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Band of Brothers 1x03 Full Length Reaction (Patreon)

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2024-01-08 18:00:12
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If you had told me I would get emotional over laundry...

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Band of Brothers 1x03 Full Length Reaction

If you had told me I would get emotional over laundry...

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Inhonor Oftrip

Great reaction, thank you! Such a complex and multilayered emotional episode centered around Blithe. If he was just a coward, he would have just stayed in the aide station pretending he was blind after he was able to see. You mentioned that Blithe expressed his guilt of staying in the ditch on D-Day, all the more telling because he knowingly told it to the officer (Lt. Speirs) who they rumored to have gunned down the German POWs and one of his own men for refusing to go on patrol. And then finally Lt. Winters inspiring Blithe to shoot while doing the same, and Winters standing exposed to be more of a target as a cover for Blithe. Each soldier found ways to effectively do what they needed, and each leader to help them all to do it.

Brian

Great reaction as always For a show that took it’s time to be painstakingly accurate, they do make one of their few mistakes here with Blithe. Contrary to the end of the episode text, he did not die in ‘48. He continued to serve in the Airborne in the Korean War. And would die in Germany, still on active duty, in ‘67 from a perforated ulcer, likely caused by alcoholism. While still tragically dying at a relatively young age (44), he did accomplish much more than BoB stated. He’s buried in Arlington National Cemetery with full honors.

Brian

For anyone interested in learning more about the lives of Blithe and his fellow BoB servicemen, I highly recommend reading ‘A Company of Heroes’ by Marcus Brotherton

Movie Night

Absolutely! We're all motivated in different ways, and Blithe was someone who wasn't motivated by glory or duty so much as feeling supported by his "brothers." He needed to feel seen; like he wasn't alone, and I love that we saw the others helping him with that, instead of condemning him for it. Just another incredible episode!

Movie Night

I understand it from a creative perspective--it packs more of an emotional punch to have him die from the events of this episode. But they probably could've left it a bit more vague, and said "he died too young," or something like that. Still, I'm glad to hear he lived longer, and had full honors for his service.

Thierry Fournier

Took me this many episode to have my brain click on the actor playing Donald Malarkey, Scoot Grimes. I only know him has Lt. Gordon Mallory in The Orville and now just learn he's the voice of Steve Smith in American Dad. Face Palming hard.

Movie Night

I haven’t seen either of them, so if it makes you feel better, you got it before I did! 😅

Brett Oliver

Blithe's story in BoB is incorrect because for many years members of Easy Company were unable to contact him. When Ambrose wrote the book he went off of the Easy Co. members statements and was unable at the time to find his record past '48

Alex Amerling

Love the Paratrooper vs Paratrooper action this episode.

Short_Round1999

Fun fact: there’s actual footage and pictures of that guy on the horse

Short_Round1999

He got what was called “hysterical blindness” where the body is under so much stress the body just shuts off all visual function to cope. Literally, his body is telling him to stop and do anything to get away.

Short_Round1999

The stories about Speirs are actually true. The guy he shot was drunk refusing an order and pulled a gun; Speirs shot first. It was in self-defense, so he wasn’t punished. He only shot 5 prisoners

Choopy

If you're a history nerd like me, I love seeing places depicted in history and what they look like today. There's a fantastic channel on YouTube that has a bunch of shorts that show the real life locations following the steps of Easy Company and this show. It's called Historyinyourhand1787 and here's an example short of the attack on Carentan https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j2VdwiQp2_A

Dennis D

Hello Jacqui: During my Band of Brothers Tour this past September, James Madio (Sergeant Perconte), related the German Soldier being run over by the tank at 47:00 was not CGI, but an actual stunt person. The amazing thing is the first cut did not work so he had to do it a second time.

Movie Night

Holy cow! It never ceases to astound me the stunts and effects filmmakers are able to do practically. Thank you for letting me know!

Dennis D

Can you imagine the conversation when he got home? "Honey what did you do today?" "Oh, I got run over by a tank, TWICE!" With you being a member of the film making industry, I thought you would find this interesting.

Earl Smith

So Blithe's temporary blindness could be a result of head trauma taken from the drop, the eye issues he was having could be a symptom of it. Also he didn't die as a result of his wound, he went home and died much later but the others had lost contact with him and thought he died of his wounds.

PP82

Not only did Blithe not die, but he served for the entirety of his adult life. He served in combat in Korea as well and was awarded a total of three purple hearts, three bronze stars, and a silver star. He died in 1967 of a perforated ulcer while still serving in the Army on active duty. He was a Master Sergeant at that point, which is the second highest enlisted rank in the Army.

Jim Nesseth

Blythe did not die from his wounds. He went on to fight in Korea and he died in 1964.