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I think 10 episodes is perfect. Quality over quantity. Plus there's The Pacific which is great too. And on top of that Masters of the Air is coming out. Hopefully that will be on the level of BoB and The Pacific.

So does Michael Fassbender and Tom Hardy. I caught both of them, but I missed James McAvoy.

Not in the group depicted in "Band of Brothers".

No it couldn't use more diversity. This is a movie based on a real U.S. army paratrooper unit, and should reflect the reality of that unit. The U.S. army was segregated in WWII. No black and white soldiers served beside each other in the same unit. That's simply how it was. When Japanese-American soldiers enlisted, they were grouped into their own units as well; they weren't mixed in with the rest of the army.

Yes, this was a retrograde and lamentable attitude, that reflected a regrettable and shameful racism that was inherent in American society at the time. But it was the reality, and history shouldn't be rewritten out of political correctness. It should be learned as it really was, warts and all.

For the same reason, I would strongly object to a Korean War or later war movie that didn't show black and white soldiers serving beside each other in the same unit, because President Truman desegregated the U.S. armed forces in 1948, and units were mixed after that. The process was begun before the Korean Conflict, and by the Vietnam War, American units were thoroughly mixed, and a U.S. army company that was not multi-ethnic by then would be as historically inaccurate as a WWII army company that was.