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Re: Founding Parents

SteveK — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:02:39 -0000

"It was a great show, so great I even stayed up to watch the late night replay."

Also... except as a left coaster the second showing started at 8pm and I was a bed at a reasonable hour.

They are handling the complicated relationship between John and Abigail Adams very, very well. Their love, mutual respect and reliance on one another, while being complete people on their own is, IMO, a very important part of their story.

Re: Founding Parents

DLS — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:59:23 -0000

The actress looks like a definite improvement on Margaret Warner on PBS. It's trade-in and trade-up time! [grin]

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cfpete — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:37:02 -0000

It was a great show, so great I even stayed up to watch the late night replay. Feeling tired today, but it was well worth the extra caffeine jump start required at 5 AM.
My only regret is that Paul Giamatti is not one of the top paid actors in Hollywood.
I think he is worth about four Brad Pitts, maybe more.

Re: Founding Parents

domajot — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:53:14 -0000

It was a great show, indeed.

I was most struck by how contentious and difficult it was to get the colonies to unite. How fragile the undertaking of creating a new kind of government was!

We forget the lesson in that at our own peril..

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StockBoySF — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:40:47 -0000

Paul and Davebo- I agree with you both. It was a great show and I can't wait to see the next installment next Sunday.

Re: Founding Parents

Davebo — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:26:58 -0000

It is so easy to take the American Idea for granted. But it was so unique and is still so fragile because it is the nature of power to seek to minimize the gifts we enjoy. If we don’t protect it, it could easily become an aching memory.

I hate to add so little, but what more can be said?

Thanks