Well, I just finished watching Band of Brothers for the 6th time. I was wondering what was your favorite episode?
Mine would have to be a toss up between Crossroads and Why We Fight.
I wish HBO would produce another WWII series. There are a lot of other brave groups of men that fantastic tales could be told.
Other than the one on the Battle of the Bulge, they were all quite good!
djmodels1999, What’s the issue with the Bastone episode? I am not an expert so your input is appreciated.
Ted
I am partial to the second episode. LT Winters was put up for the CMOH for that attack on the guns but received the Distinguished Service Cross instead because the unit had already received its quota of CMOHs for the time. And that his tactics are still being taught is very impressive.
I don’t think I could actually single one out. They were all fantasctic
I have to agree with you jason, They are all great! Might have to go with the 3rd on though. It seems to stick out alittle to me.
Tediam, I’m not sure really. Maybe it’s because I come from Belgium, lived there and travelled through that particular area lots of times and because as soon as I got the DVD set, I watched that episode first. I had heard lots of great things about the series and that episode did not match my expectations. I realise that we’re following a particular unit through time and that, at times, well, those men were not necessarily involved in the most exciting (‘exciting’ is not really the ‘right’ word in this case!) fighting. But I had been hoping for ‘more’, maybe ‘more’ in terms of the actual way the soldiers and civilians in Bastogne lived that harsh winter. Granted, the Ardennes region looks very much like it was portrayed in the episode, and obviously lots of research went into making sure the whole thing looked like it should have looked in the Ardennes.
All in all, difficult to say why I feel that way about that episode…
I heard not long ago Speilberg was planning on a project detailing a unit in the Pacific…but don’t know anything further…
I liked Crossroads as well…
I like them all but perhaps my favorite, if I had to pick one, would be the episode involving the night river crossing and the prisoner snatch.
At the time I watched it, I too hated the Battle of Bulge episode but for a different reason than DJ. During the previous episodes, I grew to really like Wild Bill, and was really saddened when he apparently got killed attempting to drag Joe Toye to safety. I was really happy in the final episode, where they identified the veterans in in interviews, to find out he had actually survived.
Hmmmm…
Day of Days, Carentan & Replacements - mostly because of the action and snapshots of well…tanks.
I forget the name of it, but the episode where Easy takes out a German artillery position in the trenches and puts TNT in the barrels stands out to me. I might just build a diorama of that scene.
BTW, anyone know what that episode was called??
Day of Days.
i think my favorite one is the market garden one, whatever it’s called.
Hmmmm my first post and its not about models…ah well .Ive lost count how many times Ive seen that series , They are all good but I particularly like the last when all the actual surviving members of Easy were identified , it almost made me cry ( i had something in my eye …honest).The first time I saw the show the put the first 2 epsodes on together, I was at a friends house watching with about 4 others.Not one of us said a word during the 2nd episode.gripping stuff.
Replacements…I believe.
I think the favorite would be day of days, followed by the episode where Withers led his last attack in charge of easy, When he runs up on the SS Battalions.
Steve
was Day of Days the d-day episode? It was long ago when i watched it, so i forget.