Film Student Reacts *MASTERS OF THE AIR* | Ep 6 Reaction & Review 

And this character was a real person with a great back story.

But how? No, no, I already know the answer to that. Still, it must've been so terrifying.

Ah that makes sense! Thank you!

Yup. Kill marks on the aircraft were pretty common in most air forces.

On an American bomber the symbol of a bomb was a missions completed,the red and black symbol was a German fighter shot down by the bomber crew!

I must have had a different upbringing, because I’ve seen a few reactions to this show so far and everyone always seems to ask that question. Given the amount of photos out there of WWII aircraft like that (or with sunburst flags in the Pacific Theater) I figured that it was pretty common knowledge that they were used to track aerial kills. I guess it’s just a generational thing, or I’m more of a nerd than I thought.

@@WBookout10 well if you are referring to the symbol's on the side of an American bomber the symbol of a bomb was a completed bombing mission!

I loved episodes 1-6. It really fell apart from 7-9 which took a great series and made it into one that was just good.

I finished Crosby‘s book, the show would’ve been so much better if they had used more of Crosby‘s novel to create the series.

@tirasbell4740 true, but you know Hollywood. Gotta make it appealing to the non war history nerds ya know? 😂 Love the book so far

That topic "ignoring the rules of war" is quite interesting. 1. By international law strategic bombing of civilians was not exactly forbidden. There simply was no rule about it. The Hague convention however tells the parties not to hurt non-combatants. So there is still a discussion going on whether strategic bombing was a war crime or not. By purely legal means it probably was not a war crime. 2. Killing POWs is in fact a war crime. Now doesn't that look very arbitrary? And now imagine you are a civilian on the ground just having lost a loved one and the rules tell you 1. is okay. 2. is not okay? At that point I would say: Screw the rules. Not saying that I'm approving of what is happening here. But in such a situation I don't know what I would be capable of.

And Crazy thing too Is Buck was shot down on the 8th and Bucky on the 10th of October.

Those villagers did nothing wrong, they are mere Citizens getting a personal skin in the game and standing up for what is right. Afterall, Mob Justice is still Justice.

@@psych46 They killed American servicemen. Those villagers would either be dead or end up homeless because their dumb nazi gang lost the war

Well its even suspected its an assumed name in crosby's book as well. Information about her is scarce even in the Internet age.

@@jameswg13 I have an assumption that she may have worked for the SOE.

@tirasbell4740 while she wore the uniform of ATC in the show. I think that's more than an assumption that she was SOE or something like a Bletchley park codebreaker etc. In Crosby's book he mentions many times he tried to get hold of her by telephone and he was passed through multiple people , she was referred to by a different rank etc. One time he went to where she said her office was as a surprise lunch etc and the was no military facility etc or any form of office there.

Haha thank you! It feels great to be back! 😄

​@@movienightwithjacquiwill you still be doing the Band of Brothers side-by-side as you were before???

I got the same feeling with "Saving Private Ryan." We were learning why "The Greatest Generation" is silent.

Which is why it was such a great Easter egg, to include him as the interrogator.

She can watch the series however she wants. You should be less blunt. "You should know this."

@@frenchfan3368 Well said!

@@frenchfan3368 No, he should be as blunt as he wants. You should be less ignorant and pedantic

@@JS-wp4gs Who said I am "ignorant?" Your comments make me laugh at you.

No, they surrendered to either the police, who were directly responsible for arresting airmen who went down, or reserve army personnel who were frequently the ones deployed to find downed airmen in more remote areas. At no point did anyone have the option of surrendering to luftwaffe officers That aside this series has alot of bs in it, particularly in this episode

@@JS-wp4gs During war, a soldier cannot "surrender" to a civilian (including non-military police officers), because the laws of war do not apply to civilians. Soldiers can only legally surrender to other soldiers, and if a civilian happens to capture a soldier by force, they must immediately turn them over to a friendly soldier (although as the movie depicts, civilians sometimes just killed enemy soldiers they captured); captured soldiers cannot be held in civilian jails except temporarily while a soldier is found. Thus, airmen were instructed that they could surrender to either any German infantryman, SS officer, Gestapo officer, military police officer, reservist, or any Luftwaffe officer they encountered, and among these choices, the Luftwaffe officers were very much preferred.

