I like this show and Faux had better not take it off the air. I mean it. I'm getting sick and tired of liking a show and having it ripped off the air when they keep tripe on for years. It's irratating.
Also someone on the message board about the show was being RACIST. Racism is so stupid! I'd like to line all sorts of interracial couples in front of him and have them make out just to annoy him.
Posted by Elmer's Glue (Member # 9313) on :
I didn't like it. The whole, there's only one person ever that you are meant to be with thing is dumb. If you don't even have to be alive at the same time that doesn't give much chance for anyone.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
I reckon. But I still thought it was worth watching just for that neat New York montage. But I don't think northeast Indians lived in tee pees. They just use those so that it =indians. Still, I got to wonder about that one true love thing It could be several true loves... or maybe just a person who is not a jerk.
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
I completely agree about the teepees - I was screaming at the TV - "NO! Someone do their homework!"
I also think the mysteries are pretty predicatable and lame. There's no real detective work going on. Maybe that will change after they establish the characters a little better, but for now it's pretty sub-par in the plot department.
He's cute, though.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Yeah, he is rather ruggedly handsome... Or unruggedly so.
Didn't Native Americans in the Northeast live in long houses? At least Iroquios (sp) did.
Still, the montage rocked despite the inaccuracy.
Posted by orlox (Member # 2392) on :
Immortality is always wasted on those who least appreciate it.
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
quote:Originally posted by Synesthesia: I like this show and Faux had better not take it off the air.
quote: On Tuesday, October 16, 2007, an article in The Hollywood Reporter stated that production on New Amsterdam had been stopped for an indefinite period, with "seven episodes of the series in the can". The article also mentioned that Fox decided to review the series and then decide whether or not to order new episodes, something that the article writer asserted was considered to be unlikely.
(wikipedia link)
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
quote:Originally posted by Mucus:
quote:Originally posted by Synesthesia: I like this show and Faux had better not take it off the air.
quote: On Tuesday, October 16, 2007, an article in The Hollywood Reporter stated that production on New Amsterdam had been stopped for an indefinite period, with "seven episodes of the series in the can". The article also mentioned that Fox decided to review the series and then decide whether or not to order new episodes, something that the article writer asserted was considered to be unlikely.
(wikipedia link)
Why does Fox even bother coming out with new dramas? It's bad enough that The Women's Murder Club might be already canceled when I like that show too. Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
See, this is why I don't bother to watch TV any more.
Or is it better to have watched and lost than never to have watched at all?
Posted by AvidReader (Member # 6007) on :
Only if it's Hiatus.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
I loved the show. I watched the original pilot a couple of months ago, and they changed it a little bit. I think he ran into her at the hospital afterwards in the original.
Also, I was blown away by the fact that he was his son. I didn't see that coming.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Me neither. I thought that was so cool. But what does this station do? Torment us with some show about plastic surgery and people lying about it while they swap wives and kids and then a nanny comes in to try to teach them how to deal with other people's kids only to find out they are on an island full of people trying to break up their marriage with their masculine and feminine wiles.
Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :
Some of the tribes that were probably around New Amsterdam at the time include the Montauk and the Narragansett. They are both Algonquin. The Mohawk were around that area, too, but they were Iroquois. Either way, there would have been wigwams or longhouses.
I know for sure that a group of the Narrangansett fled the area of New Amsterdam, but then some loserly public official hunted them down in the middle of the night and massacred them. He was publicly denounced as a murderer from the pulpit by New Amsterdam's first permanent minister (Dutch Reformed Church), Everardus Bogardus. It was quite the conflict.
Puffy and I are direct descendants of Everadus Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Porc: That's funny... I'm Algonquin.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
"Or is it better to have watched and lost than never to have watched at all?"
No, it is better to have watched "Lost" than never to have watched at all."
Duh.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Here are some wigwams that are shaped like teepees, but I can;t remember what the ones on the show looked like:
They usually stayed in the longhouses in winter, and traveled about more in summer.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Nope, reverse that, I guess!
Anyway, I can't believe the show is going to air opposite "Lost?" I guess they do want it to fail, the bums.
I love it. The only thing I don;t like is Amsterdam's goofy beard and mustache in the 1600's.
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
I didn't get to see New Amsterdam because it was on opposite both Lost and Reaper.
I also wanted to see CSI.
So there's 4 shows I want to see all on at the same time and my DVR can only do 2 of them. *grump*
I saw the pilot though, and enjoyed it despite it being flawed.
Posted by Puffy Treat (Member # 7210) on :
quote:Originally posted by porcelain girl: Everardus Bogardus
That's like, the coolest name ever.
Posted by porcelain girl (Member # 1080) on :
Yeah, I am going to name all my hypothetical children after our Dutch ancestors from the 17th century.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
"his one true love."
What if the love he needs is the love of himself?
Posted by Ron Lambert (Member # 2872) on :
The immortal detective in New Amsterdam sounds a lot like The Highlander and its sequels. I was amused in the last episode when the hero, John Amsterdam--played by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (talk about someone who needs a screen name!)--told the little boy all the different ways he had been killed, and yet survived. The little boy, who probably had seen Highlander, asked "What if your head were cut off?" John just replied that he hadn't tried that one yet.
As for the "racism" in the last episode--it was set in 1941, when American society was for a fact very racist. That time cannot be accurately depicted without showing the racism. And Amsterdam bucked the racist mainstream by falling in love with and marrying (defying the illegality of it at that time) a black lady, and that is where Amsterdam's mixed race son, Omar, came from, whom Amsterdam clearly loves and respects, and seeks out for company.
Posted by Ron Lambert (Member # 2872) on :
I wonder how differently New York might have turned out if the English had not taken over New Amsterdam from the peaceful Dutch, who offered no resistance to the English bullies.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
They weren't so much peaceful as intelligent, Ron. They knew they were overpowered, and decided to give up rather than fight and die.
Remember the first scene of New Amsterdam? Those peaceful people slaughtering the Native Americans? Those were the Dutch.
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