Including reruns I'm sure we saw everything at least twice.
But like every series that runs for a while this one began to be a little too complicated and hard to understand.
Too many hidden meanings, too many hidden messages. It started to look like that proverbial ugly baby who has a face only a mother could love.
The producers were seemed to be ecstatic about the meanings but we had the impression they were making up the story line as the show was going ahead.
Just like many other shows that started out interestingly this one was was also over complicated with no solution in sight.
I can not figure out if this one was science fiction, fiction or fantasy.
Anyway, for me the ending was not what I expected. Maybe I am not as smart as the rest of the world but I expected something less melodramatic and a little more down to earth.
Live and learn. Don't get hooked on these continuing stories.
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American Indians used to rule the wilds. They were here long before the white man ever stepped on this continent. But when the white men came and took over their roles were relegated to subservient minorities.
They were hunted, they were killed. The ones who survived were eventually restricted to live on reservations. It was not very good to be an American Indian.
Now, things are changing. Now Indians are given opportunities to create a better life for themselves.
The Federal Government, as a measure of restitution, gave certain rights to the Indians that include tax free status, promoting gambling and selling tax free cigarettes.
Now, they can scalp the white man legally in their gambling establishments.
Certain tribes are permitted to build casinos on their lands and operate it. It is very inter sting. Once a casino opens the crowd start coming and money is rolling in. Naturally only if they are on a good location.
Some years ago a small tribe in Connecticut was given permission to build a casino. It was inter sting to see how people were coming out of the woodwork claiming membership or some ties to the tribe.
The reason was that profits from the casino were to be divided amongst the tribe. Even I looked to see that maybe one of my great-great grandmothers might have been raped by a brave because then I could have claimed that I also belong. But no such luck.
That casino-hotel complex is raking in money like crazy. We went there a few years ago. It was crowded and not very inexpensive. It was interesting that while walking through the casino we didn't see a single Indian working there. The employees were all non-Indians.
I guess they are all so rich now that they don't want to work. And the money is just pouring in.
Another form of money making is the tax free sale of cigarettes. It is totally legal and they are doing it. Cigarettes are so expensive due to the various government taxes that any kind of tax break on them is welcomed.
New York State has several Indian tribes that are permitted to take part in this business and they are making money.
Years ago I worked with some Indians on a construction and they told me that they didn't pay income taxes. That was another government break they were given.
This doesn't mean that they all are well off and they all running their enterprises. No way.
Thousand and thousands are living in poverty, illiteracy, sickness and various kinds of drug addiction.
There are parts of this country where these former braves are relegated to live below the poverty level.
The ones that live better are the ones who live close to major metropolitan areas, like New York.
An interesting item. Years ago American Indians dominated the high rise steel erection business in the construction industry. Their total lack of fear of heights made them the perfect steel erectors. I don't know how is it today but I know that years ago that was their field.
They were union members, and they worked very well. The ones I knew were a family. Grandfather, father and son. All steel workers, working together, and not paying income taxes. They all lived together somewhere in Brooklyn but on the weekends they drove up north to somewhere close to the Canadian border where their reservation and family was.
I used to talk to them a lot and they were one of the nicest and hardest working people I ever met.
Didn't hold any grudges but still had their pride in their past.
Speaking of Indians. In 1626 on this day Peter Minuit bought Manhattan Island from the Indians for the equivalent of $24.
Makes one think how big a casino they could have built in Manhattan if they didn't sell Manhattan then.
They were hunted, they were killed. The ones who survived were eventually restricted to live on reservations. It was not very good to be an American Indian.
Now, things are changing. Now Indians are given opportunities to create a better life for themselves.
The Federal Government, as a measure of restitution, gave certain rights to the Indians that include tax free status, promoting gambling and selling tax free cigarettes.
Now, they can scalp the white man legally in their gambling establishments.
Certain tribes are permitted to build casinos on their lands and operate it. It is very inter sting. Once a casino opens the crowd start coming and money is rolling in. Naturally only if they are on a good location.
Some years ago a small tribe in Connecticut was given permission to build a casino. It was inter sting to see how people were coming out of the woodwork claiming membership or some ties to the tribe.
The reason was that profits from the casino were to be divided amongst the tribe. Even I looked to see that maybe one of my great-great grandmothers might have been raped by a brave because then I could have claimed that I also belong. But no such luck.
That casino-hotel complex is raking in money like crazy. We went there a few years ago. It was crowded and not very inexpensive. It was interesting that while walking through the casino we didn't see a single Indian working there. The employees were all non-Indians.
I guess they are all so rich now that they don't want to work. And the money is just pouring in.
Another form of money making is the tax free sale of cigarettes. It is totally legal and they are doing it. Cigarettes are so expensive due to the various government taxes that any kind of tax break on them is welcomed.
New York State has several Indian tribes that are permitted to take part in this business and they are making money.
Years ago I worked with some Indians on a construction and they told me that they didn't pay income taxes. That was another government break they were given.
This doesn't mean that they all are well off and they all running their enterprises. No way.
Thousand and thousands are living in poverty, illiteracy, sickness and various kinds of drug addiction.
There are parts of this country where these former braves are relegated to live below the poverty level.
The ones that live better are the ones who live close to major metropolitan areas, like New York.
An interesting item. Years ago American Indians dominated the high rise steel erection business in the construction industry. Their total lack of fear of heights made them the perfect steel erectors. I don't know how is it today but I know that years ago that was their field.
They were union members, and they worked very well. The ones I knew were a family. Grandfather, father and son. All steel workers, working together, and not paying income taxes. They all lived together somewhere in Brooklyn but on the weekends they drove up north to somewhere close to the Canadian border where their reservation and family was.
I used to talk to them a lot and they were one of the nicest and hardest working people I ever met.
Didn't hold any grudges but still had their pride in their past.
Speaking of Indians. In 1626 on this day Peter Minuit bought Manhattan Island from the Indians for the equivalent of $24.
Makes one think how big a casino they could have built in Manhattan if they didn't sell Manhattan then.
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