Nineteen Kilo
Senior Member
Anybody catch this? I watched it the last three nights and came away a bit disappointed. The show seemed a bit unfocused.
It was billed as a show that would reveal how World War 1 shaped & influenced the world leaders of World War 2. And it started out just that way, following Hitler, Churchill, Mussolini, Roosevelt, Stalin and for some reason the "world leaders" MacArthur and Patton through World War 1. By the time the show got to World War 2 it became less about the leaders and more a general overview of that war.
I would have preferred it if it had stayed a study of the leaders and not another generic retelling of WW2. After all, it had not been an overview of WW1 at the beginning of the show.
France received no attention at all. They should have ditched Patton and MacArthur and told us what Petain and/or DeGaul were doing in WW1 and how it influenced them during the second go around. Also Truman was introduced at the very end and not a single word was mentioned that he had been in France in World War 1. Might have been nice if they had followed the war's influence on Truman as well.
It was billed as a show that would reveal how World War 1 shaped & influenced the world leaders of World War 2. And it started out just that way, following Hitler, Churchill, Mussolini, Roosevelt, Stalin and for some reason the "world leaders" MacArthur and Patton through World War 1. By the time the show got to World War 2 it became less about the leaders and more a general overview of that war.
I would have preferred it if it had stayed a study of the leaders and not another generic retelling of WW2. After all, it had not been an overview of WW1 at the beginning of the show.
France received no attention at all. They should have ditched Patton and MacArthur and told us what Petain and/or DeGaul were doing in WW1 and how it influenced them during the second go around. Also Truman was introduced at the very end and not a single word was mentioned that he had been in France in World War 1. Might have been nice if they had followed the war's influence on Truman as well.
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