并非'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.

到目前为止，如果"天空的主人"这部电视剧告诉观众什么事情的话，那就是不要把一个国宴的主厨送去执掌一个快餐厅，电视连续剧不是导演 Steven Spielberg 的菜。在120分钟的一部电影中，他轻而易举地拿出的专业技巧作为故事发展的润滑剂，在短短50分钟的一集电视剧中，因没有足够的时间而无法达到相同魔幻的效果。电视剧中他使用的电影手法的结果，更像是把正装宴会上的精巧开胃品递给一个等在快餐店drive-through 窗口的司机，他只是想要一个预制的汉堡和一些薯条，结果，他的努力因严重的错置而绝不会被认可和赞赏。
"天空的主人"前三集的故事不仅不新颖，还非常雷同，看了一集就等于看了三集。对编剧来说这是祝福还是噩梦有待商榷，但对导演 Steven Spielberg 来说，则是一个巨大的挑战，他努力试图在每一集中讲个不同的故事，但结果惨败。那些饰演飞行员的演员们，穿着相同的制服，其演技之拙劣一如故事之沉闷，无法给导演 Steven Spielberg 任何帮助，倒是非常成功地碾碎了观众试图区分故事中谁是谁的好奇心。最终，他们无法说服观众为执行任务的他们鼓劲的原因，恰恰也让观众明白了他们为何被送上天去遭受炮火的攻击。当前三集中他们无法掌控观众的耐心时，他们令人不信服的表演就远远无法与电视剧的名字，"天空的主人", 相匹配。
Steven Spielberg 是电影导演大拿，Tom Hanks 是名大腕演员，然而，这次两位大拿的结合却无法让轰炸机起飞。