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Roe? Thats easy. Gene was an angel
drunk once again and thinking of babe heffron once gaaibe
idk if anyone has done this yet
everything i love about points!
first scene with dick and lew sort of paralels of when we first met them in curahee and i think i am going to cry: “come to join me for a morning swim?” / “yeah. you know me so well” (and that laugh of his!!!), nix offering him a job so they can be together after the war (saying “i thought maybe i’d drag you with me”!), the soft glances and smiles… they are married, your honor.
winters’ “thinking about it” makes me think that he just doesn’t know what the hell he’s gonna do after the war. as if he hadn’t planned that far ahead. as if he hadn’t expected to make it. or as if he thinks that the war has changed him so much that he’s just not going to fit into civilian life anymore. huh.
spiers being a bit too eager to get to the eagle’s nest the first (i would also be pissed off at the idea of the french getting there first, though. like. they lost the war. what are they doing there) + smiling smugly and saying “yes, sir” in a sort of sing-song manner.
harry welsh stealing some silver cutlery for kitty + slapping spiers’ klepto hands away from the box and winters smirking at it pfftt.
winters purposely sending easy company to the eagle’s nest.
the toccoa guys jumping and laughing on their way to the eagle’s nest, screaming “hi-ho, silver!” and waving the other guys who are still on the jeeps.
that wonderful entrance to the place by spiers? cunty.
grant looks great here, but what’s new. also: awareness is a curse.
spiers flinching at malark opening a bottle of champagne… funny but also: sad!
one of my favourite scenes, when winters announces that the germans have surrendered: nix/spiers/welsh drunk and trying to name all of the german reich, winters and lipton softly smiling to each other, spiers welcoming lip with a drunk “lieutenant lipton! <3”, welsh’s “hey, hey, have a drink. come on. just so as we can say we saw you do it” to dick, all of them “standing fast”, winter’s playful “wanna hear it?” to welsh and then slapping him in the face… they are just so important to me, i am so glad they are happy i will cry about it later, thanks.
i love how winters gifts nixon, a renowned alcoholic, an entire alcohol cellar. healthy.
that “no one wanted to leave berchtesgaden… until they saw austria” and then showing the most beautiful shots you have ever seen of rural austria, with the mountains and everything??????????????? this whole episode is so beautiful, man.
nix’s “we’ll be comfortable here”. i like that he’s so aware that he’s a rich prick and even plays it up sometimes. he’s so deared to me.
“i wonder what will happen to us, major… to people like you and me when there are finally no more wars to occupy us”.
spiers’ “so, when are we going?” about the pacific…. dude you need to chill. relax. fes-te una tila.
també et dic, mira que posar un video propagandistic sobre japó a les tropes i dir-lis que aniran de seguida just després de declarar la victoria a europa… colega. dur.
nix’s sarcastic “they are gonna love you” about winters? laughing at him but also through barely contained lust? yeah.
perco unconsciously crouching (sad!) and liebgott teasing him (funny!).
awww, everyone looks so handsome in their uniforms… gene’s smiling, even!
easy company rigging the lottery so shifty gets to go home (that shot of the empty helmet and welsh’s knowing smile + the cadence of spiers’ voice when he says his name pffttt…). everyone is so happy for him. he really is the people’s princess fr.
“so much for the anniversary”, “no shit.” AWARENESS IS A CURSE.
shifty’s “back home in virginia… well, i just don’t rightly know how i’m gonna explain all this.”
i always forget he gets into a car accident. like. vamos, no me jodas.
“guts and glory here applied for a transfer” (love that nickname for winters) / “13th airborne are heading out for the pacific right away. if I'm going, i wanna get it over with” (the way nix looks at him????? shut up) / “are you in on this too?” / “i can't let him go by himself. he doesn't know where it is” (the implication that nixon just follows winters everywhere? correct and welcome) / “you're leaving the men?” / “they don't need me anymore”. shut up i’m fine. this episode is full of goodbyes. I’M FINE.
“and frankly i think your men have earned the right to keep you around”
i read that the real webster was never involved in that scene in which liebgott hunts that german officer, but i am so glad they changed it to be like this. webster and liebgott are really interesting characters, they work very well with each other, and i would’ve loved to see more!
anyone, one of the best scenes in the series. like. liebgott’s problematic, webster confronts him head on, they clash (of course) and everything fucking sucks. because the thing is: they are both right! they are both right and they end up killing that kommandant and yet nothing is fixed or changed for the better. hell fucking yeah.
webster shaking and having ticks and being all jumpy??? love to see it! (in the sense that it’s amazing to see psychological consequences of war, of course. we don’t get nearly enough in this. maybe winters and gene in episodes 5 and 6 respectively? anyway. i suppose the pacific deals with ptsd better than here).
i’m sorry that harsh cut to them on the jeep is hysterical. dysfunctional family.
