coaster wrote:

Looks okay jaxe. looking forward to this . my supply of WW2 movies and series are starting to dry up . enyoy Band Of Brothers not so much with  Pacific.  Lets hope its a good series

Superbikemike wrote:

we see..  friday are the 1st two episodes
red tails would make this boring they never lost a plane on any mission they went on curious to see
if they try and change that for excitement purposes ...

Superbikemike wrote:

25 was the last count and theres still a dispute you see after the fighters break off and they enter the bombing zone does that count or not,,, they say it counts cause they were still there escorts before and after
the mission others say no once you break off your done till you pick them up again,
so its down to pick your side i tend to believe those who were actually there over someone trying to write a book ....
all i can tell ya since i wasent there was my grandpa use to say there were the shit you saw those you could relax a bit the 2 i have met never said either way just rubbed my head and smiled so ...
now there almost all dead im sure they will find a way to change history like they always do ...

 Spoiler

On the first mission, B-17s are getting shot down and they are calling out things like Jones ship is down, Smith ship is in flame, no chutes.

Who is Jones? Who is Smith? Don't remember seeing a Smith and a Jones in the previous 20 minutes.

In Band of Brothers and in The Pacific, right from the first half of the first episodes you are already remembering names and faces:

Winters, Nixon, Meehan, Malarkey or Leckie, Basilone, Sledge.

Here in episode 1 everyone of those flight crews from CO to each B-17 captain to crew members, they all LOOK SIMILAR.

I had to rewind during the bombing mission to get an second look on the flight crews . There maybe 6 squadrons totaling 78 B-17s but looking at those crew, for all intention and purposes, I'm thinking I'm looking at the interior of only one B-17.

 Spoiler

I think the lack of character development is no training shown in the episode. It starts right away in 1943 and the air crews are headed to England.  Unlike Band of Brothers and The Pacific where you show them going through the hardship of boot camp and you the viewer sort of form a bond with the characters on screen.

Both Band of Brothers and The Pacific had 10 episodes each. This only has 9 episodes.

Unless they show the air crews training later on which I doubt they will, I think there should also had 10 episodes instead of 9 and dedicate at least the first episode to introduce the characters starting at their flight crew training.

The series is reported to have a budget of 200-250 million dollars, so far I can't see where that money went. Couldn't be all for the CGI and to build full size mock B-17 models .

jaxe wrote:

I have finish episode 1.

Will watch episode 2 tomorrow.

My judgement so far is no woke stuff (I HOPE NONE EVER) but script needs a bit of polishing and more character development.

 Spoiler

On the first mission, B-17s are getting shot down and they are calling out things like Jones ship is down, Smith ship is in flame, no chutes.

Who is Jones? Who is Smith? Don't remember seeing a Smith and a Jones in the previous 20 minutes.

In Band of Brothers and in The Pacific, right from the first half of the first episodes you are already remembering names and faces:

Winters, Nixon, Meehan, Malarkey or Leckie, Basilone, Sledge.

Here in episode 1 everyone of those flight crews from CO to each B-17 captain to crew members, they all LOOK SIMILAR.

I had to rewind during the bombing mission to get an second look on the flight crews . There maybe 6 squadrons totaling 78 B-17s but looking at those crew, for all intention and purposes, I'm thinking I'm looking at the interior of only one B-17.

jaxe wrote:

ALSO

 Spoiler

I think the lack of character development is no training shown in the episode. It starts right away in 1943 and the air crews are headed to England.  Unlike Band of Brothers and The Pacific where you show them going through the hardship of boot camp and you the viewer sort of form a bond with the characters on screen.

Both Band of Brothers and The Pacific had 10 episodes each. This only has 9 episodes.

Unless they show the air crews training later on which I doubt they will, I think there should also had 10 episodes instead of 9 and dedicate at least the first episode to introduce the characters starting at their flight crew training.

The series is reported to have a budget of 200-250 million dollars, so far I can't see where that money went. Couldn't be all for the CGI and to build full size mock B-17 models .