Australian 🇦🇺 Watches BAND OF BROTHERS s1ep7 for the FIRST TIME 'The Breaking Point' Reaction!
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Hi, my name is Elie Moses and I am a 24 Year-Old Law and Film student here in Sydney, Australia. I have decided to watch what is considered on of the greatest and highest rated TV SHOW's of all time 'BAND OF BROTHERS' for the FIRST TIME!! This show is created by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks! Here is my reaction to episode 7 of season 1. PHENOMENAL!
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First time watching band of brothers (reaction)
Frank John Hughes, who played Bill Guarnere and developed a relationship with his family that remains strong to this day, said by the time he met Wild Bill, the man had walked on a crutch for far longer than he’d had two legs and was impossible to keep up with. Bill’s son Eugene tells a fun story about his father having a heart attack (which Bill survived). At the hospital, one of the docs asked Gene’s brother: “When did your father lose his leg?” The reply: “Episode 7.”
Bill would also joke when revisiting the area later on, "if anyone finds my leg, lemme know!"
This made me actually laugh out loud. Love that guy.
Winters and Speirs are the only two characters you hear say "Follow me" heading into combat.
Carwood Lipton said he believed the dud shell may have been sabotaged by one of the concentration camp workers who manufactured German munitions (as depicted in Shindler’s List). And yes he did take up smoking at that moment.
At first, Germans didn't shoot at him. They were afraid he might offer them cigarettes.
Even the Tiger tank had to move sideways to make room for Speirs' gigantic balls.
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I love the exchange with Peacock, because the other soldiers say exactly how they feel couched as congratulations: “I can’t think of anybody who deserves this more”; “really glad that you’re goin’ home”; “best news I’ve heard in weeks”, and the classic “oh git outta here”.
The guys all liked Peacock, so they were genuinely happy he got to go home. But they also knew he sucked as a leader, so they were equally happy he got to go home.
Did Randleman take over?
@@clutchpedalreturnsprg7710 No, Randleman was a sergeant. Lt. Foley was given command.
I've read about how in extreme cold, blood loss can be slowed down a lot, so I think that might have helped saved Bill and Joe.
In reality, Winters realized himself he had no more business going out there and came back to the line without needing to be called back. And it just happened that Speirs was the very first officer he spotted, it could have been anyone else.. Though i wouldn't be surprised if Speirs had put himself close on purpose just in case, like an eager athlete.. "Put me in, coach!"
While Speirs was racing down streets, waving between houses (a longer run than was depicted in the show, though he wasnt always fully in the open), he kept taunting the Germans about their poor aim.
Seconds after Speirs left to return to Easy, the leader of Item company was mowed down by machinegun fire (the german must have known he better not shoot at Speirs lol). Thankfully someone else had been nearby to hear the orders and was able to relay them.
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Shifty was always known for his marksmanship and keen eyes. He once discovered a concealed german AA position because he noticed, from nearly a mile away, mind you! a single tree that hadnt been there the day before. Turns out that tree was used as camoflage. He reported that to Lipton and the enemy position was shelled with artillery.
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Dike is done dirty a bit in this episode, he might not have been a terrific officer nor liked by the men (their bias showing a bit in the depicition of his character) but he was no coward either, having earned medals for rescuing soldiers from under enemy fire. Some accounts suggest he got shot during the attack and was becoming disoriented from blood loss.
Yeah I kind of mentioned the shit hand Dike was dealt under the comments for episode 3. This was brought up at the BOB reunion symposium a few years ago. An audience member asked one of the writer/producer panels if anyone threatened to sue over the representation of Lt Dike. They did say the portrayal was, in hindsight, something they regretted doing. It wasn't meant to be a commentary on the actual skill of Lt Dike but an amalgum of the poor leadership people experienced during the war. All I can say to that is, if that was the case, why use a real person's name instead of inventing a character? This poor guy's rep was in the toilet for ages because of the writers chose to do that. Dike was no coward and no incompetent.
Reports are, as I'm sure everyone is telling you, that the stories about Speirs are allegedly toned down. It will be easier to explain once the series is over, but the dude had enormous balls
Many of the actors in Easy Company are from the UK and Ireland like Dick Winters (Damian Lewis), Shifty Powers (Peter Youngblood Hills), Doc Roe (Shane Taylor), Sgt. Talbert (Matthew Leitch), Popeye (Nichloas Aaron), Johnny Martin (Dexter Fletcher), Albert Blithe (Marc Warren), Babe Heffron (Eion Bailey) Lt. Dike (Peter O'Meara) and many others. Some amazing vocal coaching--they really all sound quite American.
One actor who never gets a nod is Jamie Bamber (Lt Foley) who is part of the chorus of Brit actors who have gone on to more notable parts, namely BattleStar Galactica.
