@felixxx999 said:

Sorry guys but I finally got caught up. Wow! The last 2 or 3 episodes were amazing. Nothing like it on Western tv shows before. Just amazing. Really looking forward to the next season. It's a hard show to binge watch because it gets so sad at times but those last few moved. Now who wants to bet they change the title next year to 1884

The next season will be 1932, but if 1883 is an indicator of quality, I might not watch it and probably not going to watch Yellowstone too. The last three were worse than the first three episodes and nothing more than an excuse to kill off characters we barely even knew or cared about, just leaving those useless selfish Duttons and that sergeant who scammed money from those Germans.

I think 1932 is a different show.

@felixxx999 said:

I think 1932 is a different show.

It's a continuation of the Dutton family, but we're getting mixed messages as to whether it'll be a sequel to the prequel or another show. I don't know why they're going about it this way...

Yellowstone Is Getting a Sequel for Its Prequel, 1932

An '1883' producer explains how the 'Yellowstone' prequel's story will continue without a season 2

yeah. Read that. Looks like no season 2 and 1932 will be all new characters. Maybe that's the mold, every season just one long story line. Interesting to see how it goes.

@BaronOfHair said:

@felixxx999 said:

Sorry guys but I finally got caught up. Wow! The last 2 or 3 episodes were amazing. Nothing like it on Western tv shows before. Just amazing. Really looking forward to the next season. It's a hard show to binge watch because it gets so sad at times but those last few moved. Now who wants to bet they change the title next year to 1884

I'm more curious as to whether or not Sam Elliot will be alive for another season

He offs himself at the beach...

@Condottiero said:

@BaronOfHair said:

@felixxx999 said:

Sorry guys but I finally got caught up. Wow! The last 2 or 3 episodes were amazing. Nothing like it on Western tv shows before. Just amazing. Really looking forward to the next season. It's a hard show to binge watch because it gets so sad at times but those last few moved. Now who wants to bet they change the title next year to 1884

I'm more curious as to whether or not Sam Elliot will be alive for another season

He offs himself at the beach...

If he'd done it the beginning of the first episode as he intended, eighty something people might not have died. The entire story is really about how stupid this one man was.

@Jacinto Cupboard said:

@Condottiero said:

@BaronOfHair said:

@felixxx999 said:

Sorry guys but I finally got caught up. Wow! The last 2 or 3 episodes were amazing. Nothing like it on Western tv shows before. Just amazing. Really looking forward to the next season. It's a hard show to binge watch because it gets so sad at times but those last few moved. Now who wants to bet they change the title next year to 1884

I'm more curious as to whether or not Sam Elliot will be alive for another season

He offs himself at the beach...

If he'd done it the beginning of the first episode as he intended, eighty something people might not have died. The entire story is really about how stupid this one man was.

At least he tried, unlike the equally stupid and selfish Duttons who got almost the rest of the party killed, by going after those Injun killers.

The difference is that he was being paid to get them there and was supposed to have done it numerous times. As much as I'd like to say the character was an idiot, the truth is it's the writer. The character is not meant to be stupid. He just ends up that way because the writers themselves need to know what is good bushcraft etc in order to write a character with that skill set.

@felixxx999 said:

Sorry guys but I finally got caught up. Wow! The last 2 or 3 episodes were amazing. Nothing like it on Western tv shows before. Just amazing. Really looking forward to the next season. It's a hard show to binge watch because it gets so sad at times but those last few moved. Now who wants to bet they change the title next year to 1884

There will be no continuing of these characters story. The next one will be way later.

@terriecoleman said:

@felixxx999 said:

Sorry guys but I finally got caught up. Wow! The last 2 or 3 episodes were amazing. Nothing like it on Western tv shows before. Just amazing. Really looking forward to the next season. It's a hard show to binge watch because it gets so sad at times but those last few moved. Now who wants to bet they change the title next year to 1884

There will be no continuing of these characters story. The next one will be way later.

yeah. They could have made a great series. Although one in the 30s is intriguing.

@Jacinto Cupboard said:

The difference is that he was being paid to get them there and was supposed to have done it numerous times. As much as I'd like to say the character was an idiot, the truth is it's the writer. The character is not meant to be stupid. He just ends up that way because the writers themselves need to know what is good bushcraft etc in order to write a character with that skill set.

If he was so experienced, why did he keep deferring to James Dutton, the guy who kept saying he couldn't give a damn about anyone else but his family? I agree about the poor writing.

https://nyamcenterforhistory.org/2015/06/30/swimming-from-1818-to-1918/

Two books, one from 1818 and the other from 1918, concerning swimming in the US.

Frost was ahead of his time. In the 19th century, New York and many other U.S. cities fined people for public swimming (no day swimming in the East River! It’s “‘extremely offensive to spectators.’”). As is evident from the male-oriented focus of Frost’s book, swimming only became acceptable for women with the availability of gender-segregated facilities. It was not until the mid-1800s—the age of a growing fitness movement—that upper and middle class Americans turned to swimming as recreation at seaside destinations and private fitness clubs. Public pools opened around the same time, but with a hygienic mission rather than a recreational one.

The cowboys looking surprised at the "Germans" not being able to swim is strange, considering they wouldn't have been any better at it.

Didn't notice or maybe forgot, since I haven't seen this show in years, but most of the Germans were probably Volga Germans from Russia. Makes sense when Josef said he didn't speak for the larger group. Volga Germans would've been flatland farmers, so why go all the way hilly country? Josef and his part of the group would've been from Southern Germany, so makes sense for them to migrate to a forested hilly place.