Ken Burns' "The National Parks: America's Best Idea"

[A Black Falcon]

The second episode was today, and aside from that west-focus issue, I had no complaints. This was a great episode, and I'm sure the rest will be at least as good. Ken Burns really is a romantic idealist, isn't he, always focusing on the good things that happened during the period covered this time (1890-1920) and not the bad... and there was a lot of bad, you could do something in quite the opposite tone and have it be just as accurate. I can't dislike him for being optimistic though, it makes for a great show and there really were some things to be optimistic about. So yeah, fantastic stuff for sure.