Big Daddy Speirs

Just a thirsty girl avoiding real life stress and responsibilities through hbo war

[sweetenochian]

[lostinthewiind]

Band of Brothers as Weird Tinder Bios

[iceiceicecold]

Easy Company as memes saved in my phone

Speirs

Talbert

Nixon

Babe

Bull

Malarkey

Webster

Guarnere

Liebgott

Shifty

[books-are-anasthetics-deactivat]

Liebgott: so do you remember anything after getting shot?

Grant: not much, just Captain Speirs holding my hand

Half of the squad: *👀👀👀👀*

Speirs, sweating bullets: WELL IT SEEMS THE KRAUT SURGEON MADE A MISTAKE, THE MAN IS SEING THINGS THAT NEVER WERE

Grant: i also remember you carrying me up to the operating room

Speirs: *tries to take out IVs*

[anythingnature]

[web-gott]

here’s some band of brothers funny moments edited by meeeeee :))) there’s a part two of y’all want

[andrewhaldane]

the entire hbo war fandom after learning that two (2) entire episodes were supposedly cut from band of brothers and the deleted scenes were filmed but never released

[easiestcompany-blog]

Boy: Why is your purse so big what do you keep in there anyways

Me: Three day supply of K-rations, chocolate bars, charms candy, powdered coffee, sugar, matches, compass, bayonet, entrenching tool, ammunition, gas mask, musette bag with ammo, my webbing, my .45, canteen, two cartons of smokes, hawkins mine, two grenades, smoke grenade, gamma grenade, TNT, this bullshit, and a pair of nasty skivvies.

Boy: Damn thats a lot of st-

Me: I’ve still got my chute, my reserve chute, my mae west, my M-1.

Boy:

Me: And some brass knuckles.

[notsaulgoodmans-blog]

[leoholzer]

[romesfall-deactivated20210223]

Lynn “Buck” Compton + turning away

“…to be honest, Buck wasn’t the same soldier he’d been before he got shot in Holland.”

[madamsledge-deactivated20200802]

I’m not wrong

[fussingoverfassbender]

Michael Fassbender Band of Brothers || 2001 Part 6 - Bastogne

[silverjumpwings]

i never knew what soothing was until i saw these two walking in sync all the time

[totalyaoifreak]

Wha

[speelberg]

celebrating 11 years of Generation Kill: here’s a stupidly outdated A51 chart aka a trendier variation of the alignment system

[joeytoye]

Brad Colbert

[astreetsussserenade]

your tags on the GK intro cinematic like........... yes. it's SO GOOD

YEAH. The show is doing so much in terms of character work and “realism” and gorgeous cinematography, but it usually isn’t super fussy in its visual storytelling (or not so I’ve noticed, but to be fair, I’m very easily distracted by my boys and their sparking dialogue.) The intro is an exception, because it’s a thesis statement and evidence all in one. 

We don’t know where we are, we don’t know who we’re observing, we can’t understand what they’re saying because they’re using what is recognizably elaborate jargon, and we don’t know why we’re looking at what we’re looking at.

On a re-watch things like Skittles and weapons and the sheet of call signs makes sense, but as a first montage it is very deliberately obscure. And its overlaid by people absolutely shouting with urgency into the comms, so we can tell that *something* important is happening, even if we don’t know what.

It’s bewildering and confusing, The show is aware of its viewer, but it doesn’t care. It’s trying to bewilder and confuse, but pointedly in a way that says “This all makes sense to us. You’re the one who is out of place here.” 

And then, just when you think you know what is happening - they’re at war, someone just got shot - you learn, nope! None of that is true. Head fake!

It continues for a fair bit into the first episode too - before you know who anyone is there’s violence and slurs and posturing and description of sex acts and a bewildering number of names and faces. Once the Reporter is introduced, the show doesn’t take the opportunity to make him our stranger-in-a-strange-land audience surrogate or POV character. Instead, the show is just sort of impatiently like, hurry up, follow along, figure it out. 

I love it, and I respect it as a storytelling technique. It totally grabbed me from the first minute. 

(I completely understand why it turns people off of the show with equal fervency, ymmv and all that, but I am here for it.)