Masters of the Air (Hanks/Spielberg series on Apple+)

This was good, probably better than The Pacific. Sometimes it veered into glossy but for the most part it felt as real and harrowing as the two previous shows. The last couple episodes were paced weird, with events happening very quickly and the scale of time was lost. Maybe some of those elements, like the introduction of the Tuskegee or the stalag, should have happened earlier in the show so it didn't feel so cramped in. But overall, satisfying show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQJp-FoH0Es

ooh yay! thx!
mr veg just gave me the Donald Miller book for my birthday & i am excited to read it

also, slightly long back story but 15 years ago we went to Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in DC and i bought myself this cool P51 mustang coffee mug that shows the silhouettes & specs on it. So i guess mr veg started digging around to find the same mug with a B17 Fortress, but couldnt find it anywhere until he stumbled on one in the Air Force Museum in Ohio online gift shop — so now I finally have a pair! A Fortress AND Mustang mug together at last.

which is all to say yes I really am this nerdy about ww2 irl

i appreciate that episode 6 doesn't shy away from the ugly nature of the german grounds troops and some elements of the civilian populace a bit rather than merely saving that for the gestapo, bc clearly there was indeed a cult-like mental illness at work in germany at the time which is vv particular to rabid fascism and certainly has manifested itself in other ways in other countries at other times.

I moved from London East Anglia in 2019 and Thorpe Abbotts is about a 30-minute drive from here, I'm going to go visit the 100th museum at some point, although there are a myriad of airfields with great little volunteer-run places scattered all around, including one in a place nearby called Old Buckenham, where Jimmy Stewart and Walter Matthau were stationed.

Dang it, *to* East Anglia

oh that sounds cool!