Masters Of The Air: Part Four - E04 - RECAP

As any other series after a couple of episodes with serious action it had to cool down, still showing those cool shots of how bombers get wreck by Flaks during those times, this time Buck and Bucky had to go all the way to Africa, after finally dropping bombs on German ball bearing factories but loosing most of their squad bombers were totaled, they were taken back to the base to regroup, not everyone had the same luck but were still alive landing all over Europe, now they had to lay low to avoid been discover by the enemy while trying to get back home.

On episode four there is a lot of talking, they try to add more drama to the series and in my opinion it did work but the episode probably was too divided, keep in mind since they are not all together now you have all this small stories going on at the same time, this probably takes attention from the main focus that is pilots and war, lower down the effect of previous episodes.

I'm getting closer to be on schedule with the TV Series I'm watching and posting about because there are so many coming up besides a few movies I want to post about too, have been grinding to get this done that I know will have certain effect on my account on the long term.

Reviews about Masters of The Air seem to be very divided, on RottenTomatoes you got Audience giving it a very low score compare to what this series truly is, yes its not a straight forward story, lots of names, some scenes get cut but is a story about so many pilots that you cant fit the entire book into 8 episodes, on the other hand users at IMDB seem to be more satisfied with it giving the series a 7.9/10, I personally think this is a great series but not for everyone, after reading about and watching the trailer when it came out I expect it to be a drama instead of a straight forward War Theme Tv Series, you have to be patient with it and actions scenes are very satisfying.

Very few bombers were able to land on Africa, some went down around Europe that was occupied by Germans in the case of France and some even had to land on the sea, I can only imagine how was that, I doubt a bomber would float like a boat and even if it did how long they would have to wait for coast guard or some one to pick them up? Sgt. Quinn went through a traumatic event when he could not open the hatch to let his partner get out of the turret and had to watch him go down with the plane while he scream for help but it was too late, if not both would be dead.

Quinn landed in France so did Sgt. Baily, lucky for them a group of allies got them under their wings but it was not easy to stay under cover, back then population was not so dense and not many were traveling so in a town most likely everyone knew each other besides Germans had under cover agents trying to infiltrate the resistance, Quinn and Baily had to presence this after they went through an extensive interview and shortly their allies friends put down who was suppose to be a German Spy, they had no experience on this field so Quinn and Baily did not identify the men as a spy and were astonish when he got murder on a the spot, shot twice on the head.

Buck and Bucky were back at the base ready to go up but still on this episode they were not flying every day, it was Pilot Dye who was coming back home and finally had 25 missions under his belt, the golden standard to basically retire form war, any pilot with 25 missions can go back home, when I think about this I wonder if they all went home I guess there were a few that had nothing to go to and the desire to fight was bigger, decided to look up and during WWII a German pilot Erich Alfred Hartmann had 1404 combat missions and from the allies Johnny Johnson from the Royal Air Force, a rear gunner; complete 92 missions in five years.

As most other episodes time lapse between scenes was very short, Quinn and Bailey were moving from one place to another with the help of the resistance but they knew nothing about been a spy or been under cover it became more evident when their new guide Michou figure out Quinn had to have something that could connect him with his lover, in this case a lover letter all because she saw him wearing a women scarf.

At the base lots of pilot got eager to complete 25 missions after Pilot Dye was able to do it but not Bucky and Buck, although Buck did decided to take a few days off during the weekend, he goes to town and meet a women on a bar, I didn't catch her name but while drinking shots they go through her story as a widow, her ex husband well she never got divorce; was also a pilot but after he went to war she never knew anything about him so she just assume he is dead too, living her live like there is no tomorrow and avoiding another Pilot as a lover since she now knows how things most likely will end for most pilots who go to war.

The 100th were once again going after the U-boat pens at Bremen, Major Cleven was eager more than anyone, he had a debt with this target but the mission was not shown during the episode, many more went down, I felt slightly mad about this because there was basically no air action this time, episode four was all drama but I have learn to deal with this and understand that's the flow of some series, they need to cool down unfortunately not all of them can do it without viewers noticing.

Quinn and Bailey arrive to Paris, it was packed with German officers and Michou gave them instructions of not saying a word, just follow her lead and let her do the talking but while they were still on the trail she left them alone for a few minutes and went to the bathroom, in that split of minutes the man who collect the train tickets ask Quinn for his ticket talking French, Quinn had no clue what to say and panic, start running away like he could escape but lucky for him there was another under cover agent looking after them and got him to calm down and go back to he sit, this was the only kinda action you will get on episode three and nothing more, I can see this been the slowest episode of all.

Back at the base Cpt. Rosie and his crew were one of the few bombers who survive, Buck went down, no scenes of the battle at all, while Bucky was still at the town after a wild night he had to watch rescue personal picking up a dead girl from the rubble of a building that was bombarded last night, this infuriate him and call the base because he wanted action, only to find out that Buck went down on his last mission.

This is the slowest episode so far, since episode one we had air battle scenes, on a nine episode mini series its understandable that at some point we had one of this only drama episodes and no go, I really really hope Buck is still alive some where because it would suck big time if they could not find a more suitable way to put him out, I understand this is a narrated story and not every single detail is known to men of what really happen but this are the situations I would expect writers to sprinkle some magic and change the story just a bit, can't have one of the three mayor characters go down this easy and without at least the scene of how it happen.