This was easily the best episode of this frustrating series. I wanted to love the show but aside from some impressive aerial battle visuals and sequences, this show falls completely flat. The characters are criminally underdeveloped, the strategy, scope, and uniqueness of aerial combat go completely unrealized on screen. I follow a history professor on YouTube who does episode reviews so I know there is a remarkable attention to detail, yet I know next to nothing about the main characters. I understand that the remarkable losses of the Bloody 100th imply there are not many through lines for most characters, which makes the fact that I know next to nothing about Buck, Bucky, Crosby, and Rosie even worse. Buck looks and talks cool and doesn't drink, Bucky drinks a lot and likes baseball, Crosby gets air sick and narrated the show, and Rosie likes music. That's all I know about these real people. The emotion during the final minutes is simply a matter of historical perspective and had nothing to do with any cathartic payoff for any character. It's frustrating and disappointing.