Maybe, just maybe The Pacific is coming into focus by Part 4

After I've beat up on "The Pacific" for a few days running, I have to say that Part 4 was a pretty good episode - this one looking, in the first half, at the horrible conditions fighting in a Pacific rain forest and the 2nd half at the strange life at a military psychiatric hospital. The series is doing a good job presenting different aspects of the war - not just one battle scene after another. We can see how sometimes the worst horrors are after the battle, slogging through mud, constantly wet and hungry. Mainly, I think, these episodes get better because at last one character is coming into focus - PFC Bob Leckie. We started off with 5 main characters, maybe 6 counting a guy stateside, and one by one they've peeled off and now we're staying with Leckie, or so it seems - just as well because the others, to me, are entirely indistinct. Leckie himself isn't the most compelling character I've ever seen - and the scripting is kind of odd, each episode so different that it feels almost as if there's no guiding hand for the series. The previous episode was all about Leckie's relation with an Australian woman who basically (and improbably) dumped him, and this episode has not a word about her. But it helps, with a canvas this vast, to have a focus, to have one set of eyes through which to see the kaleidoscope of war. Some powerful scenes in the hospital, and a good confrontation between Leckie and his superior officer who's a bully. The series never even touches on the politics behind the war, and that's probably just as well - it's all seen from the soldier's viewpoint, brutal and limited.