General Discussion: Why We Fight (original) (raw)

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Ooh god, this episode makes me bawl like a little kid.

I was holding it back than he started to cry, and I couldn't hold it in anymore. I don't think I could've asked them to go back in there.

I couldn't have asked them either. It woulda been too hard for me to do.

D'oh! I was hoping this post wouldn't be until February. I hope no one's looking particularly forward to the Crack Post until February because I have dial up right now and 2 hrs downloading per cap batch is not time I want to spend. :P

Do you have some suggestions for the caps? Because I could probably put together a post from your recs and get it posted.

(We should chat over email, actually, about plans and such for the comm. I'm at work, but I'll send something your way after I get home tonight.)

It's really just any images that I look at and literally LOL. Which, in an episode about alcoholism and the Holocaust, would just reinforce my ticket to hell.

Ooh, how unsettling, I've literally only just finished watching this episode. (I decided to finish off the rewatch myself so I can watch Points tomorrow for Dick Winters' birthday.)

Wasn't taking notes, but... usually, this episode is so sad I move straight on to Points and don't let in sink in, but today, not doing that, it got me even more than usual. Nothing I can say that's new, or anything, just the usual ponderings on man's inhumanity to man.

Also - this episode is beautifully directed. The framing device of the string quartet is one of my favourite images from the entire series.

Oh, and one thing, I was kind of amused by the little touch of the commander's wife's dog barking at Nixon, as a callback to how pissed off he was about losing his own dog.

Just a shame they screwed up the dates. The opener says they're in the bombed-out city on the 11th April, and FDR's death is mentioned in flashback, but he died on the 12th. How'd they miss that one?

How'd they miss that one?
Good question, to put in the same list as the one concerning Blithe.

I rewatch this episode less than the others, it is such a hard watch, especially Leibgott in the camp. The part where two men (Luz and Bull?) enter one of the huts also gets me every time - the scene inside is so like pictures from the real liberation of Belsen. I saw an Imperial War Musuem exhibition commemorating the liberation of Belsen years ago, and that scene brings back so many details and images, very disturbing.

Because I know the Landsberg stortyline is coming I have always found it hard to get into the Nixon storyline of this episode, but this time I was struck by the contrast with his earlier reactions to death ("not bad for Dukeman" said in Holland) and how much more he seems to feel the death of those on his plane.

And this is why I don't rewatch it that often - it is time for bed, but my thoughts are too sombre to want to go. I feel the need to watch "where's my stuff?" and the glorious sight of Grant singing in the jeep and then I can toddle off pondering the less gruesome question of why Speirs' teacup doesn't have the same cult status as Spina's hat.

Sorry, Liebgott, not Leibgott. I might have known the decision to do Latin, not German, at school would come back to bite me.

I felt Webster's 'meltdown scene' before and after finding out about the camp was all about himself and his rage. Liebgott's breakdown felt more real. But I liked how Webster turned into anger while Liebgott broke down and cried.

This episode is so tough to watch. The actors who portrayed the concentration camp victims did an OUTSTANDING job. My favorite part is when Frank Peconte goes off on O'Kieffe. It's the first time you see him really go off on a replacement. I also had to giggle a bit when Frank states the forest they are walking in reminds him of Bastogne. I just love Luz's response and asking Bull to smack Frank for him.

I really feel for Liebgott who these were his ethnicity so it hit home really hard for him. I also love Nixon and how he just stares at the woman as she tries to pick a body up, after he knows that her husband was a Nazi. He's just so angry it's awesome. I just cry during this part because you really feel Easy Company's confusion about what they are seeing and having people come up and hug and kiss them. It must have just broken their hearts. Such a good episode and probably one of the most dramatic of the series.