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Band of Brothers: Ep. 7 FULL Reaction (Patreon)

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2024-12-21 06:46:49
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2026-06

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Episode 7: The Breaking Point.... it was definitely my breaking point, lemme tell ya! I was NOT prepared!

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Clay F

Awesome. Putting on your reaction now. I remember getting my kids' colds. Get well.

Jay SMARTASS

I saw you did a reaction to the movie Fury. A Youtuber by the name The fat electrician did a video on the real life story of Wardaddy & his crew. I hope you decide to do a reaction to it as it is very welldone & researched plus he adds some lighthearted military humor to it which i think you'll appreaciate as we do. Thankyou for your willingness to do these reactions..🫶

Dan M

OMG…I just spent an amazing 4 hours watching The Two Towers with you…and now I see you posted this. Who the hell needs sleep? I’m diving right in…right now. I’ll sleep some time over the weekend.

Clay F

Good reaction including your thoughtful outro. I like the cathedral scene with the girls choir. Good analogy you had between Shifty and Jackson in Saving Private Ryan, which is the same war and same D-Day+ time frame. This is a tough episode but nevertheless one of my favorites. As you said, 3 more episodes remaining. (And then maybe the companion miniseries "The Pacific" after that?) While I liked the Speirs run and also the cathedral scene (including the discussion between Lipton and Speirs), my favorite moment in Episode 7: "Alright, I want mortars and grenade launchers on that building till it's gone. When it's gone, I want 1st to go straight in. Forget going around. Everybody else, follow me." --Lt. Speirs

Eric Alzen

there are many great books written by or about the vets of easy company. one of my favorites is "easy company soldier" by Don Malarkey. the book about Speirs it's appropriately titled "fierce valor" . i'm always listening to WWII audiobooks while driving, working etc and if you're into reading or listening, i highly recommend checking out the books relating to the band of brothers. probably starting with the book of that title which this series was based on! this series was so incredibly well done and it was partly due to the fact that the surviving veterans of easy were working directly with the producers and the also the actors who would be playing them. some of the vets and actors got extremally close during this process and formed relationships!

Dan M

“This is one of those ones where I really hope I did it justice”. It’s 4:40 in the morning, my eyes were glued to your every reaction, and my ears hung on every word from start to finish. Justice was served. This episode is always a difficult watch, but watching you trying to get through this one…😭

Jason Zentz

That scope shot was from Saving Private Ryan. Based off a real shot by Carlos Hathcock in Vietnam.

Brad

They are rightly called the Greatest generation ever, I don't think anyone can come up with a better group of people that have ever lived than this generation. You are the absolute best to watch because your heart is so in this that it's hard to not cry with you. Thank you so much for this series and I hope you do watch The Pacific because they were bad ass men too. Merry Christmas to you and yous and may God always hold and keep you and your family.

Cregg Riley

just been waiting around for this episode. it's my favorite even though it's so hard to watch. and everytime someone starts band of brothers, and they talk about Speirs being a bad man in the beginning...it's like i have to hold my tongue back because he's great. a certified bad ass. anyway i look forward to you getting to the end of this series...it's my other favorite episode

Greg

good reaction, very impactful episode. now to the rest of the series and hopefuily The Pacific and Masters of the Air later

Dan M

This episode is littered with heartbreaking and tragic decisions. Hoobler’s desire to bring a German Luger back with him leads him to take the gun from the German soldier he shot. Joe Toye’s desire to be with the men of Easy Company leads him to leave the aid station earlier than he should have. Winter’s decision to allow Toye to stay with Easy Company instead of insisting that he go back to the aid station and finish his recovery. And Lt. Dike’s decision to stop his men from advancing on the German troops in Foy, which left them exposed in an open field.

Dan M

This is a fantastic comment.

Armand Tamzarian

Yes, Speirs really did do those things in real life. In fact, Speirs' run to connect with Item company during the battle for Foy was MUCH longer than depicted in this episode. Speirs ran a gauntlet of fire for over a kilometer of open ground not once, but TWICE! If you've seen John Wick, Speirs reminds me of what's said of John Wick in the 2nd movie: all that you've heard about Ronald Speirs, if anything, has been watered down. What's more, the showrunners purposely watered down many of the feats these men performed because they were concerned audiences would find what they actually did to be too unbelievable to be true. Still, even if they had tried to portray the literal miracles many of these men performed exactly as they happened, no form of media could possibly do the true stories of Speirs, the men of Easy or the many others of the Greatest Generation proper justice.

Armand Tamzarian

That is a good one! I'm hoping Fat Electrician will eventually do one on Audie Murphy as well.

