I really tried too! I have to announce then, that Band of Brothers is one of the most over-hyped productions of all time.
When the series first came out, the nerd from Friends almost turned me off of it... instead, the fact that it was boring did. Fast forward 10 years and I still found the pilot dull, the next episode like a watered down PG rated war flick and then the 3rd episode seemed to lose all focus whatsoever. In the 4th episode, our merry band of Yanks jump into occupied Holland for Operation: Golden Market, but don't expect A Bridge Too Far! The Yanks, losing a mere 4 men, were clearly away from the core of the fighting and they live to fight another unexciting battle in the next episode... not that I'll give this tedious programme another minute!
The problems with BoB were that the characters are bland - and, yes, I know it's a war programme, concentrating the majority of its one hour length per episode on the combat - but I never really cared who lived, died, said what, did what, etc. The "action" - as mentioned above - felt too sterile too. Given those two aspects, there's not really much to recommend.
I would have given the programme 3/10 but the real aeroplanes in fly-by and the authenticity of the scenes really bumped up the production value, deserving that extra mark for effort.
When the series first came out, the nerd from Friends almost turned me off of it... instead, the fact that it was boring did. Fast forward 10 years and I still found the pilot dull, the next episode like a watered down PG rated war flick and then the 3rd episode seemed to lose all focus whatsoever. In the 4th episode, our merry band of Yanks jump into occupied Holland for Operation: Golden Market, but don't expect A Bridge Too Far! The Yanks, losing a mere 4 men, were clearly away from the core of the fighting and they live to fight another unexciting battle in the next episode... not that I'll give this tedious programme another minute!
The problems with BoB were that the characters are bland - and, yes, I know it's a war programme, concentrating the majority of its one hour length per episode on the combat - but I never really cared who lived, died, said what, did what, etc. The "action" - as mentioned above - felt too sterile too. Given those two aspects, there's not really much to recommend.
I would have given the programme 3/10 but the real aeroplanes in fly-by and the authenticity of the scenes really bumped up the production value, deserving that extra mark for effort.