Posts Tagged television
The Pacific
Posted by Levi in Current Events on March 12, 2010
I am totally stoked that HBO is producing another miniseries based on World War II. This one is called The Pacific. I looked at some of the photos and other information posted at the HBO website. It looks just as cool as their last one Band of Brothers.
I love the fact that the producers capture the camaraderie of the era as well as some of the pure horror that those soldiers must have gone through. By studying and learning from history like this, maybe we can help keep ourselves from repeating it.
The sad part about this whole ordeal is that we dropped HBO about a year ago. We used to watch it religiously when they were running awesome series like The Sopranos, Deadwood and Rome. Those shows were all downright addicting. We would be glued to the television every Sunday night.
I am going to have to talk a friend into taping it for me so that I can watch it. It sucks having to wait for this stuff to come out on DVD. I don’t think this one series is reason enough to sign back up for HBO. If they were still producing great series like the ones I mentioned, we would never have dropped it.
I got really mad at them after they produced that absolutely horrible show called John from Cincinnati. We got totally sucked into the show only to realize that the writers had not really developed the story line. It seemed like the writers were building us up to some giant event only to realize that the writers themselves had no idea what that event was really going to be.
Pricks.
Ever since then I have been mad at HBO for wasting so much of my time building up an interesting story without ever finishing it. It is like when a friend tells you that he has a crazy secret to share but then he never tells you what the secret is.
