the new Roots (spoilers)

[skippercollector]

I have been very impressed with the remake of Roots, but I have several questions about it.
The two hours Monday night and half of the Tuesday night program were about Kunta. It's been decades since I've seen the original miniseries or read the book, but there were a lot more subplots that I don't remember from the 1970s. I don't remember in either the book or show that Kunta was an excellent horseman; that he was captured by another tribe who hated the Kintes and that the other tribe sold him to the English, not just that he was captured by the English directly; that there was an Amisted-like rebellion that failed on the slave ship; and that he later attempted to join the British Army in America.
I read in one of the newspaper articles that many more details about him and his family on both sides of the Atlantic, and also the plantation owners, now are known than Alex Haley could have learned about in the 1970s. It sounds like since Roots originally aired in 1977, many people, both white and black, many of them distant cousins, had contacted him with their own family stories. But did all I just listed actually take place?
The other comment that I've read was by Mark Wolper, son of the original series' producer David Wolper, who had said that he'd watch the 1977 version and that that version "just didn't speak to him." But none of the articles ever elaborated on what that meant. Was it something as mundane as the lack of CGI, the lack of cynicism, the 1970s hairstyles (all of which I've read make past programming unwatchable to many Millennials), or was it something deeper and more important?

[skippercollector]

1. episodes 1, 2 and 4

I enjoyed episodes 1, 2 and 4 of the new version of Roots. I could not get into episode 3. Part of the problem was that I couldn't hear some of the conversations in that episode! It seemed like the characters were really mumbling at times and I kept missing what they were saying, so I was having trouble following their lines of thought.
Episode 1, as I said before, was about Kunta. Episode 2 was half about Kunta and the other half about his daughter Kizzy. Episodes 3 and 4 were about Kizzy's son Chicken George. One detail about 4 that really struck me was that it had the most realistic fighting in the woods in the Civil War that I had ever seen, not just the artillery or the blood, but the way the characters looked, both in their dress and in their fear.