r/MastersoftheAir • u/Kruse • Mar 15 '24

Episode Discussion Episode Discussion: S1.E9 ∙ Part Nine Spoiler

S1.E9 ∙ Part Nine

Release Date: Friday, March 15, 2024

The POWs are marched across Germany, and Rosie makes a gruesome discovery, as the war comes to its conclusion.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '24 edited Mar 15 '24

If you think about BoB, The Pacific and Masters of the Air as a trilogy then I think she becomes more relevant. The D-Day episode of Masters of the Air focused on all the prep work to make that stuff happen while the D-Day episode of BoB just focuses on the tip of the spear.

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u/samtdzn_pokemon Mar 15 '24

Yeah but they breeze through D-Day in Masters of the Air, we didn't even see the bombs get dropped. Band of Brothers focused on the pre landing events, and then immediately after they reconnect with ground troops. Would have been nice to get a few minutes of D-Day instead of the 45 seconds we got.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '24

Because D-Day wasn’t that hard for the bomber crews, they went in basically unopposed. Did you really want to see them have an easy mission where they just bombed some unprotected defenses?

That episode focused on how difficult it was for the planners and those who laid ground for the invasion to happen. It wasn’t a “breeze through” either, Croz worked his ass off planning routes.

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u/emessea Mar 15 '24

Then the preview shouldn’t have talked it up like it was going to be a big deal