Of course I had.
It didn’t really seem relevant to my point regarding any supposed sanctity of Columbus’s legacy. I was just pointing out that the conversation was happening; it was not meant to be any kind of in-depth treatise on the positions or behaviours of any pro- or anti-Macdonald groups.
I never post politically-themed comments unless I think they're relevant. There's an element of connect-the-historical/cultural-dots to Columbus, Macdonald, the residential schools, the vandalism of the statues and churches, the current federal election, and the shitstorm going on in Alberta over the draft curriculum and how the government deliberately ignored the part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's requirement that teaching about indigenous issues begin in kindergarten, not years later, not to mention that it was a blatantly racist buddy of Jason Kenney who oversaw the social studies portion of the curriculum draft.
All these things are connected, but I suppose you're not seeing all the dots because you don't live in this region and aren't constantly surrounded by some of these issues. And if you have a provincial representative who isn't a bigot who supports racists, consider yourself lucky.
Lots that I like in that list, but yes, there's quite a lot, but it's also spread out quite about more. As you point out, they go quite a far way back,. which is part of the problem. There's a big gap between what Corner Gas accomplished and some of the others. I think the last big one before that might have been Beachcombers, which is a national treasure, imho.
I have no quibble at all with considering The Beachcombers a national treasure. I have my favorite episodes, and that haunting song that Gordon Pinsent sang in one of the episodes still runs through my mind on occasion, even though it's been nearly 50 years since I saw it (my mind works like a tape recorder when it comes to certain kinds of music). My grandmother had a crush on Bruno Gerussi and I was at the age when I thought Bob Park (Hugh) was pretty cute. I was disappointed when he left the show, but by then I was getting old enough to agree with my grandmother's opinion of Gerussi.
My favorite episode, though, will always be the crossover with the Irish Rovers. And of course, due to an insane tangle of copyright issues and rights and the feud that led to Will Millar quitting the group back in the '90s, that's the one episode that will never appear on DVD (not that any others have; it's insane that CBC and the show's creators are sitting on a gold mine and insist on doing nothing with it).
I often feel that we sometimes get treated as second class citizens when it comes to access to viewing things. I remember hearing some big buzz about several movies filmed locally, but when it came time to finding out where to see them, that information was inconspicuously absent, like they didn't even exist. And sometimes that even applies to big budget releases, that for some reason or other, even if they get big buzz, are nowhere to be found domestically. I think there's still a lot of work to be done on that end regarding access and viewing differences.
Sometimes? Almost constantly, in my view. The only time we have an advantage is when the show isn't really worth watching (I'm referring to atrocious offerings like Picard).
Regarding the Borgias, Ok, you've convinced me to watch the co-production. I just have to figure out if I can watch it on Netflix. Btw, in a related matter, have you seen the Medici series on there? If so, what did you think?
I have no idea if it's on Netflix. I canceled Netflix years ago after my account got hijacked by someone in Italy and Netflix's customer service people did exactly nothing helpful to stop it. I bought the series on Amazon, including the script for what would have been the final TV movie that should have been a full 10-episode season.
If you've seen The Tudors, you'll recognize a few of the cast from that (ie. Ursula Bonadeo is played by the same actress who played Bessie Blount in The Tudors). David Oakes is in a lot of period shows (he plays Juan).
If you like the show, would you be interested in reading any fanfic? There's everything from adventure and romance to humor and really heartbreaking stories. I've been working on a crossover with
Doctor Who (Fifth Doctor, Tegan, Nyssa) that's nowhere near finished, but there's a ton of anachronistic fanfics that cross
The Borgias with
The Tudors (they're anachronistic because they often have Cesare paired with Anne Boleyn, and in real history he was dead before she was even out of childhood).
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