Well, it is no where as good as Band of Brothers, but the focus is too different. It doesn't stay on a single company and because of that, you kind of don't get what you expected...

...and what you expected is Band of Brothers in the Pacific theater and, well, without the same company to follow through the war, it doesn't give you that feel of brotherhood that made Band of Brothers so loved.

However, you do get a sense of how brutal it was, much more so than the European theater. And that is another source of complaints. People thought it was carnage candy when, the Pacific was actually just carnage.

So, really, its a misunderstood cousin.

The Pacific is a MESS and a WASTE OF TIME. The writing was so incredibly disjointed and amateurish that it killed all interest i had in WW2 half way through the show and forced me to stop watching and skip the last two episodes.

Like Band of Brothers, the set pieces in The Pacific were epic and highly authentic. But where B.o.B succeeds and this movie fails is the plot. B.o.B is able to introduce unique characters and build their arc throughout the entire series without jeopardising the core theme of war. The Pacific does everything wrong. It throws you right into the middle of the war without any character development and then proceeds to take a nose dive and immediately jump to a separate story line completely AWAY from the war for THREE. WHOLE. EPISODES as part of their pathetic excuse for character development. I'm no professional but i'm pretty sure this is NOT how you write a TV show about war. You don't make the foundation of the show a boring romantic drama with a couple of war scenes sprinkled here and there, you blend everything together seamlessly and make the viewer feel like they're on a journey.

After those three episodes the rest of the series is a mish mash of civilian drama in Australia and fighting in Japan. There is nothing wrong with having down-time in a war story, but make it fit in with the plot of the fucking war. Don't try to shove irrelevant drama down my throat.