After Band of Brothers and Pacific, Spielberg and Hanks have secured the rights to another wartime story; this time the 8AF bomber fleet's effort from the bases here in the UK:

http://www.slashfilm.com/steven-spielberg-and-tom-hanks-secure-source-material-for-their-third-world-war-ii-set-hbo-miniseries/

:)

They seem to do better in Europe.

Band of Brothers was good but The Pacific was incomprehensible.

Webb wrote on Jan 19^th, 2013 at 10:50pm:

They seem to do better in Europe. Band of Brothers was good but The Pacific was incomprehensible.

I rather enjoyed both. My dad and I purchased the box sets for both and have re-watched them many times...but The Pacific seems to be a divisive series, either people love it or hate it. I loved it.

Band of Brothers was very very good, and an excellent narrative of the unit the book follows. It also "enjoyed" the advantage over "Pacific" that a greater number of the veterans who actually featured as characters were able to contribute to the embedded interviews and narration, which automatically will engage an audiences interest even further. And of course it stayed with the same unit throughout, whereas "Pacific" followed two or three individual stories through various units.

Pacific confronted some very horrific circumstances that didn't exist in the European theatre. If war isn't hell enough, when you fight it in some of the naturally horrific environments and climates, and against a fanatically relentless and utterly merciless enemy, it gets worse.