I got Band of Brothers and The Pacific on DVD for Christmas ages ago so you can't blame me! I did my bit!
Like I said, Masters of the Air wasn't 'Bad' necessarily, I thought it had some excellent moments, but it just felt...unfinished? Underdeveloped?
I felt it was a little all over the place. Not as polished as it could have been, there was stuff that could have been left out.
I'm actually still a little upset about the inclusion of the Tuskegee Airmen, I thought the amount of screentime they got relative to their importance was woefully small to tell their story.
If you cant fit it in, dont force it. The Tuskegee Airmen could be a series of its own.
And frankly, I dont think they did the Planes as much justice as they should have.
I understand the danger of the missions, the camaraderie of the flight crews and what it must have felt like being up there in those bombers. They could have shown a little more about the fighters.
It just feels like they tried to do too much and ended up accomplishing none of it.
Again, not to say it was 'bad' there were some wonderful and powerful moments but there was also a lot of *checks watch* "Is this still going on?"
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So that sort of sums it up for me. This show tried to be everything and wound up being none of it.