“officers don't run” / “the war's over, anybody would run”.
chuck talking all fondly about guarnere to the replacements before getting shoot. chuck grant is such a pleasure of a character. he is just so nice. i just care about him so much.
spiers holding chuck’s hand. which of course doesn’t affect me in any way. like. i don’t even care.
everyone getting organized to find the guy who shot grant? “sexyback” by justing timberlake starts playing in my head.
george saying “i don’t know who’s taking a bigger beating me or him” and then chuckling at his own joke. what a guy.
look. that scene where spiers almost kills the guy (“when you talk to an officer, you say ‘sir’”) and everyone (almost all of them toccoa men) just avoids looking? i am not responsable for my feelings, okay? do i find it all incredibly attractive? perchance. is it worrying? perchance. i don’t even like guys that much, i don’t get it.
"have the mps take care of this piece of shit" NAH NAH BRILLIANT
moore getting away with that hitler’s photo album pfftttt.
talbert wanting to demote himself to be closer with the men.
winters and spiers talking about spiers’ future: “so, you've decided to stay in the army?” / “yes, I'm gonna stay with the men”.
malarkey gets to go to paris !!! (and winters shakes his hand instead of saluting him!).
the idea of a german general refusing to surrender to private babe heffron from south philly brightens up my days.
“captain sobel. we salute the rank, not the man” + lieb’s and nixon’s smirk…
“you are a special group, who have found in one another a bond that exists only in combat. among brothers of shared foxholes. held each other in dire moments. who've seen death and suffered together. i am proud to have served with each and every one of you. you deserve long and happy lives of peace”.
that scene of nix and winters in the lake again.
the baseball scene. i won’t talk about it. i’m not even crying. i feel nothing. it’s good to see them happy, man. god.
(aparently shane taylor does an awful swing hajshaj).
“buck compton came back to see the company, to let us know that he was all right”.
“my friend, lew, died in 1995”.
“(...) i chose not to go to korea. i'd had enough of war. i stayed around hershey, pennsylvania finally finding a little farm. a little peaceful corner of the world where I still live today. and there is not a day that goes by that I do not think of the men i served with who never got to enjoy the world without war”.
showing all the real life veterans… fuck off, i’m alright.
is this what falling for propaganda feels like.
“from this day to the ending of the world we in it shall be remembered. we lucky few, we band of brothers. for he who today sheds his blood with me shall be my brother”.
“i cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day, when he said: ‘grandpa, were you a hero in the war?’. grandpa said, ‘no… but I served in the company of heroes”.
everything i love about why we fight!
i love that we get an entire episode dedicated to how depressed lewis nixon was (would’ve liked to see more of liebgott too, though!).
“i've thought about this often. that man and I might've been friends. we might have had a lot in common”.
wonderful sequence of some germans playing classical music while the town cleans up the wrecked town.
i love when george speaks with a cig in his mouth, man.
nixon yet again showing his yale studies with that beethoven remark.
“guten tag, fräulein :)” + cut to him walking out of the farm, clearly just being slapped.
spiers all kleptomaniac and interrupting janovec’s… date.
nix’s truck almost runs over spiers and he doesn’t give a fuck.
that absolutely chiling smile spiers delivers and that soft “finders keepers”, jesus.
nix getting out of his suspenders. + winters’ “you dog”. doesn’t even surprise me anymore.
the tension between nix and winters in that scene is amazing (“only the finest for mrs. nixon’s baby boy” + “what do you think i should write to these parents, dick? (...) i don't know how to tell them their kids never even got out of the godamned plane” / “you tell them what you always tell them: their sons died as heroes” / “you really still believe that?” / “yeah, I do. don't you?”).
i mean, they always get along so well. it’s very interesting to see them fight or disagree on something, even if its as passive-agressive as this.
this episode is a really good chance to explore the psychological consequences of war (which we already saw a hint of in the last patrol), especially with nixon and his lost of faith (or abrupt encounter with reality) and liebgott and his scenes in the latter part of the episode! love this one.
nixon’s current events lecture: the oklahoma! singing, the rita heyworth thing (“oh, rita, say it isn’t true”)...
perco’s “why don’t you do us all a favor? don’t think.” + “it's been two years since i seen home”.
all the officers playing poker! you just know they gossip like crazy.
nixon’s “she's taking the dog. it's not even her dog! it's my dog!” and “she hates that dog!”
spiers almost stealing perconte’s lighter (the man has so much of a reputation that perco almost didn’t lend it to him in the first place).
web’s “that's in bavaria. birthplace of national socialism”.
the lads singing “gory, gory, what a helluva way to die” (harmonizing and everything).
liebgotts plans for the future right in front of web’s salad (+ web trying to apologise after being rude to him and lieb brushing it off and asking him what he is studying, “get outta here, you serious? i love to read! dick tracy, flash gordon, mostly. yeah, fuck” what a guy).
