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

"David V. Loewe, Jr" <daveloewe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 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.
>>

It's right up there with Gibson's Battle of Stirling Bridge.
The kind of thing that makes his movies garbage.


>>>> 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