I got a bit choked up when Buck and Rosie flew the food drop mission together.

@_TheDarkHalf

4 ай бұрын

Dude that was so cool when Bucky came in on the radio!

@darwinawardcommittee

4 ай бұрын

Did you see the companion documentary on apple? Seeing the real guys who are all gone now …😢

The book on which this is based (titled "Masters of the Air") is over 600 pages long and covers the "Bloody 100th" for the entire war, hundreds of men over hundreds of missions all over Europe, so shortening it into into a miniseries was always going to be challenging. As uneven as this was, it's probably as good as nine episodes can be.

@douglascampbell9809

4 ай бұрын

Yeah. People who are upset just don't have a frame of reference of just how bad it was to be in bombers during the day. A friend of mine had a relative who was a waist gunner. My friend was showing him this B 17 flight simulator. When he finished the run my friend asked his relative haw accurate it was. His relative told him for it to be accurate you would have to load 5 shells in a six shooter, spin the chambers and put it to your head and pull the trigger. Pretty sure he was in the 8th when it almost ceased to exist. Hard to do character development when 90% of your characters are going to die of be POWs.

@nash_355

4 ай бұрын

I honestly wish they added more missions into this series highlighting most of their part in the war. If you ask me I think this needs a second season, maybe about fighter pilots instead this time.

@DanMcClinton

4 ай бұрын

It was okay. They could have fit more 100th Bomb Group stuff in there if they didn’t try and shoehorn in the stories about the Red Tails and the British spy. It’s hard to be all things to all people…they did okay, but it could have been better.

@juvandy

4 ай бұрын

@@DanMcClinton yep. Episodes 1-6 are amazing. Episodes 7-8 are partially fictional and partially too meandering. Episode 9 was great and captures a lot of truth about the end of the war, but is also nearly entirely fictional in regards to the people being portrayed and what they actually experienced. It gets the spirit right, if not the truth. I think it was a challenge for them to make this, but they made it harder on themselves by trying to do to much, which forced them to have to cut narrative corners. I really didn't like how many things after episode 6 were told to us rather than shown. The cliffhanger of episode 7 about the bombers being bait and how the strategy was changing was RIGHT THERE, and they just whiffed it. That story, about how the luftwaffe was utterly destroyed in 1944, would have been a nice cap to the chaos on the allied side that we see in all of the prior episodes. I really liked the series, but I am mystified as to why they didn't complete their own transition from Act 2 to 3 there.

@waynec3563

4 ай бұрын

The book "Masters of the Air" is about the Eighth Air Force, not just the 100th Bomb Group.

Nate Mann played Rosie sooooo well. He could star in a movie about Rosie and I'll be all for it.

@RJKookie

4 ай бұрын

He caught my eye in the teaser trailer. I thought he was gorgeous in 5 & 6 and had the most intense parts. He was a revelation on this show and a movie of Rosie with Nate Mann starring - yes pls!

@mygreentopiary

4 ай бұрын

Agree. Rosie and the Nuremberg Trials!

The show was good but they could have done a 10th episode. They skipped over a lot, Rosie was actually shot down 2nd. The one they showed in this episode was the 2nd time. He was also shot down in September of 44 and was pulled from his plane by the French and returned to his base. They skipped over a lot of key points.

@specialopssoldier1

4 ай бұрын

are you going to give them your money??? because shit aint cheap making movies or series.. tbh who really cares if you want to watch rosie full story go look it up on youtube

@ChienaAvtzon

4 ай бұрын

It is understandable why the series skipped over Rosie being shot town the first time. He was unconscious and it is what happened the second time that left a lasting impression on him. What he witnessed in Poland, is why he became a prosecutor during the Nuremberg trials.

@_TheDarkHalf

4 ай бұрын

Damnnnn. Yeah they gave all the time to the POW camp!

@mygreentopiary

4 ай бұрын

The POW camp is part of the story for so many airmen so I agree with them showing it. I would be so battle fatigued myself if they only show the raids.

@mygreentopiary

4 ай бұрын

The last episode was long so it felt like 2 episodes.😊

the Dutch location they dropped supplies to, Valkenburg, is in the Limburg region of the Netherlands. It has a lot of nice restaurants and very cool ruined castle (Castle Valkenburg). I visited there in 2022 and did the whole Leo-points-at-screen-meme when they dropped the name. It is near the nice tourist city, Maastricht.

