Masters of the Air: Episode Discussion 3

[muccamukk]

I recently learned (because someone had checked Wikipedia, and I had not) that there will only be 9 episodes, not 10 like the other series :'(

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Comments

[sovay]

Yeah, and it would've given us ten episodes

Still not sure what happened there.

So each episode took place in a more or less emotionally coherent arc overall, since they were pulling from the same novel, and could ask the vets questions, but also was its own story, and each had a slightly different flavour.

I like the sound of the quasi-anthology feel that would have given the series. Was Orloff head writer on the earlier series, too?

SHE WAS THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE. WHAT IS HAPPENING!?

Maybe we'll get flashbacks?

[muccamukk]

I suspect planes are expensive and they ran out of money. Band of Brothers was a 13 episode order, until HBO realised how much each episode cost.

Orloff wrote Day of Days, which was mostly excellent with a small amount of unnecessary voice over, and Why We Fight, which is probably my least favourite, but I feel like he did the best he could given the topic.

Day of Days has one of the best shorthand character introduction scenes I've ever seen, which I included in my top three favourite moments of the entire show.

I don't think he worked on The Pacific, at least not as a writer.

[kore]

Day of Days has one of the best shorthand character introduction scenes I've ever seen, which I included in my top three favourite moments of the entire show.

Which one was that?

[muccamukk]

The scene with Winters and Hall in the woods.