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Hi! I´ve just found this article about new HBO WW2 series:

http://hbowatch.com/a-companion-piece-t ... -in-talks/

Even if it will be realized, it´s still years away - but I can´t wait. Both Band of Brothers and The Pacific were great (valid for almost all of HBO mini-series).
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They were both very good... I really appreciate the fact that the Marines at "canal" were realistically portrayed as only having Springfields! Not the M1s. Hal
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I really loved Band of Brothers, while good, I didn't find the Pacific very compelling. My favorite series,more of a mini-series, is Generation Kill.

Generally, I go by how re-watchable something is. I never miss BoB or Gen Kill when they're on, but I don't have much interest in watching the Pacific again.

I'm really excited that they may decide to do another WW2 series.
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Another hint from the website:

Now there has been a mention to the press of the next installment. The HBO heads dropped only one specific point about the project and that was that they think it should be about the aerial assault over the Pacific Theater. That sounds like a logical direction as the first series represented the Army; the second did the same for the Marine Corps and the third could now acknowledge the Air Force. This story could begin with airmen scrambling to deal with Pearl Harbor to escorting and deploying the payload of the Enola Gay.

Here's hoping they don't use the physics model from "Red Tails". [8|]
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HBO is certain label of quality so I believe that it will hold the BoB/Pacific standard. However, this will be different technically as air force-settled series will be full of computer graphics (same would apply for Navy-settled series which will follow, I hope [:)]). Well, let´s wait until 2020 or so and we will see [>:].
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Here's one hoping it will be more historical accurate than that movie without a name, starring that fella without male genitals...

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ORIGINAL: The Gnome

I really loved Band of Brothers, while good, I didn't find the Pacific very compelling. My favorite series,more of a mini-series, is Generation Kill.

Generally, I go by how re-watchable something is. I never miss BoB or Gen Kill when they're on, but I don't have much interest in watching the Pacific again.

I'm really excited that they may decide to do another WW2 series.


same here, I found BoB to be absolutely great so my expectations were high on The Pacific too but I didn't even watch the whole series (if there would not have been BoB I would probably have stopped during the first two hours of The Pacific).

To me, neither acting, nor the battle scenes came close to BoB, they also had a different (worse) way to do all the special effects it seems.
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ORIGINAL: castor troy
ORIGINAL: The Gnome

I really loved Band of Brothers, while good, I didn't find the Pacific very compelling. My favorite series,more of a mini-series, is Generation Kill.

Generally, I go by how re-watchable something is. I never miss BoB or Gen Kill when they're on, but I don't have much interest in watching the Pacific again.

I'm really excited that they may decide to do another WW2 series.


same here, I found BoB to be absolutely great so my expectations were high on The Pacific too but I didn't even watch the whole series (if there would not have been BoB I would probably have stopped during the first two hours of The Pacific).

To me, neither acting, nor the battle scenes came close to BoB, they also had a different (worse) way to do all the special effects it seems.

I wholeheartedly disagree. The Pacific was very well done and, to me, felt much more 'personal' than BoB. I think this was intentional and reflected a much more narrow focus on fewer lead characters. BoB was excellent, yet different. Neither better nor worse.

In terms of replayability, I think The Pacific holds more interest for me, with the exception of episode #5 BoB.
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+1
I thought the Pacific portrayed the intensity of the conflict with long quiet spells very well. I think the IJ truly terrified the GIs far more than the SS and I think the film portrayed the mentality of the conflict very well.
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ORIGINAL: castor troy
ORIGINAL: The Gnome

I really loved Band of Brothers, while good, I didn't find the Pacific very compelling. My favorite series,more of a mini-series, is Generation Kill.

Generally, I go by how re-watchable something is. I never miss BoB or Gen Kill when they're on, but I don't have much interest in watching the Pacific again.

I'm really excited that they may decide to do another WW2 series.


same here, I found BoB to be absolutely great so my expectations were high on The Pacific too but I didn't even watch the whole series (if there would not have been BoB I would probably have stopped during the first two hours of The Pacific).

To me, neither acting, nor the battle scenes came close to BoB, they also had a different (worse) way to do all the special effects it seems.