@8BTB8

4 ай бұрын

The Valkenburg they dropped the supplies on and is shown here is actually a different one from the one you visited. This one is more to the west of the Netherlands along the coast and had a military airfield next to it. Still the one in Limburg is a nice place to visit (I live near haha)

Ultimately, I liked this miniseries. I felt like it fell apart a bit at the end. It got away from the showing the bombing missions which were the strength of the series. It felt like it needed to be 2-3 episodes longer and they didn't have enough money to do what they really wanted to do. Certain episodes were excellent though so overall it was enjoyable.

@stt5v2002

4 ай бұрын

Ok but this episode literally has a bombing mission in it. And a beautiful and emotional mission to drop food to the Dutch, who had suffered terribly under Nazi occupation for years. I know the action scenes are entertaining. I like them too. But you can’t sustain a mini series entirely on action scenes. There has to be a story and character development. There has to be complexity.

@vincentbergman4451

4 ай бұрын

Agreed,

@nash_355

4 ай бұрын

True, I feel like there was still a lot they could add between the timeframe of June 1944 and February 1945. They left a bit of a gap there. Apparently Rosie was shot down once before this episode on September 1944 I believe, which would've been during the failed operation market garden which we saw in band of brothers.

@ChienaAvtzon

4 ай бұрын

@@nash_355 - That is true…. but Rosie was unconscious and woke up in England. He had no memory of what actually happened once his plane was shot. Which is probably why it was skipped over.

@nash_355

4 ай бұрын

@ChienaAvtzon Makes sense then. But they still could've tried to squeeze in some more missions in the air but I guess they couldn't afford it.

The movie Bloody Hundredth has historical interviews with the men. It also gives allot of history.

You'd be surprised when you look into these men. Them and a lot of other guys, from different bomber wings, continued to serve in the Air Force when the service called them back, asking if they would want to join SAC, or, Strategic Air Command, which acted as a deterrent for the entire Cold War. A movie that would put that into perspective is "Strategic Air Command," which Jimmy Stewart stars in, considering the fact that he flew B-24s in WW2. He also continued serving, albeit, in the USAF Reserves. Aside from Strategic Air Command, I would suggest watching "Best Years of Our Lives." That movie was made directly after WW2, and is about three Veterans coming back home, trying to readjust back into civilian life.

@mygreentopiary

4 ай бұрын

It was astonishing to see how many famous actors served in the war some of them even ended up in POW camps!

@limeygal1

4 ай бұрын

"Best years of our lives" is one of my favorite movie. It just showed so much of what it was like to come home.

I wanted more Rosie! His journey was incredible- and Nate Mann is not just gorgeous but a gifted actor. Props to him. “Judgment at Nuremberg” is a must-see! Classic film with a stellar cast.

@_TheDarkHalf

4 ай бұрын

I wonder if they’ll do a sequel and focus on Rosie. I see a lot about him.

@RJKookie

4 ай бұрын

@@_TheDarkHalf Rosie stole the show. I heard that Covid affected the production bc ppl got sick and still had to be paid, so the cut backs impacted and shortened the series. After ep 6 the quality really tanked and everything looked super rushed. Doesn’t look like a sequel is going to happen. They could make a great movie out of Rosie’s story but Nate Mann should star because I can’t picture anyone else portraying him now - he was that good.

They could easily done a series about "Rosie" only, he frlw 52 missions during WWII and got shutdown and broke his arm in the landing and his journey back to base. And what he did during the Nuremberg trials after the war.

@mygreentopiary

4 ай бұрын

I am on board with having a series about the Nuremberg trials starring Rosie. I read he met his wife on the way to Germany (she's also a prosecutor!) and they married in Nuremberg after 2 weeks of meeting! And oh, Nate Mann should play him again.

Tom Hanks' "Greyhound" 2020 is the Navy vs Nazi submarine version.

@paulhewes7333

4 ай бұрын

A very good movie. Not a lot of extraneous material. Just them trying to get the convoy across the Atlantic. Hanks was great as the commander of the convoy.

@Ilikemc_donalds

4 ай бұрын

Hi is Tom hanks doing a sequel to greyhound

@HollowPoint_762

4 ай бұрын

Need reactions to this movie. I enjoyed it very much.

@WayneKing53054

4 ай бұрын

It was about American and British destroyers escorting a convoy across the Atlantic. They faced off against a Wolfpack.

