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I feel very awkward saying this, because I'm both a lousy fannish pimp and an even worse self-pimp, but if you were one of the people who enjoyed my Escapade vid After Rain and were intrigued by the fact that "OMG, there was slash! I thought it was just blood and guts!" the History Channel is marathoning the 10-part series Band of Brothers this weekend. They do a pretty good job with it -- the only word they switch out is the f-bomb; otherwise they leave the language intact and they don't cut it to ribbons to shorten it (when it originally aired on HBO, many of the eps were just over an hour).
Yes, it does have blood and guts, but it also has fantastic relationships and amazing characters, who were real people, of course. And my main two loves, Lewis Nixon (Ron Livingston, aka Office Space guy) and Dick Winters (Damian Lewis, proving that redheads really can be hotties despite what everyone thinks). The series is simply amazing, one of the most accurate and carefully constructed depictions of war on film. My only regret about the History Channel airings is that they never show the documentary that capped the series on HBO, We Stand Alone Together. There, the still-living members of Easy Company talk in detail about the events shown in the series, and it's so moving and affecting to hear these real-life heroes talk about what they did, with humility and sadness and pride in their fellow soldiers. That's why it's worth renting the discs (and also, if you have a hi-def TV, the series was one of the first filmed in hi-def, and it's breathtaking when you watch it on disc for that reason alone).
Yes, it does have blood and guts, but it also has fantastic relationships and amazing characters, who were real people, of course. And my main two loves, Lewis Nixon (Ron Livingston, aka Office Space guy) and Dick Winters (Damian Lewis, proving that redheads really can be hotties despite what everyone thinks). The series is simply amazing, one of the most accurate and carefully constructed depictions of war on film. My only regret about the History Channel airings is that they never show the documentary that capped the series on HBO, We Stand Alone Together. There, the still-living members of Easy Company talk in detail about the events shown in the series, and it's so moving and affecting to hear these real-life heroes talk about what they did, with humility and sadness and pride in their fellow soldiers. That's why it's worth renting the discs (and also, if you have a hi-def TV, the series was one of the first filmed in hi-def, and it's breathtaking when you watch it on disc for that reason alone).