HI LIZ plz may I trouble you to share any thoughts at all about mota 🎤

OF COURSE

ok so we're only a couple eps in but i am already <333 about so many of the characters. bucky and crosby especially my beloveds. i really love all the comparisons being drawn between bucky/nix buck/winters and crosby/webster but i also love how the mota boys are distinctly their own characters. i don't want to say they're cocky and full of themselves because like... some of the easy boys are too lmao. but it's a very different dynamic between the characters than i'm used to seeing in the other hbo war shows and i am living for it

on that note i was a bit wary about most of our main charas being officers but after 2 eps i don't mind a bit! honestly sometimes it's hard to tell rank with all their goddamn fleece lmao but i love how despite being a literal honest to god major bucky is still so chaotic. bless him. the singing scene took me out, and the bike race when they crashed and he and buck were like pulling at each other's clothes to try and get in the lead before the air raid siren went off..... cinema.

can't believe they called out the heavy petting <3 the raf boys are just like me fr <3

crosby is such a silly goose thank you for the silly goose representation. he really works as the narrator and i love him bc he is genuinely so relatable, my overthinking bestie. also him still being starry eyed over his wife signing her name mrs jean crosby oh my word.......... it's giving harry dragging his reserve chute halfway around europe for kitty's wedding dress <333

i also really love the variety of characters/roles in the war they're showing! there's obviously more scope to do that than in bob but also it's a different television landscape and i am so excited to see ncuti on my screen <3 i hope we get a lot more of lemmons too! i can't remember who made the post but someone compared him to doc roe and i was like OH that's why i liked him so much uh huh uh huh. so true. also NINETEEN YEARS OLD?

i had a hard time adjusting to austin butler in ep 1 but he really pulled through in ep 2 for me and i'm very keen to see where he takes the character! and i have LOVED callum turner since channel 4's glue (which i watched a fucking decade ago but still think about bc of how powerful it was and he was in it) and he is absolutely killing bucky. it's giving nix without impulse control. honestly all the cast are amazing, the only one i really struggle with still is isabel may as buck's gf......... i literally cannot see her as anyone but katie from alexa and katie, so in my mind she's literally still a 15 year old girl. but who knows, she could win me over in the future

the score and title sequence are so good too!!! the pacific still has my absolute fav opening titles and band is second but even though the score is obviously new it still feels a bit... nostalgic, i guess? similar vibes to the other shows and i am HERE for the way it makes me feel <3

there's like so much more but that's all i can put into words rn. cannot WAIT for the rest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes! Absolutely about the humanitarian mission! After everything Buck had been through the first time he flies again it’s to bring help to people. And the same for Rosie after what he had just saw. It just lifted their spirits so much! And the adorable wonder and joy on Kenny’s face! Their smiles were great. Probably my favorite seen in the whole series.

And Doc Roe has always been my fave on BoB along with Winters. Bastogne is my most rewatched episode because of Gene. I think I like Winters for the same reason I like Buck. They have such shy and quiet demeanors(which I can personally relate too) but they are amazing leaders(which I cannot relate to! LOL!) And they both care so much about the people around them. Buck agreeing to escape just to keep Bucky from doing something even more dangerous. Winters trying to run out into the battle to lead Easy Company when the incompetent leader was getting so many of the people he still saw as his men killed. Was so relieved when he sent Spiers out to lead them and they had a good leader again.

Embarrassingly enough I’ve never seen the Pacific. As far as I know it’s never been available anywhere for free to watch it.

Again, thank you for taking the time to reply! I’ve really enjoyed talking to you! I don’t know if I will ever be brave enough to come off anon or interact more but it has been a pleasure discussing MOTA and BoB with you!

I'm still so glad they gave Ken that moment in the final episode! Ever since I've read that part in Crosby's book where he's talking about basically everyone who wanted to getting to fly by the end of the war, I was hoping they would use that to show us Ken flying. It was a beautiful way to bring his little character arc full circle.

I can definitely see the Winters and Buck parallels though I personally think BoB did a better job at setting up Winters & Nixon's friendship than MotA did with the Buckys. Then again, many things in MotA were rushed and all characters' relationships suffered from that (except Crosby and Sandra's, and I'll never understand why they devoted so much time to that when Jean 'I'll write my husband extra letters so he'll never have to go a day without one' Crosby was right there ...).

You should give The Pacific a try, anon! I know many people never really got into it because it was so different from BoB but personally, I think it's worth watching for the Peleliu arc alone. Those three episodes are absolutely incredible (and if you like Winters and Buck, wait till you meet Andy Haldane). I have to admit I struggled a lot with following the plot the first time I watched it because I had next to no knowledge about the PTO at the time. But rather than getting frustrated by that I took it as an incentive to learn about that part of the war - and for that reason alone it will always have a special place in my heart because it opened a whole new chapter of history for me. The show "suffers" from the same problems MotA does - time jumps, focusing on a handful of characters from different units rather than a whole group, battles being hard to distinguish from each other - but it's incredibly well made and definitely worth a watch.

I've been enjoying talking to you too, anon! Doesn't matter if you'll ever come off anon or not - the important thing is that you have a good time in fandom :)