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

[soundandvision]

Whomstever said "yeah 9 episodes is great" needs to be sent to federal prison

[muccamukk]

Ha. To be fair, it was better than a bunch of the other episodes (7 comes to mind).

[soundandvision]

I meant the number of episodes. IE 9 instead of 10 eps.

Trying to decide which episode was my fav vs least fav. I promise I liked this show but man I think they had too long to stew. They needed to step back and look at it with fresh eyes before they went into production.

I wonder if the long lead between them deciding to make it and then making it made a difference.

[muccamukk]

Oh yeah, right. I can read. Sometimes.

I suspect they ran out of money. BoB was supposed to be 13 episodes, at least as per initial series announcements, and HBO tightened the purse strings down to ten.

You're right on in the main issue, IMO. There's some serious forest for the tress issues happening.

[partypaprika]

I think that they caught in trying to make it too big, too grandiose and that was never going to work with 9 episodes. And the storytelling...all over the place for me.