Having Rosie progress from hesitation to drumming Artie Shaw's "The Chant" and the fade into the song as he hops back in to go bomb some fascists, and then the cut to the Stalag (with the tone of alarm matching the note of the song as it stops) is one of my favorite moments from this series. It lives rent free in my head. Also, what a great cover of Woodie Guthrie. I have never been happier to see someone get in a prison camp than watching Buck and Bucky reunite.
"What took you so long?" actually occurred between the two. Also If you haven't already seen them, I have two movie recommendations pertaining to the Two Bucks being in the Prison Camp. 1. The Great Escape (1963). This event occurred in the camp where the Bucks are imprisoned, but was primarily confined to the British section of the Camp. It was made in the 1960's and had an impressive all star cast for the time: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, and Charles Bronson to name a few... 2. Stallag 17 (1953). This a more fictional movie, but was a great look into what life was like for the POW's in Germany in WWII. The premise is an American POW who is running the Black Market in a German POW Camp is accused by the other Prisoners of being an informant after two fellow prisoners are killed trying to escape.
The Luftwaffe Interrogaters were very smart in their techniques and the way he spoke to bucky was very accurate from historical accounts. the way they got information without the prisoner realising they gave the information was an art form in itself. The was one well known account of a POW being given his file by an interrorgator and he opened it up and went white as a sheet. inside his file the germans had was a copy of all his high school report cards from america.
37:29 I appreciate the fact that you bring to light that they wouldn’t have known exactly what was going on seeing civilians on a train that way. It was like a small glimpse into the larger picture of what the Nazis were doing. But it was only a small piece of a puzzle that would leave you guessing “what the hell is going on here?” Thank you for bringing that up. Solid reaction.
27:11 The swastikas indicate Luftwaffe enemy planes having been shot down, each swastika representing 1 kill, so Rosie's crew shot down a few german planes
Negative on a B-17 like this it marks 3 missions run.1 swastika per mission. Bombers are not fighters . Silly to treat them the same. REM they were the only one to return on their 3rd mission. Sorry to counter your statement but they deserve the truth.
The German interrogator shown here, Ulrich Hausmann, actually escaped to allied lines with an American prisoner and defected at the end of the war. He moved to the US and lived near Seattle and had regular contact with the American he fled with.
@tirasbell4740 while she wore the uniform of ATC in the show. I think that's more than an assumption that she was SOE or something like a Bletchley park codebreaker etc. In Crosby's book he mentions many times he tried to get hold of her by telephone and he was passed through multiple people , she was referred to by a different rank etc. One time he went to where she said her office was as a surprise lunch etc and the was no military facility etc or any form of office there.
10:32 to me this shot is less about contrast but "being out of place". Rosie being on the right side of the frame while looking right with so much empty room on the left and behind him is an unconventional composition but works to convey his emotional state of feeling like he's somewhere he's not supposed to be. Mr. Robot uses similar techniques usually in closeups, where a character being anxious is often conveyed with lacking "eye room" and lots of empty space behind them on the frame.
The German emblems (which shall not be named, because my first attempt at this comment got scrubbed by TH-cam) painted on the side of the B17 indicate the number of enemy fighters that they had successfully shot down.
I must have had a different upbringing, because I’ve seen a few reactions to this show so far and everyone always seems to ask that question. Given the amount of photos out there of WWII aircraft like that (or with sunburst flags in the Pacific Theater) I figured that it was pretty common knowledge that they were used to track aerial kills. I guess it’s just a generational thing, or I’m more of a nerd than I thought.
Side note: That scene with that bombed out German town, Russelheim, and the civilians attacking Egan and the other American POWs is one of my favorite scenes in the show. That one small picture of the civilians, how the war is affecting them and Nazi brainwashing, governance on the other … German soldiers ignoring rules of war and letting the frenzied mob kill POWs while a few reluctant yet paralyzed young guards look on. You see them dealing with the moral contradictions behind what’s happening. Brilliant storytelling. Egan looking on unable to do anything.
That topic "ignoring the rules of war" is quite interesting. 1. By international law strategic bombing of civilians was not exactly forbidden. There simply was no rule about it. The Hague convention however tells the parties not to hurt non-combatants. So there is still a discussion going on whether strategic bombing was a war crime or not. By purely legal means it probably was not a war crime. 2. Killing POWs is in fact a war crime. Now doesn't that look very arbitrary? And now imagine you are a civilian on the ground just having lost a loved one and the rules tell you 1. is okay. 2. is not okay? At that point I would say: Screw the rules. Not saying that I'm approving of what is happening here. But in such a situation I don't know what I would be capable of.
