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Date: 24/02/2024 03:00 (UTC)(b) Hey, it's the area bombing we were just talking about! We were also just talking about the American tendency to shove all the blame off on the RAF!
(c) Unless it is part of the historical record that Egan survived a semi-official mass murder of prisoners of war by letting himself be taken for dead and crawling off into the woods when it came time to dump the bodies, I have feelings of sufficient animus almost to derail my watching of the episode, that was interesting. If it is part of the historical record, reality gets a pass for being dumb as rocks.
(d) And then the sort of drawing-room parallel of Crosby insulted for being American by the random British officer, I really didn't think American fliers as a species needed woobifying. That said, Cros and Sandra: 10/10, no notes except that if she isn't meant to be SOE, the show is missing a real trick. "Basically I ended up with no quarters and no boots."
(e) Rosenthal: 10/10, just for the argument with his metaphor of Gene Krupa and using Artie Shaw to climb back in at the end. "Jews from Brooklyn don't ride horses."
(f) Oh, there's the Holocaust. Inevitable when your narrative crosses a railyard, I suppose. (Heads-up appreciated.)
(g) The folk singer has a nice vibrato, but she doesn't have a remotely '40's style.
(h) I feel like I'd have heard if Egan or Cleven were involved in any of the really famous escapes of Stalag Luft III, but I'm up for being surprised.
Altogether this episode along with the previous continues to feel like an improvement on the first four in terms of tracking characters in ways we are intended to care about, not to mention feeling like a coherent unit of narrative instead of a chunk of events. Cool.