Date: 15/03/2024 04:33 (UTC)
From: [personal profile] partypaprika
I have to say that I was both so bitter and so happy at the start of the episode. It was so good. It was exactly what I've been wanting more of. This is an aside, but I will die on this hill--I think that so many of the airplane scenes could have been so much better throughout the series, by focusing more on the interior of the plane and its occupants (and would have been better at heightening tension).

I love the connection that we got to see between Buck and Bucky. I loved that moment when Buck calmed Bucky down by agreeing to go with the escape. And then the separation! AND BUCK'S FACE WHEN BUCKY'S VOICE CAME ON THE RADIO AFTER HE GOT BACK TO BASE.

I really wish that we had more of Alexander, Robert and Richard. I really wish that we had seen them from the beginning or at least several episodes sooner. I liked getting to see them in the "more about" section at the end, but it treated them as main characters where the show did not but really should have. So the showrunners knew that they should be main characters but didn't want to actually do it? I don't even know.

I also really liked how upset Crosby was about Rosie's plane going down. I'm still not sure when they really became friends, but I like that friendship. That exchange about meeting up after the war was nice.

I was SUPER not prepared for the bayonetting of the POW escapee.

For the camp attack, at first, I was like, was shooting at the POW camp a smart idea? But then the explosions started and it made a lot more sense.

They definitely packed in a lot at the end. I loved Ken getting to go up in a plane! Women! They exist!

This episode was good! But felt like it easily could have been split up into a few episodes. Even with the compressed time frame, the emotional beats felt so much better for this episode--again, why couldn't we have this in the other episodes?

The show ended on a high and I'm glad that it did, but on the overall, this show really felt like a let down.
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