Rewatching the pacific after masters of the air came out, I got to episode three and was like 'Urgh the pointless one' so rather than scroll on my phone through it again, I skipped it and you know what? The series seemed better for it. So I went back and watched it and boy I was not wrong.
Melbourne should have been 10-15 minutes of another episode really. It's just shore leave... nothing else really happens, they just do marine on leave things... there's a reason that every other war m'avoir doesn't devote an age to it. But yeah 10 mins or so would have been fine... just don't take up a whole episode when they were struggling to fit so much in. It's pretty irrelevant and slows the pace of everything down which adversely affects part four imho. Just skip it. I honestly don't know what they were thinking with this one.
Melbourne should have been 10-15 minutes of another episode really. It's just shore leave... nothing else really happens, they just do marine on leave things... there's a reason that every other war m'avoir doesn't devote an age to it. But yeah 10 mins or so would have been fine... just don't take up a whole episode when they were struggling to fit so much in. It's pretty irrelevant and slows the pace of everything down which adversely affects part four imho. Just skip it. I honestly don't know what they were thinking with this one.