[ SECRET POST #3332 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3332 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
(David Bowie)


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03.
(Great British Bake Off for Sports Relief, Ed Balls)


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04.
[Pokemon]


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05.
[Star Wars: TFA]


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06.
[Damian Lewis, Dick Winters, Band Of Brothers]


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07.
[Daughter of the Lilies]


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08.
[David Eddings]


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09.
[Sengoku Basara]


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10.
[JJBA]


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11.
[Men In Black I, II, III]
















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Comments

[herpymcderp]

Well, considering he's practically the only character who gets any characterization in BoB I'm not sure I blame you. I think my SO had a mild crush on him in that too lol.

[(Anonymous)]

You don't think Lipton, Nixon, Eugene, Malarky or Buck had any characterization?

[herpymcderp]

Considering I was still getting their names confused (well, actually maybe not Malarky, he might be a slight exception) by the end of the series, which we binge watched... yes.

Yes, if they're not distinct enough for me to tell them apart by the end, the writers didn't do a good enough job with characterization. I didn't have this problem with The Pacific or Generation Kill.

[(Anonymous)]

Or you weren't paying enough attention, maybe? All of those characters are recognizable and name-checked a lot.

[herpymcderp]

Nah, not really. They were name checked, but not that recognizable.

[kaijinscendre]

Really? Not even someone like Buck. Like, one of the most distinguishable actors I can think of? Even if you don't know his name you know, "That guy with the (literally) white hair.



The one who starts off as a cocky platoon leader and eventually has a nervous breakdown after seeing his friends killed.

[dancing_clown]

I've never watched this image in a loop before. And now I feel a little bad that all I see are Neal McDonough's ears popping out of that helmet.

[kaijinscendre]

Yeah, comfort was not as big of an issue in WWII.

[herpymcderp]

Yeah. I'll be totally honest... I forgot he existed.

To be fair though, I have seen maybe five or six dozen WWII films. Almost none of the characters managed to have personalities that I hadn't seen in ten other things already... which might be no fault of the writers and more of a fault of the industry. Parts even really seemed like clever homages.

Who knows? Don't get me wrong, I still thought it was a good show. Better than The Pacific, even.

[(Anonymous)]

Really? I don't find that at all. I think they did rather well with giving the characters distinct personalities -- especially Nixon, Harry Welsh, Speirs, and Lipton (although I admit it took several rewatches for me to be able to distinguish between all of them).

[herpymcderp]

Well, maybe if I had watched it more than once I would have been able to tell the characters apart. As it stood with one watching... Winters was/is the only one I can pick out.

If that's what the writers were going for, I can appreciate the kind of storytelling that evokes a sense of chaos and depersonalization of fellow man... but I didn't really get the sense that that's what they meant to do, you know?

Like I said, in TP and GK this was not a problem. The characters were highly distinct.

Not saying I didn't like BoB. It was great. Well produced, incredible cinematography, engaging storyline, good atmosphere... it just sort of failed to make me notice or remember anyone but Winters.

[(Anonymous)]

sa

Maybe that's why I love it so much - there's so many characters and events packed into those 10 hours that with every rewatch I find something (or someone) new that fascinates me.

I think The Pacific and Gen Kill focuses in on smaller groups of characters, so it's easier to remember them. I don't think they were characterised any better than the BoB ones.

[herpymcderp]

That might be true. I would probably have to rewatch it to see if I agreed with that assessment I don't remember the cast size of core characters being all that disparate, but there were definitely more deaths so maybe it started out that way. What BoB did have going for it was it was a pretty period-accurate representation of that war. It was therefore fairly chaotic. I assumed that was what was behind the differences in characterization.

But then, GK was also pretty damn period accurate lol. In every sense of the hurry up and wait atmosphere of modern combat. That in itself probably contributed to ...well, having more time to watch characters just fuck around.

[kaijinscendre]

We must have watched different shows...