@stevenspringer1599

4 ай бұрын

unknown...but the north Atlantic war has some incredible stories.@@Ilikemc_donalds

This is the 5th Hanks/Spielberg WWII collaboration if you consider Saving Private Ryan, the three mini series and the movie Greyhound.

My late father helped feed & treat concentration camp victims. He was a tech sergeant attached to a medical unit that followed the 506th paratroopers in Germany.

@ChienaAvtzon

4 ай бұрын

Your father was a true hero.

Awesome reaction!!! There was actually an attempt by the Americans to fly behind Soviet lines, land, rearm/refuel, and then return to England while conducting another bombing mission. Forget what the operation's name was, but someone in command figured that it would have been a good idea to just keep flying east into Soviet held territory instead of flying through the anti-aircraft fire and German fighters. The bombers were to then land at makeshift Soviet airfields. Believe this happened in 1944 -forget when. Anyway, believe this happened maybe 2 times that I have read about (maybe more, but not more than 10 times, could be wrong), because the logistics of flying bombs, munitions, fuel, spare parts, etc., actually proved that the idea was not really worth the effort. Also, the Germans figured out what was going on, and the Luftwaffe attacked the American aircraft and caught some on the ground at the Soviet makeshift airfields. Also, the forced march of the Allied airmen actually did happen. They marched from Poland to Germany, always staying ahead of the advancing Soviet armies. The motive behind this was to keep them as prisoners as long as possible. This happened roughly during March 1945 timeframe and in brutally cold winter conditions. The Tuskegee Airmen were flying/fighting with 15th Air Force primarily in Italy, where they were stationed - probably why they were not depicted as much in this series. They did do escorting missions for bombers flying from bases in Italy to targets in southern Germany, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and other places. Have read stories about their exploits in Germany as prisoners - some probably wished that they were never shot down/captured by what I have read. All in all, this was my 1st viewing of this series, so will have to check it out in its entirety. Enjoyed the journey with the 2 of you!!!!!!!!!!!

Very good miniseries!

Part of why they werent represented much of the Tuskegee airman in this episode was because in reality, there isnt a record that their downed POWs actually met the 100th. So in the last episode, they represented more of a composite of downed Tuskegee airman meeting bomber pilots in POW camps. Not neccesarily these guys. But adding more to them would have been creating history that didnt exist. They had lines, just nothing that wasnt generic to an officer, especially a Red tail knowing that it was his squadron attacking them on their march. There was also no mention of the British woman who parachuted into France, because in reality, she disappeared from the records and he never saw her again. Even her being in France is based on some scant records, but whatever files she has working for the SOE is sealed till this day.

The "Bloody Hundredth" documentary is available now too narrated by Tom Hanks & Steven Spielberg - with interviews with the pilots from the series including Rosenthal

@PuppetGolds

4 ай бұрын

where to watch?

@ChienaAvtzon

4 ай бұрын

The documentary is pretty much centered around Rosenthal.

Interesting tidbit covered in the book: so that February 3rd mission over Berlin (beginning of the show) occurred when a Nazi judge named Roland Freisler was in a court session. Freisler attended the Wannsee Conference that outlined the logistics for the “Final Solution” (industrial scale killing phase of the Holocaust). During the raid he was crushed as bombs destroyed the roof of the People’s Court in Berlin. So this is a leap, and he’s far from the only one, but combined with his involvement with the prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials, Rosie is directly involved in bringing high ranking Nazis responsible for the Holocaust to justice, both as an airman and a lawyer. Pretty neat dude.

@ChienaAvtzon

4 ай бұрын

Rosie was technically leading that raid. Which is why history remembers him as the pilot who killed Roland Freisler. Even this episode hints at what happened, with the massage on the wall. It translates to “the judge of all, will judge for life”.

You gotta watch the Bloody 100th Documentary (Episode 10) It's fantastic

FYI this ending is called the Berlin Airdrop. This went on for months. Flying day in and day out. :) I love that they included the woman's veteran history in this show because they were just as important as the men and celebrated just as much and were happy the war was over.

16:22 The guy with the binoculars reminds me of a line from Star Trek VI when the Klingon ship arrives. Chekov: Shall I raise our shields? Kirk: Never been this close.

