ok, so i didn't have to yell at the tv as much as i thought

[tsuki_no_bara]

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

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[murielle]

Years and years ago...okay, decades ago...I couldn't get enough of Bonnie and Clyde, though I am sure I didn't know anywhere near as much as you do. I can see it must have irritated.

I felt similarly watching the 2015 remake of Anne of Green Gables on KSPS. As a Canadian, as an Anne of Green Gables fan (and as much as I adore Martin Sheen), I couldn't wait for it to be over so I could delete it from my PVR. They even had Martin Sheen say, "Eh." The closing music was Waltzing Matilda! The props and costumes were...so not period, never mind, Canadian. Marilla wore a multi-coloured velour dressing gown.

That swan is gorgeous!

[tsuki_no_bara]

i wasn't as irritated as i thought i'd be! which was nice. there was a tv movie a couple years ago that was just DIRE - they got so much wrong - and it wasn't helped by the fact that the actress who played bonnie was pretty bad.

isn't waltzing matilda australian? how do you screw up anne of green gables? i mean, bonnie and clyde are at the mercy of their own mythology, but anne of green gables is a book! there's actual source material! i don't blame you for deleting it off your pvr.

[murielle]

Yes! Waltzing Matilda is Australian. (Grrrrr!)

Thank you for understanding.

[tsuki_no_bara]

it wasn't as bad as i thought it would be! i don't think it was great, but it could've been worse. (i think you did! which is pretty cool.)

[dear_tiger]

Oh dude. It's like you have a favorite historical era or something :D I bet you yelling at the TV was glorious. I can only imagine how much I'd yell at the TV if the show went to WW2. It sounds like the kind of show that would start by fucking up the uniforms. Good, classic start of history fuckup.

[tsuki_no_bara]

anyone would think i was interested in the 30s. :D i didn't have to yell too much! i was weirdly impressed by some of the things that were accurate - i mean, the fact that bonnie was married to someone who wasn't clyde? and that she had the guy's name tattooed on her thigh? what random details to put in.

timeless had a ww2 episode! they went to germany and met ian fleming. (he was apparently a spy in real life.) i have no idea how accurate it was, but i don't doubt you would have had a field day with it.

[donutsweeper]

I love Timeless, but wow does it play fast and loose with history- in how they represent it and how much they care that they alter it. I like the fact they're still doing nods to the race differences (the 'colored' water fountain and the FBI agent making fun of Rufus' vocabulary) but that they've stopped hitting us over the head with it all. I really wish they'd have books or something they look at before going places though because Lucy knowing *almost everything* about every single time period they visit is just becoming ridiculous. Oh well.

Something tells me you'll get plenty of more chances for snow this winter

[tsuki_no_bara]

i think the nods to race are consistently pretty good and nicely subtle. lucy being an expert on every single time period is getting bad enough to throw me out of the story, tho. who knows exactly what time bonnie and clyde were killed, unless it's someone who specializes in a. gangsters, b. the 30s, or c. bonnie and clyde? or i guess d. the early days of the fbi. and yet she knows that, she knows all about watergate, she knows all about the alamo, come on. at least rufus was the expert when they were dealing with the moon landing. and about that? katherine johnson getting front-page coverage for saving the astronauts would have affected history for someone. i mean, seriously, a black woman in 1969 getting public kudos for her involvement in such a world-changing event would make some waves. and yet the show acted like it was nothing.

i hope we get more snow! it's still early in the season. we have time. :D

[bleodswean]

Long ago, I had a friend who travelled to the UK just to see the Silver Swan. And then she toured many other automaton museums there and on the continent. This piece is so astonishing, even today, which says everything! Thanks for the reminder!

It's fun to be an expert though, right? I didn't know you possessed this knowledge!

[tsuki_no_bara]

i bet that was a fabulous, fascinating trip. and not just because your friend saw the swan in person.

i wouldn't call myself an expert, tho. it's just that for once i actually know enough to know when they get something wrong.