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With HBO now at the forefront of delivering excellent, The Pacific - Complete HBO DVD Box Set
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struggling to find their voice in a mass of broadcast drama. That was until Band of Brothers, the World War II drama following US troops deployed to the European battle - a deeply moving, epic account of the horror and heroism of war. The Pacific, as pitched, is a sister show to Band of Brothers - we return to World War II, but this time the focus is on the battle with Japan. Stories are told from the perspective of three key US Marines - Eugene Sledge (Joseph Mazzello), Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale) and John Basilone (Jon Seda) - all of whom are put face-to-face with the brutalities of warfare and all of whom are instrumental in the unfolding of victory. The show is based upon memoirs of Marines posted to the Pacific for duty and, as a result, the word that best sums the action up is authentic. Nothing is glamorised, nothing seems cursory - instead, every detail has been carefully researched in terms of both script and production. In a ten-part series that looks at massive world-changing events, it’s important that these characters give us entry into a world foreign to most of us now, and their unbearable predicaments certainly tug at the heartstrings. Contrasting with this very personal drama, though, is the action - and set-pieces here genuinely feel claustrophobic, frightening, unflinching. Nobody said war would be easy, but it is presented here with stark, unnerving brutality - exactly the treatment that it deserves. Of particular note is the treatment of Iwo Jima in the story, generally perceived to be more authentic than the recent movie adaptation. It is, like all of The Pacific, a slower, more pensive take on conflict, which gives proceedings a sense of gravitas that’s hard to squeeze in to ten hours of TV. The show never lets you forget how important these events are and, ultimately, it’s that approach that keeps you watching. The Pacific is the perfect companion piece to Band of Brothers but, more importantly, it’s remarkably well made television drama in its own right. It’s a show that is at times difficult to watch, and at times loses pace, but what it lacks in twists and turns it more than makes up for in depth. This box set features the entire HBO production across ten episodesThe Pacific - Complete HBO DVD Box Set
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Submitted by baglookgift 6 months, 2 weeks, 6 days, 6 hours ago
Of course, Darabont’s fingerprints are still all over The Walking Dead, but the first two episodes are a reminder that the initial mix, the first shot of freshness that The Walking Dead had in it, remains. And that winning combination from Season 1 is a foundation that just may be too firmly established for anyone to muck up.
What that means is that nobody should be looking for failure in Season 2. They should shake off the worries that popped up between seasons and off camera and just focus on the series.
In Season 1, the zombie apocalypse was at hand – the series began with Sheriff Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) shot, then waking up in the hospital as seemingly one of the last people standing in rural King County, Georgia. He led a rag-tag group of survivors on a search for – what? That was always a key mystery at the start. Mere survival? Friends and family? Answers to how it all happened? An understanding that might ground the survivors somehow – such as knowing how widespread the events were? Of if there was a cure for whatever toxin turned people into zombies? Or if there was a concerted government response?
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That the answers to those questions were often murky was part of the allure. Because all of those questions and concerns had hope as a foundation. People’s will to survive, to believe things were going to get better, was a core of the show. By the sixth episode – the Season 1 finale – the Center for Disease Control was destroyed and so was hope.
In Season 2, the early themes are, not surprisingly, hopelessness and doubt. That’s human nature – and thus real. Mixed in is an exploration of faith – one of those new twists that have broadened the scope of the series.
Rick is still in charge. But his partner from the Sheriff’s department, Shane (Jon Bernthal), is feeling like a third wheel. In Season 1, he thought Rick had died from a zombie invasion at the hospital where he was recovering and subsequently started up a relationship with Rick’s wife, Lori (Sarah Wayne Callies) and mentored Rick’s son, Carl (Chandler Riggs). Rick’s reappearance has left Shane feeling like he might be better off on his own, a feeling that also crops up in Andrea (Laurie Holden), still recovering from losing her sister to the zombies and hoping to die in peace at the CDC, before Dale (Jeffrey DeMunn) stepped in to save her life.
One of the ideas inherent in pack-survival is how to keep everybody together and even if doing so is a good idea. It’s natural to the storytelling, then, to have Shane and Andrea contemplating leaving.
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Also feeling antsy is T-Dog (Robert Singleton) who tries to convince Dale to leave as well. “Why are we on the side of the road like live bait?” he says at one point. Feeling antsy and vulnerable is a key underlying element to The Walking Dead, because the group of human stragglers begins to run into ever larger packs of zombies. That feeling of being outnumbered, of struggling with futility, is ever-present.
So are the requisite chills and pulse-raising moments (the series is particularly good at shocking the viewer without always illustrating it – a blood soaked and splattered baby seat, for instance).
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THE SIMPSONS, season 1-13, DVD boxset (free shipping) $98.99
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Chinatown: Not Just a Noisy Busy Place to Visit
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Submitted by bhartzer 30 months, 3 weeks, 4 days, 11 hours ago
Petaling Street or popularly known as Chinatown is a noisy, busy, mind-boggling place that can be quite unnerving for tourists and first time visitors. There is nothing sinister about the place. It is just really alive and truly never sleeps.
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The Perfect Desktop - Kubuntu 9.10
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Submitted by falko 30 months, 3 weeks, 4 days, 1 hour ago
This tutorial shows how you can set up a Kubuntu 9.10 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Kubuntu 9.10 is derived from Ubuntu 9.10 and uses the KDE desktop instead of the GNOME desktop.
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Horse Complex Opens North of Dallas
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Submitted by bhartzer 30 months, 3 weeks, 3 days, 15 hours ago
The Bridges at Preston Crossings, a master-planned community developed by Bluegreen Communities, is set to open their first-class equestrian complex on Saturday, November 21, 2009.
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