RE: Random Thoughts
March 23, 2020 at 10:33 am
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2020 at 10:35 am by Rev. Rye.)
Somehow, I did not know that HBO was adapting The Plot Against America until a few minutes ago.
This may be because my big Philip Roth kick happened in 2018 (and it started before he died, mind you), but overall, it looks good. Although the scenes of the kids pledging allegiance gives me mixed feelings, if only because I know that, until 1942 (and as a direct results of WW2 interventionists that Lindbergh despised), the Pledge of Allegiance looked like this:
One strongly suspects that they changed this because less-informed viewers would see kids thrusting out their arms to salute the flag as too over-the top and not something that was actually in common use for a little less than half a century prior to the events of the series.
This may be because my big Philip Roth kick happened in 2018 (and it started before he died, mind you), but overall, it looks good. Although the scenes of the kids pledging allegiance gives me mixed feelings, if only because I know that, until 1942 (and as a direct results of WW2 interventionists that Lindbergh despised), the Pledge of Allegiance looked like this:
One strongly suspects that they changed this because less-informed viewers would see kids thrusting out their arms to salute the flag as too over-the top and not something that was actually in common use for a little less than half a century prior to the events of the series.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.