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Comments (23)
Gentle training makes for weak warfighters. War really sucks sometimes. It can be hard. Training needs to reflect that. It needs to be stressful.
Please tell me you guys spotted Simon Pegg!
The spaghetti scene reminds me of the CRBN training. Basically it's your first time out in the field and we were served a hot meal of chili mac, after running the confidence course. Nice and sweaty and full of chili mac, they'd send us into the CS chamber, which is a basically tear gas. And CS gas sticks to any moister on your skin. Choking and coughing sometimes guys would heave and freak out thinking they were puking blood. Sadists... Hahahahahahaha!
It's been almost twenty years since I went to basic. I swear to god I can still smell CS sometimes.
Yo, couldnt patreon reactors just upload the reaction mp4 including audio on like one drive? or is that against the terms.
at that point it's not TOS that it's against, but the actual law unfortunately :/
I always love another rewatch of this perfect mini-series, I hope yall continue on into Masters of the Air!
Here's the thing about Sobel... you have to remember that THEY WERE ON A BREAK!
okay you got me
If you want to lose your composure watching old men cry there’s no better place to do it than the interviews with the airborne vets in this series. This is the best thing HBO ever did. Period.
so happy Maple is watching this. in my opinion band of brothers is the greatest tv mini series of all time in the same way that lotr is the greatest movie trilogy of all time. and, again in my opinion, Maples reaction to lotr is the best i've ever seen! not crapping on many of the other really great reactions it's just, for me at least, Maples tops the list. i have watched it maybe 3 or 4 times and it won't be long before i watch it again. i think it just helps me to see that there are still people who care in the world and that gives me hope!
I don't think it's been mentioned yet, but Damien Lewis, who plays Winters, was married to Helen McCrory, aka Polly.
And Narcissa Malfoy
i’m sorry to ask this again but it’s just driving me crazy lol. is there any new updates on aot? did you guys change your minds about watching it?
I'm pretty excited for it too, but i think i saw a comment from them saying they will do it after adolescence (i could be wrong)
Maple & Arianna, per your questions about filming: The show was filmed over the course of 8 to 10 months starting in April 2000. The first episode aired Sept. 9, 2001 (yes, 2 days before 9/11 and that tragedy only increased the emotional connection for many of us who watched episodes live). And if my memory serves, the planes carrying the men were mostly CGI actually, with only a couple of real planes available for the production to use.
I think the production got the one remaining C-47 that was still air worthy. I think it was formerly an air mail carrier that they converted for the production. They also used the same film locations that were used for Saving Private Ryan. I think the only time that they used a different set was the Belgium scenes. They used a hanger for those scenes.
Getting flashbacks to when I had to crawl through a wet ditch on my belly after our NCO had taken a fresh piss into further upstream. Still, our Scottish NCO's were way nicer to us than the English lot. I was a dropout but honestly quite enjoyed the training.
Sobel showed his true nature when he lied to get Winters in trouble: it wasn’t possible for him to have called and left a message, since there was no phone to call where Winters was living. Sobel was probably lucky to have been transferred, because that was a straight up falsehood, and he would have been shredded in a court-martial.
How exciting! the show that got me started on this channel waaay back was Band of Brothers, Maple hasn't seen it and its such a great show, definitely worth a repeat watch for Arianna (you are a good sport for doing it again!!!) Maple, keep your eyes peeled for a LOT of unknowns who later became BIG stars--including Andrew Scott (from Fleabag), Michael Fassbender (X-men), James McAvoy (X-men), Dominic Cooper, Tom Hardy (venom), Colin Hanks, Jimmy Fallon (talk show host), and Stephen Graham (peaky Blinders). Also, girls, this entire series is based on a book by Stephen Ambrose who interviewed the real guys who lived thru it ---its all true and these are real people. Just an amazing and often heartbreaking story. ♡
Maple asked what would happen if a private throat-chopped an officer. Hard time, possibly death during wartime.
Ohhhh shit, this is what brought me here in the first place, perfect time for a rewatch!
me too!!!