colector: Re: [JournalWriting]Sharing/PBS review

Me too, loved them.

Although the Pioneer House series (was that the one set on the prairie where the engaged couple actually got married and their honeymoon was part of the show, talk about 'til death do you part') or was it the one set on the remote Texas ranch with the cowboys, ranchers and long-horn cattle drive? Anyway, the Texas ranch one was, by far, the most difficult to watch. Those people truly suffered: bad relationships between the pretend ranch family and the inexperienced cowboys, the cowboys and the cook(s), the rancher and the ranch forman(s), etc. They went through a lot of people. I don't think anybody had any fun on that particular series.

There was a notable difference between the English versions and the American ones that is evident in the two cultures. The English were willing to follow the rules and wouldn't dream of cheating, the Americans: not so much. We're always looking for an easier or more independent angle, aren't we?

Linda

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mary <soragne@yahoo.com>
>Sent: Mar 18, 2008 8:29 PM
>To: JournalWriting@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [JournalWriting]Sharing/PBS review
>
>--- In JournalWriting@yahoogroups.com, linda head <lynhead52@...> wrote:
>>I give it 5 stars. Hope you watch it.
>>What part of history would you like to experience and why?
>> what part would you like to play-------
>
>Linda,
>
>I'm a fan on those PBS "reality" shows (that's what they are,
>I think LOL). Though I only got to watch the first Dvd of
>"Colonial House" (library copy... by the time I got to watch it
>I realized the second disc was missing), I found it fascinating.
>
>I went to see the reproduction of the "Jamestown" settlement in
>VA a few years back... and the houses on the show seemed MUCH
>bigger! Not a period of time I would have chosen to go back to.
>Actually there aren't many... I'm all too fond of plumbing and
>toilets :). And I'm a "shopper" not a farmer! I couldn't
>grow enough snow peas to make a salad but you'd be hard put
>to find someone who could track down the cheapest but best
>cuts of porterhouse on any given day within 15 miles of
>my zipcode LOL!
>
>My favorite from the series remains "Manor House" set in Edwardian
>England. There's also "Regency House Party" (didn't care too much
>for that though I loooove Jane Austen) and "Pioneer House" (didn't
>see that yet).
>
>Mary, CT
>
>

Linda in Atlanta

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