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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > TV IV > Manhattan: You should really watch this show!
 
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Leb
Jan 15, 2004


Change came to America on November the 4th, 2008, in the form of an unassuming Senator from the state of Illinois.

Fateo McMurray posted:

Why did that WW1 German soldier's helmet have a swastika on it?

If it was just to remind the viewers that the bodies he was searching were, indeed, German, then come on we're better than that as viewers right?

Charitably, we could conclude that Frank was just conflating the various imagery from the two world wars in his memory.

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Leb
Jan 15, 2004


Change came to America on November the 4th, 2008, in the form of an unassuming Senator from the state of Illinois.

counterfeitsaint posted:

That was the popular sentiment at the time. Everyone believed that there couldn't possibly be another war like that.

That scene was great because it worked on two levels, not only was she so tragically wrong, but that means his squad and buddies just died for nothing.

Yeah, that a super common sentiment most famously promulgated by none other than H.G. Wells. I mean, it's easy to be cynical now, with the weight of history at our backs, but I could easily imagine a young nurse, having just lived through the most terrible war the world had ever seen who, upon receiving word of the Armistice, could genuinely believe such a thing.

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