George Luz

But Skip Muck then tells this replacement how many of them have been wounded.

And they've all been wounded at least once, apart from George Luz and Skip, who have never been hit.

It's another grim bit of foreboding with what comes up soon with Skip Muck and Alex Pencola.

but um spears stops so it's good to see spears again um and he asks the men what they're up to and he recommends that they reinforce their foxhole and before offering them a smoke so they've all been talking about you know what happened and things with spears and the whether the rumors are true yeah but what i love is that he's probably heard it and he's like i'm gonna live up to these rumors and He mentions it at the end of this episode, actually, about why he was mentioning it.

yeah well like we said psychologically i think bastogne is basically about endurance and being created collectively These men survive because someone finds another man a pair of socks or Roe treats a wound or Lipson checks on somebody.

Somebody shares food and somebody else makes a joke at precisely the moment when everyone needs one, like George Luz.

And they're constantly keeping one another functioning, often through incredibly small acts that would be... completely insignificant or kind of just throw away matter of fact anywhere else and it's small things as well isn't it like chocolate

or like you say socks and things like that cigarettes when they find some lucky strikes isn't it

Yeah, and we did

later on, and I think it's in Why We Fight, the men are walking through the woods.

And I think it's George Luz says, you know, he says to someone, he says, does this remind you of Bastogne? And he's like, no, because we've got food in our bellies.

We slept indoors last night and the trees aren't.

But as ever, we head back knowing that this will never last, knowing that the war is always just over their shoulder.

And we head back to Easy Company with the men watching the 1940s film Seven Sinners, with George Luz providing us with some other great impressions, including the brilliant and more and more visceral way he says, got a penny, as the woman says it.

And I think this scene as well, it speaks back to the first episode where the men are watching a film after the invasion is postponed.

And as the camera panned across then, it was a sense of fear on their faces.

Again, thinking about others, not saying, you've got to rescue me, you've got to drag me out of here.

But they don't, the men kick a barn door down, and then they drag him back, as there's a great shot with Buck Compton holding on with one arm, as they drag, I think it's Malarkey and... maybe George Luz, potentially, and they're dragging him along.

And, you know, you think that shows that they could have left him there and looked after themselves, but they didn't.

They rescued their mate.