@@sebastiankeller4420For me the most powerful contrast in this episode full of them. One episode ago Bucky (and us) saw a child's body being pulled from a bombed out building in Britain. This episode we see German civilians going through the same grief. And then the airmen who (as far as they're concerned might as well have) killed their families are walked through the town.
The scene with the German villagers really happened, and about 9 civilians were put on trial, and the German officers in charge, I believe, were also put on trial.
Those villagers did nothing wrong, they are mere Citizens getting a personal skin in the game and standing up for what is right. Afterall, Mob Justice is still Justice.
I've watched this series myself and watched dozens of different reactors reacting to the series!! I really knew the fate of Buck Cleven even before I watched the series, I knew that he was a POW. Nonetheless, I am ALWAYS brought to tears of joy in that moment when Bucky looks over and sees his friend Buck is still alive and well!!!!😂 If I see that moment 100 times I will cry 100 times!!!❤❤❤ Loving YOUR reactions JACQUI.
This is probably my favorite episode. The contrast between the three different situations of the officers was extremely well-done. Plus, the score in the last scene was flawless. Thanks for this fantastic reaction!
@movienightwithjaqui , thanks for sticking with it. I knew that it would be tough for you, because '..war and stuff..' I worked in in TV before I retired. But isn't this our *job*? Telling stories, either for entertainment, or to make a statement about something? Sometimes I think telling (even exaggerated) stories about real events is just as important as telling fictional ones. I still claim the people who made this thing wanted to share what it must have felt like for the people who lived through it. Just like BoB, this is an amazing tribute to them. I'm jealous that I never got to work on something like this.
It is SO wonderful to listen to someone react to this series that totally understands the perspective these men went through...and the incredible job the show producers/show runners did to show that. Thank you. I very much enjoyed this series. Your reactions and discussing the details of how the drama is presented make me appreciate it even more. After I see your final reaction I'm going to rewatch the entire series. I'll say it again. Thank you.
I was waiting for your reaction to this episode because I know how much attention you usually pay to the music. I knew that Buck and Bucky reunited in a StaLag. I expected that this would happen at the end of this episode. But I'm still obsessed with the way how the show did it. We can already see the gates opening in the POW camp, when the energetic/optimistic swing (jazz) music from the previous shot is still on a little bit. For me that was the ultimate sign that this is the scene of the reunion.
Hi Jacqui, welcome back beautiful lady :) It's great to have you back and that you're continuing your journey through this awesome series :) I love it, aerial warfare is my thing and this is right up my alley. I'm way more into war in the air than on the land, so this is by far my favourite war series. Yes, this episode and series in general is an emotional rollercoaster and the way scenes are shot and how the story is told is just so good.
Yes stalag Luft 3 was huge and all you saw in that image was the South compound which was the american compound. At its height it spanned 24ha (60 acres) and housed over 10'000 prisoners of war of all nations except Soviets.
The interrogator also plays a nazi in netflix's all the light we cannot see. He is a great actor. Something about episode 6 just does it for me. I've watched this single episode multiple times and still can't get enough.
A punter was used for a gambler like going into a bookies to bet on the horses, dogs etc, not necessarily a man or women looking for a prostitute. I guessed she was SOE within the first few minutes of her entering into the episode. Great actress.
Someone already mentioned how good the Luftwaffe interrogators were and one of the most well known examples. But remember this is also history and real people so that interrogator was very real.
Buck and Bucky were actually at Dalag Luft at the same time and a few cells away but neither of them knew or realised till they met again at Stalag Luft 3
I'm quite late to the party, but I love watching your reactions after I watched them on my own! I also like you pointing out the lighting and stuff. See you on the next ones. Lots of love
Fantastic reaction to these extraordinary men! Looking forward to the rest of these episodes! BOB and The Pacific were amazing also! Much respect to all these Brave men! 🇺🇸
When Allied flyers went down over Germany, they tried to surrender to Luftwaffe (German Air Force) officers when they could, because enemy pilots faced the same risk of going down in Allied territory and usually treated them humanely. Surrendering to anyone else, including civilians, was dangerous, as this episode shows.
