Lots of people, lots of street life, a fair bit of crime, hustle and bustle. At least, for the central Canadian city I live in. Someplace like Houston or LA would have a different vibe.
I quite like that they included Bass Reeves as one of the famous Texans. It is a great nod by Disney of representing the black experience in the West. Not to mention Reeves' story is a sort of over the top "Shaft in the Old West" narrative that really should have its own movie made.
As a Montrealer, I would wish T.O. all the best with hosting the Olympics. We only finished paying off the Big Owe in 2006, thirty years after the circus left town.
Is there a possibility for Disney to get an HSR similar to--although with less...
There's a certain "clips show" retrospective feel to this post that brings back all the warm fuzzies of following this timeline from beginning to the current point.
I could certainly see Guards! Guards! working as a film. In fact, I could see it as a Henson/Muppets joint: live actors playing the human characters with muppet swamp dragons based off that dragon walk-around puppet that already exists.
It's odd to think of Mort with musical numbers...but the description of the film makes this die-hard Pratchett fan really wish he could see through the veil between worlds to catch a glimpse of it.
Maus is an especially difficult work to portray in animation because the main "voice of memory"--Vladek Spiegelman--is such a cantankerous and shifty character that he comes across as an almost anti-Semitic stereotype. While much of it came from his Holocaust experiences, it is made quite clear...
I PM'ed Geekis earlier about my appreciation for this thread. But after finally blasting through the last of the entries--sadly, skipping the commentary due to time constraints--I am finally free to say how much I've enjoyed this TL. I think my favorite bit was Ivan Boesky forcing Frank Oz to...
The Empress of Ireland wouldn't have had the same impact as the Titanic even if the latter hadn't sunk as OTL. The Titanic's impact on the popular imagination wasn't merely the sinking. It was the context: the sinking of a huge and technically-advanced liner on its maiden voyage, carrying the...
The only way to avoid a civil war would be to have invisible fairies constantly smacking the Founders with cluebats at the signing of the Constitution while chanting "slavery is bad, slavery is bad!"
The South was trapped by its own paradigm. It was terrified of another Santo Domingo...