I won't comment on the mangling of Texas history - too many others have done so much better than I ever could I bought this on DVD because I am a fan of Brendan Fraser. Brendan did not disappoint but as for the rest of it?
On the whole the acting was reasonable but the story dragged abominably at times. Many extras look like they've just walked off the set of Deadwood. The firearms were at least flintlocks and not a revolver or Winchester 73 to be seen thank god! The motley collection of muzzle-loading flintlocks well reflected the Texican army's supply situation although Bill Paxton's Sam Houston referring to them as 'rifles' grates when 'muskets' would be the correct term. The story drags intolerably at times and a number of sub-plots - the settler family massacred by Indians and the Hays-Wallace quest for their stolen property - simply make no sense to the overall story.
The action scenes are good enough with the right touch of gore and violence for today's audiences although the sex scenes are tame compared to Rome or Game of Thrones and perhaps should have been dispensed with.
On the whole I didn't mind the series, the acting and action (when it occurred) made up for a lot of the faults. When watching just forget history and think of tag line at the end credits: 'All events and people in this production are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons living and dead is purely coincidental'.
On the whole the acting was reasonable but the story dragged abominably at times. Many extras look like they've just walked off the set of Deadwood. The firearms were at least flintlocks and not a revolver or Winchester 73 to be seen thank god! The motley collection of muzzle-loading flintlocks well reflected the Texican army's supply situation although Bill Paxton's Sam Houston referring to them as 'rifles' grates when 'muskets' would be the correct term. The story drags intolerably at times and a number of sub-plots - the settler family massacred by Indians and the Hays-Wallace quest for their stolen property - simply make no sense to the overall story.
The action scenes are good enough with the right touch of gore and violence for today's audiences although the sex scenes are tame compared to Rome or Game of Thrones and perhaps should have been dispensed with.
On the whole I didn't mind the series, the acting and action (when it occurred) made up for a lot of the faults. When watching just forget history and think of tag line at the end credits: 'All events and people in this production are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons living and dead is purely coincidental'.