george’s “you don't say. the germans are bad? hey, frank, this guy's reading an article over here. it says the germans are bad” while frank’s cleaning his goddamn teeth again.
perco’s “this guy says he ain’t a nazi. how is that in all of germany ive never met one nazi yet?”
web’s infuriated with the germans: “dragging our asses half-way around the world, interrupting our lives. for what?! you ignorant, servile scum! what the fuck are we doing here?!”
o’keefe looking at the toccoa guys after witnessing some french soldier shooting german prisoners and recieving those chiling stares: perco shrugs, george lights up his smoke as if nothing and lieb SMIRKS. when i said before that i liked conflicting characters this is what I MEANT!!
the way bull says “boy” amuses me so much… love him.
george’s “bull, smack him for me, please… thank you”.
nah, those shots of perco running after discovering the camp are always so chilling, like. it gets me every single time.
that scene where liebgott has to translate everything.
and the music? jesus christ.
web’s “you’re not a nazi? my mistake. how about a human being? are you one of those? or are you gonna tell me you never smelled the fucking stench?”
liebgott breaking down after having to tell the prisoners to go back inside the camp.
web’s “should've killed himself three years ago. saved us a lot of trouble”.
returning to the beginning to the episode and only finishing when the song has finished… cinema.
i feel like this is one of the most conflicting episodes because, even if the conflict (the disillusion and cynicism of the troops after years of war, the sense of losing their purpose, if they ever had one) gets resolved very clearly (the liberation of the camps is “why they fight”, it’s the recompense to their sacrifice) we still get the feeling that the whole thing isn’t that resolved? i mean, the veterans at the beginning talk about how similar they really were with the german soldiers and all throughout the episode we see them kick people out of their homes and commit war crimes.
idk. i think the question at the end is “is everything we’ve done during the war (objectively terrible things, like killing and torturing) and everything that’s come from it (the ptsd and the guilt and stuff) all worth it if it means we help bring freedom to the helpless?”. and perhaps more importantly, “will this particular win over fascism allow our national consciousness to be at ease with the idea of committing other awful things in the future, also in the name of freedom?”
i’m just talking, at this point. idk. what i mean to say is that it’s very easy to feel pride at the allies for their liberation of europe, and at the same time not take accountability for having let the nations of the world (specially germany, italy, spain, etc) reach such degrees of moral degradation through fascism and dictatorships. like. people voted for hitler in ‘33. the people chose mussolini. there are people alive in spain today that still consider franco a good ruler, there are streets and squares named after him. the world started going to shit and everyone just watched.
there’s also a lot of usa-centrism in this one, too, which i don’t care for. the russians did a lot of the heavy lifting in the liberation of europe and concentration camps and stuff. but what else can you expect from an american production.
anyway, i love this one!
everything i love about the last patrol!
i love that we have an entire episode dedicated to how socially awkward david webster is (it makes me feel better about my own inadequacies).
that whole scene where web is smiling and trying to joke with the guys while they are visibly depressed… pfffft web mate read the room.
seeing luz that demoralized should’ve been his first clue.
lieb rolls his eyes when he first sees web.
that scene where spiers, malark and web all react differently when a bomb falls close (spiers doesn’t even blink, what a guy) + “nervous is the service?”
ron aggressively taking care of lipton when he has pneumonia.
nah spiers looks great here.
nixon’s laugh when he hears that lieutenant jones graduated from west point the 6th of june of ‘45.
when ron says “no” to jones volunteering for the patrol.
CHARLES GRANT.
liebgott forcing web to spill out what he knows about the patrol (what a cunt, i love him) + that look™ afterwards…
that unimpressed mmm from malark.
everyone who was in bastogne laughing like maniacs after a shelling…. they are so deared to me…
roe giving christenson kiehn’s dog tag.
liebgott’s “is anyone they don’t want from second? jesus christ…”
that shot of malarkey in the shower…. (is it weird that i find men especially attractive when they are visibly depressed? perchance).
george’s “goddamit, johnny, you’re breakin’ my heart, i’m telling ya”
liebgott’s “hershey bars!” and “you’ve been working out?”, what a man.
there is something about george luz that is so personal to me (not only the jokes, but also when he is slightly annoyed and serious) + “to the house i gotta blast” and “jesus, i don’t know, maybe!” around the smoke… yeah.
that little fight of stares between jones, webster and martin (johnny is hilarious).
that liebgott wink? yeah.
shifty burning something from his gun so it doesn’t shine.
how is always cobb in the group of people that never manage to do jack shit?
nah grant looks handsome as hell in this one.
the immediate silence that falls in the room when roe starts checking on jackson.
gene looking at babe right after jackson dies. that move was deliberate and i think about that every single day of my fucking life. i’m not even kidding. like.
