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Posted on 5/25/15 at 9:06 pm to mgdtiger
Gator Davis Beauregard? lulz
Posted on 5/25/15 at 9:16 pm to tWildcat
There he is.
Posted on 5/25/15 at 10:06 pm to tWildcat
Posted on 5/25/15 at 11:55 pm to peaster68
Damn, Bill Paxton is all over the history channel this week. He was on the Hatfields and McCoys and Tombstome, both of which played yesterday, and now this.
Posted on 5/26/15 at 12:06 am to peaster68
Looking forward to this as well
Posted on 5/26/15 at 11:10 am to Ostrich
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South Texas does quite look like a barren desert.
I am about 30 minutes into the first episode. It is hard to get past how horribly inaccurate the geography is so far. They could have at least made an effort to find a location that looks similar the area of Texas where these events happened.
Also, when was Emily West ever at the Alamo? That is a new development.
Posted on 5/26/15 at 8:53 pm to GetCocky11
Does anyone know who the old man that keeps popping up is? I'm talking about the one that crawled out of the pit with burning bodies at the Alamo.
Posted on 5/26/15 at 8:56 pm to REB BEER
Not really sure. Ray Liotta is the actor.
Posted on 5/26/15 at 9:45 pm to tWildcat
Accuracy clearly isn't the goal here
Posted on 5/26/15 at 10:16 pm to BatonrougeCajun
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Accuracy clearly isn't the goal here
Or good directing, or good acting from good actors. About 30 minutes into the first episode and it's pretty terrible so far.
Posted on 5/26/15 at 10:28 pm to guedeaux
I'm a huge Texas history buff and I told my wife I don't think I can do 10 hours
Just finished episode 1 and good god the acting was so wooden and bad. I just don't get why they need 10 hours on this?
I hate to bail but I've got a list a mile long of shite to watch
Just finished episode 1 and good god the acting was so wooden and bad. I just don't get why they need 10 hours on this?
I hate to bail but I've got a list a mile long of shite to watch
Posted on 5/26/15 at 10:41 pm to peaster68
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It is set to be DVR'd just in case I can't get to it.
I set this up over a week ago and was really looking forward to it.
Could not believe how bad last night's episode was.
Just finished the 2nd episode and it got worse.
It's like some mixture of the worst of Phil Donahue, Tex Ritter, 3 Stooges, Fred Flintstone, and the Dukes of Hazzard.
I am in awe of its banality. A good story wasted
Posted on 5/26/15 at 10:58 pm to ChineseBandit58
10 hours on the Texas Revolution and they skip over all of the buildup and reasons for it, the Battle of Gonzales with the cannon and "Come and Take It", and of course the Alamo complete with awesome characters like Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and William Travis. Why skip all of this? Well, they needed to add boring made up sidelines about moronic side characters that do nothing but be terrible actors.
I especially liked the scene in the desert town of Nacodoches and the high plains of South Central Texas,
It's a fantastic story and yet no one seems to be able to tell it worth a damn.
I especially liked the scene in the desert town of Nacodoches and the high plains of South Central Texas,
It's a fantastic story and yet no one seems to be able to tell it worth a damn.
Posted on 5/27/15 at 4:07 am to aggressor
History has produced some decent TV when they try.
This unfortunately is a disappointment. I watched a little, noted the bad acting and terribly inaccurate scenery. Couldn't take it anymore.
This unfortunately is a disappointment. I watched a little, noted the bad acting and terribly inaccurate scenery. Couldn't take it anymore.
This post was edited on 5/27/15 at 4:11 am
Posted on 5/27/15 at 5:15 am to TejasHorn
I can't get over their need to add comic relief situations. Why would they think this is a good idea?
Posted on 5/27/15 at 6:26 am to GetCocky11
With the bad acting, script and music selections being so terrible it comes across almost as a spoof. Like Monty Python goes west.
Posted on 5/27/15 at 6:41 am to TejasHorn
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terribly inaccurate scenery
What - you didn't like the cliffs overlooking the Brazos and the Sn Jacinto rivers??? or the three waterfalls cascading into the green pool down by Goliad??? Or the mountain scenery in East Texas???
This thing is a colossal 'screw you' to any student of history or Texas
Posted on 5/27/15 at 6:49 am to peaster68
I watched it last night and it was a massive disappointment...at first. Then, I realized that it was a gay parody and all the shirtless dudes bathing, the comical accents, the insane geography, and the fact that the only Texans capable of killing anyone are over-acting Ray Liota and that one random Native American dude who was seemingly undercover with Santa Anna's army for like 6 months. Seriously? Did no one notice that guy wasn't one of them that whole time when he kept just randomly killing people?
The only character so far that's worth a damn is Santa Anna. I have to say, the actor playing him nails it and completely owns every scene he's in. Everyone else just looks like some kind of character from "Blazing Saddles".
After Ray Liota's devil speech, I just kept expecting them to follow that up with:
"Wow! Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age!"
The only character so far that's worth a damn is Santa Anna. I have to say, the actor playing him nails it and completely owns every scene he's in. Everyone else just looks like some kind of character from "Blazing Saddles".
After Ray Liota's devil speech, I just kept expecting them to follow that up with:
"Wow! Not only was it authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age!"
This post was edited on 5/27/15 at 6:52 am
Posted on 5/27/15 at 8:08 am to kingbob
I liked how the Karankawa Indians (in episode 1, they were attacking the Alamo women survivors) became masters of the horse even though they were a coastal tribe.
History Channel is getting demolished on social media. Not that it matters.
History Channel is getting demolished on social media. Not that it matters.
This post was edited on 5/27/15 at 8:19 am
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