Oh yeah, although metal planes could take a little more abuse.  WW1 planes are just wooden barrels with engines covered in canvas and wiring.  It took next to nothing to bring them down.  The famous German ace Oswald Bolke died because a wingmans wheels briefly scraped his wing, causing the canvas to rip which quickly…

Yep 1903 and by the Mexican Revolution there are air fights with people shooting revolvers at each other. 1914 is a very interesting time for aircraft development, everyone is trying something. Throwing darts, bricks, rope. Revolvers. Rifleman in the back seat. Gunner in the backseat as an offensive weapon. Propeller…

I did a ww1 project once about the Red Baron and Jesus Christ was the number of ways to die vast. Burned from an oil fire, falling out the plane, freezing to death from the cold air. Bleeding out from a window. Crashing into something. The canvas or a wire snaps from anything, crashing and getting pinned in no mans…

Yeah the characteization is sometimes a bit iffy.  Basalones story is almost hard to believe yet it happened, but also that's not really standard for any marine.  MOH stories are always like that for obvious reasons.  The writers wanted to depict large swaths of the Pacific but ultimately narrowing the focus would…

The episode about Eugene the medic is the one that always got me.  

Being a tail gunner or a ball gunner sounds like the absolute worst fucking job on a bomber.  You either sit and do nothing or panic because a round might cause the glass to shatter.  Unbelievably miserable. 

It was hurt because its three separate books awkwardly jammed together. Basalone never meets Sledge and so forth which makes it feel a tad more disconnected then Band of Brothers. It’s still a grand series but trying to do three storylines instead of just adapting With the Old Breed was a bad call.

I think its because the Pacific was a costly financial failure and Zaslav is even more of a penny pincher.  There loss.

I have waited 13 goddamn years for this. From the moment the Pacific wrapped up, I have heard about plans for a third WW2 series about the air war. I don’t have Apples streaming service but goddamn I’ll get it just for this.

I am genuinely shocked Shazam 2 is the superhero whipping boy.  Its not good but nobody remembers it already.  Flash has some very memorable bad parts people still recall like the cameo of dead people at the end.  What the hell Razzies its almost like your not trying or something.....

Amusing maybe important side note.  Parker is famously associated with the rancher Charley Goodnight in later years.  Guess who appeared in 1883 played by Taylor Sheridan.  Just wanted to throw that out.

Agreed.  Temple and Hamm have been rightly praised but Spruell is equally worthy.  He doesn't have a ton of screentime, but he makes every scene count.  He looks almost otherworldly yet normal enough you mind think he's just an eccentric kook in the far north.  But the way he walks and that unplaceable accent makes…

There is some flabbiness in the middle and I did notice Witt disappeared for a longer period of time then I'd like.  But yeah overall it absolutely clears season 4.  Hell I can name and say I liked the majority of people in season 5.  Season 4, goodness I need a flowchart to even recall everyone.

Its actually the best season to do on its own.  Other seasons have minor connections to each other or even the movie, this is purely on its own.

The unabashed optimism was very moving for a show with basically a Welsh Highlander.

In another show that would have set him off, but he actually on some level agreed and that was far better.

I would definitely say best since season 2. Season 1 and 2 I go back and forth on for best but its close. Season 3 I was somewhat underwhelmed by, it had good aspects and characters but it never fully clicked, and Season 4 was a mess that I really wanted to love.

Oh that was quite intentional.  Evil loses, whether its a shit head sheriff or a scumbag president.

It also, and I’m probably not making too much of a leap here, shows what Hawley thinks will happen at the end of 2024. The man who doesn’t believe in any laws beyond themselves goes down and won’t come back and life will continue, with problems and struggles like it always has, but nothing insurmountable.

Her last scene was full of deep jabs and zingers.