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And you were expecting what? (reply)

Charles — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 13:49:04 +0000

Certainly not a historically accurate account of Texas Independence. Lonesome Dove was fiction loosely based on the lives of Oliver Loving and Charles Goodnight. Texas Rising is fiction loosely based on the events and people involved in Texas Independence.

There are things I am grateful for;

1. Santa Anna is shown as the cruel despot he was.
2. The Comanche are shown as the murdering raiders of homesteads they were.
3. Texans are shown as Americans in search of freedom from a despotic government as they were.

There are things I really don't like;

Jack Hays and Bigfoot Wallace are shown as bumbling hapless cartoon characters and they were certainly not that.

The story of Emily West/Morgan is all twisted up and entirely wrong.

Taken as a whole it is about a C+ fictional drama.

No sense boys getting spun up about it not being what it was never intended to be.

THEY LABEL IT IN THE BEGINNING AS (reply)

SIXGUNNER — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 12:59:36 +0000

DRAMATIC NOT HISTORIC. DON'T EVER EXPECT TO LEARN HISTORY FROM "HISTORIC MOVIES".

we barely made through one episode (reply)

bj — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 03:13:17 +0000

and knew better than to try watching any more

Ptooey... (reply)

uncowboy — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 16:36:31 +0000

I am let down by it.

Ptooey... (reply)

MR — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 03:21:10 +0000

http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/texas-rising/

Ptooey... (reply)

Boge Quinn — Sun, 31 May 2015 19:15:27 +0000

I had the highest of hopes, but couldn't get through the first episode.

The biggest absurdity for me (reply)

BC — Sun, 31 May 2015 18:03:08 +0000

is how the Deaf Smith character appears at multiple locations from scene to scene, including stopping at home for a quickie with his wife and a bit of gardening, all while rescuing orphans and stray dogs.

The dialog is worse than awful. Somehow I just knew that someone was going to exclaim "when you cut off the head of the snake, the body dies". I just didn't realize how quickly they would shoot that silver bullet.

The two dopey Junior Rangers were possibly the worst characters of the bunch. Their inclusion smacked of rotten cheese.

I kept comparing it to the silly/ridiculous Made For TV westerns and mini-series of the mid-70s to mid-80s. In truth, if that is what the network and producers were going for, they nailed it. They just need more feathered hair styles and muzak.

BTW it was filmed in Durango, Mexico (reply)

MR — Sun, 31 May 2015 17:32:09 +0000

The last thing I saw come out of the film industry that I thought was remotely accurate in place of just trying to sell advertiser time was Tora Tora Tora.

At least they got the Deguello as an actual bugle call rather than a melodic love ballad this time.

"with Sterling Haden hoping the US calvary shows up" (reply)

cas — Sun, 31 May 2015 16:25:14 +0000

Now THAT would be a twist, considering.

Ptooey... (reply)

JLF — Sun, 31 May 2015 15:54:03 +0000

Just bloody awful, so awful that I don't even know where to start. The Texas revolution was fought east of I-35, in rolling green farm and pastureland, interspersed with areas of dense forest. There was no "cowboy" desert, with vast cliffs and scenic views, only in the minds of Hollywood screenwriters. I kept expecting the Apaches to attack.

The Alamo had exactly *two* Black people, a volunteer's concubine, who was killed in the fighting, and W.B. Travis' personal slave, who Santa Ana spared to demonstrate his racial liberalism. Emily West, if she even did exist, was never anywhere near the Alamo, and had nothing to do with Houston, or the army.

Deaf Smith had *nothing* to do with the Texas Rangers, nothing of which even remotely existed until well after the Republic was formed. The thinking behind the Rangers, and their name, was of English origins, not Mexican.

That's just the high points. I've watched two episodes, but I fear the battle of San Jacinto may put my little TV in too much danger. No doubt it will be fought in the desert among towering cliffs, with Sterling Haden hoping the US calvary shows up in time to save them from the Apaches...

JLF

Entertaining with major points at least touched on (reply)

MR — Sun, 31 May 2015 15:13:44 +0000

I'm going to say there's a lot of dramatic license in the details. Before I would pass final judgement on it on other as entertainment, I would like to have stack reader privlidges and a few days in the locked-white gloves requried areas in the libraries at TAMU and UT.

"Texas Rising"

Drago — Sun, 31 May 2015 05:12:26 +0000

What say ye Texans?