Masters of the Air

Toronado said:
Think this was brilliant tv, a very thought provoking and engaging insight into what it must have been like, visually stunning and worth every second

It cant be 100% historically accurate but thats not a standard it should be held to surely

Makes you worry how people would deal with a world war these days as the men and women shown and detailed in this show were incredible and massive respect to everyone that did and everyone linked to them
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If you decide you want to tell a historical story that is still in living memory, you get it right. Hanks usually does this well. It is a standard absolutely it should be held to

To be honest the accuracy is very good for the most part, its just the anti British theme that is so forced and totally pointless, that people seem annoyed with.

They also changed history with people like Biddick etc, but stuck to Crosby and Rosenthal and quoted their books almost word for word.

The technical side of things was absolutely spot on.
 


2 episodes in so far. Struggling a bit to be honest. I just don’t like the lead characters, especially the English lad Turner playing Egan.

Anyway, Schweitnfurt - Regensburg now.
 
Watched 2 episodes weeks ago and not been arsed about going back to it. Main characters are unlikeable and it never took them long to squeeze in some anti British content.
 
So I was re-watching it last night (my apple will run out in a month) and episode 2 really sticks out as a poorly written, cliched filled mess on second viewing.
 
Have watched them all apart from episode 8, which would not play on my 'platform' for some reason.

Technically, it was brilliant - the planes looked good, the uniforms and vehicles (Allied and German) looked right, the actual events were portrayed realistically.

It was the constant 'war is hell, but it's up to us Yanks to save the world' attitude that rankled plus the underlying anti-British sentiment in nearly every episode. Even in the last episode, where they were dropping supplies to the Dutch civilians there was no mention of anyone else's involvement. In reality, the USAAF dropped 4000 tonnes of supplies and didn't actually start until a couple of days after the RAF, RAAF, RCAF, RNZAF and the Polish Air Force who dropped 7000 tonnes between them.

The ending was good but overall it's a 5 out of 10 from me.
 
Enjoyed the episodes in the middle focusing on the big missions

Thought it totally lost it;s way towards the end with bad direction from a writing perspective, whilst there was an element of wholesomeness to go alongside the tragedy in band of brothers, I thought the wholesomeness in masters of the air was bordering on corniness hashtag team america, fuck yeah.

Feel like they forced some narratives into the show, firstly when Rosie gets shot down and on his journey with the Russians, decides to stretch his leg and we get a 30 second segment reaffirming how bad the nazis were with the holocaust. Whilst we can all argue that that was a terrible event it felt forced due to the token nature of the scene in particular, i think this just highlights poor writing and direction.

Secondly the Tuskegee airman, again it just felt forced and an element of Tokenism, as if their story was but a boot print of the main story.
 
Hugh Gains said:
Enjoyed the episodes in the middle focusing on the big missions

Thought it totally lost it;s way towards the end with bad direction from a writing perspective, whilst there was an element of wholesomeness to go alongside the tragedy in band of brothers, I thought the wholesomeness in masters of the air was bordering on corniness hashtag team america, fuck yeah.

Feel like they forced some narratives into the show, firstly when Rosie gets shot down and on his journey with the Russians, decides to stretch his leg and we get a 30 second segment reaffirming how bad the nazis were with the holocaust. Whilst we can all argue that that was a terrible event it felt forced due to the token nature of the scene in particular, i think this just highlights poor writing and direction.

Secondly the Tuskegee airman, again it just felt forced and an element of Tokenism, as if their story was but a boot print of the main story.
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Having read the spoiler, I agree with everything you say in it.
 
Motor City Cobra said:
5 episodes binged over the weekend, f***ing love it.


How the hell they got back in those planes to do mission after mission, can’t even comprehend it man.
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Don't forget, the Yanks could go home after completing 25 missions.

The RAF completion threshold was higher - 30 missions - but their attrition rate was horrendous.

Average life expectancy of new recruits to RAF Lancaster crews was 2 weeks.

By contrast, the average for B17 crews was 11 missions.
 
They've tried to cram every historical event into that of the characters, for example the Rüsselsheim massacre which hapened but not to Buck Egan.
I'm stuck on the red tails episode at about 15mins in and can't motivate myself to watch.
 
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ebb said:
I'm stuck on the red tails episode at about 15mins in and can't motivate myself to watch.
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That's the one I can't get to play for some reason.

I'm not too bothered - I've seen the film about the 'red tails' with Laurence Fishburne and thought it was very good. In MOTA, though, it feels like they've shoe-horned in the story of that particular squadron when in reality they were one of scores, possibly hundreds, of USAAF fighter squadrons who participated in escort missions over occupied territories and Germany in the latter stages of the war.
 
Just watched the last one, enjoyable enough spoiled slightly by the Yank jingoism and need to shoehorn in too much for show.
Casting generally worked well but I just couldn't take to plastic Elvis, he just didn't suit the part at all.
 

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