http://www.thegettogether.net has a chatroom and everyone is saying how the movie showed no real facts and how it made it look like hatfields were good and mccoys was bad.. funny to watch i tell ya
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Sounds like a chat room full of halfwits and fools. Per chance are they decedents of the Hatfieds and the McCoys? I would go and check it out, but life is just too short this evening.
sharelol i know,, but i love watching them fight about it like they were there!
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Chat rooms aren't good places to hang out in. Bad behavior is the lesson that should have been learned from the mini-series, and the chat room kids didn't learn anything from feuds.
shareI was struck by a similar notion, that the Hatfield's were portrayed as being more rational than the McCoy's. I don't know if that is accurate or not since what we would call atrocities today were committed by both families. However I did read something interesting about a finding medical researchers made when examining descendants of the McCoy's. Apparently there is a genetic condition common in that family which could lead to them having quicker tempers. That by itself wouldn't have caused the feud but it certainly wouldn't have helped.
shareI would hardly call the execution of three Mc Coy's without rule of law or trial as making the Hatfields more 'rational'
shareI noticed that a bit, too, but the bottom line is both families were completely messed up and irrational or the feud could never have lasted that long. Completely insane.
shareI thought the miniseries did a good job of showing how foolish Devil and Randall were to escalate the conflict. It was their decisions that led to the growing feud. From what I've read about the Hatfields, they were actually more affluent than the McCoys and had more resources and hired hands but I don't think it reflected on them being "good" or "better" in terms of morals or behavior.
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What struck me was what a couple of chicken shyt's Anse and Randall were. In a time where duels were common these two men never stepped up and said, let's settle this, just you and me. They hid behind their family members and let their families bear the brunt of their fued. Couple of cowards.
shareCorrect. Alot of the feelings of the McCoys were based out of supposed oppression and being taken advantage of by the Hatfields that was probably more jealousy of the wealth of the Hatfields. The Hatfields were also more polictically connected.
Aside from the killing of Harmon, the early part of the feud seemed to be more the fault of the McCoy's while the latter part (after the death of Ellison) was more the fault of the Hatfield's. After the New Year's massacre, the head McCoy in the feud was the lawyer Percy Cline as Randolph McCoy essentially distanced himself by moving to Pikeville.
In any case, both were at fault.
I thought they were just fools because McCoy didnt ever realize he was being manipulated by Perry Klein and You didnt know Anse knew he was being manipulated by Jim Vance till the very end.
sharewell after watching people chat about this discussion now for almost a week, i have decided me and the rest of texas is going to side with the hatfields,, i wish i knew some mccoys so i could war with them!
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i want a double boiler that works on "the electrical TRICITY"!
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