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2 hours ago, mythoughtis said:
How many immigrants are there left?
It looked like Noemi and her kids were fine. I think the ones who circled the wagons survived because they were able to fend off the attack. Since they lost most of the wagons, but not any people in the tornado, you have to assume that multiple families were with each wagon. Maybe five or six families are left?
This episode was just weird in terms of its geography. By 1883, there wouldn't have been any random camps of Dakota families in Wyoming - especially not as far west as Casper, which they claimed was six hours away. It's also not likely that the warriors would have spoken Comanche since the two didn't have any overlapping territory. Maybe he spoke Shoshone, which is essentially the same as Comanche, but it's a stretch. Dakota is not a Numic language, so it's not like they are even in the same language family. I know it's picky, but I liked how well done some of the historical aspects were even if it didn't make sense for the time period, so it annoys me when it's off in terms of believability and basic historical accuracy.
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4 hours ago, Sunnykm said:
The Oregon Trail in 1883 was much more organized and outposts were more available than we are seeing on this show, so it makes sense to me that this show isn't set in 1883. I have been wondering about this once they hit the trail.
They aren't actually on the Oregon Trail. They aren't even near it. They're heading to Fort Laramie to meet up with the trail, which is roughly 600 miles from their location. They were still in Oklahoma at the time of this episode. The time period has been better established based on the comments Sam made in the episode. He said his land was with Quanah Parker south of the Wichita Mountains. That's the reservation and they had been there since 1875.
There was also mention of Dakota/Arapahoe rumblings due to government lies and both were on separate reservations in the late 1870s and Sitting Bull returned from Canada and surrendered in 1881. They also discussed the use of barbed wire, which only started to come into widespread use in the mid to late 1870s. It may not be 1883, but it's way past the time that the Oregon Trail was in real use.
These people are in serious trouble at this point. They keep talking about the coming winter and said they'll get to Fort Laramie in October and be crossing the South Pass in the winter. This is absolutely and completely insane. It's a month from Fort Laramie to Fort Bridger in good weather and from there it's all mountain country. For context, the Donner Party left Fort Bridger in late July and that was considered very late. This photo was taken the day after Labor Day 2020 and another round of nine inches hit that night. This wagon is sitting directly on the trail.
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2 hours ago, blackwing said:
I don't know much about bobsleigh/sled but my understanding is that the race is won or lost on the skill of the pilot. The others are just in there for the push at the beginning and for weight. Surely most countries can find athletes in good shape that can be trained to be pushers or brakeman.
That's largely true, but those people all need to be in the place where there is a track to train and then they all need to travel to the events to qualify. The cost of housing, travel and training for four people is obviously many times more expensive. Just read about the difficulties the Jamaican bobsledders had in doing this. The town of Evanston, Wyoming was the reason for their presence at the Sochi Olympics since the Jamaican federation told them they were on their own. The town donated food, housing, transportation and other things to support the athletes' training in Park City. Winston Watts went with a two man team that year because it's all he could afford.
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4 hours ago, greyhorse said:
If there is a disqualification, I don't know what happens to the racer that was interfered with. In the final, what would happen? I don't imagine they would rerun the race.
They don't re-run anything in any events. It's just that in earlier heats sometimes someone can get a pass into the next round if it's determined that they were fouled in some way and a qualifying person is the one who did it. Short track is the same, except anyone who was interfered with gets in since they don't have the starting space issues snowboard cross has. Once you hit the final, if you're knocked out, tough luck. The front runners here were not involved, so the results stand. In this case, Canada came across third anyway, so it didn't matter whether they penalized the Italian.
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I watched Nick Baumgartner crying and saying he felt like a failure and apologizing to his family for being such a disappointment a couple of days ago and I was just willing them to get a medal. Any medal. I am so, so happy for him.
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8 hours ago, Camera One said:
What if people got sick or injured? Did they set up a field hospital with antibiotics and modern medication? I guess you don't need that when a magical wave of the hand would do, but who supplies that?
Don't forget, healing people makes you go evil. Or did that only apply to Emma because reasons. Seriously, I'm still so pissed that healing someone made Emma evil when we repeatedly saw Rumpel and Regina quickly and easily heal people without a second thought. No worries that it would turn them darker or had any kind of price at all.
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On 2/7/2022 at 12:00 AM, Sunnykm said:
I have gone to the internet multiple times to get more info on the pioneers, the trail, everyday life etc. It is fascinating to me to try and understand what they willingly set out to do to find a better life.
If you want a really good source for life on the trail, one that specifically focuses on the trail and isn't long and dry, the Auto Tour Guides from the National Park Service each have a brief (15-60 pages) history of what specific groups faced on the trail in that particular area (they are done by region/state). They are also helpful should you ever choose to go to any of those places.
