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Band of Brothers 1x07 Full Length Reaction (Patreon)

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2024-01-27 06:14:16
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Ok...there were tears...

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Band of Brothers 1x07 Full Length Reaction

Ok...there were tears...

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Pascal Vorwerk

Lt. Dike was portrayed from the perspective of Easy company in this episode. He was an intelligence officer during D-Day and then later was involved in Operation Market Garden where he successfully commanded the defense of an important road, receiving a bronze star. During the time at Bastogne, he also pulled wounded soldiers out of the line of fire, receiving a second bronze star. He did, however, have trouble bonding with the men of Easy company and was absent quite a bit (which, depending on the command style of the people higher up, might not have been his decision). He didn't handle the experiences too well and by the point the assault on Foy began, probably was in a really bad mental state, leading to him making decisions out of fear, similar to what we saw in episode three the other way around with Winters and the other officers / NCOs having to motivate the men to get out of the ditch and continue the assault. This lead to him shutting down for the most part, though depending on the account he might also have been wounded, worsening the situation. After WW2, he remained in the US Army Reserve and later also served in Korea. To be clear, Lt. Dike was probably not in a state where he should have lead Easy company on the assault into Foy, but there was a reason he was put into the position he was in and he did at least some good work even as their CO.

Inhonor Oftrip

Thank you so much for your reaction and your analysis! It says so much that this show can still shock us with the experiences of these soldiers this far into the series, with significant fighting in every episode since the 2nd. I definitely want to hear what you think about the narrative structure when you finish the series. You may already know this, but Lipton's promotion at the end from Sergeant to Lieutenant is pretty huge; he is going from an Enlisted Rank to a Commissioned Officer, being in the same tier as Winters, Nixon, Compton and Speirs (Matthew Settle).

Alex Amerling

Spiers running through the German lines was absolutely bad ass.

Baboos

I think my favorite aspect of this show is seeing how they chose to adapt the history of these events and people. Like seeing what they take from objective historical accounts and what they choose to adapt from personal accounts to the decision to use speculation. Like with Dike, I've heard that plenty of history buffs disagree with his portrayal in this show but judging from what I've seen from some of the memoirs of the members of Easy Company it seems like a lot of them genuinely didn't like the guy. Or how in the last episode how Eugene Roe and Renee Lemaire absolutely existed but if they ever actually interacted is completely speculative. I guess I just think it would've been super interesting to have been in the writers' room and hear how they decided what to do with all these real historical figures.

Marty McGee

That's what's so great about this series. It does hit you emotionally and powerfully. But it's also so technically great it scratches the film nerd itch too. Also I don't think you mentioned it in episode 6, but it too had no music until the very end as they fade out from Eugene wrapping Babe's hand.

Jason Darbe

Easy never found out what happened to Dyke, turns out he was shot when they were advancing on Foye and was in shock. He recovered and served with distiction in Korea.

Bubba Fett

You'd seen a few close ups of Speirs before. The prisoners first then later attacking the guns at brecourt( probably spelt wrong), his most memorable scene yo till now when he talked to Blythe in episode 3, the only hope you is accept your already dead scene. He definitely exemplifies that mentality, do what you have to, what ever happens happens.

JP11

You seem to have been surprised when Lipton talks about Moose Heyliger getting shot from a sentry but they clearly show that in episode 5 when hes on a walk with Winters

Jim Finley

Thanks for concentrating on the psychological impact. People knew what PTSD was in the Civil War, although, as you said, they didn't understand the psychology of it. In World War II they called it combat fatigue; in World War I it was shell shock; in the Civil War it was called soldier's heart. Interesting that you focused on the sort of mental split screen effect of watching the technical aspects on one mental channel and absorbing the emotional impact on the other. I had a similar experience early in my second career - after I retired from the Marine Corps I went into the mental health field (I had gone to grad school nights and weekends my last several years in the service.) I worked in the state prison system in that capacity, and at one point was on the faculty of the Corrections Academy, doing psych screenings on prospective corrections officers and teaching classes on suicide prevention, stress management, and similar subjects. One of the other instructors who had a mean streak told me she had a video she was thinking of using in a class and asked me to watch it and tell her what I thought. It turned out to be a crime scene walk-through the police had shot at a drug house where everyone in the place had been murdered. So I was seeing all these people dead, including the children of the occupants, and this person was watching me closely with a gleam in her eye. Part of my brain was just crying, "Oh no, oh no . . . ", and the other part was thinking, "Okay, that was a shotgun from a few feet away . . . handgun there . . . shotgun again . . . rifle from across the room, caught him running . . . " It was surreal. I kept a poker face and just told her I wouldn't use it, and went back to my office and closed the door. But it's stayed with me, and that was more than twenty years ago.