the little speech that web does about jackson in his narration is very interesting because it sort of introduces us to the cynicism / disillusion he’s gonna feel in the next couple of episodes. character continuity!
babe smoking!
it’s sort of brilliant casting tom hanks' son for this one. he looks so young with his red cheeks and his little pout. it’s hard to take him seriously as a lieutenant (even if he’s from west point) when he looks so much like a kid.
it’s also interesting the contrast between jones and jackson: they both looked young, but jackson looked infinitely more rough around the edges.
i have to say it: that scene where cobb is drunk and talking shit (not really surprising, that) is one of my favourites of the episode! it’s dark and complicated and problematic and it’s exactly what we should come to expect from someone who’s been fighting in the eto for as long as he has. the tears in his eyes, his bitter smile… i only wish the other’s were as conflicting as him! i can only think of a few others: liebgott (specially in points), spiers and maybe guarnere (in most of day of days). don't get me wrong, everyone is interesting, but i have a soft spot for morally gray characters! they keep me up at night.
i also love johnny’s response (“shut up. it’s boring, okay?”), even if i don’t particularly agree. it’s all about self-preservation in the end, isn’t it? all they do is about self-preservation.
winters canceling the second patrol. that’s their dad. those are his kids.
nixon’s “it's a whole new way to fight a war. don't bother writing this up. i'll take care of it. i might actually enjoy it”. he’s like this close to jumping his bones.
lipton being promoted to lieutenant and the smiles between the co’s + george smiling proudly, + nix and welsh bickering in the background, “harry, i didn't expect to see you this soon. ‘figured you'd be nursing that scratch for another month or two” / “did you miss me, lewis?”
“congratulations, major”.paralelisms with that scene between lip and spiers in the earlier episode?? anyone???
liebgott helping webster to get on the truck!
this is how that scene went right?
to the victor
Ralph Spina's WW2 questionaire. Some gems:
the most important thing to understand about speirton is that they're fundamentally a freak4freak ship. they match each other's freak in a way that no other character could have seen coming. lip is not just a mild-mannered gentle and serious boy from Virginia. he laughs at bombs!! he yells at his superior officer!! he commits mutinous acts!! twice!! this is important
adding to this post months later, but another proof of Lip being a freak is that he fundamentally does not give a fuck about Speirs having very probably committed several war crimes
everything i like about the breaking point!
i love that we have an entire episode dedicated to how great carwood lipton is.
i can’t believe they got the guy from new kids on the block to narrate this one!
shifty softly saying “no, no, i'm not a good shot. now, dad, he was an excellent shot. excellent, i declare, he'd shoot the wings off a fly” + that smile he sends lip when he thanks him for his help? shut up he’s adorable.
hoobs and the luger. i don’t even want to talk about it. the parallelism with that shot in the first episode? him muttering over and over “stupid”? shut up, i WON’T TALK ABOUT IT. genuinely upsetting, goodbye.
“did you think it was a german leg, hoobs?” roe jesus fucking christ read the room.
lip’s such a nice guy he finds himself covering for DIKE of all fucking people.
“jesus christ, we've gotta do all this with a co who's got his head so far up his ass that lump in his throat is his goddamn nose” bill guarnere, the bard of easy company.
guarnere laughs a lot in this episode and everytime he does i feel the narrative™ lurking in a corner.
“he’s just another one of those arrogant, rich jerks from yale” / “god, not another one of those”
those shots of the men reacting to peacock trying to use a map… cinema (especially george’s grimance).
“wait, what are you saying he's nuts? 'cause crazy joe mccloskey was fuckin’ nuts, babe. that's why they called him crazy joe”... this line rolls off the tongue better than a fucking sonnet. + bill’s little assuring nod.
penkala’s “‘don't do anything stupid’? who the hell's he talking to? bunch of morons who volunteered to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. can you get any more stupid than that?” + skip’s niagara river story (“well, they had a point. you're an idiot”).
dike walking out of the conversation with lip. i chuckled.
why the hell is dick still shaving. this guy.
peacock is so cute getting all emotional like that + the soft “heep, heep, hurray”’s!
“what the hell you doing back here?” / “to make sure you're on top of things” / “i'm on top of things. tied me own boots once last week. all by meself” (+ toye’s voice again).
skip talking about wounds with the replacement (“how are those nuts, sarge?” / “doing fine, bill. nice of you to ask”). i love this whole scene.felt like crying. awareness is a curse. not fun.
also, could that comment (“really, i thought it was some guy i knew for two years and i forgott his face”) be about webster? much to think about. might be a reach.
bill looks so good with a beard, man. everyone here looks handsome, really.
i think spiers likes to intimidate people so he doesn’t have to share his smokes lol.
lip laughing at the bombshells and remembering 4th of july. what a freak <3.
babe’s “think i overdid it on the cover for my foxhole?”
