Posted on 01/26/2015 11:05:56 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Okay, it wasn't quite as bad as "Sam Adams: Vampire Hunter" but it was close. I am referring to the History channel's series "The Sons of Liberty" in which the real life Sam Adams, who was a middle-aged portly guy by the time of the opening scene in 1765, comes off as a young athletic urban ninja hopping up to the rooftops of Boston to evade arrest by British troops. And that was just one of the many laughable inaccuracies of the History channel's presentation of the era leading up to the American Revolution.
Although one can easily get the sense that history was often left by the wayside just by watching it, several websites have pointed out the numerous historical inaccuracies of the series. Journal of the American Revolution is among those sites listing the many, many inaccuracies of this series. For the sake of brevity, we shall only look at the glaring errors of only the first episode:
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H seems to be produced by and for perpetual adolescents.
I watched 4 minutes of it before I turned off. I was so disappointed. :(
I think that within 5 minutes, Sam Adams cussed.
I’m surprised they didn’t get Chumlee from Pawn Stars to play Sam Adams, whoa dude I get to drink beer all day, cool.
I usually read my history.
Mr. Mercat was watching it last night while I was doing an eye treatment so I didn’t watch, only listened. Horrible accents. I could tell that the ages were wrong. So after treatment I left.
My great x4 grandfather was at St. John’s Church when Patrick Henry gave his speech, he and 4 of his brothers signed up as Minute Men right afterwards, he served in the war and guarded prisoners for Layfayette.
He was born in 1748 in Hanover County, VA near Patrick Henry and died in 1850 in Macon County, TN at the age of 102 where he had claimed his 2,000 acre war acreage and our relatives still live there.
His grandfather died at 99, his father at 88, his son at 96.
My father died in 2011 at 93.
Might could be - Hope was English and Welsh - but Revere’s dad was a Frenchman.
“Mark Twain hopped from rooftop to rooftop for sport as a (crazy) young man in Virginia City, Nevada”
Except Sam was born in 1722 and in 1765 he would have been 43 years old. I look at this series the way I look at Pizza Hut. It’s not bad if you accept the fact it’s not pizza. This isn’t bad if you accept the fact that it’s not history. Better off finding Disney’s Johnny Tremain. Great speech by James Otis.
Why is Sam Adams throwing down gang signs?
I like Georgio Tsoukalos He is a very intelligent man who had devoted his life to the study of “Ancient Aliens”.
Even if it is a farce it is better than watching Pawn Star reruns for 6-8 hours in a row. I can’t remember when I actually saw something on History Channel that was actually historical. Even reruns of World War II shows would be more entertaining.
Yes I am really getting tired of “tattooed guys in Las Vegas”
The first few times I watched “Pawn Stars”, it was pretty good but it gets old fast. I never did like “American Pickers”
About the best thing which can be said about them is they must be extremely cheap to produce. I would guess only a few hundred dollars per episode.
No, really.
Verdicts of History I: The Boston Massacre.
If Quincy persuaded a witness to identify the tall, red-cloaked speaker in Dock Square (Samuel Adams was short, but Will Molineux, his right-hand man, was tall), the Liberty boys in wrathful self-defense would have almost certainly unleashed the mob, jammed the courtroom, and created the kind of atmosphere that had convicted Richardson.A great series from back when American Heritage was edited by Bruce Catton and Oliver Jensen and was truly the best history magazine going.
Except that, with “Vikings”, there are not a whole lot of actual facts available, so they can do a “best guess” in the more historical parts, and a “what if” for the rest.
Stones music. Gag me.
The “Opening Titles” music in the “John Adams” series is on my playlist and is one of the most stirring, emotional pieces I’ve heard in years. It is an amazing composition by Rob Lane and Joseph Vitarelli.
If SOL doesn’t have music of that caliber, then scratch it off my watch list.
Nice post.
Rubbish.
I guess Dr. Warren must by Fauxahauntus’s non-Indian side of the family!
This is why it is critically important we produce “Patriot’s History” the video version. A couple of Freepers have already joined this project, as has Nick Searcy from “Justified.” Take a look at the trailer and see if it interests you: www.rockinthewallstudios.com under Projects: In Development.
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