Okay, anyway. Dick did actually go to work for Lew's family's company after the war, and even through marriages and families, they were never far apart in real life. And I think the series really focused on that -- while Dick was also great friends with Harry Welsh, who is the third part of their little command triumvirate, the fact of the polar opposite quality and what happened after the war was something the producers really focused on, and did it very well. Livingston and Damian Lewis, who plays Dick, had that kind of magical chemistry you can't pay to find. They understand each other, in character, in that guy-like way that can be so unique to true leaders.
The scene where Nix gets shot in the helmet is one of my favorites -- Dick is totally, completely freaking out that Nix has been shot in the head right in front of him, even in the midst of a really bad situation where they're pulling back under heavy German fire. And when he asks Nix if he's all right, Nix replies, "I'm all right! I'm all right! Am I all right?" because of the way Dick is freaking out. And then he says, pulling Dick off him, "Quit looking at me like that!" I guess in real life, Nixon would poke his finger through the hole in his helmet and start laughing over that. I always thought that summed them up very well -- Dick's pretty much a total clam, but he's open up and have a clameurysm only over Nix.
I was thinking about your not being much of a canon girl, and you know, you could probably watch this series relatively easily in the way I used to watch Oz -- I can't handle shows like that, but I adored Beecher and Keller, so my friends would bring over the tapes for me and show me Beecher/Keller Romance Theatre. We'd stop any time they were on camera, together or alone. I still managed to see most of the series, and all of their relationship. You could rent the gorgeous, gorgeous DVDs (the first show filmed in true hi-def, and my god, it looks incredible on a hi-def TV) and just FF through to the bits with them in it. That way, some of the most painful portions you could skip.
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The scene where Nix gets shot in the helmet is one of my favorites -- Dick is totally, completely freaking out that Nix has been shot in the head right in front of him, even in the midst of a really bad situation where they're pulling back under heavy German fire. And when he asks Nix if he's all right, Nix replies, "I'm all right! I'm all right! Am I all right?" because of the way Dick is freaking out. And then he says, pulling Dick off him, "Quit looking at me like that!" I guess in real life, Nixon would poke his finger through the hole in his helmet and start laughing over that. I always thought that summed them up very well -- Dick's pretty much a total clam, but he's open up and have a clameurysm only over Nix.
I was thinking about your not being much of a canon girl, and you know, you could probably watch this series relatively easily in the way I used to watch Oz -- I can't handle shows like that, but I adored Beecher and Keller, so my friends would bring over the tapes for me and show me Beecher/Keller Romance Theatre. We'd stop any time they were on camera, together or alone. I still managed to see most of the series, and all of their relationship. You could rent the gorgeous, gorgeous DVDs (the first show filmed in true hi-def, and my god, it looks incredible on a hi-def TV) and just FF through to the bits with them in it. That way, some of the most painful portions you could skip.