John Adams HBO series and real history

[dumbledore11214]

> Potioncat:
> The article pointed even more descrepencies than Tom and I caught. 
> (More catching done by him than me.)
> 
> John did disown Charles. But the founding fathers may not have been 
the 
> type of fathers that we look to today. Franklin was also estranged 
from 
> his son, and possibly a grandson. Of course, his son was a Torry. I 
> once read an article bashing Jefferson because of letters he sent 
to 
> his daughter. The writer thought he was very harsh.

Alla:

Well, yes, but it appears that while John Adams was not a perfect 
father, he was not a type of absentee dad (even if for a patriotic 
cause) that series portrayed to me. Why why did they feel a need to 
portray as if he did not take Charles to France with him when he took 
John Quincy? I mean, he did take Charles and then he took both boys 
to Holland with him as well.

See, that to me is a type of syndrome which even best Holywood movies 
have, heroes just HAVE TO do something bad. And if that something bad 
was  not terribly bad, let's just make it terribly bad for dramatic 
effect.

I now want to slap the filmmakers instead of John Adams LOL. I mean, 
again, I am not saying that he was perfect father, but it seems to me 
that he tried hard to be a good one.



Potioncat: 
> But, the series was very good. Did you see, Paul G. did get the 
award! 
> We'll watch it again. But I need a break from it before we put it 
on 
> again.


Alla:

Without any doubt series were very good, I just wish they would look 
for real drama in John Adams' and his family lives instead inventing 
their owns way too often IMO.