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Got this on my main that I don’t use so here’s my reply. Y’all do what you want, I don’t care.

Okay, but to add to this because I posted this in the middle of a panic attack so I didn’t bother with it much: 

The Pacific and Band Of Brothers are companion pieces and a part of a series of war shows produced by HBO. Generation Kill is a mini-series independent of the other two, which means that while they’re all war shows produced by the same company, they’re not connected. I tried googling HBO War, because I remember reading somewhere that HBO War consists of The Pacific and Band Of Brothers only some years ago, but I was unable to find anything. I did also search “HBO War series” because it was a suggested search, but it still didn’t give me much. The three shows did appear (together with Masters Of The Air and BBC’s Parade’s End) , but it was under a Google classification thing which said “TV programs > HBO > War”. So, from what I can find, HBO War, isn’t a thing. I get that it’s a handy thing, but I’m not sure where it originated from, or how two companion WWII shows got put together with a mini-series about the invasion of Iraq. 

Anyway I just want to say that I don’t really mind people lumping the three together, because honestly, y’all do whatever you want, but I personally (and I know others do too) only classify The Pacific and Band Of Brothers as companions, which then will be a trio together with Masters Of The Air when that’s released.

Also, something else that might help with things: On HBO’s website, Band Of Brother’s only connected show is The Pacific, and The Pacific’s only connected show is Band Of Brothers, while Generation Kill has a number of other shows suggested as similar, but The Pacific or Band Of Brothers is nowhere in sight. 

to be fair, I don’t think anyone uses HBO War thinking that it’s some sort of official HBO term. I could be wrong, of course, because I can’t read the mind of everyone in the fandom, but I’m pretty sure most of us just use it because it is a handy thing to lump together three shows that are war-related miniseries produced by one network that we all happen to like. so HBO’s official position isn’t relevant, at least from my perspective

As an Official Fandom Old Granny, aka I come from way back in the We Only Had LJ days, this was the fandom pre-tumblr and mostly pre-The Pacific:

Gen Kill had their own little pocket, and it was the busiest, most popular, and most producing pocket of the entire three shows. (Let us take a moment to mourn all the great Gen Kill fics lost behind f-lock and deleted livejournals.)

Band of Brothers was obviously the oldest, with mostly everyone coming out of the Camp Toccoa lj group, and of the 2 Hanks-Spielberg shows the more “respected” and again more popular of the two.

The Pacific was the red-headed step-child that those of us active in had to verbally defend for not being shit bc it wasn’t BoB pt.2 (There was also an lj fandom vs tumblr fandom thing based partly on Joe Mazzello getting harassed. Just yeah, different times.)

The term “HBO War” wasn’t really used or if it was it was the “HBO War Trilogy/Trinity” bc at the time no one had any clue Masters of Air was going to be a thing. (We all thought the next big HBO War thing was going to be this Civil War show that was supposed to feature a lot of the BoB cast. That show never happened.)

And you also have to remember, outside of a handful of fics, very few at the time The Pacific started airing featured cross-over characters, so the term in and of itself didn’t really exist or need to bc BoB kind of stayed to their corner and Gen Kill kind of stayed to theirs and…what was the fic…The Devi Dog in Baggy Pants was the glorious exception to the rule.

Eventually with the fandom moving from LJ to tumblr full-time I think “HBO War” just became a handy tag to search for things.

At the end of the day people are going to enjoy their fandom in the way they want to, but as someone who has been around long enough for moss to start growing, I’d just thought I’d share some insight into the time before the term even existed. It was never an official HBO term, always a fandom thing, etc etc.

This jives with my recollections. I lurked in BoB fandom back in high school and I was semi-active in Generation Kill fandom a year or so after it came out, when I was in college. There were some fans of both, but they were often in their own spaces.