Oh dear. I was wondering what the flag thing was and then I saw it for my own eyes. The absolute worst. And to cap it all, when the camp is liberated the British pilot in the background is holding a pipe - just so we know he’s British. And the love affair between Buck and Bucky at the end needed a sick bag.
Watching the Bloody Hundred documentary a couple of things struck me. One was the commander who came in and instilled rigid discipline when they were flying in formation. Whereas Buck and Bucky were all cavalier and macho, insisting on flying missions, a good leader focused on making sure the people in his command were as safe as they could be under the worst circumstances. For me, ‘Rosie’ Rosenthal was the most interesting of all of the characters in the series and I’d have preferred him to be the centre of the story, a bit like Winters in BoB, rather than the knuckle-headed, macho Bucksters.
Another was the admission from one flyer, over footage of bomb craters across a massive landscape, that they couldn’t drop bombs in a “pickle barrel.”
All in all it was really disappointing and really shallow.
