I liked it too! I put my thoughts here but yeah, I think it hit dramatically where it needed to. Gooseworx did confirm the transfem thing with Jax today which made me think they should’ve made it more explicit in the show, rather than be coy about it. It’s a youtube show! There’s probably a lot fewer restrictions than you get with a network! It’d be a good place for it!
Anyways, I also watched The Final Countdown, a movie I’ve always been curious about since I was a kid, and it really super duper sucked! They definitely got access to this military equipment by working with the U.S. Navy and became so enamored they did nothing but film deck crews and pointless dogfights where were are made to imagine a Zero could pose a thread to a modern fucking tomcat, and feel good about causality getting fucked because the U.S. Navy is sloppy. Part of me was hoping for a Crimson Tide-style fight on the aircraft carrier between those who seek to effortlessly win World War 2 for the U.S., and those that don’t think we can or should change the course of history. What would have become of us if we hadn’t had to endure any death and struggle and futility in the largest war the world’s ever seen? How much more monstrous would we have become? Not something this movie is remotely capable of exploring.
It’s very funny to see Zipang also exist 20 years later as a “what if a modern aircraft carrier was sent back in time and won WW2 for the Imperial Japanese Navy?” counterpoint to The Final Countdown, and both arrive at the conclusion of, “that would rule for us.”