@@andreraymond6860 I realized as I looked over the biographies of the actors that so many of them came from the British Isles, I couldn't list all of them. But over 50% tbh.
A couple little anecdotes for ya..
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Back in training camp at Toccoa, Al Mampre (that medic i briefly mentioned in Ep4) was at the shooting range, and bet a private next to him he couldn't hit some target pretty far out. The wager was a candy bar. The private shot and hit the target, so Mampre doubled down. And the target was hit again. And Mampre doubled again, and the target was hit again. After the next shot, and the debt now being 8 candy bars, Mampre wisely called it quits. The little fella next to him was Shifty Powers..
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When the men went to check on the German sniper he shot, they saw Shifty had nailed him right between the eyes..
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Shifty got along with everyone. Well, nearly everyone, according to the men. Some recounted a tale he told them. There was ONE guy in the entire company that Shifty could absolutely not get along with, reasons unclear. That man was Mellet - one of those killed by the sniper. Somehow Shifty could absolutely not stand the guy.
One night in Belgium, Shifty told his friends he had had an extremely vivid nightmare during which he had been killing Mellet. So vivid that when he woke up, Shifty was worried he might actually had done it while half asleep. So he took off looking for Mellet everywhere, and, according to those whom he told that story to, once he found him well and alive, it was the only time Shifty was ever glad to see Mellet.
The run that Spiers did was understated because it was a lot longer than showed.
Such a badass
Regarding Nixon always sleeping and getting waked up: I've read comments in other reaction videos that said that he is off surveilling off screen for long periods and therefor sleeps at different times than most other officers.
There is that, but he was also just not a morning person, and since he was an alcoholic he was frequently nursing a killer hangover.
Winters would work during the day, Nix would work at night and sleep during the day. Nix would walk the line typically with scouts or recon, to do surveillance on enemy positions (he was in battalion HQ intelligence) and on these walks I’m sure he was hitting that Vat 69!
Lipton going over Dyke's head and expressing doubt to Winters about his commanding officer's competence was a court martial offense that could have dropped him into prison. Lipton knew this, but trusted Winters to accept his opinion without fear of retribution. That took as much courage as making himself bait for a German sniper.
The Breaking Point...Well, it's not just a clever name. When Winters tries going in against orders, then sends LT. Speirs to relieve Dike, he more than put his money where his mouth is what he said to Blithe. "Easily" one of my favorite moments of the series. That scene is stunning, every, single, time. Then when Buck's helmet hits the ground, it's as Earth shattering as the German artillery... Currahee ♠
The writer of this episode said he originally called it A Question of Leadership, and admitted it sounded like a talk you’d attend at a management conference. One of the other writers suggested The Breaking Point and here we are.
This isn't meant as an insult or rude, but do you copy and paste your comments or rewrite them for each reaction channels? I've watched every BoB reaction I can find and I swear I could pick out your comments in each of them. Again no respect, always nice to run across another member of the BoB RUclips fan club.
To this day, Joe Toye saying "I gotta get up" sneaks up and haunts me on a regular basis.
History Hacks zooms from the pandemic. 5 hours if the cast telling stories like Richard speight Jr playing Muck and tracking down his family. They had zero idea of the book or show ir what happened to Muck. He was instrumental in getting Mucks medals awarded. Great story!
Episode 6 is my favorite episode as well. This one would probably be my second favorite.
The most amazing thing I learned about the filming is that the Ardennes forest scenes were actually filmed in London... inside a studio!
Yea actually insane
I remember being killed by guys in COD and Battlefield with the names based on the soldiers nicknames in BoB. It was heavily referenced for years.
you definitely gotta react to the pacific when youre done with BOB, its a part of the hbo war series, its made by steven Spielberg and tom hanks and as an aussie its important for you to see. its just as excellent
I gotta give that show another try, I've attempted to get started with Pacific 3-4 times but I just couldn't get into it like I did with BoB
The Pacific was rubbish. I watched it and it was a waste of time. Low calibre compared to this. You really aren’t missing anything by skipping it
@@FrenchieQcI watched it but it felt like a chore. I don’t even remember the stories.
The Pacific is nearly as good, but structured differently, and doesn’t follow one single company through the whole series. It takes place over a longer period of time, with a much different enemy.
There are many Australian actors in it as well.
Actually, what you need to watch after this is “Episode 11,” the documentary about Easy Company called “We Stand Alone Together.” It is excellent and definitely worth watching. It will be the perfect tie-in to wrap up the series.
You have great insight in the episodes you react to, top notch brotha. Props to you.
The guy who portrays Spiers was also in another series and he was just as good if not better, that series is Into The West it showed on TNT back in the early 2000s
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Hello, after the draining, the situation improved. It is good.