george’s “what the fuck” at dike’s response after the bombshelling.
i will not talk about toye and guarnere’s scene, ALRIGHT?!?? (“jesus, what's a guy gotta do to get killed around here?”, “told you I'd beat you back to the states” + take all of buck’s suffering and give it to dike or something + i read something about how the actual bill told the actor the exact rhythm of his felsh shaking, which is absolutely fucking chilling).
the look in george’s face when he sees what happened to toye… kill me now, man.
lip reprimanding george but laughing at his imitation of dike and calling him “wiseass”. like, that’s a family. like.
i will also not talk about muck and penkala, OKAY?!?!?! I’M SERIOUS (george screaming, “the shell that hit the foxhole luz and i were in was a dud. the one that hit muck and penkala's foxhole wasn't. that's just the way it was”).
lip smoking for the first time.
malark’s smile when lip gives him hoob’s luger for his kid brother.
lip organizing another mutiny? like, yeah, of course.
dick: you just gotta keep moving, whatever you do just move. dike: okay, so let’s stop for a sec- let’s holdback, even.
a bullet hitting an easy company’s ass? a likely place for it to be.
dick calls on spiers to lead the men (fucking finally), and he appears into battle crossing a pillar of smoke like a fucking badass (+ george’s “thank god, huh?”).
fucking spiers crossing the batterfield to connect with i company? are you kidding me????? in the meantime lip’s hearing “sexyback” by justin timberlake in his head, probably.
shifty being an exellent shot once again !
everyone disappearing… *“army dreamers” by kate bush starts playing*
everything in the church scene is fantastic, but especially the conversation between lip and ron (the tercius thing, spiers’ little fleeting smiles, “hell, it was you, first sargeant”, “congratulations, lieutenant”)... should they be flirting this much? hey, if not now, then when?
the fact that lip doesn’t understand that ron is speaking about him tells you everything you need to know about his character, man. joins the club of the most modest guys around (alongside shifty).
everything i love about bastogne!
i love that we have an entire episode dedicated to how great eugene roe is.
the fact that it’s quiet enough at the beginning that we can hear the sound of walking over the snow.
winters trying to shave in that frozen hell + arresting that german soldier with shaving cream still on his face.
the episode is so devoid of colour that winter’s doesnt look ginger :( though we can always see the color of blood, of course.
sleepy and probably hungover nixon appears out of nowhere. classic.
gene almost spraining his ankle.
that shot of gene looking at the morphine!
“two medics in one hole?!” dude, they are friends.
seriously lost count over how many times eugene says “scissus” in the first twenty minutes of this get the guy some goDDAMNED SCISSORS.
the absolute fatigue in lipton’s face when he has to show lieutenant dike where his foxhole is + also, how the fuck does dike not know where his foxhole is that’s literally his nickname.
“the hell with the leg, i'm pissing needles” poor bill spends the whole episode with a peeing problem.
gordon’s “scissors? well, let's see, i'll have to check the sewing room. might be upstairs in the study. that skinny old drawer in the middle of the desk”.
gene i know it’s your job but how can you just be running around during a shelling.
roe literally falling on top of babe and julian (+ babe’s accent !!! i will never get tired of repeating it).
babe and spina’s conversation while trying to go for more supplies (“the replacement in my foxhole, julian. goddamn virgin. just a kid. the only virgin i know is the virgin mary” + babe falling into a german trench and chuckling, that little freak).
only two medics for the entire company is insane btw.
the fellas joking around in dinner time (“nothing you won't eat, malarkey” / “i won't eat malarkey” + “anybody seen lieutenant dike?” / “try battalion cp, sir” / “try paris” / “try hinkle” + the imitation of german accents) + gene watching from a safe distance.
the way dike is leaning with his arms crossed in his foxhole pffttt
the infamous “gene, what's with the heffron bullshit, huh? you know my name, why don’tcha use it?” / “it's edward, right?” / “edward, are you serious? only the goddamn nuns call me edward”
“toye, you missing something?” / “home” (and that nasty stare mcclung gets when he exposes him) + “where are your boots?” / “in washington, up general taylor’s ass”... joe toye i love you do you hear me?
“frank, you keep cleaning those teeth, the germans will see you from a mile away. shot him dead” i seriously never noticed how much perconte cleans his teeth (this scene is just the beginning) + perconte’s indignation when roe steals his scissors.
bill’s “marlene, is that you?”. are you okay, dude.
liebgott and alley singing a christmas song. in a foxhole. at night. in the middle of the battle of the ardenes.
bill not understanding gene when he uses a french word to refer to his thing.
eugene praying (specifically the st. francis prayer! + the fact that he repeats “with all my heart” twice).
that yell for medic when the screen is dark????? cinema.
skinny gets hit and perconte complains about getting blood all over his trousers (“i’m real sorry, frank!”).
