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1. Started slow but got better.
2. Music beds got much better and then went downhill toward the end in parts 4 and 5. Too much piano and cello. The spooky music beds for the episodes 3-5 were effective. The Foley artist were not too ispired..too many repeats of same battel sounds, especially smmal rounds bouncing off metal/armor.
3. Much unseen footage (at least by me). If this footage is as never-before-shown as promoted, what was the source and how did Ken Burns get it when many others before him could not? Most interesting.
4. Not nearly enough on the Eastern Front contributions to the whole effort--the Soviets made the biggest sacrifice of all in the "Great Patriot War".
5. Too many dead GIs shown and not enough dead Japs. Soem prety graphic potos of dead, altoug agins many repeated over episodes.
6. Played hands-off for the most part on the cultural aspects of post-war hate. Many still never will forgive Japs for what they did.
7. Burma/China mostly ignored. English in East mostly ignored. (Colonists defending their interests.) Italy got more than I expected.
8. Pandering to special interests not appreciated.
9. Too much of the Jewish girl/old lady in the Philippines camp. While the story is moving, and I have read of it before, it was not that significant in terms of the total effort.
10. Not enough, early enough, on the "final solution" and what lead up to it.
11. Not enough of the field leadership (should have roasted Monty for Market Garden--the limey idiot.)
12. I may have missed it, but nothing on the revolt of the Wiermacht on Hitler and various attempts to kill him.
13. Also may have missed it, but nothing on various underlings of Nazi and Jap leaders. (OK Rommel and Yamamoto got some coverage.)
14. Limited to the focus on 4 cities in US and not much focus on the contributions of other cities to the effort to produce (Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Birmingham, etc.)
15. No final "talley".
What might be your thoughts/critiques?
2. Music beds got much better and then went downhill toward the end in parts 4 and 5. Too much piano and cello. The spooky music beds for the episodes 3-5 were effective. The Foley artist were not too ispired..too many repeats of same battel sounds, especially smmal rounds bouncing off metal/armor.
3. Much unseen footage (at least by me). If this footage is as never-before-shown as promoted, what was the source and how did Ken Burns get it when many others before him could not? Most interesting.
4. Not nearly enough on the Eastern Front contributions to the whole effort--the Soviets made the biggest sacrifice of all in the "Great Patriot War".
5. Too many dead GIs shown and not enough dead Japs. Soem prety graphic potos of dead, altoug agins many repeated over episodes.
6. Played hands-off for the most part on the cultural aspects of post-war hate. Many still never will forgive Japs for what they did.
7. Burma/China mostly ignored. English in East mostly ignored. (Colonists defending their interests.) Italy got more than I expected.
8. Pandering to special interests not appreciated.
9. Too much of the Jewish girl/old lady in the Philippines camp. While the story is moving, and I have read of it before, it was not that significant in terms of the total effort.
10. Not enough, early enough, on the "final solution" and what lead up to it.
11. Not enough of the field leadership (should have roasted Monty for Market Garden--the limey idiot.)
12. I may have missed it, but nothing on the revolt of the Wiermacht on Hitler and various attempts to kill him.
13. Also may have missed it, but nothing on various underlings of Nazi and Jap leaders. (OK Rommel and Yamamoto got some coverage.)
14. Limited to the focus on 4 cities in US and not much focus on the contributions of other cities to the effort to produce (Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Birmingham, etc.)
15. No final "talley".
What might be your thoughts/critiques?
