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Originally Posted by Apache
I don't know, but I think Lou Diamond Phillips as Henry Standing Bear was a poor choice. About like Tom Cruise as Reacher.
Apache
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I nearly croaked trying to watch Longmire. I mean...the show was, in many ways, fine. Not outstanding, not The Wire, but
mostly watchable.
And then they did some incredibly stupid s**t.
The biggie for me, having lived in Alaska and with our place in the Wyoming mountains, is that they had some early episode where the Sheriff, dressed in nothing but regular clothes, one flannel shirt, and a flimsy jacket, not only chases some (properly-equipped) criminal across the wilds, in snow, ice, etc., but then FALLS in a stream, and gets out, in this sub-zero weather and proceeds to beat the high holy crap out of the requisite bad guy. Uh. no. That's NOT what happens when it's below 0F or lower and you get WET.
That put me off rather majorly, such a disregard for something that many millions of people know, factually, couldn't happen. It's like something out of an Ahnuld movie from the 80's.
Then they did something else--granted, this was much later--where Walt and Vic drive "down to Arizona." Fine, hell, I make that same drive all the time.
However,
you don't make that drive in two hours. If we drive hard, from Phoenix area to the Upper Hoback, (western side of Wyoming), it's 15 HOURS. In the show, Vic is talking to the other deputy, on the phone, back in Wherever Wyoming and tells him that she and Walt will leave (Arizona) in the morning for their drive back and that they'll see so-and-so, in Wyoming, "at lunch." Uh, no, you really won't. Not lunch the same day you left, toots.
That's the kind of stuff that just slays me. None of it is hard for a writer to check. There are a lot of things that I'll give writers a pass on; I don't expect them, for example, to have local knowledge, or know that the Something-Cafe has the best bearclaws for 50 miles around--but they CAN look at a map! And they could do 5 minutes' of research to know that sub-zero temps and falling in water don't mix.
Just
ridiculous.
Having not read the books, I got nuthin' on casting. :-)
Hitch