What did you think of Masters Of The Air Episode 3? Let me know your thoughts below!

The criticisms of the first two episodes were ridiculous. They had to introduce a host of characters and set the scene, without the benefit of simply having a BoB type Currahee episode. This episode was like being punched in the face, absolutely gut-wrenching.

@_TheDarkHalf

5 ай бұрын

My mouth is still open that curt died he was my favorite character. But I agree, the criticism of the first two was outrageous. Not everything can be band of brothers 2.0 lol. I really enjoy these characters and everything so far.

@mattfulmer4243

5 ай бұрын

I kinda disagree. I didn't think the acting nor writing was all that good (reminded me of Pearl Harbor), and the CGI was...not good. However, I did think that E3 was EXCELLENT!

@Wheatthin21

5 ай бұрын

The CGI looked fine to me, you can kinda tell its fake but barely, I guess I dont have a good eye @@mattfulmer4243

@BellinghamYorkshire

5 ай бұрын

Agreed. I watched the first and second episode again after doing a bit of research about the real life characters and it all came together for me

@firstlast9846

5 ай бұрын

yea it just wasn't done well.. other shows have done it - this show hasn't given a reason to care for the characters

The losses in this episode were brutal! The way the weather was so clear and the sun was shining whist the sky was full of falling fortresses on fire whilst 109 contrails were strafing was shot beautifully.

Im with you.. I sat in horror knowing full well what I was about to possibly see… a glimpse was enough to bring tears to me. It’s always “the other guy”… “not me”… not so. I don’t watch to be entertained.. I watch to be enlightened. The cost of war can’t be paid in full until the need for one human to exert tyranny upon another is ended. This particular war depicted doesn’t need any “Hollywood” added to the screenplay.. the true events are hard enough to take. But I thank those who put this series together. These stories can’t be told too much. Awaiting more to come. Great effort.. will be a classic keeper I think

@merrylmarsh9037

5 ай бұрын

Well expressed.

@craigsurette3438

5 ай бұрын

"The cost of war can’t be paid in full until the need for one human to exert tyranny upon another is ended" damn dude, that is one of the most spot on things ive ever heard

@barrystamper4162

4 ай бұрын

Gold!

@victorcornet21

3 ай бұрын

The great thing about these series, though, is that if audience members are curious enough, they will begin to do research on their own. After Band of Brothers, I read quite a lot of books on the 101st Airborne during WWII - humbled me even more than the series did, and enriched my experience of the series afterward.

I’ve waited 6 years for MOTA, and I am thoroughly impressed!!

@BrainPilot

5 ай бұрын

That's awesome to hear!

I knew what happened on the mission from history. But I didn't know who would survive. I thought they did an amazing job between action and suspense. Even the historical inaccuracies in the episode didn't do anything in my opinion to deter the episode in any way. All together another great episode.

My father was on this mission on the Piccadilly Lily of the 351stSQ/ 100thBG. He kept a diary and his entries for AUG17/18, '43 are gut wrenching and sobering. He describes the fight in the air, the number of other planes he saw go down or explode, he counts chutes for each. He also lists all the names of his buddies that did not make it to the airfield in N. Africa. It was a bloody day , the 100th lost 9 crews in that one battle and only 21 took off from Thorpe Abbotts. It is part of the reason they got the nickname ' Bloody 100th '.

@cathyruffino1894

5 ай бұрын

Wow!! God bless your Dad. I was sp moved by this episode,

@OrbitFallenAngel

4 ай бұрын

God Bless Your Dad!! 🙏🇺🇸💙 He is Forever known as one of the guys from The Greatest Generation To Have Ever Walked The Earth!! ❤🙏🇺🇸💙 I can't even imagine what your Dad saw or heard..😞

This left me in goosebumps. I can't even begin to imagine how scary it would have been

Think i am starting to getting old when my tears are flowing to the ground while watching these heroes fight against evil. 😢

Another amazingly made episode. MOTA is not disappointing from episode one. Episode 3 is the best so far and probably now the show get some real scary. It's brutally sad to see how these young guys were dying in these suicidal and at the same time heroic missions. The Memphis Belle movie was good and gave some kind of idea of how it was up there. Books about bombing crews always were great sources of facts and stories. But when you see all these actions taken on the screen it's getting even scarier. Big salute to these brave men for what they did and what they went through to bring World War 2 to an end

Many people are surprised and saddened by Curtis Barry keoghan killed though heroic in part 3

I think the third episode was the best yet.