“i’m in heaven, doc”
roe and renee bonding in french (+ one of the few scenes where roe genuinely smiles). it’s so sweet but also so sad how they have to part ways so quickly. and the chocolate?????
“that’s it, guys, nothing more to worry about. we’re gonna die now, we’re gonna die in a state of grace” skip you will be missed.
george’s “that asshole couldn’t find a snowball in a blizzard” about peacock…
first instances of how the war is affecting gene (numbness and paralisis) when we see him sitting on that tree. always waiting for something…
the idea of babe, who was introduced as a replacement like two episodes ago (a few months in real time), having to mentor and lose an ever greener replacement like all the other veterans that had mentored him… a never ending cicle.
winters sitting with the guys when they are all down because of julian’s death.
that look babe sends to roe… #whatthatmean. does he resent him for not being able to save him? does he understand by he’s always so distant with them? a little bit of both?
also, gene thinks about giving him the chocolate immediately! he basically spends the rest of the day looking for babe to give it to him.
so he can’t find babe ‘cause he isn’t in his hole? we know he’s with spine, so does that mean babe went there looking for him too? much to think about.
the soft “got ya” when he finally finds him + “i promised him, if he got hit, i'd get his stuff and bring it to his ma, you know? now the fucking krauts'll strip him” / “it’s okay” / “it’s not! it’s not okay”
gene smiling softly when talking about traiteurs and his grandmother + spina’s “i’ve had enough of playing doctor”.... spina asks him about it but he doesn’t answer (it’s amazing how little he lets us see inside his mind!).
the smiles when the supplies arrive.
how much of a nerd am i when i recognize that they also filmed a scene from les mis in that chappel?
roe and renee talking after they couldn’t save that guy (the chocolate, the hands, “i never want to treat another wounded man again. i'd rather work in a butcher's shop”, “no, it’s not a gift. god would never give such a painful thing”).
buck talking about legionaries and visigoths to gonorrea and babe (“so, what's college like, buck? you can study with all the cheerleaders running fingers through your hair?” / “hell, babe, i can't even remember”).
babe being amused that gene called him “edward” (+ the idea that doc refuses to use nicknames as a way of distancing himself from the men).
that rushed breath when smokey gets hit? + the fact that it takes a while for gene to react and help smokey (spina almost has to shake him out of it).
“he's paralyzed. can't feel a thing”... something about only being able to understand a bit of what gene’s feeling through his diagnosis of a patient (his numbness = smokey’s “can’t feel a thing)...
renée appearing in the light like an angel. understanding gene without him having to say a word.
babe getting some food for eugene.
winters looking out for gene.
“to the german commander: nuts!”, which everyone but gene finds funny.
malark’s “merry christmas, fellas. you gotta thank jolly old saint luz” + penkala’s “i’m shaking so goddamn much, i feel like i’m dancing!”
“a dell? like where fairies and gnomes live?”
“okay, get up. not okay, lie down”.
the m gene marks in welsh’ forehead (to indicate he’s had morphine) resembles the gesture of that priest from a previous scene! simbolism. whatever.
gene leaning over harry’s body to protect him from the shelling (an apparent improvisation from the actor!).
finding renée’s head piece in the ruins.
the final scene (the best scene in the whole episode? yes): “you called me ‘babe’!”, babe imitating roe’s lousiana accent, “heffron, watch the goddamn line”, the sun is finally out, the camera pans towards the blood covered snow ahead… masterpiece !
are they… you know… foxhole buddies?
no because what i love about this episode is thats so structurally sound: gene’s arch towards numbness interrupted by renée (a sort of angel-like figure), who offers him a tentative contact with human connection in the middle of the war (which gene has been depriving himself of because he doesn’t want to get too attached to his potential patiens) that ends up culminating with babe (gene literaly uses renée’s hanky to heal babe! and it’s the use of his nickname that gets babe out of his own small numbness!). perhaps it was precisely renée’s death that made gene take a step towards babe.
BUT WHO CARES. I DON'T. I’M NOT CRYING.
anyway gene and babe and renée as a golden trio is one for the ages.
“no memeber of the 101st has ever agreed that the division needed to be rescued”
i remember reading something the real bill guarnere said to his son to make him understand what was the situation in bastogne: he showed him a photo of a baseball game and pointed at the public, “that was the germans”, and then at the players, “and that was easy company”...
everything i love about crossroads:
i love that we have an entire episode dedicated to how great dick winters is.
the “that's my own piss, for chrissake!” scene: the softness, the nicknames, “come on, big boy”, nix refusing to get up, the playful fighting… tom hanks wrote that scene especially for me, actually.
“are you even listening?” / “hanging on every word” (flirty little bastards).
winters, now captain, incredibly crushed by the fact that he’s not able to be involved as he’d like in that scene in hq.
winters’ little annoyed lip-thing!!! important.
i can’t tell if george genuinely likes that tab named the dog trigger or if he’s making fun of him. either way.
george’s “it’s quiet” + everyone bursting through the door after alley was shot (+ eugene again !!!!).