You also need to remember, that Rosie is Jewish. So, his reaction to the camp and refugee is even more tragic and heartbreaking. He is processing, in real time, that over a third of his people were murdered. As a Jewish woman, those scenes had me in tears. Since, the devastation was being shown through our eyes and how we still feel 80 years later.

So they are now in Stalag 13. I'm kinda disappointed that Klink, Schultz, Hogan, and the rest of the game didn't make an appearance. Not even a reference. The way Hogan went into and out of that camp, Bucky and Buck should have easily escaped.

@craggyexplores3070

4 ай бұрын

And meatball the husky.

Just saw the last episode. Very moving.

I think you can’t overlook that they had to make this show smack dab in the middle of Covid too. So any ideas they had before the pandemic had to go right out the window. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were at least one or two more episodes more planned. But Covid

I enjoyed watching this series with TBR.

@TBRSchmitt

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching along!

"Shogun" should fill this show's shoes quite nicely now that you are done...limited series of an epic scope.

@TailspinMedia

4 ай бұрын

i just finished masters of air and Shogun is next on my list! would love to see reactions on this channel

@screamr2d2

4 ай бұрын

I second this. Shogun has been phenomenal so far.

when they showed that horse i knew someone was dying.. that Pale horse mean Death

@nash_355

4 ай бұрын

Yeah I think the bible mentions something about that.

@beefjezos2713

4 ай бұрын

Such a laughably bad addition to the show, who the fuck thought that was a good idea? It reminded me of Arya finding the white horse at the end of Game of Thrones, also completely pointless and laughably stupid to write into a show.

@nash_355

4 ай бұрын

@beefjezos2713 Ah here lad, it's 2024, anything is possible at this point 🤷‍♂️

@nash_355

4 ай бұрын

@beefjezos2713 This show had so much potential if it wasn't for adding too much in a short space of time and then rushing the last 2 episodes. They needed to focus a little more up in the air in the first 5 episodes. If you're gonna wait 10 years to revamp it at least make it right.

Just on the subject of timelines (introduction of characters such as the Tuskegee Airmen)--we have to remember that the story being told is of the 100th Bomb Group and the focus are the 4 main characters of Crosby, Cleven, Egan, and Rosenthal. I do agree though that I wish we could have seen more of the Tuskegees in action and their stories (I guess I have to watch the movies available out there where they are the main focus) but at the end of the day, their involvement in this particular story being told was because some of them got shot down and brought to the same POW camp as the airmen from the 100th group. Overall, I am happy about this series--I appreciated the producers' desire to tell the story of at least the 100th and honor all airmen and women who served in WWII. I also see lots of complaints about CGI in other reactions, not necessarily here--to each his own I guess but I understand the realities not to mention cost of putting a production like this when we can't realistically show a dog fight or a bomber being chased by a fighter. What we saw in this series--I am happy about. If the families of the men depicted in the series are happy, I am satisfied. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.😂

To think a majority of these men were in their late teens, early twenties. Truly the greatest generation.

The crazy thing about this series is that there are 3-4 plot lines that could have been series in their own right.

One of those who survived the Netherlands 'Hunger Winter' that Operation Chowhound and Operation Manna (the Royal Air Force equivalent) dropped supplies in relief of was a teenaged future Hollywood actress named: Audrey Kathleen Ruston aka Audrey Hepburn

Episode 5, Episode 6, and this finale were the best ones in the series for sure.

@ReeseMacalma

4 ай бұрын

I would've loved to have more episodes focusing on Rosie too, but it's such a blessing to just be able to get a series like this done in the first place

My great grandfather was a POW in Stalag 7a and 2b. From what I was told he took part in the 1945 marches. Never heard it straight from him because he passed when I was very young but his group was apparently strafed by planes when they were marching and he apparently had two German soldiers get killed right next to him during the strafes. Very powerful episode for me to watch

@blakerh

4 ай бұрын

Very cool. He is a true American hero!

The little fan spinning on the bombs are timing to explode on the timing end

Just a reminder, Crosby and Rosie hadnt stopped flying missions. Crosby was group navigator but that meant he had to be the lead as well on multiple missions including all the long range shuttle ones. he completed 32 missions himself by wars end.

Honestly, I’m not a history guy at all, but that made everything in the show even better. I liked not knowing how things would play out, aside from the final outcome of the war.

