TV/Movies Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

She looked pretty good in Hannibal.

[celedhring]

And in The Fall, too.

[katmai]

X-Files.

[spoiler]Meh...disappointed. Rehash of old stuff. Didn't Mulder already believe that the powers that be wanted him to believe in an alien conspiracy when there wasn't one?[/spoiler]

Reviews i've read say first episode was meh, but episodes 2 & 3 are much better (episode 2 airs here in US today)

[viper37]

Of course the French were in the Rockies.  How do you think La Ramie got its name?  Also, why all the Poudre site names?  Also, we still eat french fries here.

The odd thing to me was not the existence of French, but the fact that they were trading muskets and ammunition for pelts, at a time when they lived in a British colony, and after Britain had signed a treaty with the US to no longer supply arms to Indians within US territory.

They weren't supplying arms.  Private citizens were trading weapons with indians for furs.  That happenned for a while after said treaty.  Besides, was North Dakota a US territory in 1823?  I don't think so.

If it's Montana, from Wikipedia:

The land in Montana east of the continental divide was part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Subsequent to and particularly in the decades following the Lewis and Clark Expedition, American, British and French traders operated a fur trade, typically working with indigenous peoples, in both eastern and western portions of what would become Montana. These dealings were not always peaceful, and though the fur trade brought some material gain for indigenous tribal groups it also brought exposure to European diseases and altered their economic and cultural traditions.[121] Until the Oregon Treaty (1846), land west of the continental divide was disputed between the British and U.S. and was known as the Oregon Country. The first permanent settlement by Euro-Americans in what today is Montana was St. Mary's (1841) near present-day Stevensville.[122] In 1847, Fort Benton was established as the uppermost fur-trading post on the Missouri River.[123] In the 1850s, settlers began moving into the Beaverhead and Big Hole valleys from the Oregon Trail and into the Clark's Fork valley.[124]

What we have is, a) disputed land and b) not officially US territory.

[Admiral Yi]

https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.ilibrarian.net/history/louisiana_purchase_map_lg.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.ducksters.com/history/westward_expansion/louisiana_purchase.php&h=687&w=1153&tbnid=fMx1k41GeFH9SM:&tbnh=109&tbnw=184&docid=7nZuZditNzNujM&itg=1&usg=__lt5HDb8smkAUxrNNMzEDCCqRKxY=&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjImKayg8bKAhWF5CYKHalaD8YQ9QEIIzAA

This map says all of present day North Dakota got ceded to the US in 1818.

[MadImmortalMan]

I've been to Ft. Benton. It was the "uppermost" fur-trading site because that's as far as the riverboats could get on the Missouri. Which seems like that should have made it fairly strategic at that time. The docking area is up against the cliffside though. With cliffs all around. You literally look down into the town from every side. Which sounds tactically bad.

[Admiral Yi]

More pros on Leo's Amazing Winter Adventure: camera work is virtuoso.  Same director as Birdman, right,  Irruti?  If you liked the long acrobatic no cut scenes in Birdman you'll like this.  Also all the raw meat Leo chows down looks very real.  Either the prop man did amazing things with tofu or Leo took several for the team.

[MadImmortalMan]

Leo said in an interview he really did it. Also, it was disgusting and he didn't want to do it again.

[viper37]

This map says all of present day North Dakota got ceded to the US in 1818.

ok, but not really colonized/occuppied, and it's still private citizens making trade.  Supplying weapons would be more along the way of what British, French and Americans did in the past, giving weapons to indians and inciting them to raid the settlements of the other colonial powers.

[Admiral Yi]

ok, but not really colonized/occuppied, and it's still private citizens making trade.  Supplying weapons would be more along the way of what British, French and Americans did in the past, giving weapons to indians and inciting them to raid the settlements of the other colonial powers.

Absolutely, and that was one of the US beefs that led to the War of 1812, and one of the provisions of the peace treaty, unless I'm mistaken, was that Britain would no longer supply weapons to Indians in the US.

[crazy canuck]

X-Files.

[spoiler]Meh...disappointed. Rehash of old stuff. Didn't Mulder already believe that the powers that be wanted him to believe in an alien conspiracy when there wasn't one?[/spoiler]

I really enjoyed it.  I didnt watch X files after the first few seasons and so for me it was a nice introduction back to the series.

[LaCroix]

this doesn't help you, yi, but you might like this article from the state's finest newspaper: http://www.inforum.com/variety/3911878-have-you-seen-revenant-yet-heres-real-story-dakotas-mountain-man

[Admiral Yi]

this doesn't help you, yi, but you might like this article from the state's finest newspaper: http://www.inforum.com/variety/3911878-have-you-seen-revenant-yet-heres-real-story-dakotas-mountain-man

Nice article.

[Tonitrus]

X-Files.

[spoiler]Meh...disappointed. Rehash of old stuff. Didn't Mulder already believe that the powers that be wanted him to believe in an alien conspiracy when there wasn't one?[/spoiler]

I really enjoyed it.  I didnt watch X files after the first few seasons and so for me it was a nice introduction back to the series.

Mulder seems to have great job perks...just come and go from FBI employment as you please. 

[dps]

ok, but not really colonized/occuppied, and it's still private citizens making trade.  Supplying weapons would be more along the way of what British, French and Americans did in the past, giving weapons to indians and inciting them to raid the settlements of the other colonial powers.

Absolutely, and that was one of the US beefs that led to the War of 1812, and one of the provisions of the peace treaty, unless I'm mistaken, was that Britain would no longer supply weapons to Indians in the US.

I think you're missing his point.  This wasn't the British government supplying the Indians with weapons and encouraging them to attack American settlements;  this was private citizens trading guns with the Indians and not giving a shit what the Indians did with them as long as they got their pelts in return.