Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
Still not got around to watching this. Band Of Brothers IMHO was one of the best bits of TV ever!
The Pacific didn't match BoB's sheer level of quality and pacing - for one thing, because The Pacific follows the pacing of events as they happened (with periods of leave for some characters, and others not joining until long after the initial crop), the pacing feels quite strange. Whereas in Band of Brothers, we followed those guys (losing many along the way) in a more linear fashion - from training, to the drop, and gradually through Europe and indeed the war itself. The Pacific doesn't have that same tight pacing, and so you struggle at times to connect to some characters, and when the bullets start flying, you're sometimes not ready for it, and likewise when they suddenly stop for a mid-season episode that's far away from the front lines, you're set off-foot. It's 'as it happened' though, so you can't really fault them, but such pacing doesn't fit too great into a mini-series format.

It's still well worth seeing, but BoB was such a high bar that it could never match it. One thing to note these days though is - Jon Bernthal is in it. Oh and Joe Mazzelo (the kid from Jurassic Park) does a stand out job in the series (he's one who joins the water later than those we're initially introduced to). Definitely see it, but definitely temper your expectations.