Masters of the Air: Episode Discussion 9

[muccamukk]

A final episode, a 77-minute runtime, and a new director. Goodnight, sweet show!

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.


3. Likewise, wanting to treat the show as a self-contained unit and not engage with the books/history is perfectly valid.

Comments

[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.

[muccamukk]

John being in the tower when Gale landed was PERFECT! Yes good, more of that for the last idk 8 episodes. Though they did get notably more shippy once they hit the PoW camp. I do wish we'd kept the sharing a bunk for warmth thing. Oh well.

So the showrunners knew that they should be main characters but didn't want to actually do it?
Yeah, that was so fucking cynical. I can't even.

I kept feeling like the attacking Americans (great casting on the tank commander, who looked like ten miles of bad road) could've just said, "Hey, you're surrounded, surrender pls."? And not risked killing a bunch of PoWs. I wonder how that actually went down.

I'm going to sit with the show for a week or so before writing a final review, but yeeaaaaaah.

[partypaprika]

I can't wait to rewatch the tower bit. It was so good! I just wanted more of it. And yes, that tank commander, A+. Dude looked rough.

[soundandvision]

Fanfic writers have their work cut out for them with this show.

[muccamukk]

I'm trying to decided if I have the will to fanfic.

[soundandvision]

do it do it do it do it. I need y'all to unravel Egan and then make him better for me lmao.

I have to rewatch the show back to back before I write cause there was so much going on.

[muccamukk]

I'm not that invested in Egan, either, tbh, but lots of people seem to have picked him as their fave, so I'm sure the fic exists. I'm puttering away at some OC lesbians, but would need to do a bit more research before anything else.

And probably rewatch the whole show back to back, like you.

[soundandvision]

idk if he's my fav or not but I feel like the actor did a good job. The guy who played Biddick also did a fantastic job and I like the mechanic.

I liked that they had more women in the show and I feel like there is good crossover wlw fic potential now

[muccamukk]

I really liked Biddick, too (RIP), and Lemmons! Baby Law did good.

I would've liked the more women in the show to have actual roles. I think it was on par with The Pacific for women with speaking roles, and about the same level of not giving them interesting things to do. *sighs*