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Episode 4: Replacements had me STRESSED!!

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Benzo (Benjamin)

Thank you for the episode and series. I look forward each week to the next release. I love Band of Brothers. Watching along with you with your reactions gives this epic series a new, entertaining, emotional and enjoyable addition to an already amazing series. It's also nice to see so many people watching both here and on YouTube. A big thanks to you for helping to introduce so many people to this amazing series 2 decades after its release. And for connecting so many with the amazing true story of Easy, the 101st Airborne and WWII in general. And of course, the real-life veterans. So, thank you for sharing and watching this great story and series. Loving your reactions, play-throughs and content. Keep up the great work, we appreciate you and your hard work. I look forward weekly to that joyful personality of yours, through your amazing lets-plays and reactionary videos. You help me to wind down, and switch my mind off via some truly needed respite, whether that's by laughing with you or crying with you, it certainly helps a lot. Thank you Teegan. All the best and much love from across the pond in old Blighty England!

Baldemort

Very popular Xmen actor in your thumbnail and in this episode. Cant wait for you to get to see him be in a big role xD

Clay F

James McAvoy was awesome in "The Last King of Scotland" (2006). I also liked him in "Starter for 10" (2006) and "Atonement" (2007).

Clay F

Market Garden seemed like a low point in the Allies invasion strategy and intelligence gathering. Apparently had enticing potential did not realize. Nix: "They won't be waving so many orange flags at us tomorrow." Trivia: When Webster spots the road sign for Nuenen, he states: "Vincent Van Gogh was born in Nuenen." However, Van Gogh was born in Zundert, although he did live in Nuenen for two years from 1883-1885. Lieutenant Brewer who got shot in the neck was not a replacement. Good question. Enjoyed your reaction.

Robert Durant

Get ready, because the next episode "Crossroads" really takes this series down it's very dramatic path where it's not so much about the battles but how the war starts affecting everyone.

Michael Cowell

As a British man, I know that the British Tanks always had orders to no necessary damage to public property, they had to see the enemy before firing (ridiculous even when they were told like Martin did with the panzer) but they were on direct orders. Another thing about Operation Market Garden, Arnhem most of the 8,000 men never got out of the gliders. Great reaction as always and cannot wait for next week.

Dan M

This episode offers up one of the most important scenes in the series, IMO. I think it’s fair to say that most civilians at the time understood the violence and chaos of war. But the scene with Randleman in the barn depicted a perspective that most civilians did not experience first hand. And there are so many emotions displayed in a short time. But it is the reactions of the daughter of the man who wander into the barn that speak volumes. In a short period of time, she goes from being terrified when she encounters Randleman, to empathizing with him after realizing he’s injured and just as afraid as she and her father are, to gratitude when Randleman helps them hide when the German soldiers enter the barn, to horrified while watching two men fight to the death in order to survive. It’s a scene that summarizes beautifully what most civilians know to be the nightmare of war, but never fully understand the impact that being in the midst of all the violence had on those in the middle of it.

sammy

You are a great reactor and true stories are always something we can learn from!

sammy

Also , I learned from a patreon fan of yours that i can use my laptop and have a " split screen " 📺 so that was good to know :)

Greg

at 20:24 the older man waving the flag, is one of E company vets

John Thomas

Another awesome reaction Teegan. Really enjoyed watching along with you. As far as Operation Market Garden goes, as someone commented above the intelligence behind the decision to launch this operation was somewhat flawed. They had thought, as Nixon said, the German Troops that they would face were not front line combat troops but inexperienced old men and boys...what they didn't realize was that the Germans had pulled back from the front some experienced and well trained troops for rest before putting them back on line to fight the Allied advances. This information had been reported by the Dutch Underground but the reports weren't verified. In your spare time, if you would like there was a movie called "A Bridge To Far" which shows Operation Market Garden from the perspective of Americans, Germans, English (including a Polish Airborne Brigade attached to the British) and the Dutch.....it is a very good movie. My dad took me to see it when it was released in 1976.

