#‘yall ever hear of this emperor hirohito character? seems like a tough customer’ | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

wrishwrosh · 9 months ago

Text

the more mediocre period television i watch the clearer it becomes that the master and commander style initial title card is the only elegant way to do historical exposition. gold standard. just tell me where we are and what year it is so we dont have to waste the pilot watching characters explain war to each other like they all suffered severe head injuries before walking into the scene

#this is about the 2010 hbo program the pacific #which despite the promise of foxholes yaoi i could not get through the first 15 minutes #when all the marines sat around explaining to each other what a soldier was #‘yall ever hear of this emperor hirohito character? seems like a tough customer’#‘but we’ll sure lick him when we achieve our strategic objectives on the island of guadalcanal!’#and then they hold up an annotated map and a newspaper with the days date #god bless.#histfic

16 notes · View notes