No, they surrendered to either the police, who were directly responsible for arresting airmen who went down, or reserve army personnel who were frequently the ones deployed to find downed airmen in more remote areas. At no point did anyone have the option of surrendering to luftwaffe officers That aside this series has alot of bs in it, particularly in this episode
@@JS-wp4gs During war, a soldier cannot "surrender" to a civilian (including non-military police officers), because the laws of war do not apply to civilians. Soldiers can only legally surrender to other soldiers, and if a civilian happens to capture a soldier by force, they must immediately turn them over to a friendly soldier (although as the movie depicts, civilians sometimes just killed enemy soldiers they captured); captured soldiers cannot be held in civilian jails except temporarily while a soldier is found. Thus, airmen were instructed that they could surrender to either any German infantryman, SS officer, Gestapo officer, military police officer, reservist, or any Luftwaffe officer they encountered, and among these choices, the Luftwaffe officers were very much preferred.
The masacre at Rusenheim didn't happen to Egan but it was unfortunately a real incident that happened that way. With the Survivors escaping off the wagon of dead they were put on.
They changed her name in this think at the request of the family or the producers said various reasons. Heck even in crosby's book its believed he changed the name. Unfortunately, information about her is extremely limited and probably a lot still classified even if it exists. She was possibly SOE or maybe a bletchley park codebreaker ( a role so secretive it wasnt even admitted too till the 80's or 90's)
You NEED to watch with captions on. That goes for all things. There are tiny details that in the captions that enhance and even explain things you would not catch otherwise. As a "film Student", you should know this.
STALAG 17 (1953) MOVIE POW camp fictional THE GREAT ESCAPE (1963) MOVIE (1944 March) is the same 50 escape POWs executed in Episode 7 of the Masters of the Air
People rarely comment on the music in this series. The music at the parties and the woman singing "Tear the Fascists Down" is all great culture of the 1940s. We always hear of the birth of the rock in the 1950s but so much less attention is given to previous decade of the war years.
When I was stationed in Germany, they told us about the town of Giessen. During WW2, the people in town hung downed American airmen, so American aircrew would drop their extra bomb loads on the town.
Episodes 5 and 6 were the best directed of the series. Shame Boden and Fleck were not hired to direct the entire miniseries, as it would have been so much better. They really elevated the material.
Yepp. Totally agree. (See? We basically share the same sentiment.) Ep 5 is my personal favourite (the preparation sequence in this episode is my favourite one from the entire series) but I respect very much how they were able to balance between the three storylines in Ep6. But paradoxically, I think the excellent directing highlights some basic structural problems of the scriptwriting (which are escalating in later episodes )
@@anitapetho - Ep.5 is my favorite too. Which is shocking because I generally disliked the aerial combat scenes in the first three episodes. However, Boden and Fleck understood the audience could only focus on two crews. Which streamlined the action and raised the stakes. Ep.6 worked because it was on the ground, and (like you said) the directors balanced the characters correctly. Those structural issues, in the later episodes, that could have easily been solved had the four lead characters not been vying for screen-time. Just give each character his own episode to shine, instead of having them compete against one another. Though, this could have been an issue caused by AppleTV being a tech company and streamer. Thus, not understanding how television and storytelling actually works. It also probably did not help that one of the lead characters should have been shelved completely, in Ep.6, in order to get a more historically-accurate storyline.
@@ChienaAvtzon In regard of aerial combat scenes the first three episodes were quite confusing. I was totally not sure where to look what to focus on. I thought maybe my lack of experience how to watch an aerial fight was the reason of it. I had a very basic human curiosity about what comes in the next scene, but was not really invested emotionally. Ep5 was the first time when I had the illusion to feel what is like, for example, to prepare for a mission. That’s why I feel Rosie’s character closer to me than the others, because his storyline gave me finally this illusion of being part of the story. Btw, I think I just started understanding what is your basic problem with one of the main characters. As I praise the balaced way of the three storyline structure in Ep6, because of the excellent direction, in the remaining parts the creators tried to put two different types of stories with different dynamics and structures, not compatible with each other in the same form, thus they are weakening each other. And no wonder that the whole stuff is just falling apart. But let's see how Jacqui will react to these developments.
@@anitapetho - Pretty sure, you figured out which character I was referring to. Did not want to say who it is outright, as not to spoil it for Jacqui. But it is one of those “one of these things is not like the other” type of characters. The other three leads’ arcs are directly based off events that happened to them, and having this character still on the show took screen time away from developing those storylines better. Especially, since the cracks with this character not having his own story to tell, started to become noticeable in Ep.6. PS: I know quite a few people who stopped watching “Masters of the Air”, because of how confusing the aerial combat scenes were in the first three episodes. The lack of emotional connection and focus just bored them.
