Re: 1st Season New Amsterdam - The Golden Boy - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:35:39 GMT, "Joetheone"
<joetheone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>"Hunter" <buffhunter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> joetheone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 says...
>>> "George Avalos" <georgeavalos0@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> > "The Golden Boy"
>>> > 3-6-08 New Amsterdam
>>> >
>>> > 5 stars (Octavius)
>>> >
>>> > 0-1 stars (Qusay)

>>> 2. Is this the pattern? Rip off Law and Order for a while (may be my 
>>> problem
>>> is I don't like cop shows much.) and intersperse bad blasts from the 
>>> past?
>> ----
>> Well, what you saw was standard police procedual fare, he is a police
>> detective after all and yes we will see what he has been doing for the
>> past 360 odd years. So far we know he was a furniture maker, WWII vet
>> (and I am sure a veteran of every American war before WWII and maybe
>> since) a lawyer and now a cop; plus a couple of things I am forgetting.
>> All that in just the first two episodes.
>>>
>>> Teepees in 1600 NY?
>> ---
>> It was wrong but not for the reason you think. First, Nieu Amsterdam,
as
>> was New York's old name was very tiny at the time since it was a Dutch
>> colony then. Its 1642 New York. All those who are familiar with the
>> history of New York City knows that Wall street was the upper boundery
of
>> Nieu Amsterdam, so there will be indian shelters in what we know will
be
>> New York's Time Square in the future. In fact, there are a few indian
>> burial grounds around fulton street IIRC. However what was wrong were
the
>> teepees. Teepees were built by the plains indians, not the indian
tribes
>> of the Northeast.
>>
>If you were reading, that was exactly the reason I thought it was wrong.

However, a teepee says "Indian" to the average viewer with no other
explanation needed.  Think of it as visual shorthand.
>
>>> Why hasn't this guy been on the front page of every
>>> Enquirer-type rag since they started? It's not like he tries to keep a
>>> secret.
>> ---
>> Yes he is. He is not broadcasting himself, just blending in. He may not
>> be as obsessively secretive as your typical superhero but he is keeping
>> it a secret. Heck his own granddaughter and great grandson doesn't
know.
>> He mask his existence by forging birth certificates, so he doesn't want
>> to be known. I think he hangs around an area of New York and then after
>> twenty years, just as people start to notice that he isn't aging, moves
>> on.
>>>
>>> I kinda like the old bartender guy being his son. I may watch it
>>> another time.
>> ---
>> That is at least two kids that he has that we know about. The other was
>> that secretary back in the 1940's.
-- 
"You roll out of bed, Mr. Coffee's dead - The morning's looking bright
 And your priest ran off to Europe - And didn't even write
 And your husband wants to be a girl ....."
                 Gary ****tney