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Episode 1: The Pacific - FULL Reaction (Patreon)

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2025-04-06 16:57:42
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2026-06

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I'm finally watching The Pacific!!! So far it seems like it's going to be super stressful, but I haven't cried yet so that is a win!!!!

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celilmandir

This series is a much harder watch than BoB. While BoB focuses on the bonds, the fraternity that grows among fellow soldiers during war, Pacific focuses a lot more on the brutality and ruthlessness of war.

E

Here we go! I know what I'll be doing in the next hour 🙌 Guadalcanal was the first time the Marines saw what the Japanese soldier was like and learned a lot. Every step towards Japan will get more and more difficult and stressful.

Baldemort

Lol, try not to spoil how you reacted in your descriptions, weather you cry or not xD Joking asside, im glad you are doing the interviews. I hate that HBO cut them from the main show.

JakeM794

I’m glad you’re hoping for the focus of the show to be on the mental toll of the war in the Pacific, because that’s absolutely a major theme! It gets rough, as I’m sure you can imagine, but it’s a worthwhile watch.

Kaboose

The main technological difference to note is the weapons. The Marines often got older weapons compared to the Army. Leckie, for example, is using the M1917 Browning machine gun with a water jacket around the barrel for cooling ( you can see them attaching the water hose in a few scenes). This gun + water + tripod weighed around 100lbs, and around 42lbs without a tripod. In BoB you saw the M1919A4 which was air cooled, and only weighed around 48lbs, including tripod and only 31lbs without the tripod making the M1919A4 MUCH easier to move around with, and even shoot without a mount. The primary rifle being used in this episode is also quite old, the M1903 Springfield which was introduced in 1903, compared to Band of Brothers where you see them using the M1 Garand and M1 Carbine which were introduced in 1936 and 1942 respectively.

Roope Toivanen

Really enjoyed that! I can tell it's gonna be brutal but also very much worth watching, definitely excited for more now :)

King_Panarisi

You might recognise the actor who plays Eugene Sledge (the one with the hearth murmur) as the kid from Jurassic Park.

ShadowKnight

Yeah , you haven't cried YET, that's the point. Just keep watching and don't get too comfortable, you've seen nothin' the warmup hasn't even started. Btw, glad you've found a way to show the interviews and the narration by Tom Hanks, without these the series would feel really incomplete.

Dan M

It’s so interesting that you mentioned not crying yet, because, as much as I liked this series, I didn’t have that emotional connection to it like I did with Band of Brothers. I can’t exactly put my finger on why that is, but regardless, I thought it was a good series and I’m excited to see how you react to it.

Dan M

Great information! Thanks for that!

Dan M

I think that may be why I didn’t have the emotional connection to this series like I did with Band of Brothers. BoB definitely focused more on the relationships between the men of Easy Company, which is why I was destroyed when Buck just retreated into himself when his best friends, Guarnere and Toye, were injured.

Liam Vale

Finally! I'm excited to see what you make of this series. It has a very different vibe to BoB and a slightly less cohesive narrative, owing to being adapted from three different source books rather than just the one, but it is still an excellent watch and a devastatingly accurate portrayal of the grim realities of jungle warfare. On an admin note, I would much rather you skip the trailers before the episodes and then do the countdown, as not all of us are using the same streaming service (particularly us international viewers) and even if we were, I don't think everyone gets the same trailer, so we can't really make use of the countdown as is. It also renders the timer in the bottom-left essentially useless as a reference point in the event that we want to watch over multiple sessions or experince buffering or stuttering etc. and need to re-sync, as it is not lined up with the episode timer.

E

It's the trauma and overall mental health that gets to people, myself included

E

I'm glad you're watching the introductions! It really gives a lot of context and importance of each episode, plus hearing the veterans talk about it. It's important stuff. Thank you, that was a great reaction, this is only the beginning!

E

Hm yeah maybe she can start right at the black HBO miniseries starting screen and we sync up visually. I did get the same trailer as her but I imagine the trailer will change eventually and people that watch this months or years later will see different trailers

Clay F

E -- yeah that's a good place to start for the sync. It's easy enough for the viewer to start the sync there, no matter what the reactor has played and no matter what streaming service the viewer is using.

Clay F

Hard to beat Band of Brothers, but I did have a strong emotional connection with this series.

Clay F

Respectfully, I think comments that The Pacific is more brutal is overplayed. Definitely brutal. But so was Band of Brothers = their planes blown out of the sky (ep 2) to limbs being blown off to the freezing conditions to the mental suffering to the makeshift hospital being destroyed to the concentration camp, etc.

celilmandir

I think there's a lot more graphic violence (by that, I mean things beyond people just getting shot) being outright depicted in Pacific, where they actually show on screen people exploding and such.

Clay F

Plenty of graphic violence (beyond people just getting shot) in Band of Brothers. In episode 2, full planes of men depicted as being burned alive. Starting in episode 3 onward, graphic depictions of limbs being blown off and mutilations (e.g., of the face). Even in toned down episode 8, had the horrible face mutilation ultimately giving the choking death. Brutal. The concentration camp was dark beyond people just getting shot. I'm not disagreeing that The Pacific is brutal and can be more dark in ways, but don't think The Pacific is so much worse than Band of Brothers. And where The Pacific is more dark, adds a lot to The Pacific series -- makes The Pacific more emotional and a moving series.

Baldemort

The legend of Chesty Puller is still talked about today in the Marine Corps.

Alex Gorell

Iron bottom sound was what it was called and what you saw was it. We lost 4 brand new troop transports. From a military perspective it was more costly than Pearl Harbor was. And the government kept it a secret until years later.