Yepp. Totally agree. (See? We basically share the same sentiment.) Ep 5 is my personal favourite (the preparation sequence in this episode is my favourite one from the entire series) but I respect very much how they were able to balance between the three storylines in Ep6. But paradoxically, I think the excellent directing highlights some basic structural problems of the scriptwriting (which are escalating in later episodes )

@@anitapetho - Ep.5 is my favorite too. Which is shocking because I generally disliked the aerial combat scenes in the first three episodes. However, Boden and Fleck understood the audience could only focus on two crews. Which streamlined the action and raised the stakes. Ep.6 worked because it was on the ground, and (like you said) the directors balanced the characters correctly. Those structural issues, in the later episodes, that could have easily been solved had the four lead characters not been vying for screen-time. Just give each character his own episode to shine, instead of having them compete against one another. Though, this could have been an issue caused by AppleTV being a tech company and streamer. Thus, not understanding how television and storytelling actually works. It also probably did not help that one of the lead characters should have been shelved completely, in Ep.6, in order to get a more historically-accurate storyline.

@@ChienaAvtzon In regard of aerial combat scenes the first three episodes were quite confusing. I was totally not sure where to look what to focus on. I thought maybe my lack of experience how to watch an aerial fight was the reason of it. I had a very basic human curiosity about what comes in the next scene, but was not really invested emotionally. Ep5 was the first time when I had the illusion to feel what is like, for example, to prepare for a mission. That’s why I feel Rosie’s character closer to me than the others, because his storyline gave me finally this illusion of being part of the story. Btw, I think I just started understanding what is your basic problem with one of the main characters. As I praise the balaced way of the three storyline structure in Ep6, because of the excellent direction, in the remaining parts the creators tried to put two different types of stories with different dynamics and structures, not compatible with each other in the same form, thus they are weakening each other. And no wonder that the whole stuff is just falling apart. But let's see how Jacqui will react to these developments.

@@anitapetho - Pretty sure, you figured out which character I was referring to. Did not want to say who it is outright, as not to spoil it for Jacqui. But it is one of those “one of these things is not like the other” type of characters. The other three leads’ arcs are directly based off events that happened to them, and having this character still on the show took screen time away from developing those storylines better. Especially, since the cracks with this character not having his own story to tell, started to become noticeable in Ep.6. PS: I know quite a few people who stopped watching “Masters of the Air”, because of how confusing the aerial combat scenes were in the first three episodes. The lack of emotional connection and focus just bored them.

The interrogator in this episode is Ulrich Haussmann, who was a real person and a lieutenant. As for Scharff, those methods of interrogation were already used by the Ritchie Boys during WWII. His “contributions” are nothing special or unique. Stop overselling him.

@@ChienaAvtzon My mistake.

They need to remake Tuskegee Airmen. It was not a very good film.

Haha thanks! I genuinely listen to this score all the time. It's become one of my favorites ❤️

@@movienightwithjacqui So I presume Tear Down The Fascists is also in the track list, nice

The needle drop with Tear the Fascists Down is so unexpectedly amazing.

No, luftwaffe pilots were frequently rotated off the front to teach at pilot schools

I grew up on the Sam Raimi Spiderman films, so alas, I can't do first time reactions to them. It's been years though, so I wouldn't mind going back and rewatching them at some point. It would likely have to be on a poll or something though. Thank you for asking!

@@movienightwithjacqui you're welcome😍

@@movienightwithjacqui also spider-man 3 is disappointed third trilogy

Me too except my disappointment came with the intentionally made up fiction and the decision to ignore the most crucial parts of the the air war that the series purported to be about.

I very much agree. They had so much historical material and stories to tell about the 100th and the next few episodes just take a turn. They had such and chance just seemed like suddenly they went a different direction.