OT Dark Winds (the tv show)

Villagedawg

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Anybody been watching this one? Seasons 1 and 2 were pretty good in an old school mystery kind of way. Interesting setting in Navaho lands which you don’t often see and sometimes a little corny. Season 3 could have been an episode of Scooby Doo. Or did anyone read the novels? How is the show’s treatment of the books?
 

grinningmule

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I think Season 1 is the only one based on one book. The other two seasons combine parts of a couple of books together. It can be a little disjointed like most adaptations. I like Zahn McClarnon as an actor and love those old Suburbans in the show.
 

Villagedawg

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I think Season 1 is the only one based on one book. The other two seasons combine parts of a couple of books together. It can be a little disjointed like most adaptations. I like Zahn McClarnon as an actor and love those old Suburbans in the show.
Those trucks are cool. Seeing the spare tire in the cargo space made me remember a bunch of 70s truck stuff I had forgotten like the spare tire bolted to the side body in the back of my dad’s GMC. The old steel bumpers with the dealership name and city engraved on them, my friends old Scout, front window vents because AC definitely was not standard. Gun racks, camper shells, and semi see through western scenes plastered across the back window. My dad converted one of his GMCs to run on propane, so it had a propane tank mounted in the bed. Hadn’t thought about all that in years.
 

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I don't want to spoil anything but a very very loose adaptation.

I still enjoy it but it would be a much better show had they stuck to the source material
 
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Dawgbite

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Those trucks are cool. Seeing the spare tire in the cargo space made me remember a bunch of 70s truck stuff I had forgotten like the spare tire bolted to the side body in the back of my dad’s GMC. The old steel bumpers with the dealership name and city engraved on them, my friends old Scout, front window vents because AC definitely was not standard. Gun racks, camper shells, and semi see through western scenes plastered across the back window. My dad converted one of his GMCs to run on propane, so it had a propane tank mounted in the bed. Hadn’t thought about all that in years.
Guy that I went to high school with had a late 70’s model El Camino that he converted to propane. Twenty years after we graduated he still had it and he said that it had over 250000 miles on it and he’d never touched the engine.
 

Bulldog Bruce

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My wife and I started it last week. We finished season 2. I just don't know enough about Navajo beliefs to know some references. In the movies the Indian is a great tracker and one with nature. These Indians are not.
 
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Wife and I have watched all the seasons, like Grinningmule, we like Zahn. Story line drags on in 3 but still watchable.

After watching season 1, we drove to the Grand Canyon and went through the Navajo Natio. WOW, if you go that way e sure to stop at every fuel station. It is very very desolate.
 

Bulldog Bruce

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Finished season 3 half way through current season 4. Is this show being done by Navajo people? If not, I would not like the portrayal. Seems being Navajo subjects you to being psychotic. All these things the characters are seeing that are not really there. But if they follow the old ways that will make them ok.

So kinda like rap music where it's okay to say the lyrics only if you're black. If your not, better not say the N word even though that's the lyric 50 times in the song.

Plus the characters can be just dumb in the choices they make.