@BrainPilot

5 ай бұрын

I totally agree! The scenes in the air were breathtaking

@richardlozano2329

5 ай бұрын

I was in awe!! Like wow!! That must’ve been a sight to see in real life.

I was kinda lost on the first episode but after watching episode 3 I recognized every major character by their eyes and occupation on the plane

Austin Butler was wonderful in this episode! I think some people had a problem with his character being stotic or critisizing that he's too pretty for the role and I get some of that because he seems ti stand out a lot especially in the looks department. But you cannot tell me he wasn't amazing in the third episode! I truly felt the hard emotions he was going through trying to land at the destination. He felt like a leader!

@BellinghamYorkshire

5 ай бұрын

He's my favorite character. The real life Buck was said to be a leader, calm and stoic.

In the last 77 years of my life I've watched any number of films shot by combat film makers ..'World at War' being notable, and listened to crew chatter...some interesting RAF stuff on KZread....Plus Gun Camera footage, lots of it, German and allied fighters attacking bombers tearing them to shreds. Planes and men being torn apart by canon fire. No Quarter given, brutal and extreme violence...Hollywood can bullshit as much as they like but reality was far worse... An uncle of mine flew RAF bombing missions in the later part of the war, he survived WW2... It was a hell of a thing to survive...

That guy falling out if the plane and getting sliced by the othet plane's wing was brutal, yet maybe the quickest and most humane death shown

7:04 i noticed from the first to third episode more men decide to listen to the priest's prayer whereas in the first episode they didn't take it seriously and only a couple men listened

I'm rewatching the show so far, and after each episode I watch these videos, to see if there's something I'm missing. This episode also shown the difference between officers - Claytor left his men to fend for themselves, bailing out leaving Quinn and Babyface, while Biddick was risking everything to keep the plane steady, and even try to land, for all his men, including the fatally injured.

My father, captain Martin W Mayer, 97th bomb group, 414 squadron….had targets over Germany and Italy. Maybe more because we all know those men came home and didn’t talk about it…..I will watch episode three tonight……but I fear for my emotions….the first two really knocked me hard…like watching my dad’s life before I knew him. He survived and came home and I always knew so many didn’t but never knew the true horror of what they went through. Thanks to the magic of technology The Captain reunited in our town with his top turret gunner, John Yaggi. This young man had completed his missions yet requested to go on this one with our Dad. He had gotten word of the target, Munich, and he knew the TTG assigned was not experienced. Permission granted and tech Sargent Yaggi saved the 17 from a collision with the 17 just above them. At their reunion they told how they could have reached out and touched it….we so wish this series had been made while they were both still alive. I love that the story, hard as it is, is being told now.

If he would've chosen to be a Prisoner, I believe the Resistance Fighter would've shot him. No way they could afford for him to be interrogated by the Gestapo.

So far I am not disappointed. They have put together a great retelling of what actually happened and given due credit to those incredible men that fought, lived and died in the air war over Europe. I can look past the cgi knowing that it’s the only way that this story can be told and it needs to be told. It definitely adds an extra dimension to read / audiobook Don Miller’s book by the same name and Harry Crosby’s “A Wing and a Prayer”.

I really like Curt but to see him go like that was sad as hell, the look on his face when he realized this was it...

@BrainPilot

5 ай бұрын

Yeah so sad! It was admirable sticking by his co pilot and the others on board to try and make a safe landing

@sax9eleven

3 ай бұрын

Yes! I was looking for this comment. That look on his face right before was gut-wrenching! I had to rewind a couple times. I couldn’t believe it. Gone. Just like that. Whew.

Thank you for your video review. Like you, I was just in awe of the devastation we witnessed in this third episode and the loss of so many young lives. So much to unpack in this series in terms of emotions and the terrible odds the airmen had for survival. It was surely the same for British and allied airmen as well. I have seen some reviews criticizing the series for various reasons but I do not agree with them - It must have taken dedication and skill to produce this realistic depiction and honestly, some of those critics are Instagram scrollers wanting things to happen in a 60 second time slot - that is n0t how it was back then - this was true sacrifice and I am so grateful to these young men and all the allies who fought against tyranny together. I am humbled by the story it tells.

