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Series · History · 2006

Dogfights

Name: Dogfights scores 28 — Live Historic
Item: Dogfights
Rating: 28
Author: Live Historic

28Leave it.

The gun camera as a sport. Leave it if the point is the kill. The pilots' voices are the only part to keep.

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The review

History Channel's Dogfights takes real pilots and real fights and rebuilds them as a computer game with a narrator who sounds like a man calling a race. Some of the speakers earned the right to describe what they did. The format does not earn the right to turn it into a weekly thrill. A boy who loves airplanes will find this immediately. That is why it is on the shelf, scored, instead of left as a neutral documentary.

Leave it. If it is already in the house, sit with him and mute the reconstruction. Listen only to the pilot. Ask what happened to the other aircraft, and whether the show is interested in that man at all. Then go outside or open a book about the airplane as a machine, not as a score.

Journal

Keep Dogfights in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 28. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Battle 360

45 instead of 28

Battle 360 is still a war show, and it scores 45 instead of 28. What you gain is republic: A navy is a public instrument.

The eight

5
Industry
Flying is a skill, and the series is obsessed with the skill of killing.
1
Household
No household. A cockpit is the world.
1
Piety
The kill is the liturgy.
5
Courage
Nerve in a cockpit is real. The series collects it as a trick.
2
Republic
A war reduced to engagements a viewer can take a side in, like a game.
2
Temperance
The whole design is appetite: the next merge, the next burst.
4
Truth
Veterans speak. Their words are edited to serve the animation.
2
Stewardship
What it leaves is a wish to be the ace. That wish is the thing to refuse.

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Series · CBS · 1955

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

28Leave it.

A clever crime, a joking host, and a punishment line the network pasted on.

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The review

I don't put this on while anyone small is still up. Not a child's hour. Each week is a crime story with a twist, and the host introduces it as if taste were a private joke. He mocks the sponsor. I can enjoy a dry voice. I do not enjoy being winked at for wanting the crooked thing to work.

The network often required a closing line in which the criminal was punished. That line is doing the moral work the half-hour refused. I won't invent a plot. The twist changes every week, and the wanting doesn't. An adult who likes a mean puzzle will recognize the fun. I recognized a hook dressed up as taste.

Journal

Keep Alfred Hitchcock Presents in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 28. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Starsky & Hutch

38 instead of 28

Starsky & Hutch is still a crime show, and it scores 38 instead of 28. What you gain is courage: The street work can get them hurt, though the show treats the risk as routine.