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IS PAN AM RUNNING OUT OF FUEL ?

gregg75

gregg75

Last night's episode was down 27% from the previous week.
I have yet to get into the spy aspect.

The article author thinks it is a bit too much Forrest Grump........
............about placing these women in interesting times and places, almost like "Forrest Gump" with flight attendants. What it needs to do is focus on the characters and the conflicts between them. And it needs to start doing that soon or "Pan Am" might just be grounded.

I would like to see more action (hijackings, killer on board, tire bown out, rough weather, heart
attack in F-11, etc.).

http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2011/10/pan-am-drifting-off-course.html
 
I haven't watched the show since the first episode (and the nausea has subsided, thank you very much) but there was not much material in this show at the beginning unless it were a drama instead of a Playboy Club wannabee ("Oh, look at the cute stewardesses Clem!")

If I were a suit I would have combined Pam Am with Charlie's Angels and had the Angels fighting off those nasty spies and hihackers every week - all while showing conspicuous thigh and a bright smile.
 
gregg75 said:
I would like to see more action (hijackings, killer on board, tire bown out, rough weather, heart
attack in F-11, etc.).
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That's liable to make the boys in the Sales Division a wee bit nervous if this show starts
turning into the Airline Disaster of the Week.
 
Everyone talks about how this show is so much "better" than Playboy Club, but yet, I don't see it. Maybe NBC has a higher standard of what they consider "success" on their network?

I predict that Pan Am will stay on long enough to see JFK assassinated. It joins the growing ranks of TV shows set in the early '60s, apparently specifically so that they can relive the JFK assassination.
 
I wonder if anyone remembers what happened to the actuality series Airline on A&E by any chance.....

Cheers & 73 ;D
 
Airline stewardesses did not speak with slovenly grammar, i.e. "You should let me and my girlfriend show you around Berlin.". First of all, there was not "you should", and then "me" does not go first in proper speaking. I can actually almost hear an airline stewardess of the day, if - and that is a big if - they invited a passenger anywhere. That was also a time when a young lady did not ask a man out anywhere. It simply was not proper.

Perhaps my colleague and I can provide a tour of Berlin.

Again, the youthful operators demonstrate their lack of proper education while they write away.
 
Silkie said:
That was also a time when a young lady did not ask a man out anywhere. It simply was not proper.
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Not only didn't females ask a male out but if the airline found out the stews were diddling the passengers they would be immediately terminated.
 
Silkie said:
Again, the youthful operators demonstrate their lack of proper education while they write away.
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I'm surprised the twenty-something Pan Am "pilots" (like that was accurate) on the show
aren't displaying that "haven't shaved in two days" look.
 
oldiesfan6479 said:
I'm surprised the twenty-something Pan Am "pilots" (like that was accurate) on the show
aren't displaying that "haven't shaved in two days" look.
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Yeah. Pan Am, because they were mostly a long-haul international airline would have had the most senior pilots in the industry. That puts a natural crimp in story lines because Viagra hadn't been discovered yet so no innuendo with the cockpit crew. ;D

I like how they march in formation though. Sure this wasn't filmed in East Germany?
 
Anyone remember the 1978-1979 CBS series "Flyin' High" which was also about stewardesses/flight attendants and featured a young Connie Selleca as one of the stewardesses? It didn't last very long if I remember right.

If Pan Am doesn't improve by the end of the year, then I think that the show will be gone.
 
If the ratings remain as low as they are I don't see the show making it past sweeps in a couple weeks. If it gets yanked off before the end of October it may not come back again.
 
Is that the 18-49 ratings only, or is that all ratings? They need to clean up their writers out there if they're to have any hope of keeping anything on.

In short, if they are going to try to make a fortune on retro, learn about it. Lose the slovenly speech and grammar, lose the "like, you know", lose the "me and him", lose the caravan of travelers and hos appearance in an interview, and although they never learned it, try some etiquette and class, because the people who are interested in that era, i.e. those who were around, know the writers are a bunch of molly coddled little brats.

There is nothing nostalgic about the abuse of parts of speech; we don't even reminisce about the kid who never graduated from high school and ended up like Biff in Back To The Future, working a car wash line.

And the kids today who watch, do not see anything different from the ignorance they know today. Nothing old there, and nothing new there. Just fingernails dragging across a chalkboard.
 
I know there's another thread but if I post on it I have to read it and I don't have time. Lots of TV to watch tonight.

I like the show. Good music, pretty girls in pretty uniforms, Christina Ricci's attitude, seeing a world that I'm too young to remember.

I hope it lasts at least until Kennedy is assassinated. Poor Maggie will be heartbroken. But it will be interesting to see.
 
I watch it as well; otherwise, I would not know that a bunch of youthful operators are writing, without the benefit of the education that may or may not have been accorded them.
 
landtuna said:
Not only didn't females ask a male out but if the airline found out the stews were diddling the passengers they would be immediately terminated.
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And, in most if not all cases, immediate relatives were forbidden to work at an airlines! Under no circumstances would sisters be able to work on the same flight!!! Flying was considered a hazardous occupation back in the day. IIRC, there were several major airplance accidents every year back then (even though there was only a small fraction of the total number of flights that we have today). Oh yeah, those early jets were very NOISY -- you really had difficulty having normal conversations!
 
As far as Pan Am running out of fuel, the plane never left the airport.

I DVR the episode where the Pan Am crew flies to Berlin to see JFK speak at the wall. After viewing that one episode I've taken that show of my list of programs to record. There are far better shows on television than this.

ABC already deep-sixed Charlie's Angels, and I predict this show will soon follow the path to the TV graveyard.
 
I admit I didn't enjoy last night's episode as much as the others. But at least the girls were in swimsuits in one scene and some were two-piece. But the blonde girl's underwear was anything but sexy.
 
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