I just got done today on watching it through a second time and enjoyed it even more, more you get to know who's who and get into them even more. I think it'll be a good one to watch over and over every now and again and it'll stay timeless viewing like the other series'. Thanks for viewing it here, greatly enjoyed watching the reactions and thoughts you both had. Dunno if you are sticking to a return to Fargo or have changed plans but excited for more show reactions. And hope you check out some movies in this vein, like Red Tails, Memphis Belle etc.

Don't forget to also watch & review " The Bloody Hundredth " ( 1hr 2min run time ) narrated by Tom Hanks. Poster says " The true story of the men who inspired Masters of the Air " and imdb says " It honors the heroes of the 100th Bomb Group " 😉👍

I used to live near the Zuiderzee...as kids we played in the bunkers, and plenty of unexploded ammunition around...meh, we were kids

It was a great scene with Sgt. Lemons going on a flight! He earned all of those stripes!! There is a great video on KZread by Mark Felton covering the Dutch food drops! "Operation Mana (RAF) and Operation Chow Hound (USAAF) No planes were shot down but a few returned with bullet holes! 3 B 17s were lost during the operation due to accidents (In 1948 49 the allies will have massive supply flights into West Berlin to save it from starvation from Stalin and the Russians) Rosie and those on the forced march were lucky to have escaped the Russians, thousands of allied POW's were kept as "bargaining chips" by Stalin and sent to the gulags (all open source) As the war came to a close in Europe, the allies kept surrendered German arms and equipment in storage, in the event that they would be needed to fight a Russian advance!

Now would be a Great time for you guys to react to "The Best Years of Our Lives" (Best Picture 1946) if you have not already especially since one of the main characters was a Fort Bombardier and his struggles as a civilian after coming home.

I think this was a great show with the potential to have been better. Their major blunder was the bizarre decision to only make nine episodes. This show would definitely have benefited from the full ten. Just one more episode in the middle, or closer to the beginning, introducing our red tails earlier and establishing more with our main characters, would have made a world of difference. EDIT: Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't they also not even bother showing us Demarco reuniting with his dog?! Demarco made it home, and I'm almost positive they didn't show MB at all after the episode where Buck and Demarco both get shot down off screen. Im pretty sure I would have noticed cause that's the main thing I was waiting for once we saw he was at the Stalag, was him getting reunited with his pupper. I feel pretty let down about it! 😅 Anybody else? JUSTICE FOR MEATBALL

Great reaction, dont forget to watch "The Bloody Hundredth" companion documentary, which will include interviews and footage of the real men of the 100th. Similar to 'We Stand Alone Together' in Band of Brothers. I hope you will react to it as well.

I hope you react to the documentary that comes with this series. It's narrated by Tom Hanks and you get to see interviews with some of the men we got to know in the series.

You should watch Memphis Belle now

They were able to go straight back up because they weren't assisted by underground resistance.

I loved this series

I don't get the people complaining about showing less missions. 100th bomb group flew a total of 306 missions, they literally cannot show every single one of them and even if they did, it'd get stale seeing them jump in the plane, bomb and get back. Like what's the fun to that? They showed us the major impactful missions that were necessary to the characters. Plus they're not showing events of a few months, but years. Overall i really loved this series and it's up there for me with BoB and The Pacific.

Can't watch right now, so I'm just here to help the algo. Be back later lol

Should watch the documentary after this. Narrated by Tom Hanks.

In 1945 there was a really serious starving disaster ongoing in Holland

As much as I enjoy Masters of the Air, and the story and plot of it. They got something wrong from the accurate storying telling of the events of episode 9, and I leaves me personally bummed out, because this stuff has to do with my bloodline and ancestry, anyways let me cut to the chase. In episode 9, they start out with rosie flying over germany completing his last couple runs. But as they we're flying they get shot down. In the show, rosenthal was able to make it down to the ground no problem, and then gets picked up in the protection of russian troops. Although, in actual WW2 events, Rosenthal ended up getting his parachute caught in a tree and Rosie starts to end up choking himself out, Until the navigator of that fortress, LT. Robert H. "Bob" Stropp, My Great Grandfather (His real name, you can look him up), saved rosenthal for him nearly choking himself out to death from his chute. There's more to the story that was inaccurate, like Lt. Stropp, and Rosenthal being put in a Prisoner of War camp in russia for months, without family knowing for awhile. But I wont get into it, And what hurts the most with my great grandfather not being included in the final episode, (We we're told he would be by directors, and other staff) Is that when my Great Grandfather has his funeral much later after making it back to the US, Rosenthal's Son came up to my father and told to my father, that my father's dad, Lt. Stropp, saved his dad's life.

