Masters of the Air - Let Me Explain

[@LetMeExplain]

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[@JK_JK_JK_JK]

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[@SeanA099]

Gonna be honest, seeing the final mission where all our main characters get to fly together dropping food for the Netherlands brought tears to my eyes

[@smitty16s]

Operation Manna Chowhound.

[@cybersecuritydeclassified4793]

My great uncle flew on that mission :) 349TH SQDN… CREW JOINED THE 100TH ON 24 DEC 1944. FLEW FIRST MISSION 17 JAN 45 (HAMBURG) AND THE 100TH'S FINAL MISSION (ORANIENBURG) 20 APR 45. THEY FLEW FIVE (5) "CHOW HOUND" MISSION, DROPPING FOOD IN HOLLAND AFTER 20 APR 45.

[@kwasabere]

Austin Butler was distracting because he looked too damn pretty. In so many scenes I’m like HOW THE HELL DOES HIS HAIR LOOK SO GOOD ALL THE TIME?!?!?

[@peterproductions5015]

Austin Butler’s just like that. 😮‍💨

[@santos8468]

Even in movies where doesn't even have hair.

[@peterproductions5015]

@@santos8468 Damn right. He’s so handsome.

[@jjww30]

It’s because he has aids.

[@ARCtrooperblueleader]

Fact,

[@mb5970]

I still remember watching that massive airbattle, rewinding every second over and over again. Truly immersive. I loved it.

[@chantaljohnson6856]

Rosie was my favorite character too, which surprised me because he came in so late in the show...and Austin Butler was there😂 52 missions wasn't it?! Loved him!

[@ChienaAvtzon]

52 combat missions, but 53 missions if you count the airlift of a “work” camp he participated in after VE-Day. Rosie was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his final combat mission, due to making sure that raid was successful.

[@SeanA099]

Crosby was absolutely my favorite character. So relatable with his struggles with flying. Just overall a hardworking guy who did his job, not trying to be a hero

[@tyrionstrongjaw7729]

For the record, Quinn didn't get caught because he didn't know how to write the date correctly. Him writing the date "incorrectly" was why he survived. They shoot one of the three men, and in a quick cut you see that man wrote the date the European way, revealing him to be a German spy.

[@tannerhadra803]

The guy who wrote the date incorrectly was the guy who got shot, it literally shows him writing and then pans up to his face

[@tyrionstrongjaw7729]

@@tannerhadra803 We're talking about correctly or incorrectly based on how Europeans write the date. I used "incorrectly" because he wrote the date as we do in America. You and I are saying the exact same thing

[@davidmylchreest3306]

For me this works best in the middle portion, where we have lost so many characters it hits hard. I wasn't even making an effort to learn the new guys faces, because I knew they wouldn't be around for long.

[@ReeseMacalma]

Episodes 5 and 6 were definitely the best in the series.

[@peterproductions5015]

Bro, I tried so hard to concentrate but I was a little busy staring at Austin Butler, lmfaooo.

[@ARCtrooperblueleader]

Relatable.

[@ChienaAvtzon]

As talented as Austin Butler is, he was unfortunately miscast in this series.

[@newbeeify]

​@@ChienaAvtzon coz he's too pretty

[@ChienaAvtzon]

@@newbeeify - The actor who plays Rosie is somehow even better-looking than Austin Butler, yet it was not distracting in the least. Butler is a very talented actor, Cleven just was not the role for him. Despite looking like the Hollywood stereotype of a doomed, romantic WWII-era bomber pilot.

[@michellec1866]

@@ChienaAvtzonI love Rosie, the character, Austin the actor.😂

[@alifpr]

Thanks for this, finished the series sometime ago but this video made me remember why I loved it so much ❤

[@sophies9934]

13:59 another scene that really got to me was Bucky and the other downed airmen seeing that train with all the people reaching out and begging

[@ChienaAvtzon]

Rosie Rosenthal saved “Masters of the Air”, and made the miniseries watchable. Every time the story focused on him, it was infinitely better for it.

[@bored_grape]

sAvEd, wAtChAbLe ok sure

[@travisspazz1624]

My problem was there were too many characters!! Was kinda hard to keep track of all of them, especially since some of them disappear from the show unceremoniously. Ex. That baby faced kid that gets shot down behind enemy lines early on in the show. They make a bit deal of it until he gets smuggled out and then we never hear from him again.

[@SeanA099]

Unfortunately that’s just how the air war was. Not like a single company of soldiers that sticks together. Those guys who escaped France had to be sent back to the states for the rest of the war

[@jmimbles8939]

I don't think too many characters was the issue, it was lack of development. Band of Brothers and the Pacific did a great job with making us care about a large group of characters.

[@filmfangirls9163]

I'm used to that 😂all war films are like that. I have to rewatch over a couple times to get everyone's name.

[@ChienaAvtzon]

The 100th Bomb Group was famous for two things…. having an abnormal high casualty rate (especially within its first 90 days of combat operations), and Rosie Rosenthal who was their star pilot.

[@monabollii]

Tuskegee airmen i wish had more screen time.

[@mikeb.7183]

They have their own movie, I felt like they only put them in the series so that they could say they did have Black Characters in the series.

[@nasilelelisselo2348]

Loved this show / series Also do Shogun

[@ReeseMacalma]

Crosby's book is an amazing read. Would recommend it to anyone who'd want to know more about the story.

[@filmfangirls9163]

I loved Band of Brothers but Pacific lost me. Masters of the Air sounded really good but I wanted to watch a review first and I'm so glad to have this video!! Gonna check it out!!

[@derek96720]

Honestly feel like the show could have just focused on Rosenthal and Crosby and no one would have really complained.