The horror of watching all those men u knew being shot down is very well done. It gives u the utter reality of us or them…

thanks for the video

That was intense. I had to google Gale Cleven (Buck) and John Eagen (Bucky) because my heart can't take the suspense and needed to know what happened to the real Buck and Bucky. If you haven't done the research I will say it's going to make for a really interesting series.

I remember the old series '12 o'clock high' romanticizing the B-17 crews. Lost some buck all the key characters survived. This version of the story is all too realistic at times and closer to the reality of the time

Absolutely epic episode.

Agree the best episode so far!

I’m amazed this episode is getting good reviews. The cuts were jarring, the combat was lacking in arguably the most famous 8th airforce cock up. This mission deserved 2 episodes personally to actually show the true brutality of it. Instead it was like being on fast forward. This episode should of been MOAs Band of Brothers Bastogne. It skips most of it, doesn’t portray the sheer nightmare 4 hours they endured or the suffering. The one episode to really focus on the air combat was this one, as unluckily for the 8th, this was the Luffwaffe at its strongest and had something like 150 fighters come at them. So bizarre. Memphis Belle is still a better watch.

It was the underground or the marquee that rescue the guy, not the authorities.😕

Mr sulu says "oh my"!😳 Jman

who ever sent them up without a escort has blood on there hands.

@housemaged

5 ай бұрын

Curtis LeMay

@jpmj1340

5 ай бұрын

It wasnt a decision of whether or not to have fighter escorts at that time. At that time in the war the allies didn’t have fighters with the range to escort the bombers on there missions across europe, P51s only got external drop tanks in 1944 and improvements to the P47 and P38 to increase range only arrived in 1944 as well. Lots of vids explaining this

@andrewwaller5913

5 ай бұрын

They simply didn't exist in 1943.

@TheModelGuy

5 ай бұрын

They had escorts but not very far into France before theyd have to turn back or risk running out of fuel. At this part of the war, the 8th Air Force is quickly learning that the bombers could defend themselves was flawed. They are going to hit Schweinfurt in October 1943 a second time and get mauled. After losing 60 bombers and 600 men, they wont return to Germany again until 1944 with the P-47s carrying larger tanks and shortly after that P-51Bs joining

@ZekeMM25

5 ай бұрын

@@housemagedCurtis Lemay actually lead the Regensburg raid and was with them. They also had fighter escort. It’s just they weren’t able to stay with them all the way yet.

People got messed up

Stunning, frightening and realistic. 😪👵🇦🇺🇺🇸

@BrainPilot

5 ай бұрын

It really is!

@tonyzender5752

5 ай бұрын

​@@BrainPilotnot realistic. Insulting to the men who did this. Imagine if Band of Brothers was made to look like a bad video game because reality wasn't good enough. Vets would be rightly insulted. Real color footage of B17s over Germany exists. It's breathtaking. No need for TIE fighter swarms and bombers defying physics.

Very good review brother. Love the show but i find it diffuclt to tell apart and follow so many chracters.

@BrainPilot

5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video, hopefully that will come with time as we get more episodes

Episode 3 is story deep

Air to air rockets were not used by the Germans until 1944

@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935

5 ай бұрын

Wrong.

I wish they had the real people speak before the show begins.

@KA-id4wt

5 ай бұрын

There's only 1 guy from the 100th bomb group that's still alive. They would be well over 100.

@stevedavis9466

5 ай бұрын

very few left to interview. My father flew this mission, he was 18 at the time. He flew 25 missions with the Bloody 100th from JUN-OCT, '43. He died in '07. I would have loved to watch this series with him to get his perspective.

In combat, the purpose is to kill the other guy.

How much is Apple TV?

@QuicknStraight

5 ай бұрын

Just pay it. It's worth it for the quality of their content.

