Anybody watching "Texas Rising"?

[trof]

REMEMBER THE ALAMO!
RALLY THE RANGERS!

[Brother Buzz]

1. I remember the Alamo

[Skittles]

3. me too

[rurallib]

2. Why watch history channel?

it stinks

[kentauros]

4. Well, last night I was watching the water rising outside of my apartment

here in Texas (Houston)

[alarimer]

5. I forgot the Alamo.

It's why I had to leave Texas. They take that stuff seriously.

[Sancho]

6. I was sort of watching it...got a little bored with the fighting...

so I turned to the ice hockey playoffs. How there's some real fighting!

[Bucky]

7. As a proud Texan and a history teacher, I was eager to watch it

I had to turn it off after 10 minutes. It was utterly horrible. Not just bad history, but bad acting, bad cinematography, and piss poor research to boot. Whoever shot this has never been to Texas and it utterly unfamiliar with the terrain where these events took place, has no working knowledge of how amateur military men would have acted in the 1830s, and suffers from a downright racist understanding of Indian culture.

It was utter garbage. I cry for the electrons that were wasted in broadcasting that silliness.

[trof]

8. That was my take too.

meh

[Avalux]

9. Texas Rising is to the History Channel what Mermaids are to Animal Planet.

Living where I do, was curious about the miniseries, so decided to watch the horrid mess of a....whatever it is. First - it's filmed out in the Big Bend area, hundreds of miles from here. The terrain is nothing like San Antonio.

Second - the characters and acting suck. The whole thing sucks. I turned it off after about 20 minutes.

[johnsolaris]

11. Mexico

Hi,

Most of the show was filmed in Durango, Mexico. That is the same place where the Wild Bunch was filmed, a poor stand-in for San Antonio. No doubt the History Channel received Tax breaks & cheaper labor cost for filming in Mexico & of course not having to deal with those pesky American union workers.

[Avalux]

12. Thanks for the info.

I wasn't sure where it was filmed; looked to me like far west Texas but northern Mexico is pretty much the same. 20 miles east of San Antonio? Definitely not.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

10. I was excited about The Alamo when I was a little kid

When I was five, my dad was transferred by the Air Force to San Antonio for one year. My mom took me to see the real thing several times. Also, it was the year that Disney ran the Alamo movie on TV with Davey Crockett in the 1950s. I also saw it in the theater and Fess Parker and Buddy Ebsen came on stage dressed in their period clothes and half the kids were wearing coon skin caps in the audience. including me. I think my appetite for seeing the Alamo re-enacted was satisfied. I did like the John Wayne version of the Alamo from 1960, particularly for the incredibly beautiful, breathtaking music.

[Paladin]

13. I checked around: not even my right-wing Texan acquaintances are watching it.

It's that bad.

[sakabatou]

14. I like historical* dramas