Draining? I don't understand
Hoobler DID die of an accidental gunshot wound!! The scenario was different than what was depicted here in this episode though!! From what I have read first of all the gun was actually NOT a Luger, but another sought-after Austrian made gun!! Apparently Hoobler got it stuck on some barbed wire during maneuvers and it went off wounding him in the leg!!!
I do believe there is information available on RUclips to Bear out what I've said!!
Dike was a common example of failing up in the army. He was suffering from PTSD and during the attack on Foy he was wounded and went into shock and then was replaced by Speirs. Dike was a good platoon commander but was an absolute mess as a company commander.
Speirs run was a lot longer, they toned it down to make it more believable. They said he was taunting the germans and telling what a shit shot they were cause they couldnt get him. HARD. ASS. MEN.
The show offers a confusing version of Dyke. He was fairly decorated and served in Korea. He died in 1989, another difference as the show seems to suggest he was killed.
i dont know if you know, but guarnere is the one who killed Phil Leotardo in Sopranos
The truth is, Norman Dike was done dirty in this episode. To be honest, he wasn't a good company commander, but there is a lot of room between "not a good commander" and "totally incompetent asshole".
The primary problem is, this series (like I have pointed out before) are all based on the memories of the men involved. This episode is primarily based on the memories of Winter, Lipton, Compton, and Guarnere, all four of whom HATED HATED HATED Dike and interpreted everything he said and did in the absolute worst possible way. If Dike's farts smelled like candy and his dandruff healed gunshot wounds, they would have still figured out a way to be angry about it. It didn't help that Dike was the successor to two enormously popular commanding officers.
Dike had been a competent platoon leader -- and had, in fact, been decorated for valor twice in that position. But he was unprepared to become a company commander. On top of it all, he'd already begun to suffer from PTSD. In addition, early on in the attack on Foy he was wounded. Like Hoobler, Dike's heavy winter clothing hid just how badly wounded he was, and he began to fall apart not from cowardice, but from shock and blood loss.
But of course, Winters didn't see a badly wounded man... all he saw was Dike being "Dike the Asshole" again.
And when it came time to tell Stephen Ambrose (the author of the book all this is based on) the story of the attack on Foy, Winters and the others told him the story of Dike the Asshole and how he cowarded out during the attack on Foy. After he recovered from his wounds, he returned to Division and served out the rest fo the war as a competent staff officer.
User name checks out.
A) Telling reactors who survives before they are done watching is asshole behavior.
B) Speaking disrespectfully about these very men does not make you seem great.
@@dgpatter Please quote where I did either.
@@GrumpyOldGuyPlaysGames well you named Winters, Lipton, Compton and Guarnere to start with.
With the benefit of hindsight, the episode writer felt it was a mistake not to give Dike a fake name because his portrayal was hurtful to Dike’s family. Also, they originally shot a scene where Dike survives (which he did) and is driven off in a jeep as the E Company men look on. But it didn’t make the cut.
It seems to me that Richard Winters is a very good judge of character and his opinion deserves respect. The men around Dike day in and day out gave him the nickname of "Foxhole Norman" for a reason.
@@tinalouisestagg Ah, I see. Sorry, but its the truth. Winter's attitude toward Dike was so sour that he saw everything the man did in the worst possible light. So did Lipton and Guarnere. Guarnere even admitted he did this, and added that he might have been wrong for doing so.
Dike gets a really bad presentation in comparison to reality. He had led a defence duriing Market Garden whilst totally surrounded and at Bastogne had personally dragged 3 wounded men to safety whilst at Foy reports indicate he was hit in the shoulder before shutting down. The truth is his odd distracted behaviour is very similar to Buck Compton's in the lead up to his breakdown and out of character for the man but they didn't know him so didn't realise he was acting strangely for him. The series sometimes short changes certain people Shames for instance started as a Private and had ended getting a battlefield commission much like Lipton and at Foy he and Paul "Buck" Rogers took out a Tank with a Bazooka and was seen as both competent and fairly well liked unlike the shouty portrayal in this episode whilst Peacok was also well liked and seen as by the book but just lacked a natural feel for combat command but had previously excelled as a Supply Officer and his skills lay more in admin and training than combat.. You also see Lt Jack Foley badgering Dike after he shuts sown to make a decision, he was a former Artillery Officer who became a Paratrooper and was a new replacement officer as of the attack on Foy ( I assume for Buck Compton) and is played by Apollo in Battlestar Galactica Jamie Bamber and who was clearly highly competent.
Spiers meanwhile gets to make an epic face turn in this episode where we see the true depths of the man.
The scene in the Church is a masterpiece both for the dead and wounded disappearing from the shot and the brilliant Spiers/Lipton interaction where you get a much better understanding of both men. outside of pure combat mode