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 Posted: Tue May 31st, 2011 03:03 am
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 Just finished watching the special “Gettysburg.” I was not terribly impressed. My biggest problem was the lack of context. The producers constantly made the claim that this was the pivotal battle of the war, but they neglected to explain the strategic context of the battle or its consequences. They provided an interesting variety of vignettes, however, the program did a very poor job of situating these vignettes into the operational picture of the battlefield. I also thought that their choice of commentators could have been much better. They had James McPherson saying two sentences, the rest of the talking heads were lackluster at best. I felt their visuals were also poor. Ridley Scott tried hard to bring a gritty reality to war, but I my opinion it seemed like he only seceded into turning the Battle of Gettysburg into the clearing of Fallujah. I had low expectations, and unfortunately they were met fully.

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