Date: 2009-05-13 07:20 pm (UTC)
*high-fives you right back, sweet twin of mine*

As for the meme you get The Wire, BSG and Deadwood.

Band of Brothers is definitely knee deep in Greatest Generation rhetoric, and I'd say the problems the series does have are largely caused by the Good War/Greatest Generation narrative framework. But unlike say Saving Private Ryan I feel Band of Brothers does manage to rise above that framework on occasion, or at least tries to raise a few questions about it. Still there is no getting around the series semi-mythical feel and its Ryan-legacy.

(btw - have you watched Ken Burn's The War? I understand that he has also done a Civil War documentary. Was that also saccharine? )
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