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Offline Flench

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Dogfights show on the history channel .
« on: March 01, 2011, 12:02:56 PM »
All right !!!! The show's just came on and I have never seen it . What about you guy's ? Got it on record now cool................
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Offline Blooz

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Re: Dogfights show on the history channel .
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2011, 12:13:22 PM »
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Re: Dogfights show on the history channel .
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2011, 12:29:39 PM »
Lots of eye candy but... You're probably better off watching AH-made dogfight films.  Not as much post production or historical glamor, but much better dogfighting substance.
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Re: Dogfights show on the history channel .
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2011, 12:52:57 PM »
Quote from: moot on March 01, 2011, 12:29:39 PM
Lots of eye candy but... You're probably better off watching AH-made dogfight films.  Not as much post production or historical glamor, but much better dogfighting substance.

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Re: Dogfights show on the history channel .
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2011, 02:32:01 PM »
It follows the stretch it formula.  They tell you what they are going to show you.  Show some pilot stuff,  break to commercial.  Once back from commercial recap everything up to this point.  I like the interviews with the pilots the best.  The only way to watch it is on a DVR.

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Re: Dogfights show on the history channel .
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2011, 02:43:52 PM »
Quote from: hyzer on March 01, 2011, 02:32:01 PM
It follows the stretch it formula. 
Which makes it a program I should like annoying.
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Re: Dogfights show on the history channel .
« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2011, 04:00:20 PM »
The good guy is here
The bad guy is there
If the good guy goes over there
    the bad guy will go there
but the good guy knows he need to go here
so he goes there
the bad guy now ends up over there

<commercial>

repeat the above and add two more sentences before next comersial
the good guy knows that if the bad guy shoots him it will be bad
the bad guy does not want to get shot by the good guy

<commercial>

repeat the above
pilot talks

<commercial>

repeat the above

<join us next time>

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Re: Dogfights show on the history channel .
« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2011, 04:09:28 PM »
Quote from: hyzer on March 01, 2011, 02:32:01 PM
I like the interviews with the pilots the best. 

Absolutely the best part.  +1

I'm glad that the interviews have been done, even if the rest of the show is kind of crappy.  The guys that lived what we like to play at are slipping away from us quickly.  The more of their stories that get recorded the better.
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Offline Flench

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Re: Dogfights show on the history channel .
« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2011, 05:53:34 PM »
Well , it wouldt have been so bad if is was not for all the commercial . Over half the show ...

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Offline Banshee7

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Re: Dogfights show on the history channel .
« Reply #9 on: March 01, 2011, 05:54:37 PM »
I thought they cancelled that show?  Or was it a re-run
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Offline Maverick

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Re: Dogfights show on the history channel .
« Reply #10 on: March 01, 2011, 09:19:54 PM »
It's been on reruns for some time. It was canceled.
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Re: Dogfights show on the history channel .
« Reply #11 on: March 01, 2011, 09:37:30 PM »
Quote from: Maverick on March 01, 2011, 09:19:54 PM
It's been on reruns for some time. It was canceled.
yeah, not enough fodder to stretch the truth for them...i mean, you wouldn't want to do any on pilots from other countries that were involved, that would be heresy.
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Re: Dogfights show on the history channel .
« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2011, 04:50:13 AM »
Quote from: gyrene81 on March 01, 2011, 09:37:30 PM
yeah, not enough fodder to stretch the truth for them...i mean, you wouldn't want to do any on pilots from other countries that were involved, that would be heresy.
They even found an American pilot who flew mosquito for the RAF. The only non-american pilots I remember on that show were Israeli in two episodes about the IAF.

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the good guy knows that if the bad guy shoots him it will be bad
the bad guy does not want to get shot by the good guy
The good guy thinks that shooting people is bad unless they are bad and he has a good justification. The bad guy takes a bad aim which is foiled by good evasive of the good guy. The tables have turned. Good guy being such a badass pilot he now saddles up on the bad guy. Being good he takes a good aim while the bad guy being bad, makes bad evasive. Good hits are observed on the bad guy's plane which is bad news for him. Good riddance.

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Re: Dogfights show on the history channel .
« Reply #13 on: March 02, 2011, 05:44:57 AM »
The History channel cancelled it because it was about history. It had nothing to do with cutting down trees,selling stuff at a pawn shop, or picking thru someones barn.   :rolleyes:
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Re: Dogfights show on the history channel .
« Reply #14 on: March 02, 2011, 07:56:11 AM »
Personally, I love the show. Where else would you see these historical fights acted out and diagrammed? Yeah, the formula gets old, but the engagements are always different. I'd loved to have seen another season or two.
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