Punter has a few meanings, not what you said, punter ( customer ) punt ( boating using a pole ) she punts so she's a punter. They apparently never slept together
Honestly, it really starts nose diving after this episode. Still a very good series overall but historically speaking it really falls on its face in my opinion. That said, I am really loving your reactions. They are very unique and informative compared to the others I have seen.
If you’ve ever seen the movie The Great Escape, although nit historically accurate, took place in the same stalag that buck and bucky were at. Still it’s a great movie imho.
The Luftwaffe interrogator Hanns Scharff was an artist. He was just a Staff Sergeant interviewing pilots who were ego-centric officers. This would create an imbalance psychologically with the pilots besides being physically interned within the German Stalag system. Over time, he would get the captured pilots to reveal very specific details about the operations of both the US and UK forces. It was a peeling method with a reward system based through nonthreatening patience. At one point, Scharff would allow POW pilots to have 5-10 minutes air time flying smaller German planes. Of course with no ammo and minuscule fuel, so they couldn't fly to Switzerland. After the war, Scharff moved to the U.S. and became a citizen. He would teach his methods to the U.S. Armed Forces and Intelligence Community. Highly recommend his biography The Interrogator - The Story of Hanns Scharff by Raymond Toliver.
The interrogator in this episode is Ulrich Haussmann, who was a real person and a lieutenant. As for Scharff, those methods of interrogation were already used by the Ritchie Boys during WWII. His “contributions” are nothing special or unique. Stop overselling him.
Me too except my disappointment came with the intentionally made up fiction and the decision to ignore the most crucial parts of the the air war that the series purported to be about.
I very much agree. They had so much historical material and stories to tell about the 100th and the next few episodes just take a turn. They had such and chance just seemed like suddenly they went a different direction.
I grew up on the Sam Raimi Spiderman films, so alas, I can't do first time reactions to them. It's been years though, so I wouldn't mind going back and rewatching them at some point. It would likely have to be on a poll or something though. Thank you for asking!
Having Rosie progress from hesitation to drumming Artie Shaw's "The Chant" and the fade into the song as he hops back in to go bomb some fascists, and then the cut to the Stalag (with the tone of alarm matching the note of the song as it stops) is one of my favorite moments from this series. It lives rent free in my head. Also, what a great cover of Woodie Guthrie.
I have never been happier to see someone get in a prison camp than watching Buck and Bucky reunite.
"What took you so long?" actually occurred between the two.
Also If you haven't already seen them, I have two movie recommendations pertaining to the Two Bucks being in the Prison Camp.
1. The Great Escape (1963). This event occurred in the camp where the Bucks are imprisoned, but was primarily confined to the British section of the Camp. It was made in the 1960's and had an impressive all star cast for the time: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, and Charles Bronson to name a few...
2. Stallag 17 (1953). This a more fictional movie, but was a great look into what life was like for the POW's in Germany in WWII. The premise is an American POW who is running the Black Market in a German POW Camp is accused by the other Prisoners of being an informant after two fellow prisoners are killed trying to escape.
The Luftwaffe Interrogaters were very smart in their techniques and the way he spoke to bucky was very accurate from historical accounts. the way they got information without the prisoner realising they gave the information was an art form in itself. The was one well known account of a POW being given his file by an interrorgator and he opened it up and went white as a sheet. inside his file the germans had was a copy of all his high school report cards from america.
And this character was a real person with a great back story.
But how? No, no, I already know the answer to that. Still, it must've been so terrifying.
"John Egan, your 2 o'clock" CHILLS!
37:29 I appreciate the fact that you bring to light that they wouldn’t have known exactly what was going on seeing civilians on a train that way. It was like a small glimpse into the larger picture of what the Nazis were doing. But it was only a small piece of a puzzle that would leave you guessing “what the hell is going on here?” Thank you for bringing that up. Solid reaction.
27:11 The swastikas indicate Luftwaffe enemy planes having been shot down, each swastika representing 1 kill, so Rosie's crew shot down a few german planes
Negative on a B-17 like this it marks 3 missions run.1 swastika per mission. Bombers are not fighters . Silly to treat them the same. REM they were the only one to return on their 3rd mission. Sorry to counter your statement but they deserve the truth.
The German interrogator shown here, Ulrich Hausmann, actually escaped to allied lines with an American prisoner and defected at the end of the war. He moved to the US and lived near Seattle and had regular contact with the American he fled with.
Which is why it was such a great Easter egg, to include him as the interrogator.
Fun fact: Crosby writes about “Sandra” in his book, they changed it a bit but her actual name was Landra Wingate and she was Scottish. Accent and all
Well its even suspected its an assumed name in crosby's book as well. Information about her is scarce even in the Internet age.
