And you were expecting what?
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.
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- "Texas Rising" -
Drago,
2015-05-31, 00:12
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- Entertaining with major points at least touched on - MR, 2015-05-31, 10:13
- Ptooey... -
JLF,
2015-05-31, 10:54
- "with Sterling Haden hoping the US calvary shows up" - cas, 2015-05-31, 11:25
- BTW it was filmed in Durango, Mexico - MR, 2015-05-31, 12:32
- The biggest absurdity for me - BC, 2015-05-31, 13:03
- Ptooey... - Boge Quinn, 2015-05-31, 14:15
- Ptooey... -
MR,
2015-05-31, 22:21
- Ptooey... - uncowboy, 2015-06-01, 11:36
- we barely made through one episode - bj, 2015-06-01, 22:13
- THEY LABEL IT IN THE BEGINNING AS - SIXGUNNER, 2015-06-03, 07:59
- And you were expecting what? - Charles, 2015-06-05, 08:49