Turst me, a single rec, especially from someone as widely read as you, can make all the difference. Some people I know announce in every community when they have a new vid, I just beg for recs, because you can announce till the cows come home, but it hasn't 1/100th the power of a single rec. I am in awe of your mad powerz!
Re Nix/Winters, I found a ship manifesto here http://community.livejournal.com/ship_manifesto/63557.html that gives a bit of info about them, and has some links to fic, but it's very much oriented toward whatever fan clique they all seem to be in, so I can't vouch. I got turned off fic in this fandom really fast -- most of it's awful, and written in a way that I can't handle. I'm just too freaking picky. There are a couple of communities, one calle camp toccoa (but I don't know the exact spelling, otherwise I'd use a tag) and I do believe a couple others.
If I wrote my own ship manifesto abstract, it would be something like this:
Band of Brothers is based on the book by Stephen Ambrose about the 101st Airborne, Easy Company. They dropped behind the lines at night on D-Day, ostensibly to take out the German guns that were trained on the coastline where the soldiers were landing. Unfortunately, things went haywire, and many men were lost or dropped far from their objectives. Easy lost their leader, and Lt. Dick Winters stepped in to lead his men on an assault on a German battery that is still taught today.
This was really typical of his character -- he was an incredibly strong, thoughtful, intelligent guy (and really, they were still just kids then) with a natural ability to lead. He became the company's captain not long afterward. He was a straigh arrow -- didn't drink, smoke, carouse, any of that. Which is why his deep friendship with Lewis Nixon was even more miraculous -- Nixon was wealthy, flamboyant, a drunk, and had many other vices. But they became the closest of friends, and both had an ability to lead and inspire confidence in the men, and they were both incredibly well respected.
Nixon was the company's intelligence officer, and as such, he didn't see as much combat as the others. Winters was a lot more comfortable in the field; when he is promoted to a desk job partway through the series, he doesn't take too well to it, and Nixon even has to remind him that the person who's taken over Easy will do fine, he should just let it be.
They are never far apart throughout the war. Even on D-Day, when everything was a total mess and no one knew who had lived or died during the night drop until they actually saw the person, there's this kind of "hey, there you are!" coolness about their relationship. In the series, Winters constantly is looking over his shoulder to make sure Nix is there. When the was in Europe ends, they are training with the implication that many men will be sent to the Pacific to fight Japan -- and Winters signs up to go, so of course, Nixon is going too.
Nixon offers him a job at the end -- his family pretty much owns Nixon, New Jersey (which is now Edison), and he wants Dick by his side if his family expects him to make something of himself. There's a heavy background to him that's never really delved into -- we know he's unhappy, and that he drinks because he is, but as Dick says in his voiceover at the end, "he went through some hard times, but then he met a woman named Grace and it all came together." (Grace is actually still alive, and Ron Livingston met her, shown in the supplemental material on the DVDs.)
I fear I'm running out of space, so I'll continue this.
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Re Nix/Winters, I found a ship manifesto here http://community.livejournal.com/ship_manifesto/63557.html that gives a bit of info about them, and has some links to fic, but it's very much oriented toward whatever fan clique they all seem to be in, so I can't vouch. I got turned off fic in this fandom really fast -- most of it's awful, and written in a way that I can't handle. I'm just too freaking picky. There are a couple of communities, one calle camp toccoa (but I don't know the exact spelling, otherwise I'd use a tag) and I do believe a couple others.
If I wrote my own ship manifesto abstract, it would be something like this:
Band of Brothers is based on the book by Stephen Ambrose about the 101st Airborne, Easy Company. They dropped behind the lines at night on D-Day, ostensibly to take out the German guns that were trained on the coastline where the soldiers were landing. Unfortunately, things went haywire, and many men were lost or dropped far from their objectives. Easy lost their leader, and Lt. Dick Winters stepped in to lead his men on an assault on a German battery that is still taught today.
This was really typical of his character -- he was an incredibly strong, thoughtful, intelligent guy (and really, they were still just kids then) with a natural ability to lead. He became the company's captain not long afterward. He was a straigh arrow -- didn't drink, smoke, carouse, any of that. Which is why his deep friendship with Lewis Nixon was even more miraculous -- Nixon was wealthy, flamboyant, a drunk, and had many other vices. But they became the closest of friends, and both had an ability to lead and inspire confidence in the men, and they were both incredibly well respected.
Nixon was the company's intelligence officer, and as such, he didn't see as much combat as the others. Winters was a lot more comfortable in the field; when he is promoted to a desk job partway through the series, he doesn't take too well to it, and Nixon even has to remind him that the person who's taken over Easy will do fine, he should just let it be.
They are never far apart throughout the war. Even on D-Day, when everything was a total mess and no one knew who had lived or died during the night drop until they actually saw the person, there's this kind of "hey, there you are!" coolness about their relationship. In the series, Winters constantly is looking over his shoulder to make sure Nix is there. When the was in Europe ends, they are training with the implication that many men will be sent to the Pacific to fight Japan -- and Winters signs up to go, so of course, Nixon is going too.
Nixon offers him a job at the end -- his family pretty much owns Nixon, New Jersey (which is now Edison), and he wants Dick by his side if his family expects him to make something of himself. There's a heavy background to him that's never really delved into -- we know he's unhappy, and that he drinks because he is, but as Dick says in his voiceover at the end, "he went through some hard times, but then he met a woman named Grace and it all came together." (Grace is actually still alive, and Ron Livingston met her, shown in the supplemental material on the DVDs.)
I fear I'm running out of space, so I'll continue this.