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Band of Brothers 1x02 Full Length Reaction (Patreon)

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2024-01-06 18:00:05
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2026-06
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Normally I cut any pauses in my discussion (I tend to take a pause rather than say "um" lol), but I feel like they actually gave a better impression of just how heavy this was, and how much I had a hard time processing and talking about it. I don't think I've been this blown away by a show since TLOU (and you guys know how much I loved that one).

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Band of Brothers 1x02 Full Length Reaction

Normally I cut any pauses in my discussion (I tend to take a pause rather than say "um" lol), but I feel like they actually gave a better impression of just how heavy this was, and how much I had a hard time processing and talking about it. I don't think I've been this blown away by a show since TLOU (and you guys know how much I loved that one).

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Greg

Excited to see this reaction. Perfect timing. Time to have dinner and then look at this :)

Inhonor Oftrip

I'm glad you kept your full discussion ("um"s and all) for this series. As for the intro, it is the same for each episode except for listing the actors. I have watched the full intro to be more emotionally ready for the episode (as you mentioned), but if you find you'd rather just get into it I say go ahead and skip it. And you're right about them destroying the guns, in case the position was retaken the guns could no longer be used against the forces landing on the beach.

Eli

Another great reaction Jacqui. To answer some of your questions. A luger is the standard sidearm of a German solider. It was a prize collector item for GIs, who could easily sneak them back to the US. It was the handgun from ep1 that was being carried by those British soldiers dress in German uniforms. Many American born Germans went back to Germany at the start of WW2 when Hitler called for them to return to the Fatherland. Most were just infantry soliders, but many were use for espionage like putting them in POW camps for information gathering. For the cigarettes. If you ever seen a movie with a firing squad execution scene, the condemned is always offer a blindfold and a last cigarette. The guns had to be destroyed or the incoming soldiers would have walked right into them. A movie recommendation is the 1962 The Longest Day. It shows the Normandy invasion from everybody POV. It's also a literal all star cast. Almost every major actor of the time was in it.

celilmandir

Just joined, just came across your reaction to Ep1 on Youtube, and I'm not patient enough to wait for the other episodes to be uploaded there. I'll post some observations as the episode goes and hopefully i'll not ramble too much.. In a roundabout way, the NCOs of Easy Company saved Sobel's life by having him reassigned elsewhere. Otherwise he would have been in Meehan's place, going down with the plane that caught fire and crashed in a giant ball of flames. There is actually a historical marker in France at that exact spot. The bags they were carrying on their leg were supposed to weight maybe 15, 20lbs, but once they were full of everything, it was more like 50, 60lbs dangling from an ankle, with a little rope, and the majority of paratroopers lost them as soon as they exited the plane, from the shock of the parachute opening, the ropes just snapped. The confusion and mayhem of the drops kinda helped the Allies in a way, dropping them all over the peninsula, the Germans had no clue how to deal with Americans landing EVERYWHERE. Officers had tiny compasses sewn as a button on their pants, kept secret even from enlisted men. The whooshing sounds overheard above them after they found the paratrooper hanging in a tree were battleship shells, fired onto German positions. The interaction between Malarkey and the German POW actually happened, but in reality they worked across the street from each other. However, they increased the distance for the show because it was too unbelievable. The initial waves of paratroopers were not supposed to take any prisoners. They didn't have the resources to deal with that at the time, which is why Spiers shot that handful of Germans after giving them cigarettes. Soldiers were too valuable to keep them occupied watching prisoners. Throughout the assault on the trenches, you see Buck Compton messing with his gun over and over. He had lost his during the drop, and picked up someone else's but never got a chance to test it. Unbeknownst to him, the firing pin of his new gun was broken, which is why he never got to fire a shot and spent most of the time trying to fix it. Also, when Buck dropped the grenade, it's hard to see but on his right, he gets jostled by another soldier, causing him to fumble it. He was an excellent baseball player and would not have otherwise dropped it without someone else interfering with him. Toye said in Ep1 he could use some brass knuckles, when he was going through his whole inventory before getting on the plane, so it seems he did find some somewhere. Scott Grimes (Malarkey) actually slipped and fell while running back after looking for the Luger on the dead German, there were lots of tiny explosives embedded in the ground to simulate bullets hitting around him, so the look of fright on his face isn't entirely faked. They were just destroying the cannons with the TNT, not wanting to use them. The cannons were aimed on Utah Beach. A US medic landing there (the same kind of landing depicted in Saving Private Ryan) said that at some point in the morning, the shelling abruptly ended on the beach, the direct result of Easy Company destroying the artillery position at Brecourt. The maps that Winters found in the trenches were extremely valuable. In the show, Nixon says that he had the maps sent to Division, but in reality, Nixon realized the massive strategic importance of these maps, and ran them himself 3 miles back to the beaches where the command posts were located. The higher-ups back there were so grateful for that piece of intelligence that they sent the first 2 tanks off Utah beach to reinforce and support the 101st. These are the 2 tanks you see Nixon riding back in on. The tanks were used to flush out the remaining Germans at Brecourt. Fantastic reaction from your part, I'm really looking forward to watch the rest. I hope my rambling wasn't too boring to read through!

