August 14, 2008
It would seem that someone at Gonzo heard about my speculation regarding the trapness of Litvyak, and decided to prove once and for all that I'm wrong:
Ubu says this episode is the pits, even worse than ep 5, and has given up on the series.
More from me as I watch it.
UPDATE: Actually, it's too hot right now. I'm going to turn off my computer and go take a nap.
UPDATE: OK, back now. Temperature is down a lot. (Gonna be a lot hotter tomorrow; I think I might go buy ice in the morning.)
It's dawn at the 501st Squadron. Litvyak is sleepy, after returning from night patrol. Scene cuts showing everyone in bed, getting stranger and stranger. Yeager has tools on her bed; apparently was working on something when she crashed out. Hartmann is sleeping on the floor. Eila has a crystal ball in her room; apparently tarot isn't the only thing she uses for precognition.
Lucchini is crashed out in a tree. I wonder if she spent the night outside?
Sakamoto is out jogging in the woods, and then practicing with her katana. There's always one in every unit.
Reveille sounds.
UPDATE: And now the gratuitous pandering starts in earnest. The rest (NSFW and spoilers) goes below the fold.
This is Barkhorn:
(What, you couldn't tell?
Hartmann! Up and at 'em!
Leave me alone; I want to sleep...
UPDATE: We've taken "no pants" to an entirely different level:
UPDATE: No, no, no, no! Don't tell me!
Last thing Hartmann does before the title runs is to look around her room and say, "They're gone."
Don't tell me that this is a "panty thief" episode! Please! Is that why the ep title is "Nice 'n Breezy"? Gad...
UPDATE: No, that doesn't seem to be what it's about. Hartman couldn't find her undies, so being laid back and a bit drowsy she said, "Ah, hell with it" and left her quarters, um, without them.
And I'm not sure I want to see the rest of this. For crying out loud, girl, don't you have any spares? I'm cringing already.
UPDATE: I bet this picture gets decensored for the DVD. You can't tell but that's Miyafuji and Lucchini.
But how much will they decensor this one? Remember, Lucchini is 12 years old.
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Hartmann's got 240 kills? Good lord, that's insane.
Posted by: ubu at August 14, 2008 09:18 PM (Sbkwn)
Actually, 250.
But they're being sloppy about the numbers. In ep 3, Bishop told Miyafuji that Hartmann had 200 victories. Bishop also said that Barkhorn had 250, and that Wilcke had 160.
And we've heard that the Neuroi have been attacking at a rate of about one ship per week. So that's 610 weeks, nearly 12 years, even though the war's only been going on for six, even if no one else in the squadron has any victories at all.
And we know that Sakamoto has some; she made the kill at the beginning of ep 1, using her katana.
And at the beginning of ep 7, Barkhorn tells Hartmann that she's being decorated in honor of her 250th victory. Which means that in however long it's been since Miyafuji showed up Hartmann has racked up another year's worth.
What they're really doing is to make reference to the real pilots on which each is based. Erich Hartmann eventually was credited with 352 victories. It seems unlikely IMHO even if you figure that most of that would have been against Russians, who tended to die like flies because their aircraft were not very good. Plentiful, but not very good. And their pilots didn't tend to be very experienced. Aggressive, but not very experienced.
Gerhard Barkhorn is credited with 301. Wolf-Dietrich Wilcke is credited with 162. But you can do that when you spend a lot of time fighting against second or third rate air forces, like Czechoslovakia, Poland, or the USSR. No American or British pilot in Europe had anything like that kind of score against the Germans.
And no American had that kind of score against the Japanese, either, though some did very well. Boyington had a score of 26, but his period of combat was quite short, only about a year and a half. Foss also had a score of 26. Bong had a score of 40, and I have a vague memory that he was the highest.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at August 14, 2008 09:59 PM (+rSRq)
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