@@jameswg13 I have an assumption that she may have worked for the SOE.
@tirasbell4740 while she wore the uniform of ATC in the show. I think that's more than an assumption that she was SOE or something like a Bletchley park codebreaker etc. In Crosby's book he mentions many times he tried to get hold of her by telephone and he was passed through multiple people , she was referred to by a different rank etc. One time he went to where she said her office was as a surprise lunch etc and the was no military facility etc or any form of office there.
I completely agree, I love this series all the way through. Halfway through Crosby's book now too which is even better.
I loved episodes 1-6. It really fell apart from 7-9 which took a great series and made it into one that was just good.
I finished Crosby‘s book, the show would’ve been so much better if they had used more of Crosby‘s novel to create the series.
@tirasbell4740 true, but you know Hollywood. Gotta make it appealing to the non war history nerds ya know? 😂
Love the book so far
"My colleagues in the highly indoctrinated security forces" .... such a chilling description, delivered so calmly
What I enjoy most about your comments is, if they are at all representative, that there's hope for this industry.
I always tear up when Bucky sees Buck. "What took ya so long?".
And Crazy thing too Is Buck was shot down on the 8th and Bucky on the 10th of October.
The 'Punter' is the guy with pole pushing the boats in the canal.
10:32 to me this shot is less about contrast but "being out of place". Rosie being on the right side of the frame while looking right with so much empty room on the left and behind him is an unconventional composition but works to convey his emotional state of feeling like he's somewhere he's not supposed to be. Mr. Robot uses similar techniques usually in closeups, where a character being anxious is often conveyed with lacking "eye room" and lots of empty space behind them on the frame.
The German emblems (which shall not be named, because my first attempt at this comment got scrubbed by TH-cam) painted on the side of the B17 indicate the number of enemy fighters that they had successfully shot down.
Ah that makes sense! Thank you!
Yup. Kill marks on the aircraft were pretty common in most air forces.
On an American bomber the symbol of a bomb was a missions completed,the red and black symbol was a German fighter shot down by the bomber crew!
I must have had a different upbringing, because I’ve seen a few reactions to this show so far and everyone always seems to ask that question. Given the amount of photos out there of WWII aircraft like that (or with sunburst flags in the Pacific Theater) I figured that it was pretty common knowledge that they were used to track aerial kills. I guess it’s just a generational thing, or I’m more of a nerd than I thought.
@@WBookout10 well if you are referring to the symbol's on the side of an American bomber the symbol of a bomb was a completed bombing mission!
Side note: That scene with that bombed out German town, Russelheim, and the civilians attacking Egan and the other American POWs is one of my favorite scenes in the show. That one small picture of the civilians, how the war is affecting them and Nazi brainwashing, governance on the other … German soldiers ignoring rules of war and letting the frenzied mob kill POWs while a few reluctant yet paralyzed young guards look on. You see them dealing with the moral contradictions behind what’s happening. Brilliant storytelling. Egan looking on unable to do anything.
That topic "ignoring the rules of war" is quite interesting.
1.
By international law strategic bombing of civilians was not exactly forbidden. There simply was no rule about it. The Hague convention however tells the parties not to hurt non-combatants. So there is still a discussion going on whether strategic bombing was a war crime or not. By purely legal means it probably was not a war crime.
2.
Killing POWs is in fact a war crime.
Now doesn't that look very arbitrary?
And now imagine you are a civilian on the ground just having lost a loved one and the rules tell you 1. is okay. 2. is not okay? At that point I would say: Screw the rules. Not saying that I'm approving of what is happening here. But in such a situation I don't know what I would be capable of.
@@sebastiankeller4420For me the most powerful contrast in this episode full of them. One episode ago Bucky (and us) saw a child's body being pulled from a bombed out building in Britain. This episode we see German civilians going through the same grief. And then the airmen who (as far as they're concerned might as well have) killed their families are walked through the town.
The scene with the German villagers really happened, and about 9 civilians were put on trial, and the German officers in charge, I believe, were also put on trial.
Those villagers did nothing wrong, they are mere Citizens getting a personal skin in the game and standing up for what is right. Afterall, Mob Justice is still Justice.
@@psych46 They killed American servicemen. Those villagers would either be dead or end up homeless because their dumb nazi gang lost the war
@@psych46 They were also brainwashed by Joseph Goebbels’ Nazi propaganda!