There were a couple of off moments in terms of historical accuracy in this episode. I wasn't thrilled with them saying these people couldn't walk the whole way since that's what basically everyone did. It's only 10-20 miles a day - mostly on the low end of that. The Mormons walked and pulled their own handcarts, they had no wagons at all. If these people can't walk, they have zero business being on the trail. And I'm still confused about how they had the money to kit themselves out with wagons, livestock and supplies and pay to be in the wagon train, but somehow couldn't afford train tickets. That math doesn't work.
I told my dad at the start of the episode that a lot of people were tired of Elsa and her constant man drama and he didn't really get it. Then she made out with Sam in the middle of a tornado and he understood completely. What the hell was that?
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So happy for Lindsey Jacobellis! It's got to suck to be 36 years old, having numerous world championships and considered GOAT in your sport and all anyone ever wants to talk about is that time when you were 20 and lost the gold medal because you were showboating off the jump. Now she can finally put it all behind her and go out as Olympic Champion.
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12 minutes ago, Crankybroad said:
Why do so many of the women wear their number bibs off one shoulder?
It's so the bib doesn't fly up and cover their face. You'll see it in all of the sports where they flip and turn a lot.
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7 hours ago, Shanna Marie said:
The way they were talking about Emma being a True Love baby who was the curse-specific savior who was built into the curse would have fit here.
Except that Rumpel was surprised that Emma had magic beyond breaking the curse. S2 was still building off of S1, where is was said that Rumpel created the curse. Later they changed that, but the whole point of S1 was him creating the curse and using Emma's parents' True Love DNA to the curse to make her the Savior. Everything about it all got shot to hell once they cast the curse a million times, but their original premise seemed to imply that Emma was not magical, just that she was the designated curse breaker by way of the True Love magic added to the curse.
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8 hours ago, blackwing said:
I was wondering the same thing. And in fact, may have googled in an attempt to learn if this was the appropriate term that women would have used in the 19th century. I wasn't able to find anything, but it just seemed awfully contemporary to me.
I highly doubt she would have just said it out loud in public like that, but it actually was a part of the lexicon. Per Oxford English Dictionary, it was first used in the early 1800s in medical texts with very clear exact use in 1879 and it appeared in an advertisement for ladies period towels in 1891.
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3 hours ago, Quickbeam said:
I wish they would say who she is.
Per the NBC website, she's three-time national champion Jaime Sinclair.
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On 1/16/2022 at 6:32 PM, LadyIrony said:
The blacksmiths tools would also be useful on the trail as horses might need re shoeing. Asides from an anvil I wouldn’t think his tools would weigh that much.
Trying to haul a piano is too much I agree.
They wouldn't have dumped the blacksmith's tools. They would have needed them. The anvil would be very heavy, but that could be mitigated by putting some other lighter goods in that wagon and there's no way they would have dumped it at that point. Maybe later if things got really dire. Most trains had a blacksmith with them to fix the wheels, axels, etc. They'd have do the work if they could rent a smithy at various forts/trading posts along the trail.
But as for the piano, you'd be surprised what people tried to haul across the country. The wife of the sutler at Fort Bridger refused to move out there unless her husband brought their piano along. Fort Laramie was known as a massive dumping ground as people realized that they couldn't continue hauling stuff across the country. All kinds of stuff ended up there. They didn't just dump furniture, they dumped thousands of pounds of food as well. I once had some people who stopped by the fort where I work and they told me a story about how their great, great whatever made a very elaborate and heavy coffin for their mother because they didn't expect her to survive the trip. They refused to bury her in a shallow grave covered by rocks. They ended up dragging the damn thing all the way to Oregon because the mother made it and lived another two years beyond that.
As someone whose job is teaching people about the Oregon Trail (and California & Mormon Trails), I'm happy to see that people are learning what it all involved to set across on a wagon train. But I also kind of want to cry at the disbelief about the mostly accurate portrayal thus far.
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5 hours ago, Ailianna said:
Did you feel that way when James was steam rolling through his competitors?
James played a very different game from Amy, so it's hard to compare the two. Mr. All In actually made the games interesting because he did bet it all when he was way ahead and occasionally, he'd get it wrong and have to start all over. It meant that the games did have a chance of being competitive even if it appeared to be a runaway. Amy is much more conservative and plays the game the way I would, but it makes for a boring competition. FJ is a huge part of the game and runaways make it meaningless. I find runaways boring in general.
I don't remember watching every game James was in, but I know it wasn't must see TV. I also know that today I watched a flamingo get an endoscopy on Nat Geo rather than Jeopardy.