@clayrivera2710

5 ай бұрын

I would wait for the whole show to come out. all 9 episodes. only 3 right now. if you want to do a free trial for one week you can watch it all in a week. do it now, you have 3 episodes and your free week trial will end. so if you want to to pay 10 for the whole month, then do it now but you might not make the whole show before paying again

@lingenfeltervee

5 ай бұрын

I signed up just for this. I think 7 day tiral then 9.99 per month. So after 2 months Ill just cancel it. Some other good stuff on it.

@gudhaxer41343

5 ай бұрын

If u have a PS5, there's 3months free.

@justin36004

5 ай бұрын

If you have an apple product or ps plus its three months free.

relax guys. It is only a telemovie

I know I'm in the minority, but I don't just "go along with the crowd" when I give my thoughts on a movie or a show, and my thoughts about this series is that something isn't quite right overall. I was just talking with my wife about it, and I think what is throwing me off is when you see other military / war movies, especially about WW2, there are what seem to be older men playing the roles, and it seems more realistic. I'm just talking about perception, here, and have nothing against any actor going for a role they want. For me, there isn't the realism that Band of Brothers or The Pacific had. When I see this group together, in their flight meetings, in their planes, and after flying how many hours to finally reach Africa after flying through hell, and all I'm thinking is they got their hair and make-up done for the on the ground, in Africa scene. They really do look like a GQ magazine shoot promoting the show. I mean, look at Butler's hair after what they had just been through. It had product in it, and he even had the little superman curl in front. They are paying too much attention to the actor's looks, and not enough for realism.

@eoh633

5 ай бұрын

You clearly never had you'rre Dad BrillCream your hair as a kid! You missed out! Egan was described as Hollywood glamor quality, and Cleven was a "rock" or better a "hot rock" so they were swoon worthy, according to the beauty of the day. As for age, esp the USAAC/F, they were kids. Cleven was 25 in 1943, and a MAJOR and the old man of the squadron with Egan. Col Harding, USMA '27 and former football coach of the USMA, was born in 1905 and so was all of 38 in 1943, and Curt LeMay was younger by a year and he was a general officer! BTW, Peck was 33 when he played BG Savage (aka General Armstrong) UCH younger than Hardin was in reality.

@OrbitFallenAngel

4 ай бұрын

Yes they look young because the average age of the young men going up on these brutal and dangerous missions were between 18 years old and 21 years old.. They were kids. But they did things that men would do. They had the courage and the determination to fly their Bombers into German airspace and drop their bombs on target... That's why these guys are called: The Greatest Generation To Have Ever Walked The Earth!!! ❤🙏🇺🇸💙 In my opinion they are all HERO's!! God Bless Them All!! 🙏🇺🇸💙❤

@marcd1981

4 ай бұрын

@@OrbitFallenAngel I saw another video with an interview of someone that flew on a B-17. He stated what you said about the ages of these pilots and navigators, and that the mechanics were even younger with an average age of 18! Maybe it was because Band of Brothers had actors that didn't look so young, so I'm comparing that series to this one. But there is still something different about Masters compared to Band of Brothers that seems off to me. I read another comment about Butler looking like a super model in a uniform, and I think that is part of it, you're not expecting these guys to look that good after what they were going through.

Is this written and recorded by AI?

@robertormes2178

5 ай бұрын

it sounds like it doesn't it...

Why does the ending need to be explained, are we dumb ?

They took some liberties with history in Episode 3. The 100th Bomb Group was on the Regensburg portion of the Regensburg-Schweinfurt mission, so they did not go to Africa, but returned to England directly. They did lose nine of the 21 bombers they sent out, almost half of the 20 bombers lost by the Regensburg strike group.

@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935

5 ай бұрын

Wrong.

@OrbitFallenAngel

4 ай бұрын

Wrong. The Regensburg group did infact fly to North Africa after they completed their bombing raid... It was the Schweinfurt group that headed back to England. You might want to get your history checked...

Poor baby face

@BrainPilot

5 ай бұрын

Yeah that was such a sad moment!

"Whoever takes the sword will perish by the sword." (In every war)

Thank God you explained it, you must be the smartest human alive. smh. The hubris of all the idiotic "EXPLAINED" videos about movies and TV, like it takes a rocket scientist. Who watches this crap and why did YT feel the need to put this in my recommended videos??

