There is no doubt that World On Fire has had a handsome amount of money thrown at it, but one wishes that an equal amount of effort could have been put in to making the storylines logical. In episode three, the character of Tom was portrayed as being involved in a naval battle that he could not possibly have been present at, on a ship - the HMS Exeter - that he could not have served in. In this episode, the two Polish soldiers on the run have somehow managed to find their way across Europe from Poland to France (through a snow-covered forest in May), and met up with a contingent of British troops there. There is no explanation in the script about how they could have possibly achieved this. Are we meant to assume that they walked across two German borders and through the front lines of the German offensive in France? If the writers want us to believe in the storylines of this drama, then they should at least give the viewers some credit for knowing what was, and wasn't, possible for their characters to do in the first year of the Second World War.
Review of Episode #1.4
