I agree with both Lancman & Damien.
It’s a great documentary about the BoB but falls short of what it claims to be about. :confused:
Pearl Harbour syndrome I think they call it. 😉
When it was first advertised, I wondered how they were going to stretch it to four, hour-long episodes based on the title. I think we can all see how this has been achieved.
Last nights episode was again great in terms of telling the story of a very important moment in history but very poor at telling us what it is like for a low houred civililian pilot to fly a Spitfire. 🙁
The navigation exercise looked like anything but (I’m sure it wasn’t) and the formation flying sequence didn’t really tell us much either. I don’t know about you, but I got fed up with seeing the same shot again and again during this part. Surely with the amount of cameras they had and the amount of footage they must have shot they could have made the aerial sequences far more interesting.
I think it would have been far better to have had the first two or three programmes telling the story of the BoB with all the interviews etc as a build up to the four pilots training and progress which would be covered in far more detail in the remaining episodes. That way it might have been far less disjointed and confusing than it is now.
Or maybe they should have forgot the “Spitfire Ace” title and called it “The Battle Of Britain – The Truth”.
Just my 2 penny’s worth!
Cheers
Paul
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