I agree about Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Super place.
Bob
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 29, 2009, at 8:25 AM, "
[email protected]" <
[email protected] > wrote:
>
> Great episodes, great basic information on the creating of the parks,
> great photography. I am amazed at so many times in our countries past
> we have had so farseeing and intelligent people in the right places at
> the right time to initiate and move agendas against the grain of the
> powers that be of their times. Spent the weekend camping in the ND
> badlands near the site of Roosevelts Elkhorn Ranch on the Little
> Missouri, can't get any
better.
>
> On Sep 28, 12:36 pm, JennyNYC <
[email protected]> wrote:
>> ENTS,
>>
>> Did anyone watch episode 1? Time to let someone else make
>> documentaries about American life. Loved Baseball, Civil War, The
>> Donner Party, and New York...but this? The writing was poor for the
>> most part and the information imparted was superficial. The
>> cinematography was expensively bland and can he please find a new
>> Native American music soundtrack? He's used the same chants in so
>> many
>> shows already. And I knew he was going to use "bad guy vs. good guy"
>> to interpret history instead of doing in-depth research.
>>
>> However, Peter Coyote was great as
narrator.
>>
>> I actually found myself thinking that I didn't really need to visit
>> Yosemite or Yellowstone after all... (I will, of course, but I just
>> got so sick of the nonstop Ken Burns Effect camera panning of the
>> geysers and waterfalls and dome rocks etc....)
>>
>> I needed a good bout of righteous indignation.
>>
>> Jenny
> >