I've watched this series myself and watched dozens of different reactors reacting to the series!! I really knew the fate of Buck Cleven even before I watched the series, I knew that he was a POW. Nonetheless, I am ALWAYS brought to tears of joy in that moment when Bucky looks over and sees his friend Buck is still alive and well!!!!😂
If I see that moment 100 times I will cry 100 times!!!❤❤❤
Loving YOUR reactions JACQUI.
In the Rosie shot, he also does not seem to want to 'give up' the door. He complies by entering, but barely, and his preference is clear.
This is probably my favorite episode. The contrast between the three different situations of the officers was extremely well-done. Plus, the score in the last scene was flawless. Thanks for this fantastic reaction!
Finally!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
The prodigal redhead, Jacqui returns.
Haha thank you! It feels great to be back! 😄
@@movienightwithjacquiwill you still be doing the Band of Brothers side-by-side as you were before???
The song being sung at the University was an actual song from the war and its a great cover done of it.
@movienightwithjaqui , thanks for sticking with it. I knew that it would be tough for you, because '..war and stuff..' I worked in in TV before I retired. But isn't this our *job*? Telling stories, either for entertainment, or to make a statement about something? Sometimes I think telling (even exaggerated) stories about real events is just as important as telling fictional ones. I still claim the people who made this thing wanted to share what it must have felt like for the people who lived through it. Just like BoB, this is an amazing tribute to them. I'm jealous that I never got to work on something like this.
I got the same feeling with "Saving Private Ryan." We were learning why "The Greatest Generation" is silent.
It is SO wonderful to listen to someone react to this series that totally understands the perspective these men went through...and the incredible job the show producers/show runners did to show that. Thank you. I very much enjoyed this series. Your reactions and discussing the details of how the drama is presented make me appreciate it even more. After I see your final reaction I'm going to rewatch the entire series. I'll say it again. Thank you.
Jacqui's constant appreciation for this show gives me life.
I was waiting for your reaction to this episode because I know how much attention you usually pay to the music.
I knew that Buck and Bucky reunited in a StaLag. I expected that this would happen at the end of this episode. But I'm still obsessed with the way how the show did it. We can already see the gates opening in the POW camp, when the energetic/optimistic swing (jazz) music from the previous shot is still on a little bit. For me that was the ultimate sign that this is the scene of the reunion.
“John Egan…your two o’clock” That is hands down my favorite scene in the whole miniseries.
Bel Powley is adorable and a scene stealer in this
Hi Jacqui, welcome back beautiful lady :) It's great to have you back and that you're continuing your journey through this awesome series :) I love it, aerial warfare is my thing and this is right up my alley. I'm way more into war in the air than on the land, so this is by far my favourite war series. Yes, this episode and series in general is an emotional rollercoaster and the way scenes are shot and how the story is told is just so good.
Glad to see one of my new favorite reactors is back! Plus, she is a red-head, which is a great bonus!
Yes stalag Luft 3 was huge and all you saw in that image was the South compound which was the american compound. At its height it spanned 24ha (60 acres) and housed over 10'000 prisoners of war of all nations except Soviets.
The interrogator also plays a nazi in netflix's all the light we cannot see. He is a great actor. Something about episode 6 just does it for me. I've watched this single episode multiple times and still can't get enough.
That stalag 3 is where the true story of the great escape took place.
A punter was used for a gambler like going into a bookies to bet on the horses, dogs etc, not necessarily a man or women looking for a prostitute. I guessed she was SOE within the first few minutes of her entering into the episode. Great actress.
Someone already mentioned how good the Luftwaffe interrogators were and one of the most well known examples. But remember this is also history and real people so that interrogator was very real.
Buck and Bucky were actually at Dalag Luft at the same time and a few cells away but neither of them knew or realised till they met again at Stalag Luft 3
I'm quite late to the party, but I love watching your reactions after I watched them on my own! I also like you pointing out the lighting and stuff. See you on the next ones. Lots of love
Fantastic reaction to these extraordinary men! Looking forward to the rest of these episodes! BOB and The Pacific were amazing also! Much respect to all these Brave men! 🇺🇸
When Allied flyers went down over Germany, they tried to surrender to Luftwaffe (German Air Force) officers when they could, because enemy pilots faced the same risk of going down in Allied territory and usually treated them humanely. Surrendering to anyone else, including civilians, was dangerous, as this episode shows.
