What are you reading in 2026?

Old Fezziwig · 2026-04-16T03:21:24+0100

prabe said:
Like, that was the stated geography, not ... I dunno ... about where they could get shooting to happen and look right-ish? (Obviously, even if it wasn't the latter, it'd be disruptive to a local.)

I think they shot mostly in Virginia, the UK, and Hungary. It was the narrative; they had some exposition they needed to get out and Laura Linney to get on screen. But still Knox's path in the film would've taken him a dozen miles south and east of Boston and well past Cambridge. The most generous reading of the movie would be that Knox dropped cannon off in Cambridge for deployment at Lechmere Point and Cobble Hill then brought the rest around to Lamb's Dam in Roxbury, but he's still going way out of his way. Bananas! (And we do have a reasonable idea of the path he actually took -- Henry Knox Trail - Wikipedia.)

prabe · 2026-04-16T03:32:16+0100

Old Fezziwig said:
I think they shot mostly in Virginia, the UK, and Hungary. It was the narrative; they had some exposition they needed to get out and Laura Linney to get on screen. But still Knox's path in the film would've taken him a dozen miles south and east of Boston and well past Cambridge. The most generous reading of the movie would be that Knox dropped cannon off in Cambridge for deployment at Lechmere Point and Cobble Hill then brought the rest around to Lamb's Dam in Roxbury, but he's still going way out of his way. Bananas! (And we do have a reasonable idea of the path he actually took -- Henry Knox Trail - Wikipedia.)

Yeah, getting something that wrong is kinda unforgivable. For me, in books, it comes to, "How hard is this to look up, really?" I mean, I read a novel where (for reasons) the author had a Southwest Airlines A380 crash, and I was like ... no, that can't happen--Southwest doesn't fly Airbuses, at all. Yes, I'm a little weird for having that knowledge sitting in my head, but that's not hard to find (and really any plane would have sufficed, it didn't have to be the biggest of airliners). Fortunately for my mood that night, that happened well into a book that was otherwise working for me and I cringed and moved on.