If Band of Brothers is 10/10, the Pacific is x/10?

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As was the guy who played Sledge.

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Band of Brothers had Winters as its center. The Pacific has no center, but rather it's split over the 3 main characters.

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While this is true, I guess the show runners didn’t have much choice. There wasnt nearly as much congruity in the Pacific like in Europe where the Army went to England and basically headed straight East.

Between the island hopping and the high casualty rate there was no single person or group they could follow from beginning to end.

That was my biggest critique of The Pacific. I never felt connected to any of the characters/soldiers. I think the three separate storylines detracted from each other. Going through the story of Easy Company as a whole group made you connect with them.

They should've made Chesty Puller the center of the series. Guy is a legend.

Basilone sucked but he sucked as far back as Selena.

Band of Brothers was the better overall show, better character, comraderie etc. The Pacific did a better job with the horror of war and the personal toll.

It's BoB 1A and if you want something different Pacific 1B or at worst a close 2

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Why you got to do this?

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Sorry, Baw. If Bob didn't exist, I think my opinion would be better.


It's my second watch. I hoped it would be more favorable. It has some pretty great set pieces. And perhaps there was no way for it to be as good and still be historically accurate.

It's almost as if all the actors (especially the secondary ones) were affected by BoB and tried to "go big." It just doesn't work, most of the time.

I read the book by Sledge. They definitely went through hell and were heroes. Unfortunately I don't find the series to be quite the masterpiece that BoB was.

Band of brothers is just the perfect story. Easy company must face a different challenge every step along its tour through Europe. It’s makes for perfect story telling where every episode is a new challenge.

At a certain point the island hoping of the pacific has a certain pattern to it, making the different episodes seem a bit like a repeat. Just theatrically, it’s not as compelling.

Plus there isn’t a local population dynamic. Easy company gets to experience the full emotional range of liberating people. Pacific doesn’t really have that.

Pacific lost a ton of dough for HBO apparently pitched on the heels of BoB (which lived in the still viable DVD sales universe) and was released around 9/11. Band of Brothers was a perfect storm.

The Pacific got a huge production budget because of it (and it shows), it's technically the more cinematic offering but people weren't into the personal stories and side soap opera as they were with BoB.

I prefer it, the production values are nothing you'll see again for TV and it's unfairly compared to a time, place and emotion that didn't exist 10 years later when it was released.

As far as old fashioned Mini-series, BoB wins...but The Pacific is far more phenomenal depicting the horrors of war...which maybe, people don't want to see in a water-cooler mini-series. One is more about people, the other war.

Have seem both 10+ times.

Pacific > BoB. Way more action and Japanese were absolute savages

I enjoyed them both greatly, but I liked The Pacific more than Band of Brothers.

I watched The Pacific first so maybe that is why.

I enjoyed the Pacific more because I was more interested in the Pacific theatre than the European theatre. BoB is still great. The first half of the Pacific was a 7/10 while the latter half with Sledge was 10/10.

It would be neat if there was a miniseries that covered the Pacific naval and aerial engagements such as Midway, Guadalcanal, Philippine sea, and the GOAT-the multiple naval clashes of Leyte Gulf.