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Old 05-28-2015, 05:19 PM
 
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Who's been watching and what do you think?

http://www.history.com/shows/texas-r...as-sam-houston
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Old 05-28-2015, 06:14 PM
 
Location: Beautiful Northwest Houston
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Old 05-28-2015, 06:39 PM
 
Location: The Bayou City
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I'll stand my ground, but I won't back down.. Go Texas!!!
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Old 05-28-2015, 07:42 PM
 
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I'll stand my ground, but I won't back down.. Go Texas!!!
Tom Petty?
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Old 05-28-2015, 07:59 PM
 
Location: WA
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Where do you think it was actually filmed? Because those big bluffs overlooking the plains that were supposed to represent the area east of San Antonio are nothing like the flat land that is actually there.
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Old 05-28-2015, 08:21 PM
 
Location: Beautiful Northwest Houston
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Where do you think it was actually filmed? Because those big bluffs overlooking the plains that were supposed to represent the area east of San Antonio are nothing like the flat land that is actually there.
I guess even the History Channel couldn't resist falling back on western stereotypes to tell a story about Texas that happened mostly on flat swampy coastal plains. Can't wait to see how the topography of the Battle of San Jacinto is represented..

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Old 05-28-2015, 09:41 PM
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Where do you think it was actually filmed? Because those big bluffs overlooking the plains that were supposed to represent the area east of San Antonio are nothing like the flat land that is actually there.
New Mexico

To answer the OP, I made it through an hour of this show and walked away. Too much bad acting and inauthenticity for my taste. The desert bluffs of Goliad were pretty ridiculous.
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Old 05-28-2015, 09:54 PM
 
Location: Riding the light...
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Where do you think it was actually filmed? Because those big bluffs overlooking the plains that were supposed to represent the area east of San Antonio are nothing like the flat land that is actually there.
lol... makes it kinda hard to watch, wondering if major storms caused some massive erosion between 1836 and 2015. Almost believable these dayz.

There's already an ongoing thread on this show in the Entertainment/TV forum...

//www.city-data.com/forum/tv/23...as-rising.html

Bear in mind, it's just a movie incidentally based on some facts from various historical records. I suppose that justifies the altered terrain.

I particularly enjoyed the evacuation of Harrisburg, shown as a dusty nowhere village in the middle of nowhere. It was actually on the banks of Buffalo Bayou at about the location of a road called Harrisburg where it now runs along the Houston Ship Channel. Santa Anna burned it to the ground and up sprung a quaint village now called Houston. The scenery would have been green everywhere with bushes and trees.

For the die hard enthusiast, there's a monument on the south side of the ship channel, atop the Washburn Tunnel that marks 'The Approximate Site of the Capture of Santa Anna'. Take the circle at Richey Road. As it nearly comes round to entering the tunnel north bound there's a cut off to the right. That's the approach to the south bank. Keep going, it's near the channel.*

*I suppose. I haven't been there since the 80's.

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Old 05-28-2015, 09:58 PM
 
Location: The Bayou City
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Tom Petty?
Lol, they play that song during the previews/commercials for Texas Rising on TV..
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Old 05-28-2015, 11:04 PM
 
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I did not even bother watching any of it because I knew it would not be accurate and authentic.
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