Robert da Spruce

Julie Andrews shirt 👍 I noticed it in the intro, but I didn’t make the connection to Edelweiss 😊 It would have been interesting to have you hooked up to a heart monitor during the reaction because your were stressed! 😄 The reason the women hung an orange sheet from the window is because orange is the national color of the Netherlands. So showing orange signified they were civilians. And not to fire on them If you watch a World Cup soccer match, a Formula 1 race with Max Verstappen, or the Olympics, you will see huge swathes of people wearing orange. These are the Dutch fans showing their pride. I continually impressed with your eye for details. I’ve seen many reactions that miss many small details. Keep up the great work! Looking forward to the next one! Hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

celilmandir

The beginning always amuses me. Going back to Ep1, Winters tells Compton “Never put yourself in a position where you can take from these men.” And here Buck is shooting left-handed to sucker Toye and Heffron into betting cigarettes. Cobb is painted in kind of a bad light in this episode. He was one of the older guys (almost 30 years old on D-Day), having already seen combat in Africa prior to D-Day, and on his way back, his ship had been torpedoed by a German sub. On D-Day, Cobb was injured in the plane before he could jump. He and Luz had traded places in the line because Luz wanted to jump earlier. Despite how he’s painted in the show, he was described by others as “invariably good-natured”. Popeye said he didn’t want to be reassigned to another unit. Often, if you were gone too long during an hospital stay, you might not be sent back to the same company you used to belong to, depending where they might have ended up moving to while you were away. A lot of men cheated on the eye tests to join the armed forces. Often, they’d get their friends to go first, and they’d quiz them on the way out, and learn by heart the lines of letters for the eye tests, or the patterns of colors as well. In Eindhoven, Winters, Welsh and the other officers are turning over their collars to hide their insignias of rank, in case of a sniper lurking around. Shooting the officers would cause the most mayhem in the enemy’s camp, compared to shooting a private or sergeant. At timestamp 20:20 of your video, at the bottom left corner of the screen when Talbert is told to move, we can briefly spot an actual Easy Company veteran having a little cameo, the old gentleman with the beret waving a flag. After filming this, one of his best friends started calling him “Hollywood”. When Lt Brewer gets shot in the neck while they’re approaching the next town, the medic that goes to assist him (and soon gets shot too) is a man called Al Mampre. He’s not a named character in the show, but here’s his recounting of the events. “I lie down next to him. . . and I said, in my best bedside manner, I said, ‘Lieutenant, are you dead? Because if you are, I’m leaving.’ “Brewer croaked out, ‘No, but I don’t know why not.’ I said, ‘OK, I’ll stay with you.’ ” Moments later, Mampre is shot in the leg, but he gives himself a shot of morphine and continues taking care of Brewer, who would live until the age of 72, passing away in 1996. Back in training at Toccoa, Mampre also lost a significant number of candy bars at the shooting range while betting on shooting accuracy with another private, a little fellow by the name of Shifty Powers..

Peter Schuller

When you're done with the show, I highly recommend the Band of Brothers Podcast (and HBO podcast). There's one podcast episode per episode of the show, with crew members/writers etc being interviewed, including stories about talking to the real people the actors portray.

Larry Darrell

I echo John Thomas down below in recommending… A Bridge Too Far (1977)… a terrific war film about Operation Market Garden, featuring a large All-Star cast, directed by Richard Attenborough (John Hammond in Jurassic Park), written by William Goldman (writer of The Princess Bride). PS: Cool shirt. Have you ever seen… The Americanization of Emily (1964)… a WWII Romance, starring Julie Andrews and James Garner. or Darling Lili (1970)… a WWI Musical Romance, starring Julie Andrews and Rock Hudson or Victor/Victoria (1982)… a hilarious Musical Romance, starring Julie Andrews, James Garner and Robert Preston

Ziro the Hutt

Its understandable why these order were given though. The Allies were seen as liberators, hearts and minds and all that. Go shooting around peoples houses unnecessarily, would quickly lose that good will towards the troops.

Ziro the Hutt

On the women collaborators. I agree its rough to watch, and this was a PG version of the retribution those subjugated dished out on them; however from their point of view, they saw these women get treated well from the enemy under occupation, who were fed, clothed, watered; all the while when others were starving. And they wouldn't have known which of these women were feeding information to the Germans also. Of course, people do what they can to survive, but its a complex situation. War is Hell, its mankind's worst invention, after greed.

C. Wiggin

The guy who ran through the hedges was Van Klinken. He was actually a Toccoa-man. So, he wasn't a replacement. Unfortunately, he died later in the night. Probably the biggest problem with BoB is all the personalities that were in the E Co. from Toccoa to all the replacements that would join. And unfortunately, there just isn't enough reel to film it all. So when you see new characters you think they are replacements. But many of them aren't. Mellet, LT Brewer, who was shot in the neck, are all men who had experience since Toccoa/D-Day. According to Pat Christenson (Michael Fassenbender) he was the one who went through the hedge first, which isn't shown in the episode, then Van Klinken was behind him. But you don't see Christenson in the episode.

MertzRocks

SPLIT should have at least gotten McAvoy an Oscar nomination. Oh well...