That's also probably part of the problem. You didn't watch the whole series. Okinawa was really hard to watch, just brutal. Peleilu wore you down, and though the battle was a victory when it's depiction was over it really didn't feel that way. I loved Band of Brothers, but the experience that came with watching the Pacific actually relayed a lot of the feelings these vets had. You'll notice a lot more background characters that you didn't notice the first time around on subsequent Pacific viewings. If you go back and rewatch Band of Brothers after watching the Pacific, you'll have the feeling that the European Theater of combat was cleaner, less brutal, and not as harsh.
IMHO, though I loved both series, the Pacific came across as more real.
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Another possibility from the hint that was dropped is that it covers the air war over the Pacific and not simply the AAF. If this were the case Coral Sea, Midway, the Cactus Air Force, the Aerial war of attrition up the Solomons, the Marianas Turkey Shoot, the Kamikaze threat, the Strategic Bombing of Japan and finally Enola Gay. While this would be less a showcase for the Army Air Force and would have a great deal of time spent on Naval aviation, both Navy and Marine Corps, and IJN (probably a majority of the time). It would probably be a more compelling series and do a better job of telling the Pacific story. If you just tell the Army Air Corps story, while of critical importance to the war effort, it would be way less dramatic.
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The Pacific took some liberties personalizing real events, but putting them on a different character. Sledge's and Lecke's autobiographies differed from their actions in the series by having the characters experience some 'common' events that didn't happen IRL. Sledge's aborted extrication of Japanese gold teeth comes to mind as an example (happened in the series, not IRL).

If the producers of the next series take this to heart, they can take some additional liberties with the experiences of Allied fliers that broaden the appeal and the interest without dehumanizing the conflict.

Here's hoping for a Dick Bong focus for at least one of the story lines. [&o]
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Ooh...how's this? Maybe we're assuming that it's told from the American's perspective? Wouldn't an IJNAF / IJAAF focus be interesting too?

Hollywood would never do it, but it would break the mold, wouldn't it?
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The IJN side of the Iwo story was very very good IMHO. Eastwood
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The IJN side of the Iwo story was very very good IMHO. Eastwood
True. Have you seen a good movie or series on the Japanese aerial experience in WWII though?
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ORIGINAL: The Gnome

I really loved Band of Brothers, while good, I didn't find the Pacific very compelling. My favorite series,more of a mini-series, is Generation Kill.

Generally, I go by how re-watchable something is. I never miss BoB or Gen Kill when they're on, but I don't have much interest in watching the Pacific again.

I'm really excited that they may decide to do another WW2 series.

I didn't get into the Pacific as much as Band of Brothers either..
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there's so many stories that should be told! movies need to be dramatic, life-as-lived tends more towards the routine.
in my game (just like real life), many of my pilots & LCUs are on patrol or just holding ground, they'll never drop a bomb on a detected sub or engage in land combat. but ya can't prosecute the war w/o adequate protection of your rear-areas or providing support to the front-lines.

i enjoy reading Ernie Pyle, he reported back to the home-front from what he observed. his writings should be made into a movie - he could inject drama & human interest into the activities of any unit he visited, whether it was mess-hall priveleges in wartime London, radar-directed fire from an AA battery in Normandy, or field hospital support in North Africa.

collections of his wartime columns, 'Brave Men' & 'This Is Your War', provide enough info to satisfy any WWII buff or inspire any screenwriter.

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No, except that clip on U-Tube about Kamikaze pilots.

ps. It seems IJ pilots were far more humble whether through doctrine or disipline.
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ORIGINAL: jmalter

there's so many stories that should be told!

Definitely. HBO can produce WW2 series for another 100 years and still it won´t be enough. WW2 affected lives of many millions - and each of these millions of stories is interesting and should be told.

BTW, I think that HBO talent for drama miniseries can be used also for some story of resistance fighters in one of occupied European countries. So, if someone from HBO is reading this forum, think about it..... [;)]
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Anything of the quality of BOB or Pacific would be good.

I'd really love to see some sort of series focusing on the "Black Shoes": those who served in the somewhat less glamorous surface fleets of the USN.

I'd like to suggest Lcdr Edward Nelson Parker as a major character. He commanded USS Parrott at Balikpapan, Bandoeng Strait, and Java Sea and then took USS Cushing to Santa Cruz and the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. With today's computer generated special effects a I'm pretty sure a good and serious director could convey something akin to a realistic feel for the night surface combat that characterized the Pacific War. Parker won 3 Navy Crosses and a Silver Star for his actions in early WWII. Seems a good place to start.
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