I can't believe they didn't give a finish to subaltern Westgate's story! They just left her hanging in the middle of her mission.

SAS Rogue heroes is a WW2 show done right IMO. Worth checking out.

While I have enjoyed the series for the most part, I don't think I could ever bring myself to call it "good."

Something about that girl grabbing that orange from the sack just hit me some kind of way

What happened to Sandra? It looks like she was in MI6 working with the French Underground.

do the iron claw next!

They were allowed to go back up because the Allies had already liberated France and most of Belgium. There wasn't much of a "resistance" anymore. If they got shot down over Germany, there aren't any networks of sympathizers to help them in Nazi Germany.

16:40 why is this beautiful piece of music not on the soundtrack release

I think the last episode was 120 mins if I am not mistaken so technically we got a 10th episode. Right?😅😊

Would you announce if you're going to finish watching the rest of Fargo seasons 3-5 or not? Thanks.

was a great show but felt rushed in the end

I hope you will also be reacting to the "10th" Episode - The Bloody Hundredth Documentary!

@sergeantbigmac

4 ай бұрын

When will that be released?

@ReeseMacalma

4 ай бұрын

@@sergeantbigmac It's already out, I loved watching it. Wished some of the interviews there were inserted during the intros of some episodes like Band of Brothers and The Pacific did.

I'll like to make a movie suggestion for you two lovely couple, " A Soldier Story" " Devil in the Blue Dress"" Network, Three Days of the Condors and Missing "

It was great series, but with a little fine tuning it could have been awesome. Too much to tell in too little time. Episodes should have been 2 hours each. First half was intense and suspenseful, second half was quick wrap up of the war and what happened in period of like 1.5 years. 2nd half reminded of my "native language essays 300 words" at elementary school, once you noticed it's already 290 - just wrap it up quick. So enjoyed and disappointed at the same time with the series. PS: They could have like put the D-Day briefing on the right date instead of googling when did D-Day happen. Briefing wasn't on D-Day 6th, it was on 4th since they were meant to invade Europe in 5th which was postponed by a day. By the time they were celebrating in briefing invasion of Europe, most of England knew it was already under way. So stupid historical error, you had one job.

@nash_355

4 ай бұрын

Yeah good point, the first trailer of this series was released like 10 years ago I believe with the title "Mighty Eighth". Then it looked like HBO dropped it because of money and interest, gave it to apple TV and they just revamped it. But if ur gonna take 10 years at least make it brief highlighting all the missions that took place. Not adding so much at the beginning and then rushing it on the second half...If HBO created it, it woulda been way better and on point.

@Randomizer939

4 ай бұрын

Spot on, for instance I think episode 8 was written by Peppa Pig actress/writer...@@nash_355

@Randomizer939

4 ай бұрын

Spot on, they even used voice actress/writer from Peppa Pig children's cartoon to write 8th episode to realistic war drama miniseries 🤔@@nash_355

@nash_355

4 ай бұрын

​@Randomizer939 I don't remember picking up on that but you might be right. The very first trailer I saw of this 10 years ago, they had taken sound clips from pearl harbor and saving private ryan and added it to the trailer.

You guys should do a crossover with Holden Hardman.

I great show for sure, and I now feel like why this show was so expensive to do. And I can understand that they could only do 9 episodes with what they have. I was a little upset that we didn't get more air battles throughout but what they had was mind blowing and intense already. I just can't believe that they somehow told a story with so much material. As so many have said already, there is A LOT that was skipped over, probably due to time and budget. A slightly odd side note, I feel like they should have left the Tuskegee airmen out completely, it just opened too many story lines at once and right at the last bit of the show, they should have kept their focus on the 100th. We already have Tuskegee Airmen and Red Tails covering their story from beginning to end. (Yes we all know Red Tails is more....comic book like it's action and story telling) To be honest, they would need their own separate show to adequately tell their story so it was upsetting to me to tack them on at the end. Hope that makes sense? But the end got me emotional, I read so much about their mercy missions but actually seeing it was something else entirely. And also seeing everyone leave was an emotion in itself. I read how some felt a little empty when they saw the last plane leave, I believe it was a B-24 that was last to leave. Some missed the buzz of the bases and the crews and airmen afterward. It captured that fairly well. Last note! That kid with the garrison/side cap, I heard his experience at the base impacted him so much that later in life he was able to preserve Thorpe Abbots and turn it into a museum that we can visit today.

