I just lost my source of "The Pacific" up to Part 8

his ex gf did this to this computer:



anyone have any site suggestions? I really don't want to wait for Blu-Ray to watch the last 3 parts.

5/5/2010 12:31:50 AM

pretty much any torrent site?

5/5/2010 12:38:52 AM

don't really like to go the Torrent route for single episodes, any sites?

5/5/2010 12:47:20 AM

Newsgroups?

5/5/2010 12:58:44 AM

jesus christ are you really that useless when it comes to the fucking internet

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=the+pacific+episode+8+streaming

in the first 4 results there are at least a dozen links to working streams

5/5/2010 1:13:53 AM

I don't want to stream it, I want to download it.

5/5/2010 1:15:04 AM

i know exactly how you can. but you're being a picky douche about it so fuck off

here's a hint thou - the link i posted helps...not that you even clicked the first time through

[Edited on May 5, 2010 at 1:28 AM. Reason : .]

5/5/2010 1:27:04 AM

I already have Part 8, when Part 9 comes I need to download.

5/5/2010 1:31:16 AM

for fucks sake man...you're worthless

[Edited on May 5, 2010 at 1:33 AM. Reason : .]

5/5/2010 1:32:33 AM

I think the Basilone story has been the most developed so far. His story probably could have been a movie within itself. Hopefully, Sledge's tale comes around full circle. The pace of these stories seems a little off.

goalielax, I recommend the block user plugin. I haven't read a Black Dog post in over a week. It's fantastic.

Also, how about that Patriot League championship?

5/5/2010 2:06:02 AM

oh yes the block user app....please tell me so I can block half the board.

5/5/2010 2:25:03 AM

i think the story is just so grand in its scope that it's hard to develop everyone to the intimate details that BoB did. but I also think that the bitching about this series was way premature. you can't tell me the last 4 episodes haven't pulled all these storylines together into a compelling show

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"Also, how about that Patriot League championship? "

- Navy's team sucked ass this year. just shows how bad hopkins is

[Edited on May 5, 2010 at 2:38 AM. Reason : .]

5/5/2010 2:28:50 AM

I'm so glad we have a massive picture of a computer at the top of the page. It's completely relevant to the discussion going on here.

Did anybody else think that "the most beautiful woman [Basilone] had ever seen" was kinda fugly? I mean, she wasn't completely hideous, but certianly not anything special. I get that he kinda went after her because she initially turned him down and provided a challenge, but...I dunno, they could have gotten a prettier actress for that part, IMO.

5/5/2010 6:32:00 AM

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"don't really like to go the Torrent route for single episodes, any sites?"

why the fuck not? you could have it downloaded in 15 minutes, seed it for an hour to 1.0 and have it completely gone. Hell you could have done all that in the time it took you to bitch and moan about everyone's help they've tried to give you.

5/5/2010 7:34:01 AM

revolutiontt has xvid and hd rips of this show. But you need to be a pro seeder to get on the site.

5/5/2010 9:26:00 AM

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"I dunno, they could have gotten a prettier actress for that part, IMO."

yeah, but man she looks a lot like the real life Lena: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USS_Basilone_christening_I03377.jpg

5/5/2010 11:28:14 AM

^^^^ It's the uniform... think that's what he said, right?

5/5/2010 1:45:39 PM

Ugh, I just can't help myself from preferring BoB to this. The stories being told about the 3 men seem so disjointed since you sometimes go 2-3 weeks without seeing anything about 1 of them.

5/5/2010 1:55:24 PM

Yidio.

5/5/2010 3:29:13 PM

http://www.usni.org/thepacific/index.asp?episode=11

An episode-by-episode companion to the show from the US Naval Institute's Naval History magazine.

5/6/2010 5:37:35 PM

sweet, yeah i think you have to see them more in quick sequence... or they could have just broken it up into separate subseries.

