Now that I’ve seen all nine episodes of Masters of the Air, I agree with you. There were good parts, but it never decided what it wanted to be—an air combat show, a POW show, an escape-the-Nazis show. What was weirder was making Crosby the POV character when he wasn’t involved in the latter two storylines and largely left the first one a…
Now that I’ve seen all nine episodes of Masters of the Air, I agree with you. There were good parts, but it never decided what it wanted to be—an air combat show, a POW show, an escape-the-Nazis show. What was weirder was making Crosby the POV character when he wasn’t involved in the latter two storylines and largely left the first one a few episodes in. And the rate at which the show abruptly abandoned things that they had been building (escaping with the resistance in Belgium; Buck and Alex planning an escape from Stalag Luft III; the ominous “we’re using you as bait” reveal when Rosie re-upped) was jarring. The difference between BoB and the other two of the trilogy is that BoB was a show about a group of people who were in WWII, and MotA/Pacific were shows about WWII that had people in them.
Also, as gripping as the aerial combat scenes were, the real footage from the Netflix WWII documentary series was even more so.
Now that I’ve seen all nine episodes of Masters of the Air, I agree with you. There were good parts, but it never decided what it wanted to be—an air combat show, a POW show, an escape-the-Nazis show. What was weirder was making Crosby the POV character when he wasn’t involved in the latter two storylines and largely left the first one a few episodes in. And the rate at which the show abruptly abandoned things that they had been building (escaping with the resistance in Belgium; Buck and Alex planning an escape from Stalag Luft III; the ominous “we’re using you as bait” reveal when Rosie re-upped) was jarring. The difference between BoB and the other two of the trilogy is that BoB was a show about a group of people who were in WWII, and MotA/Pacific were shows about WWII that had people in them.
Also, as gripping as the aerial combat scenes were, the real footage from the Netflix WWII documentary series was even more so.