I've been liking this series, but yeah...oh my god man this girl is driving me crazy. I think that either you'll get it or you won't, but at least for me, I spend half this episode just cringing my ass off.
Anyone else?
Yes, some of it is pretty cringey. It's very draaaaamaaa! But I like that the men get to be men and that the show respects that men were needed and that they were needed AS men. I like that the central male characters aren't horrible jerks who are responsible for all the evil in the world.
I'm checking off the wagon train tropes we're getting. Rattlesnake bites: check. People drown crossing the river: check. Fantastic vistas across the prairie: check. Chasing wild horses: check. Gunfights: check, check, and check. And now, big plains storm with tornado: check.
I'm saying wagon train tropes are a GOOD thing. They're why I'm watching.
I feel like they tried to turn her into Deanery's from GOT when she rode out in the sleeveless Indian top. Then she gets all dramatic with Sam before complaining about time being wasted and they should go.
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I think Taylor Sheridan actually writes all the episodes himself. I'm amazed he can do all that writing but if there were several writers then some of the silliness might get caught before it ends up on screen.
I just wonder if he has long term visions for his stories. I noticed with Yellowstone that the first season wasn't too bad and then from there it just got more and more stupid and extreme. It was like he never thought it would last so didn't think about it and then had to quickly come up with more stories.
shareI can't rightly explain how frustrated I was having to sit here and watch her wailing...all eyes on her, everyone waiting for her to finish bawling her eyes out, including us, so we could get on with the journey/show. This being the second time in what? Two weeks? That they're all being held hostage by her drama?
So when she concludes her wailing by riding up and growling that line, "Time's bein' wasted", I actually yelled "Oh fuck you" to my TV. Way too much, way too silly that this show has decided to focus on her drama.
Personally, being older man, I just can't see her struggle from anything other than an adult's perspective...relating much more to her father than to her. And this guy is doing his damndest trying to get his family to Oregon while she's running around falling in love with guys along the way, threatening to join the damn Comanchee nation or whatever. Dude has to be about to lose his shit having to deal with her antics on top of everything else...
And for her to ride up like that, "Taahm's bein' wasteeed". Oh fuck you. If I was her Dad, I'd have wanted to shoot myself in the head right then and there than to have to deal with any more of her drama. "Time's bein' wasted", you're damn right it is...its being wasted on you and your bullshit. And it might be an overreaction on my part, but this has been coming since she first exchanged flirtatious glances with that Indian guy and I was sure that there's no way we were going to have to be put through the same drama a second time in so few episodes. This...no, it won't happen, there's no way they'd do that, right? Didn't her fiancé JUST die?
Nope, they did it, we had to slog through it...and to see her growling about time being wasted, in that dramatic fashion of hers, oh fuck you lol you don't get to say that!
The era this is set doesn't help either. There is no way back then that her parents would allow her to ride with cowboys let alone flirt openly. And the two cowboys she in the ditch with when the tornado was approaching would not just sit by and let that Indian make out with her.
The Indian would never have engaged in a horse race with a woman either let alone be ok with her winning. And didn't she also bawl her eyes out when cowboy no. 1 died her Ennis? It took all of a show before she was flirting with cowboy 2 and then making out with the Indian.
And yes if this were real her father would be tying her in the back of the wagon and that would be it. But then she would know better than to even dare act like the way she does.
It's just too unbelievable. In a show that is otherwise reasonably realistic she is like a modern woman who has dropped through a time portal.
And if they ever reach civilization you just know that everyone is going to be talking about her being one massive slut.
"like a modern woman who has dropped through a time portal."
Good image!
Good post. Very funny!!!! Did you get to the end yet?
shareThanks! Not sure if you have seen "Outlander" but she reminds me of the main character in that show except in Outlander she really is a woman who falls through a time portal into the 17th century and then proceeds to behave in a way that would have her slapped down immediately.
I have the last ep to go. I know what happens to Elsa so maybe I will tune in for S2 anyway.
Yep I'm close to giving up on it. Rodeo Barbie (Elsa) is just too much. There is no way parents back then would be ok with their daughter riding rough with cowboys and now Indians too.
There is no way an Indian would engage in a horse race with a woman let alone be ok when he loses. Everything is so simple for Elsa.
I find her to be the least interesting character. Even the cattle are more compelling.
Her ridiculous southern accent is so off-putting. She even pronounced haha with a southern accent, "hawhaw".
shareYes! I'm glad I'm not the only one. I stopped watching after the tornado. She's screaming and then suddenly is on top of the Comanche guy passionately kissing him?! It's just too much, I feel like I'm watching one of those cheap womens sexy romance novels my boss always kept in her desk.
And another thing! Didn't that one cowboy she was 'in love with' JUST die? Is there going to be a new love interest for her every episode? It feels really young-adult.
The show had so much potential too. They should focus on Shea and Thomas and only use Elsa for the odd nude scene.
And yes she was ready to die with Ennis and next thing you know she's flirting with the other cowboy and fucking the Indian.
Highly unlikely given the era. And with two cowboys nearby as well!
All along she has this narration of how life is fragile out there, everything being hostile to human life, so you have to live in the moment and grasp every beautiful thing you can, so I guess this is why she is so impulsive and childish it kind of fits her narration; but all in all i agree her love interests are excessively corny and cheesy.
Still, watch the last episode it's pretty good, a good finale.
I’m going to finish the season. Not sure I’ll do the second one though.
shareAnd just by the way...imagine what the two of them would have smelled like. That always makes me laugh when watching gritty historical dramas with 'love' scenes.
Remember William Wallace in 'Braveheart'? The guy lived in a sod hut and washed up, MAYBE, for Christmas and Easter. Super hot guy, right, Princess Isabella? How could she resist that much animal magnetism.
And, 'Mustang'. If they were going to use Elsa for the 'odd nude scene' she'd need to shave her pits. For modern audiences. Unless that's what you meant by 'odd'...
I meant "odd" as in occasional nude scene. I was just being sarcastic really. Speaking of "odd" in the usual sense of the word, it is "odd" they have the women on the show leave their arm pits hairy yet so many other lapses in realism/authenticity are just let go altogether.
Elsa seems to like bathing a lot in rivers etc so she may not have been too bad. I am yet to see any of the men or anyone else actually bathe at all except for her mother. In reality they would have stunk.
I was being sarcastic as well, which is difficult to pull off on the internet without the use of emojis.
As to the hairy armpits, I think it's hilarious that they made that choice for 'historical accuracy' while ignoring the existence of the transcontinental rail system. I noticed that Faith Hill pretty much wears long sleeves through the whole thing. I'll bet her contract had a 'no way in freaking Hell' clause written into it.
Sometimes I'm not sure when I'm speaking Aussie so I was thinking "odd" only meant that down here. But yes sarcasm without emoji's hard to pull off.
Yeah, Elsa being sleeveless, wearing pants and chaps. Accepted Interracial relationships. Elsa shooting a buffalo first go with a pistol no less!
Faith is doing pretty good acting wise. She seems authentic to me at least in spirit if not in all the intricacies.
The hairy armpits but the perfect straight white teeth! And Elsa's new outfit and her being allowed to be so loose with all the boys given the era is just too much to suspend belief.
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