Why We Fight: General Discussion

[shanghai_jim]

Comments

[polaris_starz]

Ohgod, this episode is like being stabbed in the heart every single time. Of course it's the one with Nix as the viewpoint character.

Does anyone else get the song they sing in this one stuck in their head? It happens to me a lot.

[mydocuments]

=) I use Blood on the Risers as a cadence call when I'm running.

[polaris_starz]

I suppose it's too much to hope that .mp3s of it exist?

[foofighter0234]

-When they're at the camp, one of the prisoners is carrying his friend in his arms like a Pieta.
-When Joe (justifiably) starts to lose his shit, I lose it. The moment he runs his hand through his hair, I think "uh oh, PTSD coming on..."
-When everyone is singing, it's so adorable how they kid O'Keefe.
-I still cannot watch this episode all the way through. It's too upsetting. I remember the first time I watched it, when it was over, I ran to the bathroom and got sick, and was messed up for the rest of the day.

[polaris_starz]

I always have to leave the room when they're at the camp and get ordered to tell the prisoners to stop eating. I just can't watch it.

[foofighter0234]

I always have to look away. With me being Jewish, watching this episode is akin to mental torture for me.

[theartisan7]

It should be mental torture for anyone, but I see what you mean.

[shanghai_jim]

- all the little kids sitting rummaging through the rubble; not just the two boys, but other boys and a girl, during the single tracking shot that opens the episode

[foofighter0234]

- AS they enter the camp, Doc is constantly whispering instructions to the medics with the cross on their helmets.

I only just noticed that.

- Dear God, I paid attention now to the expression in Liebgott's eyes, what he was doing during this scene. First he's diffident, trying to be detached. His eyes blink noticeably, calmly. He's looking through the prisoner. Nix and the others are more emotional. Then Winters asks the question why. Liebgott has to try harder to translate "the unwanted". Then the prisoner says "Juden" and Liebgott blinks once and stops and then his eyes go jet black and you can see it just became personal. His body language to the prisoner totally changes; his caring and supportive side goes out to him now, and it's the officers to whom he becomes slightly dismissive. My interpretation: he's been looking for a reason. Now he has the one that trumps anything else.

Joe has his reason now, and he's gonna lose his emotional grounding.

- ... and then all that belonging is ripped from him by the message he delivers,

[mcbuchanan]

-Man, I hate this episode. So much heartbreak

[mcbuchanan]

-Poor, poor Liebgott. This is where it totally comes apart for him. Before now, he's focused on killing Germans, but it isn't truly personal for him. But get him talking to those prisoners, and it sets the stage for all his problems in later life. Poor guy.
-This seems like the first time the Spiers actually shows emotion, when he is looking with horror at the camp.

[foofighter0234]

-This seems like the first time the Spiers actually shows emotion, when he is looking with horror at the camp.

This is the point where the mask of "almighty awesome Speirs" starts to come off.

[mcbuchanan]

Yup. You can still see the mask earlier, but not then.

[sweet_revenge00]

First off, Nixon is my favorite character, so I obviously love that he's in this so much

[foofighter0234]

- Oh Liebgott. I want to know, why couldn't they have gotten anyone else to talk to the prisoners? Wouldn't they have understood that Liebgott couldn't/shouldn't tell them that they had to go back to that hell? Especially when he breaks down (excellent job by Ross).

why couldn't they have gotten Lesniewski to talk to the prisoners?

- Luz is so much love in this episode.

Luz in this ep is the one thing that keeps me from losing my shit and going crazy with sad. Which I am very grateful for, because he is awesome and full of lulz and love and *hearts*.

[dana_fields]

why couldn't they have gotten Lesniewski to talk to the prisoners?

I think he was jewish too, wasn't he?

[foofighter0234]

He was.