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every day of my life i think about how ross mccall as joseph liebgott wore a star of david on his dog tags for the entirety of band of brothers but you can only actually see it onscreen after “why we fight” because he’s started wearing it over his clothes… the fact that the first scene where it’s visible is the scene where he goes to kill the german officer in episode 10… fuck that’s good tv.

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babe/roe starting to tickle my interest, but I can't say I fully understand the dynamic yet. I get eugene's side. throughout the series and especially in bastogne we see how isolated eugene is from the other men because when shit hits the fan he has to be objective about their medical care and do what he needs to do. he can't buddy up with them because if they get hit and he loses them the blow will be too great and he can't work in those conditions. he meets renee who unlike the other guys of easy, besides spina, understands exactly what he's going through and how hard it is to treat these wounded men. he loses her, but maybe in knowing her he realizes he needs someone in his corner, that he can't completely distance himself, so he allows himself to get closer to babe

what I'd like to hear people's thoughts on is what babe gets out of his relationship with eugene. we see that babe is pretty integrated into easy even though he was a replacement because he has that connection with bill. we see him laughing and joking around with the guys and he's well-liked. is it just that he sees how gene is different from the other men and feels some sort of draw to him because he's mysterious and reserved? i.e. he calls babe edward/heffron when no one else calls him that. babe is obviously really torn up about julian and felt some sort of responsibility for saving him but couldn't get to him, so is it that he's feeling eugene's pain of losing men?

anyways, these probably aren't original thoughts by any means but I haven't been active in the fandom in this capacity even though I watched the show ten years ago so I'm still new to the fandom interpretations of these characters/their dynamics. television man.......

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the hbo war fandom be like:

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THE PACIFIC - fandom text posts

insp. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)

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brb parachuting into occupied france with only this

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BAND OF BROTHERS 1x05 crossroads

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i still haven’t watched the masters of the air bc i’m scared i’ll either hate it or love it 🧍‍♂️

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just wanna gatekeep girlboss gaslight my hbowar boys

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quick everyone tell me your thoughts on masters of the air bc i’m so NERVOUS for some reason and i want to talk to my fellow hbowar lovers

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masters of the air is going to be mainstream, how do i act normal about it when i’ve read so many hbowar fics. when i know so much. when i’ve seen the horrors of this fandom.

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EP 03 - Eugene 'DOC' Roe "Was just a ricochet"

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if austin butler is still doing the elvis voice in masters of air idk what i’ll do

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+ Band of Brothers - Red Cross Symbol +

On any WW2 battlefield, there would be found thousands of men trained and ready to do one thing: take a life of the enemy. There would also be a few trained and ready to do an entirely different mission: save lives. They won a war with only gauze and stainless steel scissors. - National D-Day Memorial

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I dedicate this to @malarkgirlypop

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“In the war film, a soldier can hold his buddy—as long as his buddy is dying on the battlefield. In the western, Butch Cassidy can wash the Sundance Kid’s naked flesh—as long as it is wounded. In the boxing film, a trainer can rub the well-developed torso and sinewy back of his protege—as long as it is bruised. In the crime film, a mob lieutenant can embrace his boss like a lover—as long as he is riddled with bullets. 

Violence makes the homo-eroticism of many “male” genres invisible; it is a structural mechanism of plausible deniability.”

–Tarantino’s Incarnational Theology: Reservoir Dogs, Crucifixions, and Spectacular Violence. Kent L. Brintnall.

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isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different? - c.s. lewis