並非'天空的主人'

If anything the TV Series "Masters of the Air" has so far taught the audience, it is never sending a chief Chef of State Dinners to be in charge of a fast-food restaurant, and a TV series is clearly not the right dish for Steven Spielberg. The old tricks that he often easily pulls out of his sleeves to serve as the lubricant for an ever-developing story in a movie of 120 minutes long, do not have the luxury of the time to do the same magic in an episode of a TV series about 50 minutes short. The results of his unique professional skills applied in a TV series, more like a delicate appetizer for a dressed-up banquet yet presented to the stunned driver expecting a pre-made hamburger and some french-fries at the drive-through window of a fast-food restaurant, are astonishingly misplaced and by no means properly appreciated.
The stories in each of the three episodes of Masters of the Air, not fresh at all, are awfully similar, you see one and you see all. A blessing or a plague for the playwright can be debatable, it definitely poses a great challenge for Steven Spielberg who strives hard to tell a different story in each episode yet seems to have failed miserably. The actors of those pilots,  in the same uniform with their performances as poor as the story is dull, offer no help to Spielberg's endeavors but have certainly been successful in crashing the audience's curiosity of telling who is who in the story. In the end, the very reason for their failure of persuading the audience to pull for them in their mission might have almost ended up letting the audience understand why they are sent up in the sky to get shot at. The unconvincing performance in general falls way short of living up to the title of the TV series, the "Masters of the Air", when it fails to command the audience's patience in its frist three episodes.
Steven Spielberg is a Master of the movie director and Tom Hanks a Master of the actor, yet the combination of two Masters cannot let their bombers take off this time around.

到目前為止，如果"天空的主人"這部電視劇告訴觀眾什麽事情的話，那就是不要把一個國宴的主廚送去執掌一個快餐廳，電視連續劇不是導演 Steven Spielberg 的菜。在120分鍾的一部電影中，他輕而易舉地拿出的專業技巧作為故事發展的潤滑劑，在短短50分鍾的一集電視劇中，因沒有足夠的時間而無法達到相同魔幻的效果。電視劇中他使用的電影手法的結果，更像是把正裝宴會上的精巧開胃品遞給一個等在快餐店drive-through 窗口的司機，他隻是想要一個預製的漢堡和一些薯條，結果，他的努力因嚴重的錯置而絕不會被認可和讚賞。
"天空的主人"前三集的故事不僅不新穎，還非常雷同，看了一集就等於看了三集。對編劇來說這是祝福還是噩夢有待商榷，但對導演 Steven Spielberg 來說，則是一個巨大的挑戰，他努力試圖在每一集中講個不同的故事，但結果慘敗。那些飾演飛行員的演員們，穿著相同的製服，其演技之拙劣一如故事之沉悶，無法給導演 Steven Spielberg 任何幫助，倒是非常成功地碾碎了觀眾試圖區分故事中誰是誰的好奇心。最終，他們無法說服觀眾為執行任務的他們鼓勁的原因，恰恰也讓觀眾明白了他們為何被送上天去遭受炮火的攻擊。當前三集中他們無法掌控觀眾的耐心時，他們令人不信服的表演就遠遠無法與電視劇的名字，"天空的主人", 相匹配。
Steven Spielberg 是電影導演大拿，Tom Hanks 是名大腕演員，然而，這次兩位大拿的結合卻無法讓轟炸機起飛。