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  • $$***IcingOnDaCake***$$
    Rookie
    • Mar 2008
    • 40

    #31
    Re: John Adams: HBO Miniseries

    Hmm might check this out.
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    • JayBee74
      Hall Of Fame
      • Jul 2002
      • 22989

      #32
      Re: John Adams: HBO Miniseries

      Originally posted by $$***IcingOnDaCake***$$
      Hmm might check this out.
      You should. I was skeptical at first but after watching the first TWO episodes I can tell you you're not wasting your time. Check out why the "sins of slavery" part of "The Declaration Of Independence" originally penned by Thomas Jefferson, was taken out. Very informative, very entertaining series.

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      • ZB9
        Hall Of Fame
        • Nov 2004
        • 18387

        #33
        Re: John Adams: HBO Miniseries

        Originally posted by JayBee74
        Never saw "Rome" but I really liked the first episode. Never realized Adams defended the RedCoats in the Boston Massacre trial. I wonder how much focus will be paid to his son John Quincy, an eventual President?
        it will probably focus on him quite a bit i would think. In the upcoming episode, i believe is when Adams and Franklin go to France. John Quincy goes with them. While in Europe, John Quincy becomes quite a factor.
        Last edited by ZB9; 03-23-2008, 08:08 PM.

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        • JayBee74
          Hall Of Fame
          • Jul 2002
          • 22989

          #34
          Re: John Adams: HBO Miniseries

          Really getting into the history of the Revolutionary War because of this series (Just started Part 3).

          By 1775 the British had authority over the pink and red area (Red obviously the 13 colonies), while Spain ruled the orange. By 1776 the population of the 13 "United States" was just under 2.5 million.

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          • Brandon13
            All Star
            • Oct 2005
            • 8915

            #35
            Re: John Adams: HBO Miniseries

            Originally posted by ZB9
            first episode was good imo, but the second episode was one of the best episodes ever on television.
            I watched it this morning and have to agree that it was amazing. The guy that's playing George Washington looks so much like him it's unbelievable.

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            • catcatch22
              Or should I
              • Sep 2003
              • 3378

              #36
              Re: John Adams: HBO Miniseries

              Originally posted by sven
              If you compare everthing you watch to Rome you're gonna be disappointed an awful lot man.
              I can always hope. However that last episode of John Adams was pretty good, looking foward to the rest.

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              • JayBee74
                Hall Of Fame
                • Jul 2002
                • 22989

                #37
                Re: John Adams: HBO Miniseries

                Originally posted by Brandon13
                I watched it this morning and have to agree that it was amazing. The guy that's playing George Washington looks so much like him it's unbelievable.
                David Morse plays Washington.

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                • CS10029
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                  • Feb 2004
                  • 4616

                  #38
                  Re: John Adams: HBO Miniseries

                  Originally posted by JayBee74
                  David Morse plays Washington.
                  What else has he been in?
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                  • JayBee74
                    Hall Of Fame
                    • Jul 2002
                    • 22989

                    #39
                    Re: John Adams: HBO Miniseries

                    Originally posted by CS10029
                    What else has he been in?
                    Was in "St Elsewhere", played the fellow cop of Tom Hanks in "The Green Mile", and "Hack", the short lived TV series about a cop turned cab driver.

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                    • catcatch22
                      Or should I
                      • Sep 2003
                      • 3378

                      #40
                      Re: John Adams: HBO Miniseries

                      He was also in the Nogotiator.

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                      • Bamboospine1998
                        Pro
                        • Aug 2004
                        • 452

                        #41
                        Re: John Adams: HBO Miniseries

                        I have really enjoyed the first two episodes.

                        I had some reservation because I didn't think there would be any of the humor that existed in the Wire and Sopranos, and may lack the action that was in Rome.

                        It has been very interesting, and as many have written in the posts, casting for the historic characters has been pretty good. Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, etc....

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                        • Briman123
                          MVP
                          • Oct 2004
                          • 1361

                          #42
                          Re: John Adams: HBO Miniseries

                          Originally posted by catcatch22
                          He was also in the Nogotiator.
                          Also recently was the killer in Disturbia.

                          Anyways I caught this show a week ago saw a couple episodes as they played every episode. Last nights was alright but my god I was very annoyed at the French it was no wonder that the french people revolted and killed all the noble people they were all crazy.
                          18-1 hell of a season regardless

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                          • JayBee74
                            Hall Of Fame
                            • Jul 2002
                            • 22989

                            #43
                            Re: John Adams: HBO Miniseries

                            Originally posted by Briman123
                            Also recently was the killer in Disturbia.
                            Not to make this the "David Morse"(George Washington) thread but he was also the police detective that hassled Dr.House about Vicodin possession among other stuff in a several week stretch of season 3. He was great in the unfortunately almost forgotten "Inside Moves" way back in 1980.

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                            • fistofrage
                              Hall Of Fame
                              • Aug 2002
                              • 13682

                              #44
                              Re: John Adams: HBO Miniseries

                              Last night's episode was decent, but not as good as the first two. It showed him being aggrevated, but I'm not quite sure they captured how truly aggrevating and helpless the whole situation was. European politics at the time was a whole exercise in frustration.

                              The other thing is that he must have been over in Europe for the better part of a year. He apparantly got nothing accomplished except figuring out that Franklin was a weasel with his own agenda.
                              Chalepa Ta Kala.....

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                              • sven
                                Banned
                                • Jul 2002
                                • 6021

                                #45
                                Re: John Adams: HBO Miniseries

                                Originally posted by Briman123
                                Also recently was the killer in Disturbia.
                                Probably should have left that one out. Nt his best performance.

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