5/7/2010 3:54:37 PM

crazy episode tonight. okinawa was a lovely place.

5/9/2010 10:31:35 PM

Something that crossed my mind watching last week's was that BoB was going from D-Day till the end of the war, so they had what, 2 years tops (going back to training) to cover. The Pacific is almost trying to cover the entire pacific campaign. Would explain the disjointedness of it all.

5/9/2010 11:28:16 PM

yeah, i mentioned that back on page 4

easy company was established at Camp Toccoa in 1942, and the war in Europe started with D-Day on 6 June 1944 and ended on 8 May 1945 just over 11 months

the war in the pacific for the 1st Marines started at Guadalcanal on 7 August 1942 and lasted until V-J Day on on Aug 15 1945...just over 36 months.

just another comparison to show the scope:
the 101st Airborne had 1,766 Killed In Action and 6,388 Wounded In Action in the 11 months in Europe.
the 1st Marines had 1,252 Killed in Action and 5,274 Qounded in Action in the 10 days they spent on Peleliu

[Edited on May 10, 2010 at 1:21 AM. Reason : .]

5/10/2010 1:20:59 AM

another good episode, but i must say that i am kind of looking forward to it wrapping up.

5/10/2010 8:13:37 AM

Honestly, this series has been a dissapointment.

5/10/2010 11:23:08 AM

Honestly, this series has been fucking awesome.

5/10/2010 1:51:51 PM

i think the pieces have been greater than the whole.

5/10/2010 1:53:05 PM

i imagine the same people who don't like this series also thought the thin red line was disappointing after watching saving private ryan

5/10/2010 3:43:41 PM

My main problem with it is how disjointed it is. There isnt a storyline that flows through this more than 2-3 episodes, then I have to get to know all knew characters and forget the rest. Some people may call that a good thing, but for entertainment sake, it sucks.

I am not saying I havent liked the series, its just not all that an a bag of chips. i give it a 6.5 out of 10, where BoB was more like a 8.5 out of 10.

5/10/2010 4:00:22 PM

yeah, i do kinda agree with the disjointed aspect, they should have put all of the 'stories' in order 1-4, 5-7, 8-10? just to keep each story line more coherent week by week.

5/10/2010 4:06:47 PM

Maybe you think of it as disjointed because of the island hopping aspect of the pacific theater where as in BoB it was a continuous trek east towards and into Germany?

[Edited on May 10, 2010 at 5:11 PM. Reason : ?]

5/10/2010 5:10:56 PM

I think you'd be better off watchig this all 10 hours in a row then over 3 months weekly

5/10/2010 6:27:01 PM

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"in BoB it was a continuous trek east towards and into Germany?"

Eh. Normandy, then away from the front. Market Garden, then away from the front. Bastogne, then a break, then camped out on the river, then on to Austria.

5/10/2010 7:45:47 PM

BoB had superior characters. These pacific guys are generally douchebags, and only creepy guy is interesting


If your show doesn't have compelling characters, then there is a hard ceiling on how good it can be

[Edited on May 10, 2010 at 7:54 PM. Reason : .]

5/10/2010 7:53:43 PM

Radio Flyer guy is doing a great job IMO

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"why the fuck not? you could have it downloaded in 15 minutes, seed it for an hour to 1.0 and have it completely gone. Hell you could have done all that in the time it took you to bitch and moan about everyone's help they've tried to give you."

the guy with the computer above gave me his personal source of 720p Pacific rips he is uploading, thanks anyway





[Edited on May 10, 2010 at 7:57 PM. Reason : .]

