ok, so i didn't have to yell at the tv as much as i thought
I GOT SNOWED ON THIS MORNING AND IT WAS GLORIOUS. it turned to rain and then it stopped precipitating altogether, but still, for a brief moment i got snowed on. it can now be winter. :D
i'm watching timeless and i feel it's only fair to warn you that the team goes back in time to the 30s when they meet bonnie and clyde, and since they're visiting a time period and historical people i actually know something about, i am going to be insufferable as hell about it.
i know this is tv and i know it's romanticized and fictionalized tv, but it's pretty well accepted that bonnie parker never actually shot anyone, altho she was apparently really good at reloading clyde's guns. and i think the kansas city job that lucy mentions is the kansas city massacre, in which a criminal being transported by law enforcement was killed outside the train station, along with some of the aforementioned law enforcement. the fbi had a ton of suspects but i don't remember if bonnie and clyde were two of them. i guess they were. altho considering they never made it to kansas, that was kind of reaching on the fbi's part.
bonnie was married to someone else when she met clyde - a guy named roy thornton - someone she never actually divorced. she really did have his name tattooed on her thigh, and she was still wearing her wedding ring when she was killed. when she and clyde were being gunned down in louisiana, roy thornton was in jail.
...i wonder if they're going to mention how many people showed up for her funeral. (twenty thousand gawkers passed through the funeral home to see her casket.)
the letter bonnie says clyde wrote to henry ford does exist, but is generally believed to be a fake. there's one that's purportedly from john dillinger too. the poem that bonnie quotes is the story of bonnie and clyde, which really was one of her poems.
the death scene in the beginning of the episode, with the ambush, is how they really died. (altho henry methvin wasn't there. it was his dad ivy who made the deal with law enforcement and who was standing by the side of the road with his truck.) the death scene at the end, at the cabin, isn't. that should probably be obvious. team time travel is profoundly unconcerned with how history might have changed, tho. i guess because bonnie and clyde still died at about the right time, it doesn't matter that henry methvin did too - in real life he outlived them - and that it happened the wrong way in the wrong place. it certainly doesn't seem to have had any effect on the present. this total unconcern with how changing the past might change the future, and the total lack of actual change, takes some tension out of their jaunts into the past.
that wasn't as terrible as i was expecting. they touched on the mythology and kinda missed the truth, which is probably par for the course with this show. this is just the first time i know anything about the past parts. the cars looked right, at least, altho lucy's hair continues to be totally ahistorical in every time period they go to, and no one ever comments on it.
a photographer in the uk tracked down people he'd photographed in his hometown almost forty years ago, so he could take pictures of them again. i wonder what happened to the people missing in the current photos, if the photographer couldn't find them, or they didn't want to be in the picture, or they died.
the army corps of engineers has called a stop to the dakota access pipeline, much to the relief of the sioux and other folks at standing rock. they won't grant an easement, and without an easement, the pipeline can't be built where it was planned to go. (ie, under a lake.) finally, some good news.
check out this swan automaton. it was built in the 1770s and is fabulously cool.
and last but not least, happy birthday to lady-yashka, fellow writer and successful nano-er! here's to cake. :D
dancing boys: *two-step*
and also boys.
i'm watching timeless and i feel it's only fair to warn you that the team goes back in time to the 30s when they meet bonnie and clyde, and since they're visiting a time period and historical people i actually know something about, i am going to be insufferable as hell about it.
i know this is tv and i know it's romanticized and fictionalized tv, but it's pretty well accepted that bonnie parker never actually shot anyone, altho she was apparently really good at reloading clyde's guns. and i think the kansas city job that lucy mentions is the kansas city massacre, in which a criminal being transported by law enforcement was killed outside the train station, along with some of the aforementioned law enforcement. the fbi had a ton of suspects but i don't remember if bonnie and clyde were two of them. i guess they were. altho considering they never made it to kansas, that was kind of reaching on the fbi's part.
bonnie was married to someone else when she met clyde - a guy named roy thornton - someone she never actually divorced. she really did have his name tattooed on her thigh, and she was still wearing her wedding ring when she was killed. when she and clyde were being gunned down in louisiana, roy thornton was in jail.
...i wonder if they're going to mention how many people showed up for her funeral. (twenty thousand gawkers passed through the funeral home to see her casket.)
the letter bonnie says clyde wrote to henry ford does exist, but is generally believed to be a fake. there's one that's purportedly from john dillinger too. the poem that bonnie quotes is the story of bonnie and clyde, which really was one of her poems.
the death scene in the beginning of the episode, with the ambush, is how they really died. (altho henry methvin wasn't there. it was his dad ivy who made the deal with law enforcement and who was standing by the side of the road with his truck.) the death scene at the end, at the cabin, isn't. that should probably be obvious. team time travel is profoundly unconcerned with how history might have changed, tho. i guess because bonnie and clyde still died at about the right time, it doesn't matter that henry methvin did too - in real life he outlived them - and that it happened the wrong way in the wrong place. it certainly doesn't seem to have had any effect on the present. this total unconcern with how changing the past might change the future, and the total lack of actual change, takes some tension out of their jaunts into the past.
that wasn't as terrible as i was expecting. they touched on the mythology and kinda missed the truth, which is probably par for the course with this show. this is just the first time i know anything about the past parts. the cars looked right, at least, altho lucy's hair continues to be totally ahistorical in every time period they go to, and no one ever comments on it.
a photographer in the uk tracked down people he'd photographed in his hometown almost forty years ago, so he could take pictures of them again. i wonder what happened to the people missing in the current photos, if the photographer couldn't find them, or they didn't want to be in the picture, or they died.
the army corps of engineers has called a stop to the dakota access pipeline, much to the relief of the sioux and other folks at standing rock. they won't grant an easement, and without an easement, the pipeline can't be built where it was planned to go. (ie, under a lake.) finally, some good news.
check out this swan automaton. it was built in the 1770s and is fabulously cool.
and last but not least, happy birthday to lady-yashka, fellow writer and successful nano-er! here's to cake. :D
dancing boys: *two-step*
and also boys.