“why reveal position?” / “they’re not as smart as me and you?”
got reminded that malark, muck and penkala were in a mortar squad together!!! sad!!!
nix, also a captain, still hiding whiskey in winter’s footlocker (“i don't know why I'm still doing this” / “what, drinking?” / “no, hiding it in your footlocker. i'm a captain, for chrissake” / “well, why don't you just give it up?” / “drinking?” / “no. hiding it in my footlocker; you're a captain, for pete's sake”... flirty little bastards, pt. 2).
tab anxiously tugging his lower lip.
i’m sorry exactly how much did winters run all alone?
got reminded of the fact that george luz is a radio man and has to carry all that extra weight at all times.
winters has to take almost all of the bullets out of liebgott’s thomson cause that guy will commit a war crime against those “kraut boys”.
“they got me. you believe that? you believe I said that?” webster is so me.
nix checking up on winters because he’s worried + “you got a drink? … of water?” / “yeah, that's water” (just to make him smile!).
winters’ almost reticent to accept the promotion because he doesn’t wanna leave his men…
winter’s always checking on the guys but gene’s always checking on him so. who’s checking on gene? (let’s wait ‘till next episode to find out!)
nixon messing with winter’s orderly and trying to keep dick from getting too involved in the field work. it’s almost a miracle how well they understand each other without actually talking about anything. so maybe nix is a little flippant and rude but maybe dick needs that!
“if they do run into any trouble, you'll let me know?” / “yeah. you run into any bacon sandwich, do the same, alright?” they are so important, so personal to me.
of course the brits’ code is “leicester square”, the twats.
winters smiling at the guys all having fun after operation pegasus.
roe reprimanding the shit out of his superior officers: “you are officers, you are grownups, you oughta to know!”... i need him viscerally. + the whole scene is great to start introducing him as the main character of the next episode! like, we’ve never seen him like this so it certainly stands out.
foxhole norman is only in screen for like two secs and already he’s a cunt.
man, i love guarnere, every time the guy talks i am rolling in the floor, guy’s hilarious. “anybody ever heard of a little joint called the lulu's?” literally what the hell is he talking about.
everyone basically forcing winters to take a two day vacation. cut to him drinking from the tiniest fucking cup and being bothered by some soldiers and then droping his coins.
those parallels between the cute french boy and that young ss soldier… unmatched. a very interesting representation of ptsd overall!
the cute french boy saluting winters and trying to be as tall as him are you kidding me that is adorable. also naive. but. you get my point.
beautiful shot of winter’s silhouette against the streets of paris.
george fuckin luz bothering everyone (read: lip and toye) in the movies
“well, i was at home in tonawanda, then hitler started this whole thing, so now I'm here” + malarkey somehow making a lot of money and muck being surprised to get money back from him hsajhs. + malarkey stole another cig from him!!!!
buck’s dead eye stare and then getting shook out of it by winters. duuuuude, it’s suuch great acting! winters immediately knows something’s wrong.
“got a penny?” what would we do without george luz?
lip looks so handsome in that outfit btw.
i love that final shot of the guys leaving the teather (yk muck/perconte/malark, then lip, then luz/toye…).
it’s funny ‘cause dike sort of sounds competent but then you look at dick’s face and it becomes apparent he’s just talking shit.
“you need four (socks) minimum: feet, hands, neck, balls, extra socks warms ‘em all!”
everyone begging for some smokes like it’s gum at school.
i’m sorry but why are they lighting up those big ass fires. like in what world is that not dangerous and shows their position. ig it doesn’t matter in this case? turns out i don’t actually know shit.
heffron and his philly accent !!! i always forget the actor’s scottish.
every time i hear lieb’s nasal voice or toye’s deep husky tone i genuinely start giggling like a high schooler (embarassing).
jimmy fallon jumpscare. always gets me.
“we're paratroopers, lieutenant, we're supposed to be surrounded”.
the joe toye grimance™ arround the cig.
i love how ominous the ending of this episode is. like, everything’s already sucked but here you get a clear sense of “this thing we’re about to do is not going to go so great” and it’s soooo fun (by that i mean heartbreaking but. isn’t that the same thing).
