Beverly, allow me an OMG! moment. When I was stationed at Fort Bragg, I did a lot of hiking out west and in Transylvania County and drove most of the Blue Ridge Parkway. It's how I kept my sanity.

I've been to Chimney Rock State Park (twice), and I was a total geek and raced the whole trail pretending to fire my Invisible!Bow&Arrows against imaginary foes in a race to rescue an imaginary Alice.

What really bugged *me* about Cold Mountain was that they had a bouquet of fall flowers in spring. I thought they were being all clever and subtle about telling us what season it was, when in fact what they were being was wrong.

But not everyone is a plantgeek.

Cold Mountain was filmed in Romania, so my mother refused to see it. I didn't refuse, I just didn't get around to it.

I watched Last of the Mohicans, and laughed my self silly at the huge stands of rhodedendron in what were supposed to be the hills of upstate New York. *grin*

But yeah, once you've lived in California for a while you begin to realize that much of the landscape in television isn't actually at all similar to where the stories are set.

I just wished that the two films/television shows set in New Hampshire were actually filmed in NH and didn't involve evil witchcraft or incest.

I liked the pacific white-sided dolphons swimming in the waters of the north atlantic in Titanic.

I took an elderly scientist friend of mine to Mohicans. I thought he would enjoy the historical aspect, yada yada. What he ended up doing was enjoying whinging about how wrongwrongwrong nearly everything was.

One fun thing was him taking me outside with broom handles and proving exactly why the native fighters would and could not have carried long guns running through the forest.

Hee.

I *hated* that Doggett/dead-son episode on TXF (but what was to love about those seasons?) where he's spreading the ashes into the Atlantic and there are rocky bluffs on, based on the setting sun, the south shore of Long Island.

I just wished that the two films/television shows set in New Hampshire were actually filmed in NH and didn't involve evil witchcraft or incest.

Heh. Are you still in NH, juliebird?

Unrelatedly...

Beverly, it probably is the Maureen O'Hara Factor that's predisposed me toward Spencer's Mountain, and really, Henry Fonda had that sort of energy too, even when he was old.

Even though I'm not from the country, I just get tired of seeing rural people portrayed as duller (in a lot of senses of that word, not just related to education/intellect) than urban people, unless they're crazy-colorful.

not currently, but I spent 20 years of my life there, and will be crashing back with my folks there until I sort my life out. Entertainment-wise, President Bartlett was the only good thing to come out of NH, and they never filmed there AFAIK, but i doubt it. How is Eastern Europe cheaper than tax-free Live Free or Frakking Die NH?

(I mistakenly rented Hotel NH with Rob Lowe and Jodi Foster, and.... ick!)

Rural people tend to seek protective coloration when out of their natural habitat, or when outlanders are around. Not shy, exactly, just observational. We warm up eventually, though, and then there's color.

Okay, I masquerade. I'm from rural stock, and I grew up mostly rural. As an adult, though, suburbanite all the way, with a grand appreciation of urban culture.

Oh, and yes, I know the landscape was all wrong for New England, and it bothered the historical nitpicker part of me. But I was so geeked out to see southeastern forest! And waterfalls! And rivers, and rocks, and I've actually walked that cliff path where Uncas and Alice met their doom! that the geekery sort of overcame the historical protest.