[@ChienaAvtzon]

“Masters of the Air” would have been a much stronger miniseries, had it just focused on Rosie Rosenthal and Crosby. I understand wanting to tell the backstory of how and why the Munster raid ended up being such a disaster for the 100th, especially since that mission was what led to Rosie becoming a living legend. It is just Cleven and Egan really were only supporting characters to that history, and probably should have been treated as such in the series. Apart from Cleven’s escape, there was not much of a compelling story and Egan is basically a composite character. He existed but almost everything the audience sees is transposed onto him from other airmen. Whereas, everything with Rosie and Crosby (apart from Operation Chowhound) is a dramatization of events that happened to them.

[@cybersecuritydeclassified4793]

My great uncle finished his 25 missions and this particular mission he wrote about was very interesting. ""Our first mission on my return from leave was a tough one. There were many flak guns guarding the target and several German fighter airfields near our route to the target. For this mission there would be a full colonel for division flying in my position. Out squadron will be flying group lead. In this position our plane is equiped with Mickey, a through the clouds bombsight. The target is Nuremberg. "

[@Misathechamp]

4:06 no? He was never grounded in the first place. He was promoted to group navigator(because he was good, not airsick), but he still flew from time to time. In his book he says that his airsickness partly went away when he was in the lead due to the stress, even though he still suffered from it, especially on low altitude missions.

[@MrGtubedude]

My grandad was a Tuskegee airman and I’m honest they did the Tuskegee airmen an injustice. I think that because they advertised them to be in the show and it was not how me or most people, who were excited for them to be featured in it, wanted them to be featured in it. I was expecting their story to be told as a whole, not them in a POW camp. Aside from that is was a decent show, although a bit rushed in a few categories.

[@ReeseMacalma]

Rosie Rosenthal the real GOAT.

[@lornebirch5486]

Undoubtedly the last word on the air war in WW2. Breathtaking and deeply disturbing.

[@BIGETV.]

masters in the air is a good show its goated

[@newbeeify]

Austin Butler's strength is in extravagant characters like Elvis or his character in Dune 2 Feyd Rautha. In this he was way too pretty to be a ww2 pilot plus his character doesn't really do much but thats not his fault coz he can do alot and he has showed that in his other works

[@Uzair_Of_Babylon465]

Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things also another great WW2 is called world on fire it's on BBC iPlayer

[@Setupthemabomb]

I watched Masters of the Air after Dune 2 and kept thinking, why Feyd-Rautha fighting in WW2?

[@defiantaichi]

I loved every second of this show

[@jjww30]

2:28 wearing that hat was a choice. A poor one.

[@bonesf200]

It was good but how come the writers kept having a go at British pilots for area bombing instead of precision bombing - conveniently forgetting about American bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

[@Wico90YT]

The nukes ended the war in Japan and prevented a full land invasion. The fire bombing of Tokyo on the other hand is an actual issue and was more devastating.

[@BexGilAuthor]

Band of Brothers is still the best, but this was nice. The pacing was really off though. They should have introduced the POWs and Tuskegee airmen sooner imo

[@iamFSRL]

Everyone wants to be Top Gun

[@2001eloc]

If only it was on HBO

[@geordiedog1749]

I was banned from watching this with my family as I kept shouting at the telly about it being wrong all the time. They got fed up with me pretty quickly.

[@defiantaichi]

Ill be honest with this show and feyd rautha, im really happy to see austin butler act his way through to success and not be typecast as the cool hot guy.

[@mttylerdurden9]

Is this show coming out on DVD or Blu Ray?

[@PhoenixDeuxLuxe]

I was getting so distracted by the way you say Callum. It’s Ca-llum not Cay-llum 😅

[@ghostcookie21]

I can’t get over the fact that you pronounce Callum, like Caylum.

[@mikeb.7183]

Band of Brothers was the best by a long shot. The Pacific was good but felt a little all over the place. Masters was better than the Pacific but is no BoB.

[@sophies9934]

6:21 what are you implying 😂

[@NelsonPerez-yq7mg]

That sir 😂😂

[@beyx_amv4387]

I want a review on baby reindeer

[@anygoodmedia]

Is that daisy from M.I.High??

[@eddy9615]

ok

[@russellthompson6204]

Why do you keep saying "eject"? There were no ejection seats in B17s.

[@LetMeExplain]

Was using it as a verb. Good to know tho

[@tiagoferreira5368]

I loved Band of Brothers 10/10 watched it twice Really liked The Pacific 8/10 again watched it twice Masters was barely watchable with horrible CGI at moments, 6/10 never going to re watch it.

[@RedRedDaDon]

Late night with the devil?

[@ray101892]

The john egan actor could pass off as the real one but the real life gale cleven looked like herbert hoover instead of elvis. The casting director must have reallly liked austin butler.

[@mr2stepp]

the pacific was the best

[@TheSocratesian]

Episodes 1-6 where excellent. Seven was ok. 8 and 9 SUCKED. That is assuming one cares about what actually happened in the air war over Europe.

[@JK_JK_JK_JK]

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[@Michael-h9t8k]

Shhh

[@MrGiodude17]

Listen why are u making your channel less desirable

[@YTOuterWorld]

281 views on 30 minutes damn you fell off smh 😭

[@businessbuilder92]

It's 5 am anyone up at this time is almost certainly preparing to go into work only reason I'm up rn is to get my 9 year old ready for the school bus 😅

[@filmfangirls9163]

Oh gosh the ego on you 😬

[@rizpatel3552]

More propaganda 🤕🤕🤕🤕🤕

[@nestorgonzalez2912]

You should see the show

[@andrewdavis7620]

Very disappointing overall

[@MrMcChuckles95]

The characters were so unlikable 😅