The frontal nudity, bloodshed and occasional swearing doesn't bother me too much, but let's be accurate about the kind of swear words they used, OK? They seemed to be fairly truthful with most everything else in the series, so why not that?
First of all, the "c----sucker" word, and the "f---" word and "MF" word didn't come into the vernacular until the 20th Century, so the use of it in 1876 is totally inaccurate. The kind of swearing done was more the religious kind, damming God to those it was intended, to 'needed' fire and brimstone. So pa-leease, folks. Don't tell me that it was accurate. That's just a pile of misinformed BS.
I'm no prude but I think they used it to an excess here in order to appeal to a younger crowd who might well have avoided the western genre as a whole, thinking we were in for another round of "Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman" or "Little House On the Prairie". So by injecting this kind of language into the mix, it also tries to make itself stand out from other westerns. And it does, but not always to a positive degree, I'm afraid...
That being said, it does hold my interest. It has *the look* in accuracy that would fit right out of a Matthew Brady photograph, except for the opening titles to each episode which look too 2004 techno graphic for a period piece such as this. At least for my tastes.
I'll be seeing future episodes, but try not to fit 20th Century sensibilities into the 19th Century, OK? That's just rewriting history to suit some Hollywood hack's social agenda. A fairly common trend, nowadays.
Btw, that's my opinion and nobody else has to like it.
First of all, the "c----sucker" word, and the "f---" word and "MF" word didn't come into the vernacular until the 20th Century, so the use of it in 1876 is totally inaccurate. The kind of swearing done was more the religious kind, damming God to those it was intended, to 'needed' fire and brimstone. So pa-leease, folks. Don't tell me that it was accurate. That's just a pile of misinformed BS.
I'm no prude but I think they used it to an excess here in order to appeal to a younger crowd who might well have avoided the western genre as a whole, thinking we were in for another round of "Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman" or "Little House On the Prairie". So by injecting this kind of language into the mix, it also tries to make itself stand out from other westerns. And it does, but not always to a positive degree, I'm afraid...
That being said, it does hold my interest. It has *the look* in accuracy that would fit right out of a Matthew Brady photograph, except for the opening titles to each episode which look too 2004 techno graphic for a period piece such as this. At least for my tastes.
I'll be seeing future episodes, but try not to fit 20th Century sensibilities into the 19th Century, OK? That's just rewriting history to suit some Hollywood hack's social agenda. A fairly common trend, nowadays.
Btw, that's my opinion and nobody else has to like it.