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Date: 15/03/2024 02:46 (UTC)Rosie's escape from the plane and then landing in no-mans-land was mostly good, though the CGI took a wooble so bad even I noticed it. I liked that they included his tour of Eastern Europe. I'm... less impressed that they made a Jewish character go to a death camp when he (as far as I know) did not do that.
I thought they did a good job making Croz look like he'd aged about 20 years since the first episode. I'm still mad about him for cheating on his wife?
The PoW storyline generally held together really well, and the escape bits were really tense (again, great for John/Gale).
The scenes with Lemmons in the plane was really cute!
This is the director who did Episode Four of the Pacific, and it felt like he knew how to handle war plots?
I'm pretty disheartened on the whole that we had zero queer characters (but some more homophobic jokes!), the Tuskegee guys felt very tokenised after their introduction last episode (underlined by them being the only people outside the main four who got "what happened" bits at the end), and I guess one significant woman, who got treated pretty shabbily. The book to me felt like it'd been published twenty years before it was, and I think the same is true of the show.
So many plots just got dropped. There was so much voice over telling us what was happening. You wanted to know what happened to any of the other characters they spend so little time establishing? I guess that's what the Internet was for. I feel like this is going to be even worse on rewatch, though I currently can't see myself rewatching. It'll be "Oh yeah, that guy!" "Oh right, that was a plot that happened then we never saw again!" for days.
And to be very fucking clear: the Americans never bombed civilians, and if they did those civilians had it coming. Just in case anyone was wondering about war crimes: that would be something exclusive to the Germans. I knew they were going to do this, and then was pissed off that they did it.