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Offline rogwar

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John Adams series on HBO
« on: October 21, 2009, 11:07:34 PM »
I'm somewhat concerned about posting this because of a #14 but did any of you get to see the HBO series on John Adams? It's available for rent or to buy. This last week and a half traveling in Chile I brought the DVDs with me that I borrowed from a friend. Have been watching them on my laptop. Just finished the last one tonight. I have read several books that were about or included John Adams. This just brought some of the stories and that time period to life although a true, absolute historian might butcher the series. Very interesting and rewarding series to watch.

Please keep this thread away from a discussion of politics in the late 1700s because I wish to avoid a lock if at all possible.

What did you think of the series? If you have not seen it's worth renting.
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Re: John Adams series on HBO
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2009, 11:42:12 PM »
I thought it was a good series.
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Re: John Adams series on HBO
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2009, 12:10:54 AM »
One of the greatest minds (and I mean great) that I know told me he thought the series was the best ever done but not purely accurate (though close). I am so curious given that description I have to check it out and see if I can catch the discrepencies.
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Re: John Adams series on HBO
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2009, 01:45:22 AM »
My wife and I both really enjoyed the series.  Parts move a little slow, and it's not an action flick that will keep the kids attention, although it has it's dramatic moments.  For me, it had the effect of making people from my history lessons seem so much more real, and human, and less removed from our lives today.  Without getting political here, the series explores politics and competing ideologies that motivated the men that influenced our founding documents and became our first several presidents.  Mostly though, it was a human story of the really great courage of a deeply thoughtful man to rise to the challenge of his time at significant cost to himself and his family.  Fans of history should love it.

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Re: John Adams series on HBO
« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2009, 02:27:34 AM »
Who is John Adams?
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Re: John Adams series on HBO
« Reply #5 on: October 22, 2009, 02:48:15 AM »
That right there speaks volumns.  :old:
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« Reply #6 on: October 22, 2009, 03:12:04 AM »
John Adams and Ben Franklin were traveling into Boston from New York when the carriage they were riding in broke a wheel. Being only three miles from their destination they decided to proceed on foot but after reaching the graveyard at the outskirts of town Franklin needed a rest and leaned on the fence of the site as he noticed a new gravestone which read 'Here lies a Lawyer and an Honest Man.' At that point he turned to his friend and said:

"Look there Adams they have buried two men in one grave."
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Re: John Adams series on HBO
« Reply #7 on: October 22, 2009, 03:25:35 AM »
I caught it on showcase when it played here and while the pacing was a tad slow at times, I thought it was an excellent historical drama

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Re: John Adams series on HBO
« Reply #8 on: October 22, 2009, 09:30:08 AM »
Excellent mini-series.  Excellent.
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Re: John Adams series on HBO
« Reply #9 on: October 22, 2009, 09:34:36 AM »
Quote from: Chalenge on October 22, 2009, 02:48:15 AM
That right there speaks volumns.  :old:
Viewing history through HBO speaks volumes, asking a legit question.

Is he a famous American?
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Re: John Adams series on HBO
« Reply #10 on: October 22, 2009, 09:51:28 AM »
Are you trolling or just that stupid?
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« Reply #11 on: October 22, 2009, 10:00:40 AM »
Must be People in Britain know little.
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Re: John Adams series on HBO
« Reply #12 on: October 22, 2009, 10:30:47 AM »
Well heck, you could have just googled it up a few posts ago as well instead of this path.  One would think people in Britain would know that much.
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Re: John Adams series on HBO
« Reply #13 on: October 22, 2009, 10:48:36 AM »
Quote from: zack1234 on October 22, 2009, 02:27:34 AM
Who is John Adams?
To you he would be an insurgent. :D
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« Reply #14 on: October 22, 2009, 10:52:27 AM »
John Adams is the guy that was going around advocating freedom from the tyrant you people called a king.
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