Hell On Wheels starts tonight

[whole bean]

Would a church in that era have had a floor register intake for the furnace? I thought those were used in modern furnaces that used electric blowers. It the answer is no, then this is just one more anachronism.

As for talking about Sherman's March (the March to the Sea, also called the Savannah Campaign), isn't it likely that they were the same troops from the Battle of Meridian?

[Chefguy]

Originally Posted by whole bean

Would a church in that era have had a floor register intake for the furnace? I thought those were used in modern furnaces that used electric blowers. It the answer is no, then this is just one more anachronism.

As for talking about Sherman's March (the March to the Sea, also called the Savannah Campaign), isn't it likely that they were the same troops from the Battle of Meridian?

Well, the electric motor was supposedly invented in 1821, but the electric fan didn't appear until around the end of the century. Since this thing all takes place out on the frontier, I seriously doubt that there were any power generation plants there in 1865, and that heating was either from coal or wood firing a steam boiler perhaps.

[whole bean]

Originally Posted by Chefguy

Well, the electric motor was supposedly invented in 1821, but the electric fan didn't appear until around the end of the century. Since this thing all takes place out on the frontier, I seriously doubt that there were any power generation plants there in 1865, and that heating was either from coal or wood firing a steam boiler perhaps.

this was a church in DC

[Sampiro]

I'm still working on how he snuck in and got into the priest's box in the confessional without anybody seeing him, because there were several people in the church (including, presumably somewhere, the priest).

[hajario]

I am about ready to give up. I gave it one more week two weeks ago because I liked The Swede. The last show really sucked though.

[John Mace]

I'm still in. It's not very good, but it's not terrible. Let's just say I'm week-to-week at this point. Could drop it at any time.

[Erdosain]

Originally Posted by John Mace

I'm still in. It's not very good, but it's not terrible. Let's just say I'm week-to-week at this point. Could drop it at any time.

Yep, it's not very good, but it's not terrible. They should put that in the ad.

I still like it better than the Walking Dead, if only because it hasn't yet exhausted my patience. But they're getting close.

[What the .... ?!?!]

I like the subject matter but the show is pretty terrible.

Do we know what the time frame is between the end of the civil war and the "current"?

What's so special about the maps?

Why did Durant fret about not reaching the Pacific when that isn't the end point?

[LVBoPeep]

I guess I'm in the minority but so far I've liked it, especially the last episode. I like Bohannon and the Swede is hard to look away from (in a creepy way, not handsome way). The story of the Indian trying to be a "Christian" is interesting and Colm Meaney is sufficiently slimy. It's no Breaking Bad, of course, but it's still keeping our interest.

[Erdosain]

Originally Posted by What the .... ?!?!

What's so special about the maps?

They probably represent months of work, scouting and surveying the route ahead. Durant needs to build the railroad fast to get the federal money; he doesn't have time to send out another surveyor and wait a couple more months.

[Dewey Finn]

Originally Posted by What the .... ?!?!

Do we know what the time frame is between the end of the civil war and the "current"?

The real transcontinental railroad was built between 1863-9. I'm a little embarrassed that I had to look that up as I wrote a paper on the building of the railroad in high school. At the time, I had ambitions to liken its building to the building of communications satellites, in terms of impact. But I never got that far. So I'm interested in the show for historic reasons. But in some ways it seems like they're trying to reproduce Deadwood, with Durant in the Hearst role, and Bohannon perhaps the equivalent of Seth Bullock.

[What the .... ?!?!]

Originally Posted by Dewey Finn

The real transcontinental railroad was built between 1863-9. I'm a little embarrassed that I had to look that up as I wrote a paper on the building of the railroad in high school. At the time, I had ambitions to liken its building to the building of communications satellites, in terms of impact. But I never got that far. So I'm interested in the show for historic reasons. But in some ways it seems like they're trying to reproduce Deadwood, with Durant in the Hearst role, and Bohannon perhaps the equivalent of Seth Bullock.

The Union Pacific didn't start construction west of Omaha until 7/65 though. I was asking relative to the time frame that the main guy has had to kill all of his wife's killers.

[What the .... ?!?!]

Originally Posted by Erdosain

They probably represent months of work, scouting and surveying the route ahead. Durant needs to build the railroad fast to get the federal money; he doesn't have time to send out another surveyor and wait a couple more months.

I thought it might have something to do with land that he has or will want to buy up.

[Sampiro]

Originally Posted by Erdosain

I still like it better than the Walking Dead, if only because it hasn't yet exhausted my patience.

Maybe the railroad crew in the 1860s will be the ones to find Sophia.

[John Mace]

Originally Posted by Sampiro

Maybe the railroad crew in the 1860s will be the ones to find Sophia.

No, that'll be next season's Terra Nova. They go 80M years into the future, one day at a time, to find her.

[Erdosain]

Originally Posted by Sampiro

Maybe the railroad crew in the 1860s will be the ones to find Sophia.

I'm more and more convinced that Sophia is living with the Russian guy in Jersey's Pine Barrens.

[John Mace]

Originally Posted by Erdosain

I'm more and more convinced that Sophia is living with the Russian guy in Jersey's Pine Barrens.

Or when they find her, she'll be a 6 ft tall Black teenage boy who plays basketball.

[Sampiro]

Sounds like a steampunk version of Changeling.

[Jeffrey Donovan in Bad Accent du Jour]Ma'am, you're just too griefstricken to remember her properly, but sometimes dese t'ings happen. Little girls, dey grow up, dey get taller, dey develop full grown male sex organs, dey turn black, dey make up stories about when dey was ex slaves workin' on da railroad, now don't make me have to slap some sense into ya, just hug and kiss your daughta...[/Jeffrey Donovan in Bad Accent du Jour]

[Lute Skywatcher]

New season starts Sunday.

[LVBoPeep]

I'll be tuning in... I thought it really picked up in the last half of the first season.

[Fir na tine]

Originally Posted by Lute Skywatcher

New season starts Sunday.

And they are running the entire first season in order on the same day!

[thinksnow]

Anyone back on this?

[Southern Yankee]

I'm watching it. Anyone else have a hard time making out all the dialogue? It could be my hearing...

[thinksnow]

Finally watched the 2-hour finale. Pretty great bit of acting all around, though I'm still bit surprised they killed off Lily Bell. I expected her to punch the Swede in the burnt-up guts, get away and have Cullen blast him.