"Texas Rising" Topic

Well we have a new program on the "History" Channel that is not, Wrestling, Ice Road Trucks, Pawn Stars or Ancient Aliens. This has put them out of their comfort zone and have given us a programme on Texas independence, written by the person who gave us such an "historically accurate" masterpiece on the 'Hatfields and McCoys". Knowing this, here is a review which I thought fair:

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Yeah. I don't care about the politics, I just thought the acting was atrocious.

The Reviewer seems to have a political bias and agenda. However, what he said in the review comes close to what I thought this mini-series would be like. Can't believe you don't have the Alamo.

Right. The Anglos got all the good parts of Mexico. The parts with the roads.

Can't believe you don't have the Alamo.

One would think that if you wanted viewership, you might open with a BANG (literally and figuratively). I guess they want this to be the "thinking man's" revolution.

Read the first line of the "fair" review and clicked off.
Your idea of fair differs from mine.

Was the first review for the show or current American politics?

My review poorly written, poorly acted, still better the anything else on in the time slot (mostly reruns).

I expect to watch it complete tonight.

Other points:

I don't miss another retelling of the Alamo, so I happy they left it out.

I suspect that if it was edited down to one movie and not a mini-series it may have been better.

They had a show last week called The Road to Texas Rising.
That was where the story of the Alamo was told. It was the prelude to the miniseries.

Awful…so far just my opinion,confusing and messy,.

I'll give it a look.

The History Channel made a less than stellar show? I'm shocked.

Just watched the first 10 minutes. Been to Gonzales and don't remember any cliffs like that! Clothes look right, though, good inspiration for painting.

I watched it last night, and thought it was pretty decent.

On again tonight (repeat from yesterday), plus another new two-hour segment.

Don't really know about TX' history, so can't comment on accuracy.

I too was a bit surprised by all the mountains being shown in the show.

You may find it interesting while the actors may be mainly American the show is actually a Canadian production and filmed entirely in Durango Mexico

From a period authenticity standpoint, the artifacts
and clothing are pretty good EXCEPT for the
stagecoaches used to evacuate civilians.

From a technical standpoint, the sound is terrible.
Where they have subtitles (mostly place names introducing
a scene) they are using yellow characters on beige [dust]
backgrounds – very difficult to read !

OTOH, at least they are TRYING to broadcast a story
about an historical event, so E for effort in any case.

Most of the clothing is incorrect . Santa Anna is terrible (should'nt have a mustache ), The guy playing him acts more like a drug dealer . He also didnt pick up the sport of cock fighting until much later in life when he was in exile . Terrible writing ,terrible acting most of the story is fatasy . One of the worst things Ive seen in a long time . Note ; Im normaly much nicer about the history Hollywood puts out because I understand they just dont know any better or they have a agenda . But this film should be burned before our kids think any of this garbage is history .

The geography is dire, just dreadful. That alone sinks it for me. As a resident of central Texas who is familiar with east, north, and south Texas as well, the areas where this sad fantasy pretends to be set.

Bad acting, bad writing, bad direction, bad accuracy… Just plain BAD. Another 'brilliant' production from the 'History' (or is that 'Hysterical') channel….

Oh, the one GOOD thing about this 'thing'? It ends (but not nearly soon enough)…

I watched Part II last night. Or I should say that I watched part of Part II last night. It was not quite as bad as I thought it would be, but it was certainly bad enough to turn it off after an hour or so.

As a Texan, I have to agree with piper909. The locations used are so awful and historically incorrect that I simply can't continue to plod through this one. Bring on Pawn Stars!

Bring on Pawn Stars

I rather like Pawn Stars…except for the silly back story schlock of the characters involved. The stuff that comes through there makes the show pretty interesting.

It was a better show when they didn't waste time with all of the back story/character crap.

A third for Piper909's comments. The areas shown have as much relevance to history as the characters. Still, at least it has "Texas" in the title.

I agree with all the negatives. One positive. No lever action rifles or revolvers. They do have fast loading flintlocks, however, even on horseback. I liked the ranger with the bow. Reminds me of the British (maybe English) general who during Napoleonic wars wanted to rearm troops with long bows for faster rate of shooting.