You’re stating the obvious. What’s the point? 😳

Is brain pilot a pilot? I honestly don’t know. The CGI was so horribly abused that I kept rewinding shots to show my wife the 5 things wrong in every scene! Yes, I’m a current airline pilot, former fighter pilot, geek for WW2 aviation history. The fighters zooming around like physics isn’t a thing and doing exquisitely timed fleur-de-lis within arms length of the bombers is exasperating. Turrets moving waaaay too fast. Throwing contrails at 500 ft over the ocean. How about red tracers? When did Hollywood decide tracers are all white? How about unnecessary tracer squiggles like we’re watching Hellcat guncamera footage? Fully powered B17s landing in Africa like they’re being dropped from a crane, but the engine out one glides in like and albatross. I could go on and on. I’m upset that this is going to be the Hollywood legacy of what those men did. Band of Brothers, the Pacific; great. This is trying to make something that was amazing and horrible into a video game. I blame superhero movies for bending expectations from reality to “more exciting.”

@DaveandGinny972

5 ай бұрын

Have to agree. The CGI is unnecessarily way over the top and unrealistic. You only have to watch a few scenes from the 1969 'Battle of Britain' where real aircraft were used to realise this.

@alexwilliamson1486

5 ай бұрын

Scrolled way down to find a comment I wanted to similarly say? The 109s looking to have the speed of TIE fighters….too many of them? And far too many being shot down…. Like the series, but feel the air combat scenes are way too over the top…air gunners didn’t shoot many fighters down not even 30 destroyed, I might be incorrect. There is actual combat footage of fighters going through the combat boxes, long attack curves although fast, there’s nowhere near the manoeuvrability portrayed in the series.

@164DiecastVideos

5 ай бұрын

The best was the go around in episode 1. Check out that climb rate when they are landing in Iceland.

@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935

5 ай бұрын

@@DaveandGinny972 Head on passes would have a relative 600mph closing speed, slow closing speed tail chases were rare unless long range weapons were being used, the defensive fire was too dangerous. Beam (continuously converging) attacks were common, the geometric firing solutions favoured the attacker.

Watching it mainly for the story and visuals. The characters themselves are kinda bland heroic caricatures so there's no emotional investment. I also checked when this was produced because Austin Butler still had his Elvis voice (this was shot after Elvis finished production so yeah, "Thank you verry much" 😄).

@BrainPilot

5 ай бұрын

Yeah the visuals and the story are incredible. I get what you mean about the characters but i'm just hoping that with time and the development of the story that will come naturally.

@derrickj45

5 ай бұрын

Be careful saying, "the characters are bland." These are real people they are depicting, and they pretty have them accurate based on the stories and memories of the former members of the 100th bomber group.

@ray101892

5 ай бұрын

@@derrickj45 Fair point. I guess I was expecting band of brothers/ the pacific kind of story arc where the characters we followed were green but hopeful and then as the war progressed, they evolved to become more experienced, jaded and contemplative. Bucky and Buck were like "I did not expect air warfare to be like this" in the 1st episode but now they're immediately cool under fire. I guess they're "masters of the air" for a reason :).

@EscanV

5 ай бұрын

I was in shock with tears when Curt was killed

@BrainPilot

5 ай бұрын

It was such a gutting moment! The fact he attempted the safe landing so that his co-pilot wasn't left behind was admirable too

Are all these positive reviews ai generated?It's an appalling piece of crap.

@noddymcglade7682

5 ай бұрын

There's an episode of Family Guy where Stewie Griffin and Brian are flying a bomber over Germany. That episode is better than MOTA.

@ryanmclaughlin2434

5 ай бұрын

I’m thoroughly enjoying the series, and I say that as an avid aviation and ww2 history enthusiast. So no, not all these positive reviews are ai generated.

This narrative of the episode is boring drivel with no deep understanding of what it was all about or the subtleties contained within. If you can't do better than this don't bother!

Total Hollywood crap !

This ep. was so short and stupid. I basically saw everything over again from the trailer and that was it. I’m un-subbing from Apple TV…I can watch each trailer and watch 75% of the show.

"bailing out" of the plane is the term used ...not evacuating the plane!!!

It was the underground or the marquee that rescue the guy, not the authorities.😕

@notmyname1046

5 ай бұрын

At first I didn't think it was the maquis fighters I thought they were members of the vichy regime.