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TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apacalypse. from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
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#1: Nov 6th 2011 at 7:41:25 PM

A new AMC series that premered on November 6, 2011. Another western series.

Set in the 1860s at the beginning of Reconstruction, the series follows Cullen Bohannon, a former Confederate soldier, who is determined to exact revenge on the Union soldiers who murdered his wife. His quest for vengeance sends him westward to Nebraska's "Hell on Wheels," the lawless town that moves with the construction of the transcontinental railroad. However, things get complicated when a Cheyenne tribe attacks the construction of the railroad, determined to destroy the project because it is being built through their lands.

Our newly created page for the series is here. Hell on Wheels

It needs a good image and plenty more tropes.

edited 6th Nov '11 8:06:07 PM by TuefelHundenIV

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Nohbody "In distress", my ass. from Somewhere in Dixie Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
"In distress", my ass.
#2: Nov 6th 2011 at 8:02:39 PM

You forgot a * BTW. tongue

Anyway, added Roaring Rampage of Revenge, but I don't think I'll be following this show, so that's probably the limit of my editing for the page. Didn't really catch my interest, and what I saw wasn't enough to make me want to give it a further chance.

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TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apacalypse. from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
#3: Nov 6th 2011 at 8:06:36 PM

I will wait and see what time slot it falls into. It looks to have some interesting potential.

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Dekunobo from underground bunker Since: Aug, 2011
#4: Nov 6th 2011 at 8:52:06 PM

I'm watching it as I type this. I'll add a few entries.

TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apacalypse. from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
#6: Nov 8th 2011 at 12:12:21 PM

They wasted no time into folks dieing or being abused.

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Izeinsummer Since: Jan, 2015
#7: Nov 8th 2011 at 1:21:50 PM

The premise is such a massive turnoff that I have given the show a pass on general principle : Ta-Nishi is right, it is another piece of lost cause apolagia and I cannot tolerate it. It grates about as badly as a show that took holocaust denialism seriously as a founding premise. (these also exist. I dont watch them either)

TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apacalypse. from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
#8: Nov 8th 2011 at 1:47:45 PM

What you said makes little sense. In what way is it a lost cause apologia and comparing it to holocaust denial is a serious stretch.

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Izeinsummer Since: Jan, 2015
#9: Nov 8th 2011 at 2:04:22 PM

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/11/the-politically-correct-confederacy/247894/

says it better than I am likely to do. The basic problem is that the ACW was perhaps the most just war in history - in terms of the righteousness of the northern cause, in terms of the quite remarkably low civilian casualties... If ever there was a righteous war, this was it. And you know what? This makes for an excellent setting for tv / movies. I mean, you could easily use the south much like the nazis are deployed in film and tv: Excellent mustacio-twirling villians whos evil is quite adequately established by their uniform. Or average joes conscripted into the service of a vile cause. And.. I very rarely see that. Instead we get this kind of crap.

edited 8th Nov '11 2:05:13 PM by Izeinsummer

TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apacalypse. from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
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#10: Nov 8th 2011 at 2:32:38 PM

Tiny flaw. This is post civil war during American expansion. And there has been one episode. Both you and that very short article are making some pretty broad and assuming points after only having the premier. I am failing to see any of their points. All the characters shown so far are far from nice or just people.

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Merlo *hrrrrrk* from the masochist chamber Since: Oct, 2009
*hrrrrrk*
#11: Nov 8th 2011 at 2:36:23 PM

Looks interesting... anyplace I can watch it online? I don't have TV.

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TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apacalypse. from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
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#12: Nov 8th 2011 at 4:40:57 PM

Merlo: Dunno. It may become available on something like hulu or crackle later.

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TheWesterner Malicious from The Land of Fools Since: Oct, 2011
Malicious
#13: Nov 11th 2011 at 4:16:23 AM

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I was wondering why frisbees got bigger as they got closer then it hit me.
Buscemi I Am The Walrus from a log cabin Since: Jul, 2010
I Am The Walrus
#14: Nov 11th 2011 at 8:10:53 AM

Anson Mount is trying way too hard to look like Josh Brolin.

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TheFreeman from Hialeah,FL. Since: Mar, 2011
#15: Nov 15th 2011 at 5:17:08 AM

They look alike, but it seems unintentional. And you make it sound like a bad thing.

Overall, I'm digging this.

Buscemi I Am The Walrus from a log cabin Since: Jul, 2010
I Am The Walrus
#16: Nov 15th 2011 at 7:53:03 AM

Josh Brolin tried doing a Western with Jonah Hex. And it failed.

It reminds me too much of that.

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TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apacalypse. from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
#17: Nov 15th 2011 at 12:38:28 PM

I kinda like the Swede.

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TheFreeman from Hialeah,FL. Since: Mar, 2011
#18: Nov 15th 2011 at 1:44:38 PM

Yeah, I'm interested to see how things will pan out between The Swede and Bohannon.

Also would like it if we never know his actual name. Keeps the mystery...

Taelor Don't Forget To Smile from The Paths of Spite Since: Jul, 2009
Don't Forget To Smile
#19: Nov 20th 2011 at 2:59:34 PM

says it better than I am likely to do. The basic problem is that the ACW was perhaps the most just war in history - in terms of the righteousness of the northern cause, in terms of the quite remarkably low civilian casualties... If ever there was a righteous war, this was it. And you know what? This makes for an excellent setting for tv / movies. I mean, you could easily use the south much like the nazis are deployed in film and tv: Excellent mustacio-twirling villians whos evil is quite adequately established by their uniform. Or average joes conscripted into the service of a vile cause. And.. I very rarely see that. Instead we get this kind of crap.
Let me just say that if you present me with two narratives of a historical event, one with a clear "heroic" side and and a clear "villainous" side (and, coincidentally, the heroes are the ones who won and therefore got to write the history books), and another where everyone involved are amoral bastards, it's not even a question which one I'm going to find more believable.

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TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apacalypse. from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
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#20: Nov 20th 2011 at 3:26:46 PM

Or you can take the realistic view and know both sides were rotten self serving assholes.

I am intrested in the story because the characters are not exactly nice moral people. They are clearly not nice people.

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Taelor Don't Forget To Smile from The Paths of Spite Since: Jul, 2009
Don't Forget To Smile
#21: Nov 20th 2011 at 3:34:33 PM

^ That was the view that I was implying to be correct.

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TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apacalypse. from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
#22: Nov 20th 2011 at 3:36:15 PM

Shrugs. Close enough :P

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TheFreeman from Hialeah,FL. Since: Mar, 2011
#23: Dec 5th 2011 at 4:27:11 AM

The Swede's not a very nice guy.

Hehe... Negro Nemesis.

tricksterson Never Trust from Behind you with an icepick Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Never Trust
#24: Dec 12th 2011 at 10:19:53 AM

Who in this show is? Well okay the preacher and his First Nations apprentice are and maybe the two Irish boys, but that's about it.

edited 12th Dec '11 10:21:36 AM by tricksterson

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TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apacalypse. from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
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#25: Dec 12th 2011 at 12:29:28 PM

Getting ugly. Next episode has more killing and maiming :3

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