I think in some ways, The Pacific was better.
Made the European theater look like a cakewalk, in comparison.
I preferred BoB and was really looking forward to The Pacific as that's the theater in which Dad fought. I was a little disappointed until I realized that what The Pacific lacked was the character identification that develops when the same core group of guys are followed from boot camp through the war. It's a big part of what made BoB so compelling to me. However, I don't think that there was any other way to do it as the two theaters were prosecuted in different ways. There were so many battles and different units involved in The Pacific that they couldn't maintain the same continuity as BoB.
Both theaters were grueling, and nobody who took up arms had it easy; however, the Pacific Theater was an entirely different experience due to a fanatical enemy who fought to the death, seldom took prisoners, and who disregarded generally-accepted rules of warfare.