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Re: What prevents you from getting down for a few hours of hardcore ga For me it's become a lack of motivation to play. I don't know what's happened to me, but I've kind lost the fire for gaming. Usually when I do play, after an hour or so, I've had enough for the day, and sometimes I may go...

I saw this evening, and it was ok. But frankly I didn't really see that it was all the different than the first one. Couldn't say which one I like better since they seem so interchangeable to me.

:lol: Clearly a subject that people are very interested in and very passionate about.

Wow, that really shocks me, not ever hearing of the Hatfields & McCoys I mean. And I don't mean as a historical event, I mean just in terms of a mythological American event. (That's not a swipe at you by any means by the way, I'm just really surprised by this.) But then I'm old, so maybe it's...

You quoted me so I don't know if that snide remark was aimed at me or not but I can assure you there's no spinning or apologizing on my part. What happened happened. The South started the war because the political and economic leaders wanted to protect their way of life which included slavery...

Wasn't talking about the South's motivations, but rather Lincoln's STATED motivations. As for the Union soldiers, I'm sure what you say is true about them. But it's also true that many Union soldiers were upset by the EP as they felt that's not what they had signed up for. THOSE soldiers were...

Not only that, but the information is not entirely accurate. The Union's fight originally was NOT against slavery. That didn't really happen until after the Battle Antietam and Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. At that point the war, from the Union viewpoint, took on a...

I gotta say that all seems unlikely but I know you're just quoting the book (it's not like any of us were there to see it in person.) Sounds like maybe they are taking some truth and twisting it to try to make some kind of point, whatever that might be I don't know. After reading your...

I think the subject matter accounted for some of the interest too. How many of us have at some point heard of the Hatfields & McCoys, and how many of us who'd heard of it really knew much about it? I'm a bit of a history buff and I'm ashamed to say I didn't really know much about it. I'm...

I guess I'm wondering what would have happened had the South not seceded and not brought on the war. If they said "Well we don't like Lincoln but we're standing pat with what we have," I'm not sure how long (if ever) it would have taken for the North to move against slavery, or how long it...

One has to wonder if the South didn't in fact accelerate the demise of slavery by seceding, and firing on Ft. Sumpter. Common theory is that slavery would have eventually ended anyway, but how many years would that have taken? Certainly not by 1865. By seceding, firing on Ft. Sumpter, and...

Yeah it was well done, many parts of it were reasonably accurate, and other parts were just pure horse manure. Not sure why they feel the need to do that, as somone said in the H&M thread, real history is interesting enough and it doesn't need embellishment or flat out fictional elements.

Well the positive thing I'm taking from it that they're at least talking about historical accuracy as a part of what they're doing, so I find that encouraging. But I'm a shade skeptical that they'll be able to "walk the walk" when it gets right down to it. It's Hollywood after all, and we...

Well they can rail all they want but if there's anything I learned about history, it is that if you get a dozen "experts" in a room, they'll give you a dozen different accounts of any given historical event. To this day, historians can't agree on what John Wilkes Booth yelled when he jumped...

I'm looking forward to this project and I'll definitely be watching, but I gotta say this line made me :rolleyes: a little. But I guess they have to get the hype machine going.

Wow, talk about life imitating art. I didn't watch the West Wing but I knew her character through Desperate Housewives. You know it occurred to me that she didn't look well as the series ended but I had no idea she really was suffering from lung cancer. I thought it was just her character arc...

Before they reran the entire mini-series yesterday, they had a 2 hour documentary featuring several historians and authors, narrated by Kevin Costner. After watching that documentary, I had a little more sympathy for the writers/producers in regards to accuracy. They had a segment discussing...

Oh I agree. I just think it will depend heavily upon the content and/or cast. I'm a little less optimistic than you that a Vikings mini-series will go over. That doesn't mean I'm against it, I hope it does well also and inspires more of this type of programming.

I don't know that will necessarily be true. I think the iconic nature of the most famous feud in American history had a lot to do with why people flocked to this mini-series. It was clearly a subject matter that peopel were interested in and wanted to learn more about. I don't know that's...

Could you elaborate on what was inaccurate about it, and recommend a good (i.e. accurate) book on the feud? Thanks.