General Grant On History Channel

[ABNAK]

Satellite TV in general has really gone downhill. I have enjoyed the “Grant” miniseries but it will be over tomorrow. They should change the same to the “Reality TV Channel”. Another channel that has gone downhill is the “American Heroes Channel”. One of their favorite re-runs lately is “I (Almost) Got Away With It”. Idiots.

And their obsession with Nazi's and anything Hitler, like that was the only aspect of WWII.

[Averageman]

And their obsession with Nazi's and anything Hitler, like that was the only aspect of WWII.

Blame the old Series of "World at War", there was so much stock archival footage and no one doing anything with it that it turned in to Nazi's 24/7.
I think a part of that was to get the channel off the ground and perhaps could have looked a bit harder and handled it a lot better.

[Arik]

I'll take Nazis 24/7 over this current crap like digging for gold, fishing, chopping down trees and living in the woods.

All of those things are actually pretty cool as specials. I'd be interested in watching all of them. But NOT when they make it into a reality show

[Diamondback]

Satellite TV in general has really gone downhill. I have enjoyed the “Grant” miniseries but it will be over tomorrow. They should change the same to the “Reality TV Channel”. Another channel that has gone downhill is the “American Heroes Channel”. One of their favorite re-runs lately is “I (Almost) Got Away With It”. Idiots.

So much this. Ditto Travel's reformat of "All Paranormal All The Time" (ditto Destination America), Food Network's obsession with competition shows... the list goes on ad nauseum. Don't get me started about how Hallmark Channel turns people into addle-brained, drooling-moron cultists...

[WillBrink]

2 pages and still no discussion about the series? Part II was excellent. Lot of details I had not known. Civil war is not one of my stronger subjects I'm sad to admit, but this series is renewing my interests to study up some more. The fact that all the major players went to school together and knew each other is an aspect I hadn't known, but it makes sense considering the time and such.

[Diamondback]

2 pages and still no discussion about the series? Part II was excellent. Lot of details I had not known. Civil war is not one of my stronger subjects I'm sad to admit, but this series is renewing my interests to study up some more. The fact that all the major players went to school together and knew each other is an aspect I hadn't known, but it makes sense considering the time and such.

It IS well done, surprisingly so with DiCrappio behind it. I dabbled in Civil War studies for a while in junior high, and I still occasionally come back to refresh on it.

[MikhailBarracuda91]

2 pages and still no discussion about the series? Part II was excellent. Lot of details I had not known. Civil war is not one of my stronger subjects I'm sad to admit, but this series is renewing my interests to study up some more. The fact that all the major players went to school together and knew each other is an aspect I hadn't known, but it makes sense considering the time and such.

My fiance loved! Her and I only watched part 1 so far but it was really great so far. It's a good docudrama, we compared the storytelling style to "The Last Czars" (another good show)

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[Averageman]

2 pages and still no discussion about the series? Part II was excellent. Lot of details I had not known. Civil war is not one of my stronger subjects I'm sad to admit, but this series is renewing my interests to study up some more. The fact that all the major players went to school together and knew each other is an aspect I hadn't known, but it makes sense considering the time and such.

In the second show of the series did you notice Grant had some slight hesitation about fighting against a man who had loaned him money and that they were Cadets together?
Time and again they mentioned that Grant had a key sense of the lay of the land and timing the movements of troops for the greatest effect. He also was just a pit bull, once he made contact it was hell to shake him loose. Moving Grant to the East to parry with Lee was the only way to win.
I'm sure that the weight of those casualty lists weighed on him until he passed.

[ABNAK]

I DVR'd the series and watched the first part last night. I thought it was well done. Look forward to the rest.

Although I knew of it, I too was kind of interested how many of those opposing generals had gone to West Point together and knew each other.

[WillBrink]

I DVR'd the series and watched the first part last night. I thought it was well done. Look forward to the rest.

Although I knew of it, I too was kind of interested how many of those opposing generals had gone to West Point together and knew each other.

I hadn't known that but it made perfect sense. Things I didn't know, such as his parents were strict abolitionists and no one from his side of the family came to his wedding due to his father in law to be owning slaves. That while we was dirt poor, he set the one slave he had (given to him by his father in law) free which he could not afford, etc.

That really added some dimensions to the man I didn't know of, and while he was sort of viewed as neutral on the issue of slavery, his behaviors would suggest he really believed in the cause of ending slavery, and he expressed that those in the Confederacy were traitors to the nation for attempting to leave the Union.