Coming to this a week late, but that does mean I have another episode to watch this weekend! I think I liked this episode best of the three so far; the single mission gave it a tight story, and it is astonishing to me how far these planes fly and how far they fly when they're beat to shit.
I liked all the atmospheric foggy stuff (and the return of Meatball!!!) at the beginning, though I felt like I needed some more explanation as to why they got ordered to go without the other planes. I guess just a fuckup from command and a total disregard for the loss of life (and also of materials, it's kind of wild to me that they're throwing so many planes and all their equipment away every time!) (And also lives, but given its the military that is sadly less surprising to me.)
Unfortunately the only people I can tell apart thus far are Crosby and Curt; this did mean that Curt's death did actually hit for me, unlike everyone else where I confess they're all a bit faceless nobodies to me. I really think an episode of everybody training or everybody just hanging out on the base would be helpful to establish everyone (and the latter would be interesting to delve into the weird thing about being in the air force which is you could be flying a bombing run and watching all your friends die in the morning, then safe and at a club in the evening). It is weird to me that so far Crosby is the only character who seems to have a story? Everyone else is just kind of... competent.
I think there was one woman who got a speaking line this episode, the lady in Belgium at the end. I feel like it's particularly egregious in 2024 to have just no women in your show, especially given they do have WAACs and Red Cross staff and Land Girls in the backgrounds of shots; give some of them actual roles! The show clearly realises they were present, it's just not interested in them mattering, I guess. (I'm crossing my fingers for future episodes.)
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I liked all the atmospheric foggy stuff (and the return of Meatball!!!) at the beginning, though I felt like I needed some more explanation as to why they got ordered to go without the other planes. I guess just a fuckup from command and a total disregard for the loss of life (and also of materials, it's kind of wild to me that they're throwing so many planes and all their equipment away every time!) (And also lives, but given its the military that is sadly less surprising to me.)
Unfortunately the only people I can tell apart thus far are Crosby and Curt; this did mean that Curt's death did actually hit for me, unlike everyone else where I confess they're all a bit faceless nobodies to me. I really think an episode of everybody training or everybody just hanging out on the base would be helpful to establish everyone (and the latter would be interesting to delve into the weird thing about being in the air force which is you could be flying a bombing run and watching all your friends die in the morning, then safe and at a club in the evening). It is weird to me that so far Crosby is the only character who seems to have a story? Everyone else is just kind of... competent.
I think there was one woman who got a speaking line this episode, the lady in Belgium at the end. I feel like it's particularly egregious in 2024 to have just no women in your show, especially given they do have WAACs and Red Cross staff and Land Girls in the backgrounds of shots; give some of them actual roles! The show clearly realises they were present, it's just not interested in them mattering, I guess. (I'm crossing my fingers for future episodes.)