Into the West

[Caitlyn]

Is anyone planning on watching Into the West (http://www.tnt.tv/itwtc/0,,1101000,00.html) starting June 10th on TNT?

[Sedai]

Yup, Michelle and I are all over that, but you might have guessed that with me ;)

[susan]

yes maam...i am looking forward to it...

[chicagofrog]

i would if i could. :(

[Piddzilla]

Looks like he's adapting the "Band of Brothers" concept to the Old West. I'm intrigued and I hope and believe one of the swedish TV channels will buy it.

[uconjack]

I am definitely watching it.

[Aniko]

Thanks for postiing it Caity. With the end of school comming up, work and other life stuff, I didn't know about it. I'll make sure to check it out. :)

[7thson]

This looks promising, I love a good Western made for TV...Gunsmoke was great!

[Caitlyn]

The more I read about this, the more interested I am in seeing it… and am looking forward to some comments from all of you during and after… :)

Piddy, I hope you do get to see it… and Froggy, hopefully you'll be surprised… ;)

[Pyro Tramp]

Wow, Gary Busey!

Gee, if only i lived in America, would be a treat to use in my media exam as well

[Sedai]

Starts tonight, right?

[Caitlyn]

Starts tonight, right?


Tonight it is... I think they are showing it twice back to back... and then a couple more times this week-end... :)

[Sedai]

Great stuff...

I also loved the little homage to Close Encounters.... Will tune in again next week...

[Caitlyn]

Great stuff...


Definitely… so far they've done a great job on this… :)

[Sedai]

watched part II this weekend. So far, it's been an interesting series. I tend to find myself waiting for the Indian sections, as they are more interesting to me. Thunder-Heart Woman is a great character, as well as the Lakota boys. I did think they telegraphed the surprises in the second insallment, and I saw them all coming. The first episode kept me guessing but for instance:

The death of the two Wheeler girls, one in the river, the other after a wagon accident. I saw these things coming because of the not-so-subtle direction in this episode. When Rachel got hurt, it was so obvious, all watching were yelling at the screen, "The winch is going to break, best not stand in front of the wagons girl!!"

Regardless, minor quibbles with an otherwise fantastic historical adventure. It is quite sad in places, as well....

We shall be tuning in thius week for Episode III.

[susan]

i agree with you sedai.....i did buy the book, but i have yet to look through it tho...

[Caitlyn]

I missed the second episode... :( but hopefully they will show it again sometime this week...

[John McClane]

I only caught the first episode. I thought it was good. However, I won't be catching the rest of the episodes. I will see them when they hit DVD.

[Caitlyn]

I never could catch the 2nd episode this past week, but I did watch the 3rd... (I wanted to strangle that so-called interpreter... :mad: )


Susan, have you had a chance to check out the book yet?

[susan]

yes i have...if you've missed any of the episodes this does a great job in explaining them....

[Caitlyn]

yes i have...if you've missed any of the episodes this does a great job in explaining them....


Thanks... I have to make a run to the store in a bit so I'll see if I can find it... :)

[susan]

caity were you able to get the book at all??

[Caitlyn]

caity were you able to get the book at all??


Yes... but haven't had time to look through it yet. I was a little surprised that it isn't any thicker then it is though...

[susan]

it explains everything and is easy to pick up where you missed...

i was surprised to see one in the bookstore myself...hope that you like it

[Sedai]

Well, I passed out and missed the last 45 minutes of this weeks episode. Anyone care to fill me in? Here is where I left off:

Light Shines finding Jacob was the last thing I remember. I saw Jethro drown trying to get the gold, and the last I saw of Dog Star, his brother was showing him the vista with the smoke infringing on their land.

[Caitlyn]

Well, I passed out and missed the last 45 minutes of this weeks episode. Anyone care to fill me in?



It should be on again sometime this week... sure you don't want to try to catch it again first? And if not, as I recall, Susan is a writer so would be much better at catching you up then I would be... :yup:

[Sedai]

Unfortunately, there are only three showings per week of the show, and the last showing was last night. According to the TNT site anyway. I shall await Susan to fill me in... :)

[susan]

okay...i hope this works...this is the website...when you get there click on episodes...it will catch you up on everything you need to know about it...it lists all 6 episodes...

here (http://alt.tnt.tv/itw/#)

i had no idea this even existed until now...

[Caitlyn]

Thanks Susan… when I first checked that site, the episode links only gave the name of each episode and what date it was airing…

[Sedai]

Thans Susan. I am all caught up now. :) I had gone to the site, but only glaced the splash page, and didn't dig too deep.

[Caitlyn]

You guys still watching? What did you think about the way they handled Custer and the Little Big Horn?

[susan]

i thought that they did a pretty good job of it...