Date: 23/02/2024 03:45 (UTC)
muccamukk: Nixon looking through binoculars. (BoB: Binos)
From: [personal profile] muccamukk
Somewhat mixed feelings about this one.

Good: It was nice to follow just three characters, who were wearing masks 0% of the time! Tracking who the fuck was who much improved. (Still don't know who Rosie's crew are, but oh well.)

A female character with a personality! And decent hair! Who wasn't a love interest! Hooray! She and Croz were really cute, and I liked the continued impact of losing Bubbles.

A lot of the Egan running around scenes were genuinely tense.

It felt like they were nodding to combat fatigue existing, which is a nice change of pace, even if nothing of the kind would happen to our heroes.

Nice to see Cleven again.

Rosie's hair remains A+


Less good:
I didn't like the juxtaposition of the bombed out city (making sure we knew it was the RAF, not our guys) and civilian suffering with those civilians brutally murdering prisoners of war. (Which did happen in Berlin late in the war, but not to Egan). Especially given how often the shouting Germans were shot slow-motion firelit less-than-human. It felt like a lot of the way this episode was cut was to reassure us that the Germans had it coming. And I really feel like there's middle ground between "Nazis are evil and Hitler had to be stopped" and "bombing civilian centres is justified." I don't think the show's interested in any ambiguity on that point.

I actually would like to see some of the psychological impact people keep talking about. Maybe that's next episode? *mutters about Twelve O'Clock High doing better with this in fucking 1949*

There were a couple really weird errors, like Oxford having a "campus." and Alexandra 'Landra' M. Wingate changing to A.M. 'Sandra' Westgate.

All of the Brit V. American stuff was just annoyingly unsubtle, which I guess some of it was at the time, but we already got several rounds of this with the RAF pilots. *sighs*

*fly squint most of the rest of the hair*
This account has disabled anonymous posting.
If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting
 
Notice: This account is set to log the IP addresses of everyone who comments.
Links will be displayed as unclickable URLs to help prevent spam.

Custom Text

HEAVY ARTILLERY is an HBOWar fandom community, welcoming works from Band of Brothers, The Pacific, Generation Kill, and any future HBOWar properties.

We also have a Discord server, for those of you who prefer to chat in real time.

THE RULES ARE SIMPLE:

1. Don't be a dick.

2. Make sure your works are appropriately tagged.

3. Stay on topic.

For a more in-depth breakdown of the rules and a look at posting guidelines, take a peek at the community profile page.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, feel free to reach out to community moderator [personal profile] thrillingdetectivetales at any time.

[base layout courtesy [community profile] myrtillenne]