No, they surrendered to either the police, who were directly responsible for arresting airmen who went down, or reserve army personnel who were frequently the ones deployed to find downed airmen in more remote areas. At no point did anyone have the option of surrendering to luftwaffe officers
That aside this series has alot of bs in it, particularly in this episode
@@JS-wp4gs During war, a soldier cannot "surrender" to a civilian (including non-military police officers), because the laws of war do not apply to civilians. Soldiers can only legally surrender to other soldiers, and if a civilian happens to capture a soldier by force, they must immediately turn them over to a friendly soldier (although as the movie depicts, civilians sometimes just killed enemy soldiers they captured); captured soldiers cannot be held in civilian jails except temporarily while a soldier is found. Thus, airmen were instructed that they could surrender to either any German infantryman, SS officer, Gestapo officer, military police officer, reservist, or any Luftwaffe officer they encountered, and among these choices, the Luftwaffe officers were very much preferred.
The masacre at Rusenheim didn't happen to Egan but it was unfortunately a real incident that happened that way. With the Survivors escaping off the wagon of dead they were put on.
They changed her name in this think at the request of the family or the producers said various reasons. Heck even in crosby's book its believed he changed the name. Unfortunately, information about her is extremely limited and probably a lot still classified even if it exists. She was possibly SOE or maybe a bletchley park codebreaker ( a role so secretive it wasnt even admitted too till the 80's or 90's)
The song rosie Hummed and played at the end as he was getting in the plane was Artie Shaws the Chant
You NEED to watch with captions on. That goes for all things. There are tiny details that in the captions that enhance and even explain things you would not catch otherwise. As a "film Student", you should know this.
She can watch the series however she wants. You should be less blunt. "You should know this."
@@frenchfan3368 Well said!
@@frenchfan3368 No, he should be as blunt as he wants. You should be less ignorant and pedantic
@@JS-wp4gs Who said I am "ignorant?" Your comments make me laugh at you.
STALAG 17 (1953) MOVIE POW camp fictional
THE GREAT ESCAPE (1963) MOVIE (1944 March) is the same 50 escape POWs executed in Episode 7 of the Masters of the Air
People rarely comment on the music in this series. The music at the parties and the woman singing "Tear the Fascists Down" is all great culture of the 1940s. We always hear of the birth of the rock in the 1950s but so much less attention is given to previous decade of the war years.
Crosby in the mirror was quoting from the movie Test Pilot which enticed many people to join the american air forces
Please do a video reacting to the accompanying documentary of the MotA series by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg “The Bloody Hundreth” as a ‘Part 10’
Why the Swaistikas, those are kill marks. The crew had 3 confirmed and had them marked.
Yay back!
When I was stationed in Germany, they told us about the town of Giessen. During WW2, the people in town hung downed American airmen, so American aircrew would drop their extra bomb loads on the town.
Episodes 5 and 6 were the best directed of the series. Shame Boden and Fleck were not hired to direct the entire miniseries, as it would have been so much better. They really elevated the material.
Yepp. Totally agree. (See? We basically share the same sentiment.)
Ep 5 is my personal favourite (the preparation sequence in this episode is my favourite one from the entire series) but I respect very much how they were able to balance between the three storylines in Ep6.
But paradoxically, I think the excellent directing highlights some basic structural problems of the scriptwriting (which are escalating in later episodes )
@@anitapetho - Ep.5 is my favorite too. Which is shocking because I generally disliked the aerial combat scenes in the first three episodes. However, Boden and Fleck understood the audience could only focus on two crews. Which streamlined the action and raised the stakes. Ep.6 worked because it was on the ground, and (like you said) the directors balanced the characters correctly.
Those structural issues, in the later episodes, that could have easily been solved had the four lead characters not been vying for screen-time. Just give each character his own episode to shine, instead of having them compete against one another. Though, this could have been an issue caused by AppleTV being a tech company and streamer. Thus, not understanding how television and storytelling actually works. It also probably did not help that one of the lead characters should have been shelved completely, in Ep.6, in order to get a more historically-accurate storyline.
@@ChienaAvtzon In regard of aerial combat scenes the first three episodes were quite confusing. I was totally not sure where to look what to focus on. I thought maybe my lack of experience how to watch an aerial fight was the reason of it. I had a very basic human curiosity about what comes in the next scene, but was not really invested emotionally. Ep5 was the first time when I had the illusion to feel what is like, for example, to prepare for a mission. That’s why I feel Rosie’s character closer to me than the others, because his storyline gave me finally this illusion of being part of the story.
Btw, I think I just started understanding what is your basic problem with one of the main characters.
