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The Pacific 1x02 Full Length Reaction (Patreon)

Published:
2024-03-04 05:17:28
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2024-03-04 05:18:02
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The fact that I hated this so much...and felt physically sick while watching it, is a testament to just how good it is, and how effectively this episode conveyed what it needed to. This was a completely new experience for me with reacting in general, and I had a hard time with it. For that reason though, it makes me really curious for the rest of the series!

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The Pacific 1x02 Full Length Reaction

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Chris G

Your visceral reaction to this episode is totally understandable, and why, I think, a lot of people struggle with this series. Brutality and privation were hallmarks of the war in the Pacific, and this series does an amazing job at capturing those things. It's precisely because it's hard to watch that the Pacific should be required viewing - it shows the cruelty and brutality of war in a way that few other things do. Maybe someday if more people understand we'll be less likely to throw the flower of our nations' youth into the grinder.

Tom's Atypical Tales of Terror...And Other Stuff

I kept thinking towards the end you were going to say you weren't sure you were going to go on, so I was very impressed when you made it clear you want to go on. It is a very hard show and it's only going to get worse, but that's why I think this series has a lot more nonbattle episodes than BOB (also the nature of the war in the Pacific meant more downtime between each campaign.) One minor nitpick for you: for me you say "touche" a bit too much, it gets repetitive.

Pascal Vorwerk

This episode does a great job showing how the constant attacks by Japanese forces and the shelling by the IJN (Imperial Japanese Navy) but also the environment are starting to take their toll on the Marines. Although it is a bit out of order as the defense of Henderson field organized by John Basilone occurred on October 24-25, 1942 while the 1st Marine Division was only slowly relieved by December 1942 and the last elements left by February 1943, not the next day and episode one showed events from December already, it shows the impact the limitations of the US Navy at that point in the war (I discussed that in much more detail in my comment on the first episode) had on the Marines. The IJN was delivering new troops and supplies every night with their destroyers (US troops called it the Tokyo Express) while shelling US positions, taking advantage of the limited experience the US had in night fighting at sea and the fact that they had to few ships to risk them in the defense of Guadalcanal. During the day, the IJN pulled back to prevent attacks by US carriers and the Marine pilots (called the Cactus Air Force) stationed at the airfield on Guadalcanal which was actually operational during most of the first two episodes, but unable to intervene in the night attacks. Fighting in the Pacific, both due to the fanatic ideologies drilled into the Japanese soldiers and the hot, humid environment, was extremely brutal and draining. The European theater that both BoB and MotA focus on was characterized by strategic offensives, like Easy Company taking town after town while in the Pacific, fights for a single island could last months with a constant back-and-forth, often at night, with almost constant supply troubles. The US strategy of island hopping, capturing strategic islands while circumventing large Japanese bases, also played a role in making live sometimes quite a bit more difficult because, like we see on Guadalcanal, there were often very limited supplies of food and other supplies available on the islands. As said in the episode as well, the Marines were often not as well-equipped as the Army, relying more heavily on the M1917 water-cooled machine gun which needed 3 men to carry and the M1903 bolt action rifle. This situation improved a lot in the later stages of the war.

Chris LaLonde

Yes. Personal is the perfect word to describe it.

Bubba Fett

Brutality is right. BOB the tone was comradary. Masters, prettymuch just hopelessness. Pacific was just shear brutality. I remember thinking watching Pac and Mota at the same time would be a tough experience.

W Gandy

Oh Jacqui, as dark and disturbing as this episode was, please try to prepare yourself for many if not most of the upcoming episodes. It is hard to imagine but it gets darker.

Brett Oliver

I'm sorry you're having a hard time with this one, and it gets worse. These are the conditions that the fighting in the pacific brought, especially against a fanatical military like Japan's at the time where they believed it was their duty to fight until you couldn't and they rarely would surrender. I love this series and it's my favorite of the three but it is rough, brutal, harsh, violent, intense, and it doesn't really let up.

E

Episode 5 and onwards is the most nightmarish island combat recreation basically ever. It will be tough, but you can expect it now and be mentally prepared for those. I really love this series with all my heart, thank you for watching and bringing us on this journey with you Jacqui.

Ethan Beckerink

Yeah this is the most gruesome and accurate depiction of the Pacific War that you're going to get

Travis Otten

I saw an interview where one of the producers was saying how so with BoB they wanted to focus on the unit and how close they were they felt they might of glorified war a little bit. With the pacific they wanted to reign that back in and show some hell that war is.

Austin Alt

Hi I’m new here. So excuse my ignorance please. but is there a reason why there’s no sound? Like I’ll see an hear the reaction to something but I can’t hear what you reacted to in the episode an I’m like idk what happened. Dose it have something to do with the DMCA I’m guessing?

Jim Nesseth

My father fought in the battle of Okinawa and my Godfather fought at Saipan, Tinian, and Iwo Jima. My father died too soon for me to ever talk to him about the war, if he would have talked about it at all. In his later years, my godfather did talk about his experience. You're exactly right that this series is much different than Band of Brothers or Masters of the Air, this is really to do more with the enemy and the environment than anything. In Europe the fighting was what a lot of people would envision war to be like. In the Pacific, it was true jungle warfare. Hand-to-hand happened often. Talking to my mother one night, I asked if Dad ever said anything about the war. She said she asked if he ever killed anyone (something you shouldn't ask a veteran) and his response was, "When a jap jumps in your foxhole to kill you, you can either kill him or die." Now, she didn't know if he was answering the question as though this happened, but it would not surprise me at all that it did happen. If you want to get a true sense of this series, read Eugene Sledge's book, With the Old Breed; AT Peleliu and Okinawa. It is a first hand account of Sledge's time in those two battles and it really give you a good understanding of the horror that the Marines went through.

Michael E Poston

Imo, the Pacific is one of the most important works of art ever exactly for your reaction. War is disgusting and abhorrent. It is intimate brutality that never should be imposed upon anyone. And yet, we still go to war. Even when the cause is so clearly justified (not an exaggeration to say without victory at Guadalcanal thr war would have been lost and Australia fallen to the brutality of the Japanese), it is an abhorrent thing with permanent scars.

Dan Harris

I just recently joined your Patreon, in part to see your full length reaction to this. I'm sorry that this series is causing you so much discomfort. But I think that's the point in some ways. War is ugly, vicious, and unforgiving. The old movies tended to glamorize it, or not dig too deep into the ugliness. I hope you can find the strength to make it to the end of the series. It's important that these men's stories are told today, so we don't forget the sacrifices they made.