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 Posted: Tue May 31st, 2011 11:51 pm
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Mana: 
 Tim, I'm more than happy to give your perspective the benefit of the doubt--especially since I didn't see the show. It kind of rounds out a pretty lopsided scope of reviews. That said, based on what I've heard here and at another forum, I probably would have turned it off early, too.

We here, and we as a group of Civil War enthusiasts, are a discerning bunch--our familiarity with the subject has made us so, and that's to be expected. I'll readily admit that I'm the one who can't watch the movie Gettysburg without telling anyone within earshot, "That's not what that part of the battlefield REALLY looks like!" even though I know most of it wasn't filmed on the field. I know the battlefield and the battle story so well it's hard to let those inaccuracies go. And nobody but me cares, anyway!

But I am always looking for the "other side of the story," new little bits and facts and stories about a battle I know like the back of my hand with my eyes closed (ask my husband how many times I have said to him, out of nowhere, "Hey, guess what I just read about ________ at Gettysburg!"). I might know that much of a book, a news story, a film, etc. about the battle might be "drek" (I read that on another site), but somewhere in there might be a diamond in the rough that is new. My sister thinks that "The Killer Angels" is a great CW book; I think it's just okay, but you never know what "just okay" can bring: for me, it brought the whole darn CW into my life for the first time. Maybe this show will do that for someone else, who knows?