5/10/2010 7:55:01 PM

episode 9 was intense. great depiction of the psyche of these guys...sledge's descent into all out hate for the Japanese, then showing his humanity in holding the dying civilian woman (who was carrying a grenade?? )

I also liked the reference at the end to the atomic bombs, and then the closing shot of the B-29's, the plane that dropped the A-bombs, flying overhead


one of the best of the series i think. but like someone else said, i think im looking forward to it wrapping up

5/11/2010 9:07:49 PM

^ i think it was a toy she was holding

i think the whole thing rise and fall of hating the Japanese is a little dramatic. i imagine everyone there was full of hate and rage for these japanese, but that doesnt make for very good liberal television

5/11/2010 10:45:23 PM

So, you interpret mowing down japs indiscriminately then finally not killing a toddler and old lady as a "rise and fall of hate"?

GTFO with that shit. Trying too hard to contrive some political bullshit where there is none

5/12/2010 1:19:08 AM

oh you were going after the unrelated toddler scenario? i was going after the obvious scenario where Sledge shot an attacking japanese soldier with his sidearm, then later did not shoot an unarmed japanese man, while people over his shoulder did, reiterating his earlier comment about "we're here to kill, arent we?".

GTFO with that misinformation bullshit, hippy

another key scene is the Intelligence marine leaving his unrestrained prisoners in the middle of a trail, and threatening to court marshal the other marines for pushing his prisoner to the ground. really? i imagine anything short of killing the guy would not be frowned upon in those days.

but we're in a different culture now, where navy SEALs are tried by our government for punching a suspected terrorist in the stomach while detained.

5/12/2010 1:56:17 AM

Sledge should have shot that woman, that wasn't mercy, it was suffering.

5/12/2010 6:06:40 PM

that's true, but it wasn't about her, it was about him.

5/12/2010 6:13:46 PM

he was enjoying the fruits of his own mortar work yo.

5/12/2010 6:46:09 PM

i just think that war dehumanizes all involved, it doesnt teach them all a lesson in humility like was depicted in this last episode. that whole idea is pretty cliche. i think a war hardened Sledge was more likely to kill unarmed / innocent Japanese than fresh off the boat rookies would be, after everything he'd already been through

5/12/2010 11:26:04 PM

so what'd we all think? now that the series is over and we can really reflect on it, good/bad? i for one really enjoyed this series; i gave it a chance right from the get-go not expecting anything out of it and because of that, was rewarded with a great mini-series. i look forward to watching all the episodes again in succession without a week in between each one. in time, i think people who were critical of this series for not being BoB will see the true value and merit in it - that while it focused more on individual stories those men were still all apart of a brotherhood forged in combat.

5/17/2010 9:32:52 AM

i enjoyed the finale quite a bit.

5/17/2010 9:36:06 AM

enjoyed the finale and love the series as a whole.

I thoroughly enjoyed the scene with Lena and Basilone's family...from the moment his mom opened the door until their final mourning embrace.

5/17/2010 9:42:46 AM

I haven't seen past Episode 6 yet! I need to watch them. I've been stuck on watching that History Channel show about America the last four weeks...

5/17/2010 9:46:15 AM

overall it was a damn good mini-series for me.

i tend to give a lot of value to "intent", as opposed to only the end resulting delivery.

there were a lot of different angles that had to be captured, a lot of different components of the human element that had to be touched on in a short amount of time; not to mention a long time period, large and fragmented geography, and a lot of battles that had to be framed into a relatively small number of episodes.

those of you who are disappointed when compared to BOB, i see where you're coming from, but this was nontheless a pretty good story telling of accounts in the Pacific.


btw, i'm glad Leckie ended up with Vera and not that POG from West Point who "missed the whole show".

i have family in Raritan, NJ - going to ask them about the parade they hold for Basilone.

the part about Sledge not wanting to put on a uniform at the ball & not wanting to fire the gun when out with his dad was telling. there is definitely a biological response regarding PTSD that we have not yet fully understood -- epigenetic changes (not changes in genetic code per se, but changes in how DNA is expressed in cells) are definitely occuring, and can be clearly observed via certain biomarkers in those suffering from PTSD.

5/17/2010 12:14:01 PM

A++ would watch again.

5/17/2010 1:02:50 PM