#oh and also they are aiming for Japanese companies too (which didn't even happen in the 80s at the height of Japanese economic power)

[elbiotipo]

this is more of a musing rather than a take, but this whole US vs. TikTok thing is rather revealing to me as of why all the major social media and tech companies are US based. Because if competitors arise elsewhere, they do their best to choke them.

It's interesting that in a supposed global and decentralized internet, we are all beholden to US companies and laws.

[lewis-winters]

#I have the impression the writers didn't have much info about augusta #but I also have the impression they didn't bother trying to find out #and it's not as though they avoided creative licence re other characters #bob (& tp) fall prey to western individualism in various ways #(in this instance: focusing on the 'angel of bastogne' to the exclusion of all the other volunteers #when it would in no way diminish renée's courage to show her work as part of a group effort) #and of bob's few characters of colour all of them are sidelined #(I have a vague hypothesis mcclung is overlooked to put emphasis on shifty's sniper expertise and. fuck that sfm.) via @onelungmcclung (I hope it's alright to share-- if it isn't just tell me and I'll take it down)

YES.

oh god YES to all this.

they took so many creative liberties! eugene and reneé never met, and yet they did in episode 6. nixon never broke into that house-- winters did. yet they had that in episode 9. web didn't go up with lieb on the mountain, another soldier did. yet he was there in episode 10. don malarkey wasn't at landsberg with them when they found it. yet he was in episode 9. the real tony garcia could swim! yet in episode 8 he couldn't. dick winters himself said the way his ptsd was portrayed in episode 5 was inaccurate! yet, still, it was there. so many things that never happened irl but were done anyway for the sake of the overall narrative*! yes! and yet for this, they didn't even bother.

that's why i'm all 👀 at those in the notes who cry historical inaccuracy because??? i'm sorry, are we watching the same shows? there's historical inaccuracy everywhere! what's one more? especially if said historical inaccuracy might make the narrative richer! especially if said historical inaccuracy might serve to highlight the contributions of people of color during world war 2-- which was clearly what they were aiming to do with "anna" but, of course, ultimately failed because it was so poorly done. as I said. the bar was on the ground and they brought a shovel.

and the same with mcclung! who was native american! and garcia, too. who was latino. and I definitely like how you pointed out how the pacific does this too because yeah!! it does!!! merriell shelton's character is literally a caricature. i love rami's portrayal, don't get me wrong, but the fact that they had the only person of color in the entire company (... which is like. bruh. seriously? a whole ass company of enlisted marines and only one**???? poc???? that in itself is a historical inaccuracy i see rarely decried) do such horrific things (i.e. desecrate japanese bodies) when the real merriell shelton never actually did those things just... does not sit well with me. another case of creative liberty gone wrong.

*This statement is very forgiving, though. Not every historical inaccuracy will lead to a richer plot. Sometimes a historical inaccuracy is a writer thinking themselves clever but instead coming off as a total knobhead.

**I'm not actually sure if Merriell was the only one or if there were a couple in the background that I just missed-- but then again. If that were true, the fact that they were there and I missed them even after watching the Pacific so many times just further proves the point, doesn't it?

listen i love the bastogne episode. i love it. i obsessively watch it. literally when i watch band of brothers i watch bastogne first and then currahee and so on. i love this episode.

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