Clay F

The introductory narration (Tom Hanks) including veteran interviews are at https://youtu.be/PzZnLNCCsXI?si=BZyatKogPw1n0t45 Time stamps for each episode are: E01 "Guadalcanal/Leckie" 0:00 E02 "Basilone" 2:12 E03 "Melbourne" 4:55 E04 7:14 E05 9:43 E06 12:19 E07 14:20 E08 16:35 E09 19:09 E10 21:08

Clay F

Thanks for the reaction. Robert Leckie: "Maybe I'll write to you." Vera Keller: "Alright." "The jungle holds both beauty and terror in its depths, most terrible of which is man."

LiteWeight Gaming / Reacting

Thanks for the heads up. Episode two was already edited and scheduled for posting so you will not see a change on this until episode 3

John Thomas

Just a little timeline reference....In May of 1942 the American Navy and Japanese Navy met in battle for the first time (well other than the attack on Pearl Harbor). If I remember correctly it was the first time two navies met without the main forces actually seeing each other. Planes launched from aircraft carriers carried out the attacks against each others ships. In June of 1942, the Battle of Midway happened....again it was aircraft launched by aircraft carriers against each others fleets. In the early summer of 1942 Easy Company was formed with the Battle for Guadalcanal starting in August. I'm also glad you are watching the intros. It helps give some context to what the episodes are going to be about. As long as you keep the previews visible and then blur them out when the episode starts, that works great for me.....

Sterling LaLoge

Thanks for starting this series today. I am glad that you are feeling better and back to putting stuff on. I literally watched the final episode for another reactor 2 days ago. Without giving away a spoiler, it is really interesting to go from the battles at the end of the war, back to the beginning so fast. It really felt like they were all babies in this episode. So very innocent and fresh with no idea of what is coming at them. A very odd mental whiplash. I am looking forward to your reaction to this series!

scott osborne

BoB was 1942-45 VE to end of war when japan surrendered 2 September 1945 VJ EPISODE 10 points BOB winters announces japans surrenders the pacific at this time easy company is in tranning you will need a ship load of tissues for this one the pacific is worse than BoB ep 1 you did good 0 tears i cant say it be the same for next 9 eps

Larry Darrell

Watching on the Blu-ray, noticed Roosevelt’s “Day of Infamy” speech was edited out of the intro she watched. I guess for copyright reasons maybe. But wouldn’t think that that speech would be copyrighted. Weird.

E

Yeah for some reason Reel History has that cut out. Not sure why

John Courtright

Of The Pacific, Tom Hanks (co-producer) said, "The war in the Pacific was a war of terror and racism, of suicide attacks. Both sides viewed the other side as being subhuman dogs, from a civilization that didn't recognize the advancement of human kind." The episode is very effective in having Robert Leckie be the viewer's link to loved ones back home and to humanity itself. Mercifully killing the wounded Japanese soldier; finding the doll and photo; writing a letter to Vera; encouraging Sid to read his letter from Eugene. Buckle-up Teegan. You're in for a ride.

Drew

oh man, I dunno about this . . . this series has shocking, and I mean *shocking* depictions of violence. Don't get me wrong, it's a good series, but I genuinely worry this is gonna really f*** you up.

Greg

super excited for this series reaction.

Blink More

I let my subscription run out there after BoB but im straight back for this. It is rough, but very very real. I just read one of the books this is based on recently after already having watched this series 5-10 times, and it really was surprising to me just how much they did portray in it, and how much of it was word for word exactly what happened. Some things were just too brutal to put in this show, so however bad it looks at times, it was probably worse... Looking forward to your reaction to this, you were by far the best for BoB <3 And now i shall start watching you reaction :) good luck

BreadMill

The young boy Eugene, is Eugene Bonderant Sledge. His book, With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinowa, is one of the most heart crushing, gloves off, real books I have ever read. It is my all time favorite account of the war. The show did a decent job portraying some of the things he spoke about in the book. If you haven't, please give it a read one day

rattle wood

Hey great reaction and glad to see you found the intros, yeah for some reason they were removed. Which is crazy because the veterans talking is big part of the show imagine BOB without winters, shifty, or anyone talking it takes a big chunk of the experience away. To explain some more about the show’s characters, to explain leckies dad well years before the war his younger brother died and it seems his father never recovered from this pain and as you see he barely acknowledges him. For the invasion of Guadalcanal 6 months before had been some of the most brutal and hard pressed for the allies, but it was the decisive battle of midway which saw the sinking of 4 Japanese carriers would see the scales balance allowing the America to launch its first counterattack. The naval battle you see at night would go down as the WORST USN naval defeat in history “the battle of the savo island”, out of 4 squadrons (containing 1-2 cruisers 3-4 destroyers) 3 would be sunk and the last squadron was spared due to being to far form the Japanese task force. Now it stats that most the ammo and grub went down eh not exactly most of the supplies were unloaded. And while it seems the Japanese dominated during the night they would not during day as the “ cactus” air force made up of navy and army pilots flying everyday to harass and sink Japanese ships and the bravery of small PT boats (one of which PT-107 had future president JFK captaining) kept the Japanese away. Overall the battle last 6 months from august 1942- February 1943 it was a bloody affair but it was a vital battle which began the long march to japan. And yes the water around Guadalcanal became known as “iron bottom sound”

wondermuffin

My great-grandpa (who came to the US at 17 and had twin boys within a year) was a corpsman at Guadalcanal. He lived by the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and decided to enlist in the navy as a mid-30's something ("3 hots and a cot") rather than be drafted into the infantry. He didn't know how to swim (they tested it by shoving you into a pool; there being a pole in the center that you'd have to "figure out how to swim in order to reach"), but he was someone who worked in an Italian tailory and knew how to sew. Couple months later, he's a combat medic in the Pacific Theatre. Still have the original discharge papers.