re: Official history Channel Hatfield's & McCoy's mini series thread

Show pretty much lost my interest with the whole Romeo and Juliet part. And I know that was at least based on actual stuff that happened in the feud but it just rang kind of blah to me. Seen that kind of stuff before a million times in movies/tv.

And yeah, both sides have a lot of morons. I think because of Costner the Hatfields get a bit more sympathetic treatment.




- spoilers from reading up on the feud a little so don't proceed if you are historical spoiler adverse -




Hatfields pretty much owned the McCoys over all. I think in the end it comes down to the Hatfields have the $$ and the connections. And the competence that got them those things in the first place.

My whole family is from West Virginia...

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My whole family is from West Virginia...

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LOL

Tug Fork. Yeah.

And if the ending of the Romeo and Juliet story is historically accurate, I'm looking forward to it. It's a good twist. But I actually like the whole real life American Juliet thing. It's really cool and really sad, when you think about it.

Appalachia is definitely a different kind of southern in general. No one there gives a frick what others think. They remind me a lot of the cajuns. They don't care much for the law, and want to live off the land around them, making their shine, and going about their business.

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Here's the irony: the Hatfields were Confederates from West Virginia, a Union state, and the McCoys were Union loyalists from Kentucky, a Southern state.

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But wasn't R McCoy also a confederate? His brother, that was killed by Berenger in the beginning, fought for the Union.

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Also I feel like hatfield has his act together but the rest of his family doesn't. I also feel like the McCoy brothers are dumber than a box of rocks and the dad is not all there from the wall. I also think the lawyer is someone who is more responsible for all this crap than the others.

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That's the way it's depicted in this series. In reading about them I've learned that Anse Hatfield was mean, selfishly ruthless, and relatively wealthy (as defined in those hard days), while Randall McCoy was mean, illiterate, and desperately poor after the war. They both passed those traits down, especially the meanness. You combine this with the fact that they all lived practically on top of each other, it's easy to understand why they fought.

Like someone else said in this thread, there were others that were in the same situations and fought as well, just not as infamous as these two families.

I hope those crazy arse McCoys don't kill Jonesy, he wants to marry that girl.

Part one was good, can't wait for tomorrow night

Watched the first hour...missed the very first 15 minutes, forgot it was on.

One thing i noticed, the McCoy's are out manned.
Hatfields have Wyatt Earp,Curly Bill and Jake Taylor while the McCoys only have Morgan Earp.


Quote of the first hour. " i am prepared to do my duties as a wife but, i ask that you spend your seed outside. I can't bare another birth"

Yeah watching this show helps you understand the frickuppedness that is WV. Seriously, other than coal, what good has ever come out of that state?