Masters of the Air: Episode Discussion 1 & 2

[muccamukk]

For all your chatting needs, as the show comes out. I'll hopefully post one of these every Thursday.

Rules:

1. Don't be a dick. Specifically (but not limited to):


1. Not liking something is fine, and negative comments are fine. Please do not directly tell other participants why the thing they like is bad or that they are bad for liking it.


2. Kink shaming will be deleted.


3. Racism, homophobia, transphobia, antisemitism, misogyny, etc will be deleted.


2. Discussing material from the books is fine, but if you're going to discuss something that happens in future episodes, or the fate of historical characters, please put it under a cut and title the comment Book spoilers! or something similar.


3. Likewise, wanting to treat the show as a self-contained unit and not engage with the books/history is perfectly valid.

How to do an in-comment spoiler cut:
<details><summary>Describe what you're spoiling here</summary>All the spoilers go in this part.</details>

Comments

[muccamukk]

So those dropped early! Refreshing the page every 20 minutes paid off!

Pretty solid so far for the action stuff, especially the technical details around flying. All of the bombing runs felt very real and immediate.

Curt's probably my favourite so far, though I'm having trouble telling the guys apart, as usual. The masks are not helping! I hope we get more with Lemmons and the cute kids.

I'm finding the plots and characterisation a little thin, but hopefully they're just setting things up. (The I don't gamble because of my dad monologue felt a little obvious.)

The shipping situation has potential. Gale/John obviously, and Curt/John, and Bubbles/Crosby.

No woman has yet gotten a first and last name. Though I ship the Peggy/Marge situation from the opening scene.

I did find having an opening scene to establish that the co-dependant pilots who have managed to name themselves after each other do in fact like girls a bit much, especially with all the homophobic comments from the RAF pilots. Queer content zero, so far.

[wearing_tearing]

(The I don't gamble because of my dad monologue felt a little obvious.)
I had to pause during this part to go: really? Is this how we're doing it?

especially with all the homophobic comments from the RAF pilots.
UNNECESSARY TO THE MAX. It's a 2020s production, we're over that.