FreddieMac

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Disagree that he wasn't happy on Earth. He definitely was. Sure, he wasn't married or dating anyone, but he loved teaching kids at his school. And in a rewatch of the movie it seems as if they were ALMOST hinting at some subtle feelings between him and Stratt (and I don't remember that being hinted at at all in the book). But it was also home to literally everything he's ever known.

I go back and forth on whether or not I think he tries to go home. I do think eventually he'd attempt to go home as he'd get tired of life on Erid despite having found one of the things that makes him happy (teaching the Erid kids about science).

I think the cool thing is that I'm good either way. If he decided to stay there forever, that would be cool too.

Excellent, excellent movie.

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he has a woman friend in the book and they were not together but hinted at a relationship.

Young Washington is incredibly good. So good, I decided to get an Angle Studio subscription today.

This is one of the best historical period pieces I have ever seen. They toned it down a bit in the climatic scene, real history is almost unbelievable. During the climatic battle, he had multiple horses shot out from under him along with all the bullet holes in his coat and hat. Some historians have called it almost supernatural how many times he narrowly escaped death throughout his entire career. I call it Divine Providence.

They have another Revolutionary war drama coming out called Drummer or something, plus a biopic of Reagan.

I watched it and it was very good.

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Amazing what people find a "win."

I am ansestor fought at Battle of Long Island, 7th Virginia...

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Am I the only one enjoying the misery of the leftist shite bags on this 250th 4th?

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No its quite tasty. Basically, they never though the world cup tourist would come over a month before and realize how much better this country is compared to theirs...

This sounds like the pandora's box that the dems opened by using lawfare against Trump. Now, anytime the left disagrees they are going to try and arrest those they do not agree with...

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It's sad that it took this long for a great president to have one, and yet Obama has one...albeit looking like a trash can.

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People forget the presidential library act of 1986 requires that the foundations that run them have a pretty large endowment. Presidential libraries on that scale we think about just was not a thing until mid 20th century.

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Why is this just now opening?

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Fund raising, it took some time to get that many donations to build it.

ok, heard about this and decided to watch it. Everyone was claiming it was WOKE. Actually i did not see that, but they were bias in their telling of the American Experiment. I would say it was not overtly anti-anything. They took digs at Trump without using his name. If you are a non-American and watch it you would not see the subtle digs of modern American politics. It certainly had a point-of-view that was very left leaning through the lens of modern politics. That being said, that is not the weakest part of the series.

Pros -

I thought it basically presented some of the lesser known founders in a good light.

It did a real good job of giving the history behind why we fought a revolution

It was overall positive viewing of the country and I am facinated to read the book of the Declaration scholar they featured. She had an interesting perspective.

Cons

It watered down the actual revolution a lot. It, like most of these documentaries, leaned to much into the Americans were farmers and these British were professional soldiers aspect. They gave the French way too much credit and basically portrayed Washington as having to be lead by the French to attack at Yorktown. Glossed over the entire southern campaign and did not even mention Francis Marion or Daniel Morgan or Nethanial Green.

They totally missed the concept that Americans of the time viewed British soldiers as foreign troops. They tried to make an equivalency of using the national guard in DC as how appauling our founders would fine that concept. They should read about the Whiskey Rebellion.

Featuring Clineon and Gore to attack the Electorial College without giving the counter-proint of view from the Federalist Papers and why it exist.


Overall, it was well made but it lacked as a documentary. It was an overall positive puff piece from a left point of view.