“Come Monday…” is a
weekly series that will involve a review of, or commentary about, websites, movies, documentaries, television
shows, sports, music, and whatever else may tickle my fancy at the time. Be assured that these reviews will be
generally positive, as in accordance to the Jimmy Buffett song “Come
Monday.” This is subject to change,
however. In fact, I would be most
derelict in my duties to neglect going on a rant every once in a while. For rants promote change, and change can be
good—right? Therefore, since good is
generally considered as being a positive force in 99.3% of the parallel
universes that I am aware of, even a rant could be considered as being
something positive, and a genuine hissy-fit would be even better (so I’m told).
[Longmire]
is in its first season on A&E, which is currently airing at 9:00 p.m. CDT
on Sundays. Be assured that both my wife
and I were eagerly awaiting the premiere of the show, but my enthusiasm has
waned somewhat after watching the first four episodes while she still finds it
very entertaining.
The
reason for my waning enthusiasm is mostly on account of the same disease that has
been rampaging through the movie/television production companies for far too
long, which is the tendency to use too much artistic license with the details
when the truth would work even better.
It did not take the Longmire production team very long, neither. For in the first-half of the very first
episode, they had a local pawn shop owner (I think) explaining what a .50
caliber [Sharps] rifle was to the sheriff.
No,
that probably doesn’t sound all that far-fetched to anyone back east, but
[Sheriff Longmire] wouldn’t need anyone to tell him what a .50 caliber Sharps
was on account of it being legendary in the west and he being about as “western”
as one can get. Furthermore, they had
the pawn shop owner tell the good sheriff that the rifle was known as a “horse-killer”
when it is as a “buffalo gun” is what it
is best known as being.
Yeah,
I suppose I do need to get a life (naturally-speaking, of course). For Hollywood has been employing artistic
license since the very beginning, but it would have been much more realistic to
have had the pawn shop owner explain what a .50 caliber Sharps was to [Deputy Sheriff Moretti] on account of her being from Philadelphia and fairly new to
the area—not to mention accurately identifying the rifle, if they wanted to
educate their audience.
The
second mortal sin came when it was said that some Cheyenne mothers would use
the threat of a [Dog Soldier] coming to get them when their children were
misbehaving. For the Cheyenne Dog
Soldiers were the most highly respected order in the Cheyenne tribe of old, and
I would think that even more modern Cheyenne mothers would use them as an
example for their children to aspire to—certainly not fear.
In
all fairness, I may be wrong about the Dog Soldiers, and according to my wife,
I am wrong about the show itself. Of
course, she is not still holding a grudge against [Katee Sackhoff] for taking
the role of [Starbuck] in the reimagined version of Battlestar Galatica, and
she is much more tolerant of artistic license than I am.
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