I loved it!

I'm ready to fight, are you?

My great great great grandfather was a Colonel in the Revolutionary War. I'm a veteran of OEF. Let's do this...

Hell yeah man, a storms gathering since the internet is exposing how much the media and government lies. I'd say if we don't have major changes in the next year or two (probably won't), some kind of revolution will break out. People are already organizing, and it's actually happening in every country. Generations have been manipulated through school and the media but the internet *beep* that up lol. If you're a fan of history, political science, economics, you can completely see how much we are being screwed. Either we step up or eventually we'll live in a system totally controlled by multinational corporations with no freedom. The reason it's so important is because if we do fall under even more tyranny, with technology now you'd NEVER again have a free society since now a population can be so controlled and watched. Every person that new about us being spied on should be arrested. We literally oppress the rest of the world. Lincoln, fdr, and jfk, all had plans to stop empiralism and build railroads, hydroelectric damns in africa, nuclear power plants, ect. Instead truman reversed fdrs plans and used the British contril and oppress model. I'd like to be proud to be american. Such a great country but we need to take it back. Learn, teach, organize, and our day will come.

It was pretty much a brief summery of the American revolution. No doubt with the short scheduling and budget, they need to make XYZ happen in abbreviated doses. If you really wanted to go in depth on every aspect of it, you'll probably need 2-3 seasons worth of episodes. (Which I wouldn't mind, but too bad the network didn't choose that route)

As far as not knowing what it was like to live in the late 18th century? Yes you can know. There are countless written records of the period as well as paintings and drawings and maps.

I'll call it creative license. I won't fault them for trying a new route and "modernizing" it a bit for general audiences. I've seen my fair share of colonial period flims (John Adams, Lincoln, The Patriot, etc, etc...) some more "period" then others. But sometimes it's refreshing to get a new spin on things, instead of the same old same old. "Sir" "madam" speeches, curtsy and the like.

For those criticizing the creative liberties, you might as well flog Shakespeare for his bio-play on Henry VII. Did Henry VII go bar hopping with a buddy drunk name Falstaff? Heck no, but hey he used creative license for an audience hungry for entertainment.

Agreed, I was never really a fan of the Colonial era, (favoring Medivel and ancient history) but the series actually made me relook at the American revolution. I find that a good thing if it gets people to crack open a book or google the historical events. Either way even if you found that it was not how it happened, you still learn something.