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@theweirdgoodbyes

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lewis nixon is mentioned on the wikipedia page of vat 69 btw.

this is what he would've wanted

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‘i never see you at the club’

okay?? well i never see you scrolling through the band of brothers tag on tumblr

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(I promise this is about Band of Brother)

I was thinking recently about an article I read talking about the development of ghost stories and how ghost stories became more popular in the West with the event of things like the American Civil War, where the people dying had no way to get back, to be buried. Most people died in the home, peacefully in bed, and families would be able to see the body and mourn and grieve with it, essentially accepting the person passed on and is at peace. During conflicts, especially the globalised warfare of the World Wars, families do not get that sort of closure, their loved ones die in a foreign land, sometimes an entirely different continent away, separated by sea, and thus to cope with these ghost stories become popular. Ghosts are a manifestation of grief, of lingering love for someone who can no longer return to you, and this is why ghost stories become more prevalent during war.

This then made me consider what Frank John Hughes said about Band of Brothers: "These were not in-character names. These were their best friends, whose names we were playing. We were ghosts. It was like they were walking around amongst ghosts. It’s why Grace Nixon fell a little in love with Ron Livingston. Why the Guarnere family call me Grandpa. We were bringing back these younger versions of themselves, and it was super powerful.”

This is a two-part statement-

There is the obvious, these young actors were bringing back the dead, those who had died during the war and before the premiere.

The idea of ghosts being a past self, real actors portrayals transforming and haunting the real veterans and their families.

I would consider Band of Brothers a ghost story, because of the lingering love that exists within everyone. Richard Speight Jr. as Skip Muck is a ghost, Skip died during Bastogne and is still buried in Europe, probably never to return to the United States. Malarkey was haunted by his death for decades, "I'd grieved for everybody I'd lost except for one man, the man whose death I've tried for decades to run from, the man whose loss had hit me harder than the rest", it's why when Speight attempted to call Malarkey he kept hanging up but ended up growing close. It's why when Ron Livingston met Grace Nixon, she instantly liked him, these actors became ghosts who were able to come back and the real people who knew the veterans were able to gain some sort of closure. It's why at times, Band of Brothers frequently feels like propaganda (the specifics of propaganda in the show is a whole other can of worms, to distill my thoughts, BOB sits on a seesaw flailing from pro-war to anti-war at any time). The interviews with the real veterans at the start of each episode are haunting because it seems like a last attempt to keep their friends, their brothers, alive through stories, recollections of a past and people so far away. That's why certain elements of a character or line are included, it's a chance for the audience to consider these people as more than just their death, but instead what they meant to people, like the line about the "sweet Faye Tanner" that makes Skips death even worse because you are reminded they had an entire life outside the army.

Even in episode 10 "Points", Dick Winters narrating the lives and deaths of Easy Company feels like a ghost story because its the end of the show. The real Easy Company and their loved ones got to know or relive the memories they had with the men who died and that is over. The end of Band of Brothers is a death by itself because the young men playing baseball is juxtaposed with the old men telling stories about their friends, that are no longer here but were for a short time once again. It's probably why Dick Winters and Carwood Lipton went through Ambrose's book meticulously. Stories keep people alive even 80 years after an event and sometimes that has to be enough of a substitute for the real person.

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love starting a war show they just throw 25 identical looking guys at u and then leave u too it. they don't even wish u good luck or nothing just. here have the lads. its like getting into a new kpop group

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a collective christmas wishlist

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I love how 'get a hot meal' became 1940s man code for you look fucked up

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‘i never see you at the club’

okay?? well i never see you scrolling through the band of brothers tag on tumblr

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jurassic park has a good philosophical message but unfortunately the only thing i ever take away from watching jurassic park is "god i wish i could go to jurassic park." like yeah it's a blatantly obvious don't create the torment nexus scenario, but this torment nexus has DINOSAURS.

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My favorite detail about Jurassic Park is that it has a baked-in justification for any and all retcons it might need to make due to paleontology advancing forwards.

Because there is not a single dinosaur that has ever appeared in Jurassic Park.

Not one. Not in the books. Not in the movies. Not ever.

"Now what John Hammond and InGen did at Jurassic Park was to create genetically engineered theme park monsters." ~Alan Grant

Grant says that in a moment of cynicism. It's part of his arc for the film. But it's not inaccurate. What Jurassic Park has, what it's always had since the very first novel, are "Mostly Dinosaurs".

"And since the DNA is so old, it's full of holes! Now, that's where our geneticists take over!" ~Mr. DNA

It's impossible to recover a fully intact gene sequence from an ancient amber mosquito. Cloning a pure dinosaur would have been completely impossible, and so the park filled in the gene sequence with whatever works. Frog. Lizard. Bird. Whatever they need to get the result they are trying to get.

Every single dinosaur is a chimeric beast made up of mostly dinosaur and a bunch of other stuff that some scientists thought would achieve the appropriate dinosaur-like result.

"Nothing in Jurassic World is natural! We have always filled gaps in the genome with the DNA of other animals. And if the genetic code was pure, many of them would look quite different." ~Dr. Henry Wu

Which, from a writing perspective, is fucking genius. Because now you have a preset excuse for each and every plot hole your movie has.

Like. Why don't the raptors have feathers? Because of the chimera DNA.

Why do dilophosaurs spit venom? Because of the chimera DNA.

Why do T-Rexes have movement based vision? Oh, they don't. But Rexy does. Because of her chimera DNA.

Why is the Spinosaurus so fucking big? Because of the chimera DNA.

Why are the velociraptors mislabeled? Because Hammond's a dipshit.

Like. I've always marveled at the way Jurassic Park started out by giving itself a blanket excuse to be wrong about every single thing it ever said about the central attraction of its franchise. It's honestly beautiful, and allows the series a degree of immortality well into the era where we know better about its animals.

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Squid Game Season 1 painting (I miss sang-woo so much)

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did squid game fans skip all of season one? WHERE are the doomed yaoi sangihun shippers.