PanAm ad but make it 1940s
everything i love about replacements!
ah, yes: replacements, also known as john martin’s gorgeous big blue eyes (jesus christ put some sunglasses on him or something!).
i love that we have an entire episode dedicated to how great bull randleman is.
buck, luz and toye playing darts with heffron… they literally just adopted the guy (+ george’s serious ass “tough break. you’re having a bad night. people have bad nights” and buck like “i’m sorry, george :(“).
babe all “yeah, they look a lil sad, don’t they?” about his buddies. man, this guy.
martin’s “yeah, you’ve got some wild killers right there, bull”
also babe wanting to bet ‘cause he is so sure to win and then buck revealing he has been playing lefty all night + “what would i do without george luz?!” + george’s “boop!” and toye and babe’s despair.
not to mention that buck just went and put himself in “a position where he can take from these men” (exactly what winters told him not to do).
gonorrea going to intimidate the replacements + telling the story of “babe’s letter” (“hey, fellows. what do ya hear? what do ya say?” + “i don't care if it's fuckin’ eisenhower's” + “old gonorrhea don't miss nothin’” + “bing and a bang and a boom ev’rybody banging into each other” + “mission cancelled. in other words babe don't have to risk getting inside old doris again. ha!”... this fucker, seriously).
martin making fun of randleman’s “folksy wisdom from back down on the farm” + intimidating the greenies and smirking afterwards (he’s such a little cunt i love him so mucH).
also, i’m sorry but james mcavoy looks so good in here. almost as good as he does in atonement (2007)!
bull humbling cobb!
“he’s already married, smokey!” + why do they always make lip the one to break the bad news, man? i guess it’s because everyone loves him. the burdens of being the sweetest man around, i suppose…
every single time chuck grant’s on screen i hear “sexyback” by justin timberlake.
everyone happy as fuck that popeye is back! oh no, sobel’s there too.
i love when lip says “boy” like that!
muck leaves malark alone to face sobel hdsajdhjas
great colorblind representation from that lieutenant. i’m getting flashbacks from that scene from little miss sunshine (2006) with paul dano…
this is randleman’s fucking episode i swear… protecting all the replacements whilst also trying to stay detached and surviving every single hit.
roe laying on the grass!
web’s “boys ;)”
that shot of the men walking reminds me of saving private ryan once more! mmmm, wonder if thre’s any sort of connection between the two.
eindhoven’s wonderful welcome (hoobler holding a kid, that guy screaming with a lipstain in his cheek, perconte trapped in some lady’s chest until lip rescues him, winter says “thank you, girlie”, heffron widely smiling for the pictures and talbert furiously making out with a dutch woman).
hoobler saying “hey don’t speak about screwing, alright? :/”
web sharing his chocolate with the kid!
webster saying that van gogh was born in nuenen (when in fact he was born in zundert; van gogh lived in nuenen for a couple of years though).
web and hoobs spend a lot of time together which is Sad considering What’s To Come.
the replacements all follow bull like hes their mother duckling.
“you got a can opener, babe?” / “afraid i don't, sarge”.... martin how can you joke at a time like this you both are in a vulnerable position, you could get SHOT.
that exagerated annoying brit’s “but if i can't see the bugger i can't bloody well shoot him, can i?”.
i’m sorry but that bit when johnny sees bull “die” and screams “BULL!” and then starts shooting inmediatly afterwards always makes me giggle. like, it’s a bit ridiculous. traumatic, too. ofc.
roe going right after van klinken without even thinking about it and hoobler has to provide covering fire.
buck gets shot in the ass (thus continuing easy company’s tradition) and roe is there again!!! + malark, muck and gonorrea carry him using a door.
nix gets shoot and winters loses his cool jesus christ i’ve never seen him so shaken (“i'm all right, i'm all right…. am i all right?” / “yeah, you feel all right?” / “yeah, quit looking at me like that”).
it’s so sad seeing martin like that when he says he doesn’t know where bull is because fr we’ve always seen him quite grumpy and sure of himself and whatever. it breaks my heart!
does randleman keeps a supply of cigars inside his thomson?? of course he does.
cobb saying “i ain’t going back up there” and then it cuts to him going back up there. comedy.
i love that girl from eindhoven like. she has no dialogue. but i love her.
martin’s reaction when randleman finally appears, like that “BULL!” comes out of him without his consent ( “hey, johnny” / “get a little lost?” / “something like that” / “it's good to see you” / “you too” + guarnere’s “i don't know whether to slap ya, kiss ya, or salute ya”)
“never liked this company none” SHUT UP I’M FINE I’M OKAY.
bull and martin as a dynamic duo is great because we have the biggest guy in the company, a “hick” that never says more than two words at a time and has a cigar in his mouth at all times, just fucking following around at all times a little spitfire (with too much temper for his height) that’s grumpy all the time and likes to tease people and is always running his mouth about something and making fun of him. like. that’s love. that’s how love looks like.
winters throwing into nix face his comment from the beginning of the episode (“only old men and kids”). i love it when they passive-agressively fight. like an old married couple!
“i think we’re gonna have to find a new way into germany” yeah like. what where you expecting. didn’t you learn about ww2 in school. it didn’t end by christmas (flashforward to bastogne).
Talking Heads · Speaking in Tongues (Deluxe Version) · Song · 1983
not to be cliché but. winnix.