re: Texas Rising

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.