Masters of the Air, I don't see it, I don't feel it. I'm heavily biased towards these types of shows, I'll rewatch The Pacific or BoB any day of the week. Because when I jump into those shows they remind what it feels to care for your characters. This is something MotA fails miserably at due to it's poor and diluted writing.
I've been really looking forward to this show for a while now, and have eagerly watched every episode from the first week. But what began as excitement transformed into annoyance and frustration more and more as I began less and less engaged in the show. I find it's directing, it's writing and general direction really misguided and poorly executed. Whilst sure the show looks the part visually (albeit somewhat overly stylized) it fails to engage me in any sort of way. And that's certainly also not due to the acting because it was good, great even with some.
That characters in this type of show die out of the blue is to be expected. But when a character dies and I think ''that's it, really?'' whilst we've had about 3 seconds of dialog and development of that character and the his final scene was made to look like we should really care.. I just scoffed at the intention to expect us to care. The only character that had me somewhat care about him was Crosby. But everyone else felt ''fake'' to a degree, written as caricatures just to spill out some predictable lines.
Then we have the storylines.. oh boy. What happened, what's with the fighter pilot sideplot that has some of the worst focus every, it felt like it was just rammed in there and then... uhh, nothing. Same with the whole Crosby love plot, where did that go? All these small plots felt just so barebones in execution. The bare minimum was met, and that's that. Unsatisfying as a whole.
If anything I rate it the way I do because I enjoy the aspect this show highlights, the flying. It's a perspective we've not had enough time with and was my main draw to keep watching.
The music is decent. The intro is uniquely long and imo, filled with spoilers for the show, why did they think it was smart to show so many crucial scenes in the intro? Sound design is great. VFX is great most of the times, here and there some shots look a bit iffy especially the planes.
Besides all this, this show feels sanitized. With just a few small moments where you as a audience need to gasp because they need you too. It all feels to clean, too directed. The city scenes feel like big Hollywood sets, nothing feel raw and depressing enough to emit the ambience of war.
Just writing, everything, dialog, story.. the biggest downfall of this show.
I've been really looking forward to this show for a while now, and have eagerly watched every episode from the first week. But what began as excitement transformed into annoyance and frustration more and more as I began less and less engaged in the show. I find it's directing, it's writing and general direction really misguided and poorly executed. Whilst sure the show looks the part visually (albeit somewhat overly stylized) it fails to engage me in any sort of way. And that's certainly also not due to the acting because it was good, great even with some.
That characters in this type of show die out of the blue is to be expected. But when a character dies and I think ''that's it, really?'' whilst we've had about 3 seconds of dialog and development of that character and the his final scene was made to look like we should really care.. I just scoffed at the intention to expect us to care. The only character that had me somewhat care about him was Crosby. But everyone else felt ''fake'' to a degree, written as caricatures just to spill out some predictable lines.
Then we have the storylines.. oh boy. What happened, what's with the fighter pilot sideplot that has some of the worst focus every, it felt like it was just rammed in there and then... uhh, nothing. Same with the whole Crosby love plot, where did that go? All these small plots felt just so barebones in execution. The bare minimum was met, and that's that. Unsatisfying as a whole.
If anything I rate it the way I do because I enjoy the aspect this show highlights, the flying. It's a perspective we've not had enough time with and was my main draw to keep watching.
The music is decent. The intro is uniquely long and imo, filled with spoilers for the show, why did they think it was smart to show so many crucial scenes in the intro? Sound design is great. VFX is great most of the times, here and there some shots look a bit iffy especially the planes.
Besides all this, this show feels sanitized. With just a few small moments where you as a audience need to gasp because they need you too. It all feels to clean, too directed. The city scenes feel like big Hollywood sets, nothing feel raw and depressing enough to emit the ambience of war.
Just writing, everything, dialog, story.. the biggest downfall of this show.