The characters anguished for four episodes about crossing the river. Sam Elliot spends pages of script warning about the dangers of the river. Meanwhile, they walk the cattle across without a single animal getting its head wet and we’re supposed to believe people crossing in wagons or using a rope are somehow swept away to death by drowning? There wasn’t even any current. And the bodies stay floating right where they drowned so..
shareI hear ya. I also don't believe for a second that Prairie Barbie is capable of anything we see her do.
They probably picked that location because it's easy to film.
I came here after watching the first couple of episodes and saw how your posts from months ago slowly got more and more frustrated with her Mary Sue routine. You had some funny posts to which I was nodding in agreement. I just watched the episode where, having never earlier fired a gun on the show, she walked up to the bandit and shot him remorselessly multiple times in the chest at point blank range. This, the girl who was defenseless and humiliated while getting slapped repeatedly in the face by another woman three episodes earlier. In episode one, she was all “Well, I do declare suh…” with the guy hitting on her during the train ride and by episode four she’s banging some filthy cowboy in the dirt.
shareOf I recall correct that river was quite calm at first too, until the wagons start crossing. But the show is full of things like that, the twister wasn't a threat to them either but they certainly didn't act that way.
Yeah Elsa is over the top. Some other Elsa "highlights";
1/ beats Indian brave in horse race, like he would even agree to race a woman.
2/ makes love to cowboy in camp and parents are aware and ok with it.
3/ makes out with Indian while hiding from twister, cowboys nearby are ok with it.
4/ wears skimpy Indian vest which doesn't look indian.
But there's also unlikely plot lines with the show itself;
1/ everyone very accepting of black man riding with them.
2/ the Germans aren't even slightly curious about him.
3/ in order to not get massacred by Indians Dutton goes off to find people who killed Indians only to end up drawing Indians to him and losing his daughter.
4/ I'm pretty sure there was rail at this time...
I could go on but eh, I still watched 1923.
Yes - the water didn’t look rough, the river didn’t look big enough
shareMost importantly, they did not have to cross the Brazos River at all. They started in Fort Worth and in episode 6 they crossed the Red River at Doan's Crossing, near present day Vernon TX. Only two significant rivers are between Fort Worth and Vernon, the Wichita and the Pease, and neither is as wide as the Brazos.
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