So, I started watching John Adams after hearing all you guys twitter on about it earlier this year as a follow up to my The West Wing-o-thon (courtesy of kurukami lending me his set).

[O! WAIT! Abigail Adams = Abigail Bartlett. I C WAT U DID THERE SORKIN!]

So, with the first two episodes watched — one pass straight through and one pass with the "Facts are Inconvenient Things" feature, aka, Pop-Up History Lesson — I just want to say:

I am enjoying it quite a bit. My favorite bits? When John Adams keeps getting all Unitarian Jihad in the Continental Congress. Yeah, John was seriously Brother Neutron Bomb of Reasoned Debate in those scenes.

(Please note: That crazy Unitarian John Adams was of the opinion that the U.S. was NOT a Christian nation, an opinion he shared with that even crazier Unitarian-lovin' Episcopalian Thomas Jefferson, who thought that the predominant religion in the U.S. would eventually become — ha, ha! — Unitarianism.)

For the most part, history isn't getting mangled too badly, although there were a few important points that did get glossed over in the presentation itself, but were corrected in the "Facts are Inconvenient Things" feature. The one thing I was surprised that they did get right and didn't shy away from too much was that The Sons of Liberty favored the thuggish side of the equation.

( Crazy Geography, History Fun, and the Awesomeness of Abigail Under the Cut )

Soooo, anyway. That's my initial impressions based on the first two episodes. More as the mood strikes.