Marty McGee

Just rejoined your Patreon so just getting to this reaction. But as always I love your insights into the industry and technical processes. Especially in regards to the lighting in this episode. So many projects nowadays seem to have lost the art of using shadows and are just plain dark. As a viewer, we know it's supposed to be dark, confusing, and hard to see. But if it's so dark you can't tell what's going on it pulls you out of the experience. There's my rant! LOL To me, this series is one of the greatest all across the board! Great to be back and watching this series with you!

BlueDebut

Joined because of the YouTube video. Was browsing for Masters of the Air reactions and saw yours come up. I love all 3 of the main shows, Band of Brothers, The Pacific and Masters of the Air or what I've seen so far. They all have superior elements to them and it's great to see someone ACTUALLY react to it and give feedback. I'd recommend either checking out The Pacific as well or watching Masters of the Air next and finishing off with The Pacific. As you know by now BoB deals with the European Theater and the 101st Airborne Division, Masters of the Air starts in 1943, a year earlier than BoB and follows the US Army Air Force's 100th Bomb Group that flew B-17 heavy bombers into Europe. The Pacific is in many ways a very different type of show because it deals with the Pacific Theater and the 1st Marine Division from 1941-1945.

Ian Forbes

Just a fantastic fleshing out of the details for this episode. I’ve seen the show dozens of times and read the main book so I knew most of this but really appreciate how you ran through it here to help out others.

Alex Amerling

Just joined your patreon to see your reactions to this series :)

Movie Night

Agreed--lighting with shadows is incredibly difficult, and takes a lot more skill and effort than just making the scene low light. But it makes such a huge difference!!! I'm such a nerd that it's one of my favorite things about BoB 😂

Movie Night

Masters of the Air will start dropping this week, and I definitely want to watch the Pacific. Not sure if that will be for YouTube, or just Patreon. Depends on the demand, I suppose. But thank you for jumping in! I hope you enjoy all three as they come out 😊

Short_Round1999

Sounds like your professor just put your therapist up another tax bracket

Movie Night

Yup! Took a whole class on Spielberg, and my professor joked that by week three, we'd all be on anti-depressants 😂

Movie Night

Thank you so much for sharing all of this! I'm obsessive about details, so I really appreciate it when you guys point things out. There's only so much I can get on the first watch lol. I'm glad you're enjoying the reactions!

Short_Round1999

The life vest were because they got reports the Germans flooded the fields hours prior and some places would be pretty deep. The clickers were another way of identifying friendlies like “flash” and “thunder”. However, the German rifles actually made the same sound when operating the bolts, so it was ineffective. “Flash” and “Thunder” were used cuz Germans had an accent on some of the syllables of the words

Short_Round1999

Lots of the German soldiers were conscripted, basically forced to join the army even when they didn’t want to, like the American-German POW. Also, they killed them cuz this early in the war they didn’t have a place to keep them contained and they couldn’t take them along cuz it would slow them down, so the only option is to get rid of them. Sad, but true.

Short_Round1999

Malarkey and the POW actually worked across the street from each other. They changed it cuz it wasn’t believable

celilmandir

Your reactions are very unique because you approach them from a slightly different angle than what I'm used to with other channels, so it's very interesting to listen to your observations about the technical aspects of the show, I'm enjoying your comments a lot!

Short_Round1999

They wanted to disable the guns so they didn’t kill any more guys on the beach

the vengaboy

im glad you mentioned the camera work for those handheld long shots. it reminds of the quote about 50s musicals "sure fred astaire was great but ginger rogers had to do it all backwards and in heels." Just remember, no matter how well an actor does on a long take, the camera operator had to do it backwards and holding a 10lb camera rig

Movie Night

Amen to that! And if anyone messed up, he had to do it over again 😳 No pressure lol

Warren T. Griffin

Skipped thru the entire movie and still can't hear any of the movie. Probably going to cancel my Patreon

Earl Smith

So the execution of The Prisoners was a standing order as the Paratroopers had no capability of taking and holding prisoners of war. Yes it was a technical war crime but it was a grey area at the time.

Movie Night

Ah gotcha. I was wondering about that. It seemed...iffy. Thank you for clarifying!

Yash

That’s a Patreon issue, no reactor anywhere can post a full length show/movie for free, that’s called piracy. They state upfront very clearly you have to have your own copy of whatever is being watched, and you watch it alongside them. Wait for the YouTube if you don’t want to get your own copy

Brian W

No spoilers, but pay very close attention to Speirs dialogue with Lipton later in the series. It'll clear up what went on.

DropkickReaper

I genuinely never can properly describe the weight this show has had on my life. My Great Uncle was one of 225 Army Rangers to take Pointe Du Hoc on D Day and he gave his life in the effort. (Only 90 survived) Every year since there has been a Veteran member of my family in Normandy on June 6th to commemorate the lives lost on both sides during the anniversary events. Seeing this show when I was a kid helped me understand what he and so many others gave their lives for and helped inform the type of soldier I wanted to be when I finally enlisted at 18. Still would never claim to be anywhere near the same caliber as any of them were but I can only hope I was able to honor their memory. Going to Normandy personally every year for nearly the last decade just helps me connect with them and leaves a profound impact on me every time.