I was, too. I’m still glad she made the point about the servants though, even if it was only to the camera. I think they would have done fine, if someone like Jack had been in a leadership position from the beginning. After Jack’s arrival, the production did increase, the sleeping in ended, and I even saw a shot of ol’ man Heinz chopping wood.
This has been the worst ‘house’ show by far.
The new Indians on the last episode were pretty annoying. The ‘steal the chicken’ bit because “Hey man, they were all in church and there was no gate so we took it” was pretty pathetic.
Their chief, and it seemed like most of the tribe has the biggest chip on their shoulder but they didn’t seem to get that the fact they couldn’t trade with the colony was bad for them. Then when the chief chastised the colony’s men because she was in her ‘best’ clothes for the visit and they weren’t dressed up, umm excuse me but you just dropped in unannounced.
Mrs. Heinze now is she Lady MacBeth or Mrs Dalloway? Always planning parties and running everything over and over again in her mind. And then afterwards when she explained that the only reason the auditors called for a new governor was because he said he prefered being the minister, not because he sucked as a governor.
I thought the auditor that said they colony seemed to view the indian relations through the historical view and didn’t want to repeat that relationship hit the nail on the head.
But the thing that made my jaw hit the floor was Mrs. V who said, hey in the colony after you had a disagreement you had to get past it and move on.
Oh yeah, that’s so you Mrs. V.
I’m glad this series if over.
I think maybe a depression era show should be next. Or maybe Plantation House.
I don’t see too many black folks lining up to do an Antebellum House, but it would be interesting to see how long it would take before there’s a slave rebellion.
Say what you will about the Voorhees, but I was shocked to hear that Giacomo was only 11. I thought for sure he was a mature 15. What a smart, level-headed child. He even used SURREAL correctly to describe his last day at the colony. I can’t believe that he is basically the same age as the Wyer kid.
As for the Heinz–oh my god! They were absolutely the laziest people ever. They commissed Dom to draw Heinz’s portrait while everyone else was working (except Jonathon, though I do see some benefit to having the maps drawn)? And they open a school but it is to teach Dom and Jon Greek? Meanwhille, there are 11 year olds slaving in the field. Get a grip!
And Jon–he considers himself a devout Southern Baptist but didn’t know that homosexuality was frowned on? Really? What church was he going to?
Bethany in 2003 looked hot–and I am straight and saying that. I was impressed that she realized that even other Christians think differently than she does; looks like her world was opened up a bit.
I have to say, my two favorite people were Jack (yeah, I’m kicking you all out) and Don Woods (and not just because Henry looks like our dogs). Was surprised that Dom is headed to the ministry; I didn’t really get that impression from him. I would have liked more follow up on the rest of the folks, though, especially the women.
You would do color blind casting. Or have all the slaves be white and the owners black. I’m sure a young modern black woman would find sitting a a corset all day and the rules she would have to obey to be quite shocking.
Just the satisfaction of a job poorly done. 
i gotta admit i scared the cats when “the portrait” was announced. i let out a huge “WHAT!!!” and laughed for about 10 minutes.
that thing was huge! i laughed again when heinz dragged it out of the colony, it was almost life sized.
dom seemed a bit lb-l from changing rooms.
i think the portrait and greek lessons should be saved for the cabin fever phase of winter, not harvest time. good heavens! i’m wondering what the rest of the colonists thought of art and language time.
the maps could come in handy, those made sense. of course again not during harvest week.
i was able to pick out coworkers that would be interchangable with the people in the colony. when i described the portrait thing 20 out of 21 people correctly named the co worker, and this guy is in upper management.
Interestingly, it was similar a sort of thinking that led to a 1823 Supreme Court ruling, with the majority opinion written by chief justice John Marshall, which was more or less to the effect that the Cherokee Indians living and farming in Georgia had certain rights to their lands by reason of their “occupancy,” but that whites had a superior claim to the land owing to their “discovery.”
I suppose you’re saying the Indians didn’t have colonies because they did not retain ties to some sort of nation-states from where they came, not that such a thing could possible have been remotely feasible at the time they arrived.
However, some Indian nations, city-states, or tribes (notably in Central and South America, but I think a case could be made for some North American tribes) did indeed send groups of people (sometimes following conquest) to occupy new lands whilst retaining ties to the larger nation or tribe. Hence, colonies.
People play fast and loose with history, and are spectacularly dismissive of a non English-centric point of view, when making statements like “Jamestown was the first successful American colony.” The quoted statement ignores settlements and colonies which predate Jamestown inhabited by the Norse, Spanish, and escaped African slaves. Also, doesn’t it seem silly to make such a distinction (as if it were important) between the words colony and settlement?
some of the colonists and at last check one of the native americans are posting on the colonial house thread at twop. on page 84 dodgy (don woods) links to his yahoo group that he started to answer questions about colonial house. he has pictures of this past weekend’s plimouth plantation colonial house visit.
some very interesting insights on what ended up on the floor during editing.