{"id":11092,"date":"2024-02-03T23:28:37","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T23:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=11092"},"modified":"2024-02-03T23:30:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T23:30:07","slug":"media-masters-of-the-air-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=11092","title":{"rendered":"MEDiA: Masters Of The Air, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6599-1-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11088\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6599-1-1024x577.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6599-1-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6599-1-768x433.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6599-1-1536x865.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6599-1.jpg 1960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/stars_09_fourhalf-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11089\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/stars_09_fourhalf-1-1.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/stars_09_fourhalf-1-1-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My star rating for this is based, primarily, on how much I\u2019m enjoying this new Play-Tone mini-series, from the Hanks, Spielberg and Goetzman team that brought us <em>Band<\/em>, <em>Pacific<\/em>, and other superb WWII media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s taking me longer to warm to the cast than it did with <em>Brothers<\/em> and <em>Pacific<\/em>. But I\u2019m starting to thaw on that front. But everything else, and most especially the lengths to which the production crew go to bring this story to life, is terrific. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve grudgingly taken out an \u00a38.99 p\/month Apple TV sub, just so\u2019s I can watch this as it comes out. I resent having to do so. But hey-ho. Buy any beans necessary, as the Vegan Anarchist Front might say\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tonight I watched episode three, and already we\u2019ve seen characters built up just to be killed off. But the the \u2018Bloody Hundredth\u2019 did earn that soubriquet with an eye-watering loss of life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For tonight\u2019s post this is merely to register the fact I\u2019m watching the series, and loving it. I\u2019ll prob either expand this post, or add more on the topic, as the episodes drop. We shall see? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But for now? Yep\u2026 loving it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6598-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11090\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6598-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6598-1-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6598-1-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6598-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6598-1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, and it was based, it would seem, on this book:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"663\" height=\"1000\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6600-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11091\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6600-1.jpg 663w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/img_6600-1-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Not read the book. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Watching <em>Pvt. Ryan<\/em> lead to me reading a Stephen Ambrose book on D-Day. And viewing <em>The Pacific<\/em> was a prelude to reading <em>With The Old Breed<\/em> and <em>Helmut Fur Mein Furher<\/em>\u2026 er, I mean\u2026 Well, you see where I\u2019m going with that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My star rating for this is based, primarily, on how much I\u2019m enjoying this new Play-Tone mini-series, from the Hanks, Spielberg and Goetzman team that brought us Band, Pacific, and other superb WWII media. It\u2019s taking me longer to warm to the cast than it did with Brothers and Pacific. But I\u2019m starting to thaw &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=11092\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MEDiA: Masters Of The Air, 2024&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-2SU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11093,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092\/revisions\/11093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}