Masters of the Air: Episode Discussion 8

[muccamukk]

NCUTI GATWA! (that is all)

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.

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Comments

[wearing_tearing]

Positive things first:
--Great seeing the Tuskegee airmen and wish we had gotten an episode about them sooner. The show could have focused more on their own journeys through the war and how that was like for them.

--The camp scenes post-Egan getting his shit together were also fun! I always love scenes of people organizing and readying themselves to fuck shit up so they can be free.

Everything else:
--Couldn't be bothered with Crosby anymore and skipped pretty much all of his scenes.

--D-Day shown through only a glimpse because Crosby was passed out made me SO ANGRY.

--What was the point of giving us Sandra and doing nothing with her spy arc?? I wanted to see her be amazing!

--Not enough Rosie.

[muccamukk]

Someone on the HA discord had a vision of the show as 50% Red Tails and 50% the Bloody Hundredth, and then we see the plots come together with the PoWs, and it really digs into the characters and race issues. Alas. The fighter flying scenes were really cool though!

Love a good training montage.

Agreed on everything else.

[wearing_tearing]

That would have been AMAZING! We could have had it aaaaaaaaaaaaall. :(

[kore]

Now that sounds like a great show.