Reminder: The History Channel's The Story of Us is up next w/ Intro by Obama

[charlie and algernon]

9pm EST

Looks really awsome. I've been waitingn for this since the previews first came out.

[charlie and algernon]

1. pretty nice intro by Obama

[david13]

2. I am wondering about the 'us' business. dc

[charlie and algernon]

3. what do you mean? sounds like "Us" equals current Americans

[alarimer]

13. White men, mostly,according to one review I read.

Very few women historians interviewed at all; the only women interviewed seemed to be celebrities like Ann Coulter.

Also, lots of celebrities in general. The general sense I got is that it is just typical light-weight treatment from the Hitler channel.

[Sebastian Doyle]

4. Can't say I'd expect too much from the Hearst-story channel

Anything they have produced regarding historical events of the last 50 years is very biased towards the right wing sanctioned version of those events, so I don't expect them to handle more distant history any better.

Too bad there isn't a real "History Channel" NOT owned by a corporation whose very existence is based on right wing hack "jounalism" for the benefit of the robber barons.

[Love Bug]

5. "Bank of America Channel" is more like it

The program lost me in the first 45 minutes when they started having people like Donald Trump and Michael Douglas commenting. What the hell do they know about American history that the rest of us didn't also learn in history class? I'd rather hear from educators and historians. Also, the BoA commercials are hard to distinguish from the show. Imagine that.

I was looking forward to this but I'm changing the channel. I think I'm getting just too cynical to enjoy tv anymore...

[charlie and algernon]

6. I like the premise, but yeah, the BoA commericals are a bit off putting

I like the reenactments they are doing, but I wish they weren't moving so fast. I'd like to see an in-depth 30-50 episode series covering EVERYTHING from the 1600s through Dubya. But we may in fact need a true history channel before we get a series like that.

[Love Bug]

7. I agree. Ken Burns this is not.

It took Ken Burns a week just to tell us about the Civil War. This new series is an ambitious one but I, too, would prefer something more in-depth.

I did enjoy watching Pawn Stars first, tho. I like looking at the stuff that comes in but I have to ask: is Chumly really that dumb or is he putting on an act?

[charlie and algernon]

10. Heh, PBS needs to hold a MASSIVE fundraiser so Ken Burns can do a full American History series

I would LOVE to see Ken Burns tackle the 400 or so years of American History. It would probably take him 3 years to show it all, but I'd watch every episode.

[Love Bug]

11. And it would probably take three years of pledge drives to fund it!

:crazy:

[RandomThoughts]

8. History Channel is a joke, I was watching some show on pilgrims

They had the guy that played Gordon Gecko from Wall Street movie, making a sly pro capitalism comment.

Then later in the show, ignored the part about anger at taxes from Britain was because of lack of representation.

Then through in the crap about it being during the mini ice age, the no global warming argument created to go back just to the point where temperatures were recorded, so they can say it without evidence.



And the rich colonial revolutionaries were wealthy, but they were not all greedy.

[charlie and algernon]

9. hah, you mean you didn't know that the whole damn thing started

because Hancock wanted to hide his wine?? :rofl:

My biggest peeve was the total glossing over of the constitutional process from 1781-1789. They go from winning Yorktown to saying Washington became president in the NEXT sentence. NO mention at all of the Articles of Confederation or the ENTIRE constitutional convention in Philly. They could and SHOULD have devoted an entire two hour episode on the period between Yorktown through 1789. Those 7 years after the war are perhaps the most important 7 years in our history and they get BARELY a mention.

[Love Bug]

12. Well, they are condensing 234 years of history down to 10 hours.

Somethin's gotta give ya know! :spank: