cbr said:

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everyone *****ing about the daughter/voiceover is baffling.

the accent may not be the very best, but not the worst.

the writing is good

the actress is smoking hot

and how anyone could not be intrigued by the intro, compared to the flashback is beyond me. I thought it was one of the most stunning openers to a TV series ever! Awesome!


watching her stand down a Cherokee warrior, pull a pistol and go berserk on the rest through a burning pile of scalped pilgrms, with a ****ing arrow stuck clean through her gut and stark white dress,

only to then flash back to the nave, shy young girl excited to be heading west with no clue what was coming her way....


i can't believe people are complaining about that.

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combat wombat said:

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It's "Hollywood" you expect them to get it even remotely correct?

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Ogre09 said:

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Anyone else getting West World vibes? The voice over narration, the music, the themes. I like it.

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SWC Ag said:

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ChipFTAC01 said:

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How the immigrants got to FW was a question raised at the beginning of the complaints about the show.

I was actually thinking about the rattlesnake to the bum the other day. I've never dealt with a rattlesnake bite. But I know it's not a mamba or anything. But now twice in the last few months Sheridan has treated a rattlesnake like it's a taipan and will drop someone on the spot.

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The rattlesnake in 1883 didn't drop the person in 30 seconds like it did the dude in Yellowstone. But the implication was it killed the immigrant….which given the setting, is far from unreasonable.

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SWC Ag said:

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Great episode. I just wish someone would tech Sam Elliot how to say "Brazos". "Brah-zos" makes me cringe everyone I hear it.

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wbt5845 said:

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SWC Ag said:

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Great episode. I just wish someone would tech Sam Elliot how to say "Brazos". "Brah-zos" makes me cringe everyone I hear it.

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My understanding is the pronunciation of that river has changed over the years. His pronunciation might be period correct.

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From Handbook of Texas Online, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/BB/rnb7.html

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The full name of the river, often used in Spanish accounts, is Los Brazos de Dios, "the arms of God." Many legends have grown up explaining the name. Probably the earliest is that Francisco Vzquez de Coronadoqv and his men wandering up the Llano Estacado were about to perish from lack of water when the Indians guided them to a small stream, which the men then named Brazos de Dios. Another account tells of a Spanish ship tossed about by a storm in the Gulf of Mexico that had exhausted its supply of drinking water. The sailors were parched with thirst, lost, and unable to determine which direction they should go to find land, when one of the crew noticed a muddy streak in the waters. The ship followed the streak's current to the mouth of a wide river on a great rise. The ship sailed up the river, and the sailors drank fresh water and were saved. In gratitude they christened the unknown stream Brazos de Dios. Another account fixes the naming of the stream in the 1760s, when an extreme drought made it impossible for the Spanish miners on the San Saba to work. They had heard that the drought was even worse toward the south. They headed toward the Waco Indian village where, according to reports, there was a never-failing stream. Many of the men and beasts died en route, and the precious bullion was buried, but the few who finally reached the stream named it Brazos de Dios. The last story, told to Albert Pikeqv in 1831, accounts for the reversal of the names of the Colorado and the Brazos.

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