Dan M

Speirs was every bit the bad ass that you said he was during your reaction. His assertion that you had to give up hope in order to function as a soldier fueled his acts of bravery and heroism. He just did what he needed to do as a leader to help his men reach victory without hesitation. It’s been said that, while some of his actions would most likely have gotten him court martialed in today’s military, his leadership skills and fearlessness were just too valuable during the European campaign, and so some of Speir’s “unconventional tactics” were ignored.

Jimmie V

Just goes to show what can be accomplished when you accept that you're already dead... :)

EDinMCO

Great comment, just please be cognizant of unintentional spoilers e.g. who survives the war.

Lukasgate

The Operations Room channel on Youtube has a very good video on the attack on Foy from a tactical standpoint. I highly recommend it and worth a watch, only a 12 minute video and no real spoilers

Dan M

Good call EDInMCO. I didn’t even realize it. I edited my comment. Thanks!

ellmo

You're probably gonna read this multiple times – Dike was suffering from PTSD, had difficulties connecting to people who he was supposed to lead after he got transferred. Well spotted, that yawning was a signal of stress. During the attack on Foy – Dike was hit by a sniper basically at the start of the assault, the extent of his wounds was only realized after he was evacuated to a medical point. He was losing blood and went into shock – again, well spotted. I highly recommend re-watching the episode now KNOWING, that he's not incompetent, or cowardly (far from that, he was a decorated veteran of D Day)... but that he's mentally broken. Just remember this series (even though magnificent) is not 100% honest historical truth; this is the absolute truth... from the perspective of surviving men of Easy company. They're only humans, there's always some bias. -------- You might also read that Speirs' run (which absolutely happened) in reality was "even more impressive and dangerous" than pictured here. They "streamlined" it for cinematic purposes. -------- Also – "Saving Private Ryan" is based on a real WW2 story: a story of Frederick "Fritz" Niland, who lost two brothers and third was missing (taken prisoner) so the Army decided to pull him back. Fritz Niland served in 501st PIR, Hotel company, was a close friend of a certain Muck and a certain Malarkey from 506th PIR, Easy company... and he came from Tonawanda, NY. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niland_brothers

Clay F

Yeah, apparently the amount and intensity of the German mortar fire/blasts on the ground/trees on their fixed positon (the line) was even worse than depicted.

Kevin Cavanaugh

About 90% of what shown in this about spears is correct

Kevin Cavanaugh

Yet another great reaction it’s a tough one.

Saiyan Sweet

You did it! You made it through the second hardest episode! Only one more hard one to go!

E

You're the best reactor, thank you for sharing your first experience of this masterpiece with us. Cried along with you. Much love Teegan <3

Jay SMARTASS

Me too!!! He did one on the Original dirty dozen which would go go good with these band of brothers reactions since they where apart of the 101st airborne as well..👍

