I like the blog, but I disagree with your overall take on the series.
*In the past decade where everything was a shade of gray, this appreciates the war was closer to black and white.
*Even saying that, the show provides shades of gray. Why did the military send some of these pilots on suicide missions for almost no benefit? Why were the Black pilots screwed with fuel supplies for one run?
*Even the German-American distinction shows some shades of gray. They discuss how their bombs hit civilian targets, and how the area around one bomb run will kill a lot of civilians. They also show the vitriol the German public has for the Americans--which shows there were actual people getting bombed.
Yes, it is an air show that's not entirely in the air, but Band of Brothers spends a lot of time on personalities and humanity, not just Lt. Winters killing people. Same deal here.
I watched one episode and turned off - implicitly agreeing with almost all your points.
More than this I was struck by how unsatisfying in every sense it was compared to the 1949 movie “Twelve o’clock high”.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041996/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
I like the blog, but I disagree with your overall take on the series.
*In the past decade where everything was a shade of gray, this appreciates the war was closer to black and white.
*Even saying that, the show provides shades of gray. Why did the military send some of these pilots on suicide missions for almost no benefit? Why were the Black pilots screwed with fuel supplies for one run?
*Even the German-American distinction shows some shades of gray. They discuss how their bombs hit civilian targets, and how the area around one bomb run will kill a lot of civilians. They also show the vitriol the German public has for the Americans--which shows there were actual people getting bombed.
Yes, it is an air show that's not entirely in the air, but Band of Brothers spends a lot of time on personalities and humanity, not just Lt. Winters killing people. Same deal here.
I thought this was a triumph.