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I think too many long running contestants will start to hurt the show. Once it's not a novelty, it's not a draw and it does start to get boring. It's interesting to note that while ratings are up, they are nowhere near where they were when James was making his run and they are still down from last year.
I'm tired of Amy and the runaways. And not to take away from her because she is very good, but it's clear that the level of contestant is not as high as in the past due to COVID issues (travel concerns, lack of face to face interviews, etc.), so a lot of the time it's not even fun to watch since the other contestants look like deer in the headlights and then get slaughtered. It's much more fun to watch the champion have to fight to win. Every day I long for a competitor that will push her a little.
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On 12/26/2021 at 10:23 AM, joliefaire said:
I wonder about all the immigrants walking alongside the wagons. I mean, are they just taking a break from riding in the wagons, or do they not even have wagons and are seriously going to walk all the way from Texas to Oregon?
They're going to walk. That's what everyone did. The wagons were full of the stuff they were transporting and there's no room for people. Not to mention they are horrifically uncomfortable. You put several months of supplies and the minimal personal belongings you're transporting (all that furniture will be dumped long before they get where they're going) and it's packed to the gills. Most people think they used the massive Conestoga wagons, but those never could have made it over the mountains. They used the much smaller prairie schooners, which are less than the width of a compact car and not much longer.
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I find it hilarious that these people lost their child in the airport and didn't notice for at least a half an hour and all of it was filmed and aired on television and it was considered entertaining and now Jana was arrested for not properly watching her niece. So now it's a problem? There's a reason some of the kids are called the Lost Girls. This family has been losing children for over a decade.
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1 hour ago, Irlandesa said:
And there was a lesbian love story, including a chaste kiss, in last night's Every Time A Bell Rings.
An interracial lesbian love story even. My dad asked if we were sure this was the Hallmark channel.
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Season 1 in general is a world away from most of the rest of the series and the pilot is the most representative of the bait and switch this series pulls selling the audience on the Charming family vs the Evil Queen and "The Final Battle" beginning.
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Dominique Dawes did some commentating in Beijing, but she's mostly focused on other things now.
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Women's team finals start at 6:45 EDT. The Women's All Around individual is scheduled for roughly the same time on Thursday.
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2 hours ago, Mr. Meatball Man said:
First off, Anna Faris decided to leave more than a week before production started for season eight, so they had to rewrite the first couple episodes quickly and come up with a farewell story for Christy on the fly.
This is just not true. Deadline reported that Anna Faris informed production of her departure early in the hiatus. They had plenty of notice about it. Yes, it was a blow and maybe they weren't happy, but I suspect that since there was no push back on the actress from anyone including Chuck Lorre, who has no problem showing his displeasure with actors who leave his show, that she had a good, but personal and private reason for it. They didn't officially announce it until September, but she didn't just decide not to come back the week before.
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MLB Thread
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The Twins had all COVID tests today come back negative, so they will likely play on Tuesday in Oakland.
One of the players who tested positive was part of the team mass vaccination, so it's not like MLB is in the clear once teams clear the 85% vaccination threshold they are pushing for teams to have fewer restrictions placed on them.
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On 3/31/2021 at 5:34 AM, merylinkid said:
Where did you get that they were taking spots from other kids? that's never been shown.
This is directly from the court proceedings of Lori Loughlin. Assistant U.S. Attorney Justin O’Connell told the court via Zoom that “Loughlin opted to cheat so her children could steal two admissions spots from more capable, deserving students.” I don't know how much clearer you can get than the prosecutor in the case stating this in court.
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Josh & Anna Smuggar: A Series of Unfortunate Events
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The question is whether this happened because there was a non-related victim of his acts or whether they truly did want to address things for their other children. If all of the victims were within the family, especially a family as insular as the Duggars, maybe they never would have done anything to acknowledge it. The whole locks on the doors and the trip to dig a ditch or whatever Josh was sent off to do might have been it and no one outside the Duggar family would ever have known anything about it.
However, there was someone else who was clearly believed and reported it to someone. At that point, it was out in the open and they needed to do something to seem like they were addressing it. Court testimony shows that Josh was acting badly for years and they knew about it. So what changed to make them actually address it with others? Why were Josh and his victims suddenly discussing this in front of their church and a police report being filed? Something spurred them to act when they had done the bare minimum for years. Isn't a good explanation that he made a mistake by going after Jane Doe #5? There are numerous reasons why this person wouldn't want to push too hard about Josh, but I can see the people who care about her privately demanding more be done to deal with him. And since it wouldn't be widely known that other victims existed or the extent of his actions towards them, it might not have seemed to be as big a deal to them. A repressed teenage boy who touches a girl against her will is very bad, but it's much worse when put in the context of years of abuse of others which had been largely ignored.