there's a version of this show that exists in my head that ties together all the different stories mota is clearly trying to acknowledge if not tell, and it goes like this: the hundredth is our bracketing narrative for understanding aerial combat in ww2. we follow them to all the different stories, and then each story gets its own episode. we follow quinn to the resistance, we follow (that one guy whose name i dont remember who flirts with helen and then dies) to helen and the clubmobile girls, we follow crosby to sandra and whatever spy shit she gets up to, we follow buck2 to the pow camps, we follow crosby (again) to the navigators and what that means, hell maybe we even get one episode about the mechanics, and so on. and like we all know i think the tuskegee airmen are deserving of their own miniseries and while i desperately need that, we could also follow the invention of escorting planes to the them and their story. what's so frustrating to me about mota (even though i quite like a lot of the elements of it) is that it does a (frankly) piss-poor job juggling these different narratives. i love that it tries to address how many different people and skills were needed to keep even one aspect of the war machine going, i do! but it falls flat on its face the moment it tries to engage with them on any level but cursory. these stories matter, they're important, and if you're going to tell them, you should do them justice.