As I praise the balaced way of the three storyline structure in Ep6, because of the excellent direction, in the remaining parts the creators tried to put two different types of stories with different dynamics and structures, not compatible with each other in the same form, thus they are weakening each other. And no wonder that the whole stuff is just falling apart.
But let's see how Jacqui will react to these developments.
@@anitapetho - Pretty sure, you figured out which character I was referring to. Did not want to say who it is outright, as not to spoil it for Jacqui. But it is one of those “one of these things is not like the other” type of characters. The other three leads’ arcs are directly based off events that happened to them, and having this character still on the show took screen time away from developing those storylines better. Especially, since the cracks with this character not having his own story to tell, started to become noticeable in Ep.6.
PS: I know quite a few people who stopped watching “Masters of the Air”, because of how confusing the aerial combat scenes were in the first three episodes. The lack of emotional connection and focus just bored them.
9:09 “just people”
Punter has a few meanings, not what you said, punter ( customer ) punt ( boating using a pole ) she punts so she's a punter. They apparently never slept together
Honestly, it really starts nose diving after this episode. Still a very good series overall but historically speaking it really falls on its face in my opinion. That said, I am really loving your reactions. They are very unique and informative compared to the others I have seen.
Remember rosie isnt just Jewish he was also a trained Lawyer
should put the following on a watch list:
12 O Clock High
Memphis Belle
Great Escape
Tuskegee Airman
They need to remake Tuskegee Airmen. It was not a very good film.
Punters are the men polling the boats...
If you’ve ever seen the movie The Great Escape, although nit historically accurate, took place in the same stalag that buck and bucky were at. Still it’s a great movie imho.
3:08 i chuckled loud :D
💗"REDDER IS NOT BETTER IN THIS INSTANCE"
You should do a toplees stream
Speaking of contrast .... The allies fly a number of missions and are sent home ....the Germans fly till it's over or they're killed
No, luftwaffe pilots were frequently rotated off the front to teach at pilot schools
You sang that intro beautifully Jaq, thanks for that, you are definitely the first to do so on YT im pretty sure.
Haha thanks! I genuinely listen to this score all the time. It's become one of my favorites ❤️
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So I presume Tear Down The Fascists is also in the track list, nice
See how egan accidentally let slip a few things which the interrogators could then use for others
The Luftwaffe interrogator Hanns Scharff was an artist. He was just a Staff Sergeant interviewing pilots who were ego-centric officers. This would create an imbalance psychologically with the pilots besides being physically interned within the German Stalag system. Over time, he would get the captured pilots to reveal very specific details about the operations of both the US and UK forces. It was a peeling method with a reward system based through nonthreatening patience. At one point, Scharff would allow POW pilots to have 5-10 minutes air time flying smaller German planes. Of course with no ammo and minuscule fuel, so they couldn't fly to Switzerland. After the war, Scharff moved to the U.S. and became a citizen. He would teach his methods to the U.S. Armed Forces and Intelligence Community. Highly recommend his biography The Interrogator - The Story of Hanns Scharff by Raymond Toliver.
The interrogator in this episode is Ulrich Haussmann, who was a real person and a lieutenant.
As for Scharff, those methods of interrogation were already used by the Ritchie Boys during WWII. His “contributions” are nothing special or unique. Stop overselling him.
@@ChienaAvtzon My mistake.
I loved this series, but the pacific is still my favorite
nice
Good stuff
I'm with you, Jacqui. This series is spectacular. It's spectacular and I don't care what anyone says. Your reactions and your insights are great. 😍👍💯
My favorite episode!
The needle drop with Tear the Fascists Down is so unexpectedly amazing.
little bit disappointed by this series' lack of historical accuracy with clothing and hairstyles...
Me too except my disappointment came with the intentionally made up fiction and the decision to ignore the most crucial parts of the the air war that the series purported to be about.
I very much agree. They had so much historical material and stories to tell about the 100th and the next few episodes just take a turn. They had such and chance just seemed like suddenly they went a different direction.
are you going sam raimi spider-man reaction
I grew up on the Sam Raimi Spiderman films, so alas, I can't do first time reactions to them. It's been years though, so I wouldn't mind going back and rewatching them at some point. It would likely have to be on a poll or something though. Thank you for asking!
@@movienightwithjacqui you're welcome😍
@@movienightwithjacqui also spider-man 3 is disappointed third trilogy
@@movienightwithjacqui thank you are you watch-long video of Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy ❤️
why are you soooo far behind on showing ur reactions to band of borhters over this? this isn't even close as good.
Have you ever heard of a movie called Twelve O Clock High with Gregory Peck?