You guys should react to "millenium 1989" if you get the chance...

You guys need to watch "The Book Thief" from 2011 I believe, it's WWII from the German civilian and children side. An excellent movie!

@falsenostalgia-shannon

4 ай бұрын

Yes! I’ve recommended that to quite a few KZread channels over the last 5+ years who tend to react to WW2 stuff, but none of them did it. :(

remember Rosie was a Lawyer fully qualified not to mention Jewish etc no wonder he got involved with the nuremburg trials.

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It had its flaws, foremost of which was not enough episodes to tell a cohesive unrushed story, but overall it was a good ride.

Overall the show left a sour taste in my mouth. It had some good moments and a few episodes I really liked but... It completely lacked focus. It jumped all over the place and rushed through everything without giving it the time to develop. They never held onto a plot thread, there is no character development, they failed to meaningfully convey anything about the development of the Air Force, bombers, fighters, bombing strategy, or anything else beyond including a throw away line here or there while failing to accurately visually depict the developments over the war at the same time. So much made up stuff included while they speed through or entirely skip their actual stories.These men's real stories deserved to be told and given the time necessary to tell them with meaning. To do justice to everything they tried to do, they would have needed I dunno, 24-30 episodes, so I just can't figure out why they tried to shoehorn everything in and do it so poorly. They could have focused just on Buck and Bucky, and told their stories. They could have focused just on Rosie. They could have focused just on the Tuskegee Airmen. But because they tried to do them all and failed, we will probably never see them done well now. A lot of excuses are being made for this show that just don't stand up to reason.

Yes awesome

After all the episodes - I enjoyed the series more than Pacific but it doesn't even come close to immersion, storytelling and even visuals presented in Band of Brothers. Still - Great series with some major flaws in the 2nd half.

it felt very rushed in places and then drawn out in other places the tempo if of but I still enjoyed it overall

Love you guys, you're my second favorite reactors. But I've only watched one video in the last 12 days because nothing good was reviewed. I have noticed that since you started 3 years ago you do a lot of limited tv serials but except for Reacher 1 and Band of Brothers they don't seem to attract many viewers. Looking forward to a good video coming out soon (hopefully not Star Wars Universe, Star Trek Universe or MCU - those have been endlessly overdone and they just rotate new people into similar storylines). Hope the baby is doing great.

The series are good but the problem is there is to much to tell and a series of only 9 episodes are simply to little time and space, because there is so much stories to tell about certain people in the 100th but also the red tails.

I think the only scenes in the whole series which hit me were aircraft returning home, firing flares to show they had wounded on board, crash landing, or taxiing straight to the ambulances to save any time they could. Men almost falling out of exit hatches, and throwing up. There is a similar scene at the beginning of the great 'Memphis Belle' movie. But 'Masters of the Air' was a cheesy mess beyond that. Having a German character literally say, "For you ze var is over" was pretty much the last straw for me, I have to admit!

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Very solid series, and I enjoyed it greatly! It was awesome seeing your reactions along the way! I would watch the episodes then check out yall's channel. After seeing BOB and The Pacific already prior, I have come to the conclusion that I would rather be on Omaha beach fighting than in a B-17, especially in the beginning of those missions over Europe. I admire these men greatly for their sacrifice. They were all heroes and did extraordinary things together! I see some complainers and whiners below with comments as usual. Some of those people would complain if the sky was too blue or the sun was just too bright! Lol What series is next on the agenda? Much love and respect from Georgia! 🙂

I think it's really unfair to compare Band of Brothers, The Pacific, and Masters of the Air since they are three different perspectives of experiences in WW II. All three are brilliant in their own way. I've really enjoyed your reactions to this series. Really good insight into what these guys went through. I have nothing short of total respect for our greatest generation and what they did to save the world from tyranny. God bless them all.

Unpopular opinion; I think Austin Butler might have been a little miscast. I get he was playing up the cool collected and cocky pilot cliche, and I get why they cast him (IE star power, he is a hot commodity right now) but theres something about his acting style in this that didnt work for me. He couldnt fully shake that godamn Elvis voice and kept looksmaxxing to the camera I swear lol. I knew from the 1st scene the Bucks are introduced he might not be a good fit but I was determined to give him a chance. Again kinda wish someone else was cast in the role now.

