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

[wearing_tearing]

I was born when American accents were already homogenizing in the second half of the twentieth century and a friend of mine from Wisconsin once sat me down and ran a compare-and-contrast on our dialects just for the fun of it. I shouldn't be able to be confused by a plane full of characters all from different states.
I think this is something they forgot to do/consider in MotA? I was rewatching a few episodes of BoB and the distinction in accents and intonation between each character was incredible. Not one person sounded the same. They also made sure to cast people with different body types and, with the exception of a few of the younger actors, no one looked alike.

[sovay]

I was rewatching a few episodes of BoB and the distinction in accents and intonation between each character was incredible. Not one person sounded the same. They also made sure to cast people with different body types

That's so important! And so weird that Masters of the Air couldn't remember to do it.

[wearing_tearing]

I'm Brazilian and I joke a lot about white men all looking the same. But here they all really look the same D: