and FDR's death is mentioned in flashback, but he died on the 12th. How'd they miss that one?
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Good question, to put in the same list as the one concerning Blithe.
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