celilmandir

One of the best episodes in this series, definitely a rollercoaster of emotions! Poor Hoobler, after finally getting his coveted gun. He had it in his pants, and accidentally became tangled in barbed wire, which snagged the fabric, somehow caught the trigger and caused the gun to discharge. Though, unlike what’s shown in this episode, it was either a M1911 Browning, or a Belgian-made FN that Hoobler had carried in his pants. The exchange between Nixon and Winters about Yale (“He’s just a rich jerk from Yale..” // “Oh, another one of those..”) is especially funny, considering Nixon attended Yale before the war, and his family was quite wealthy. Back in training camp at Toccoa, Al Mampre (that medic I briefly mentioned in Ep4, the one that assisted Lt Brewer shot in the neck) was at the shooting range, and bet a private next to him he couldn't hit some target pretty far out. The wager was a candy bar. The other private shot and hit the target, so Mampre doubled down. And the target was hit again. And Mampre doubled again, and the target was hit again. After the next shot, and the debt now being 8 candy bars, Mampre wisely called it quits. Turns out the private next to Mampre was a little fella by the name of Shifty Powers.. Shifty was always known for his marksmanship and keen eyes (hence why in the scene where Hoobler shoots himself, when they initially hear the gunshot, Lipton immediately asks Shifty if he sees anything). Shifty once noticed (from nearly a mile away) some trees that hadn't been there the day before, and appeared suspicious to him. He reported that to Lipton, who passed it on, and eventually there was an artillery strike called on that position. Turns out the Germans had relocated some 88s artillery pieces there, and cut/stacked some trees in front of them for camouflage. In Foy, when the men went to check on the German sniper that got shot, they saw Shifty had nailed him right between the eyes. Some men recounted Shifty told them he was able to spot the sniper thanks to his breath misting in the cold air, and if he’d been laying down on the snow, Shifty would never have been able to find him. Popeye Wynn said back then, "You know, it just doesn't pay to shoot at Shifty when he's got a gun.." Shifty got along with everyone, with one exception: there was ONE guy in the entire company that Shifty could absolutely not get along with. That man was Mellet - one of those who would eventually be killed by the German sniper hiding in Foy. Somehow Shifty could absolutely not stand Mellet, for some reason. One night in Belgium, Shifty told his friends he had had an extremely vivid nightmare during which he had been killing Mellet. The nightmare felt so real that when he woke up, Shifty was worried he might actually have done it while half asleep. So he took off looking for Mellet everywhere, and, according to those whom he told that story to, once he found him well and alive, it was the only time Shifty was glad to see Mellet. As the assault of Foy was falling apart, Winters looked around himself, and as luck would have it, it happened that Speirs was the very first officer Winters spotted, it easily could have been anyone else.. Though I wouldn't be surprised if Speirs had positioned himself close to Winters on purpose just in case, like an eager athlete.. "Put me in, coach!" While Speirs was racing down streets to contact Item Company, weaving between houses (a MUCH longer run than was depicted in the show, though he wasn't always fully exposed in the open), he kept taunting the Germans about their poor aim. After linking with Item Company and giving them new orders, Speirs left to return to Easy, escaping possible death by mere seconds as Item's leader was gunned down by a burst of machine gun fire. Thankfully, one of his sergeants had been close enough to hear Speirs’ orders and was able to relay them to the rest of his company. Lt Dike suffers from quite the character assassination in this episode, he might not have been a terrific officer nor liked by the men (their bias showing a bit in the depiction of his character, and Ambrose’s book and subsequently the show itself are mostly based on the recollections of half a dozen vets) but Dike was no coward either, having previously earned two Bronze & one Silver stars. >>>>Within the 101st Airborne Division, during Market Garden operation, Dike "organized and led scattered groups of parachutists in the successful defense of an important road junction on the vital Eindhoven-Arnhem Supply Route against superior and repeated attacks, while completely surrounded." >>>>Dike was awarded a second Bronze Star for his action at Bastogne, in which "he personally removed from an exposed position, in full enemy view, three wounded members of his company, while under intense small arms fire" on 3 January 1945. Some accounts suggest Dike got wounded during the attack and was becoming disoriented from shock and blood loss, unable to think clearly and issue coherent orders, and had nothing to do with panic. Dike would be reassigned to Regimental HQ after the battle, after Winters suggested doing so to Col. Sink. Once the show had first aired in 2001, Guarnere, never one to miss the opportunity to crack a joke, would always answer the question “Where/When did you lose your leg?” with “Oh, it happened in Episode 7." The scene at the end with the soldiers fading out of sight is such a clever and powerful way to show the losses..

Larry Darrell

Every reaction you’ve given us has been a Great Gift and you’ve been more than Perfect in conveying your thoughts and emotions in a way that is considerably respectful to the material. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. I think I speak for many of us, when I say, We appreciate you even more. Thank You, Teegan. God Bless and I hope you and your family have a very Merry Christmas. Same goes to the whole LiteWeight community as well. (-: Merry Christmas :-)

Dan M

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you as well, Larry!

Clay F

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Larry.

John Thomas

Can't really add to what others have said....this episode is a hard watch, no matter how many times you see it.....but you absolutely gave this episode the justice it deserved.....

JK2222

Great commentary. I love that story how Shifty noticed a tree over a mile away that wasn't there the day before and reported it and it was a disguised 88. Amazing.

Kevin Sisco

I was first introduced to this series by my dad when I was younger than ten. I'm almost 30. I just realized Lipton is played by Donnie Wahlberg, Mark's brother.

Dan M

And a former member of 80s boy band New Kids on the Block.

Brian Scarbrough

Perfect reaction, again. I cry through this one too, and then pump my fist with Spiers, too. And I’ve been looking forward to seeing your reaction to him in this episode after the way you noted his demeanor in previous episodes. I’ve watched the series many times, but as always you capture the essence in real time, and give it full justice. Thank you!

Ziro the Hutt

Yes that is Jamie Bamber from Battlestar, good eyes. As an aside, I love the sets they had for the barrages. It was beautifully and realistically dressed, and seeing those trees get blown up amongst the carnage, was a hell of a sight. Can only think the real thing would be ten times worse. In the First World War, some soldiers had to endure days and days of constant bombardment, no wonder a lot of the ones that made it out, were so heavily damaged psychologically. Also on the execution of these episodes, the sound editing too is phenomenal, sound can make such a difference during action scenes, and you can sometimes tell when you note the difference between decent sound editing and great editing. This is truly great. HBO always deliver. Such a poignant way to show the cost of these battles, the bit in the church as the choir sings. Seeing the wounded and killed men, faded out amongst those still present.

C. Wiggin

That is extremely wrong. The gauntlet that Spiers ran was 100-150 meters one way. Not sure where you are getting a kilometer.