Hey guys, have either of you ever seen the movie "Timecop" if not it's something you both will like. Very underrated.

I give Master of the air a 9 out of 10 but I also give both band of brothers and the pacific 10 out of 10 but this story about 100th BG looks amazing.

Crosby slamming the guys head into the table is Crosby not giving a shit anymore? That’s such a terrible take…

@TBRSchmitt

4 ай бұрын

I was talking about the guy who got his head slammed....

@tp4977

4 ай бұрын

@@TBRSchmitt ah ok. My bad. I heard that wrong

I liked the mini series but it wasn't close to Band of Brothers level. They should have spent more time in the air to be honest. They had too many subplots that were tied up with voice overs or throw-away scenes. Like the airmen who were downed over France and helped by the underground. They spent quite a bit of time on that then a voice over and them riding bikes was it? And the Sandra subplot where we find out she's a spy amounted to next to nothing. Croz got a goodbye letter in the hotel room to end that plot.

A disappointing experience for viewers with some knowledge of the actual American bombing campaign in Western Europe. It isn’t just the plentiful technical errors (which are mostly inexcusable; it would have been just as easy to get them right) but the over-fictionalization of major events that has turned me off.

Although considered the highlight of the series, personally, I feel it could have been more impactful compared to its predecessors. Many episodes focus on partying and celebration scenes, giving the impression that the war itself was merely a backdrop. Additionally, the frequent use of masks during battle scenes made it difficult to identify characters, especially the secondary ones. I expected a deeper exploration of the soldiers who joined the French resistance, especially after their fall in Germany, but their swift return to base seemed somewhat disjointed. Overall, the series sits at most on a mediocre level in my opinion. I'm from Brazil, sorry for my bad english.

I wanted to like this series, but it just wasn't very well done.

Pretty good series aside from some cheesy acting, just needed more action I think.

@nash_355

4 ай бұрын

Definitely

I gave up on the series, just so disappointing. There were so much time wasted on developing story lines that went absolutely no where. The attempt to incorporate the Tuskegee airmen into the story lost all credibility and was the final straw. They had absolutely nothing to do with the 100th.

Man, this show just fell so flat at the end. No way around it.

Awful series. They really let down the men who actually did this in real life.

Early on I wasn't super into the show but it's grown on me, I think it kinda sucks the tuskeegee airmen were only introduced in episode 8, but "hey, let's overlook black people's contribution to history" is kinda standard for hollywood. anyway I hope you guys watch Shogun next, it's so good.

@goldleader6074

4 ай бұрын

The story was focused on the men of the 100th bomb group based in England and then in the last 2 episodes they kinda shoehorned in the Tuskegee airmen who were based in Italy, which didn't really do them justice and also even further disjointed the focus of the series. I think this series was an example of Hollywood going out of their way to showcase the contribution of black people in WWII just because they felt like they had to checkmark some boxes. In this 9th episode, the Tuskegee men hardly got any screen time and were more background characters.

@ISavant

4 ай бұрын

@@goldleader6074yes, that's my point. by shoehorning them in, at such a late point, kinda completely diminished what the tuskeegee airmen even did, the tuskeegee airmen deserve a series of their own for what they did, and how they were treated, this show basically goes "oh yeah they were here too"

@frenchfan3368

4 ай бұрын

@@goldleader6074 Yes, episode 8 was the worst episode of the series. It could have been done so much better. Overall, I enjoyed the series but would only give it a B plus. The acting and plot was great but it tried to cover too much and switched scenes too often. I would say that the final episode could almost be a stand alone movie apart from the other episodes.

@nataliajimenez1870

4 ай бұрын

Many people don't watch "black" movies or documentaries, so at least having a small mention to the Tuskegee Airmen provides a hint of their service and reminds people that they were essential to the racial integration of the US Army in 1948 by Truman. I would just have shown the relationship between Buck and Jefferson in the POW camp (maybe with a few flashbacks) rather than try to do an overview of the whole unit, because that's what fit dramatically in the series

@ISavant

4 ай бұрын

@@nataliajimenez1870yes, and "not making shit because racists won't watch it" isn't an excuse to continue not making it.