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Originally Posted by Cappy
I think that is an issue with period pieces or historical dramas nowadays. There is too much criticism for certain pieces "ignoring" parts of history or not being representative.
I think shows like this, be it through producers or studios, feel compelled to cover too many aspects, which either bloats a production, or water downs the main plot point.
Tuskegee need their own miniseries - it would honestly be a more compelling historical story than Masters of the Air. Why put them in for a half episode in the second-to-last episode before the finale (especially when they are only tangentially related to the main plot).
This may come off a bit, I don't know, but, as a series, you will never eclipse a portrayal of the holocaust from a US soldier's perspective then "why we fight" in Band of Brothers. It is such an awful episode of television and hits hard. So in this series, why even have that small of a touch on it? do it justice or leave it out.
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This aggravates me so much.
I mean, here you have a group of Black men, well-educated and brave men no less, who are volunteering to fight for a country that, at this point in history, treats them like crap.
Huge plot point.
Then they get captured and are bunked in with white prisoners in a concentration Camp.
The Americans hate black people, the Germans hate black people, the Soviets hate black people and yet despite all of this they still volunteer to fight, fly and die for a Country that treats them like dirt.
Now tell me you can't make a compelling series of TV out of
that!
I mean, thats served on a platter.
What Masters of the Air tried to do was illustrate the conflict between the white soldiers and black soldiers being forced to share the same barracks, but they touched on it just so barely...why even?
Again, if you cant do it justice, work around it.