Band Of Brothers Full Reaction | Part Seven: The Breaking Point
Added 2024-11-20 21:11:34 +0000 UTCThese episodes just keep getting heavier. I knew by the title that we'd be dealing with a lot of loss both physically and mentally, but nothing could have prepared me for this episode and what the Easy Company men went through. Despite the emotional rollercoaster this episode put me through, I absolutely loved every moment of it. The directing, the sounds, the music (which I'm realizing there hasn't really been much music in these episodes until this one) and the narration during this entire episode was done so well.
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Link: https://youtu.be/wNczy5Edswg
I watched this on HBO Max
Comments
I'm watching this late. This is one episode that is tough for me to watch. I've been in limited combat but have had people die in front of me. Without going into too much detail I do have one gentleman who likes to pay me a visit from time to time.
SnakeandNape
2025-05-31 03:07:35 +0000 UTCThose weren't tigers firing on them. Tigers were tanks. Those were a battery of 88mm artillery cannons.
PP82
2025-02-12 06:38:44 +0000 UTCI believe I read, in Winters' memoir, that he had always been uneasy about Speirs, and later regretted not calling him out on doing a lot of shit, war crimes basically. But he was desperate for a solid combat commander, and Speirs was certainly that. So Winters took what he considered the lesser of two evils. I do think BoB does a great job of not letting Speirs be some shining hero. He's always cold, a bit... off. You see hints of cruelty and barely-restrained anger. A very human portrayal.
Chris Truex
2025-01-01 05:13:34 +0000 UTCBut if you do not want me to your channel no more i understand. But i tried in the end. I did. And i never had anything against you, i was just angry that someone kick me of the discord server over words they misinterpreted and took their hearts.
Evert Jethoe
2024-11-22 19:39:06 +0000 UTCHi Kali, I am sharing my thoughts to you ok?. 1st i am very sorry that your moderator took my words to her own heart. That was not my intention. I explain: Within my Family a long time ago, when they took my baby picture, to these years where i am ill/sick. 1 of the family members told me this: โEvert! You should put that baby picture online and tell people of its joy". And i was like ok? And then he told me that he showed other people that where sad or maybe depressed or nothing at all, to star in its eyes and all of them started smiling laughing and they told him that it worked!. That is the only thing i was saying or trying to say to your moderator. But if she wants to take every word to the extreme then who am i to say who is boss. I just never ment it as she thought it to be. And that is the problem with words. You never know what they are really feeling when someone says something in words. Rather then in real time face to face. So am sorry ok? I will try to stay a member just not on discord ok?.
Evert Jethoe
2024-11-22 19:32:17 +0000 UTCJust the directing, music, and cinematography of this episode alone cements this show in my mind as one of the all time greats. Let alone this only being 1 piece of this whole series. I'm so glad I sat down to watch this series a little while back knowing you were going to be reacting to it. It's just given me such a new appreciation of the brave soldiers, and of life in general I don't know how you were able to function as a normal person this week after going through both this episode and everything going on the gaming side of the channel too...
M1 Maz
2024-11-21 01:48:53 +0000 UTCSome context regarding Lt. Dike and Lt. Speirs: This episode and Band of Brothers in general is a more or less subjective telling of the experiences of Easy Company. This also applies to Lt. Dike. He was an intelligence officer during D-Day and then later was involved in Operation Market Garden where he successfully commanded the defense of an important road, receiving a bronze star. During the time at Bastogne, he also pulled wounded soldiers out of the line of fire, receiving a second bronze star. He did, however, have trouble bonding with the men of Easy Company and was absent quite a bit (which, depending on the command style of the people higher up, might not have been entirely his decision). He didn't handle the experiences too well and by the point the assault on Foy began, probably was in a really bad mental state, leading to him making decisions out of fear. This is similar to what we saw in episode three where the soldiers do not want to leave the ditch in the assault on Carentan, though unlike there, there is noone that can tell Dike to move forward directly with him like Winters and the other officers / NCOs did in Carentan. Depending on the account, Dike might also have been wounded before shutting down. After WW2, he remained in the US Army Reserve and later also served in Korea. To be clear, Lt. Dike was probably not in a state where he should have lead Easy Company on the assault into Foy, but there was a reason he was put into the position he was in and he did at least some good work even as their CO. Lt. Speirs on the other hand, was a fearless leader from the beginning, as also shown in episode two when capturing the last gun. He had worked his way up in Dog Company but was still stuck as a platoon leader. Some claim he intentionally positioned himself close to Winters just in case. He used his image to his advantage for leadership, motivating his men through their belief that he was almost invulnerable and leading them to follow him into almost anything. It is also very likely that most stories about him are true with Cpt. Winters later claiming that Speirs confirmed to him in writing both the shooting of the prisoners on D-Day as well as a soldier in his own company for insubordination. Also Cpt. Winters, though he was still very attached to Easy Company, did stop himself from relieving Lt. Dike and did not have to be stopped by Col. Sink. He knew he had to keep an overview of the situation to command the other companies involved in the assault effectively and looked around to find someone to take over, for which he quickly picked Lt. Speirs
Pascal Vorwerk
2024-11-21 00:48:46 +0000 UTCThis series kind of did "Foxhole" Norman Dike a little dirty. It's true that he failed to gain the respect of the men. It's true that Winters needed to send Spiers in to relieve him. But here's some additional context the show did not include. Dike was twice decorated for heroic actions prior to him joining Easy. Lipton suggested he was sent to Easy for combat experience so he could climb the ranks, but that's just not true. So why did he struggle leading Easy? Maybe he was struggling with his own PTSD from prior action. Maybe it was because he was wounded in that attack, which the episode did not show us. Most people I've seen react to the yawning see that as proof that Dike was disinterested. You're the first I've seen that identified that as a stress reflex. I love that. Yawning can absolutely be a symptom of extreme anxiety. I'm actually not sure that the real Dike had that problem, but it was in the portrayal for a reason. As PTSD wasn't really understood back then nobody would have recognized that, including himself. Who knows what the actual truth is. You'll get different answers depending who you ask. I understand why the show portrayed him the way they did for storytelling purposes but I think it's important to know the added context. Out of respect to the memory of the man and his family.
Aaron Chandler
2024-11-21 00:27:51 +0000 UTC
