New TV Drama "Banished" The founding of the Penal Colony in Australia in 1788

[california dreamin]

We have to keep in mind that they would not have been familiar with the wildlife, and wouldn't have known in the early days what was edible assuming they could have got close enough to shoot.

So they are familiar with eating people and know they will be okay to consume? 

Personally I would take my chance roasting and eating a parakeet rather than some disease ridden convict. 

Sorry Andy - I couldn't help myself 

[John915]

Good evening,

I have to say that although the inconsistency of the series is fairly bad. I do enjoy watching it, if only to pick out all the wrong bits.

Just under 1400 people were landed, where are they all?

46 marines had their wives with them, where are they?

2 years worth of supplies were landed, did they have an eating orgy the first couple of days?

Rationing of food didn't start until Nov 89

We see about 20 marines but 247 landed

Where is the provost marshall and the judge advocate? both fairly important to the running of the new colony

What has happened to the livestock that was landed ( I know that apparently 1 bull and 4 cows absconded into the bush and were not found again for 7 years) ? Were they punished on their return?

Oh, and the Union Flag is correct JM. about the only thing in the series that is.

John915

PS Surely fishing nets were included in the stores landed

[Ruskie]

It's a soap opera set in 1788 inspired by factual events - that is all.
 

[groom]

It's a soap opera set in 1788 inspired by factual events - that is all.
 

True - as long as people realise that, it's fine. It's a bit like a lot of the historical dramas set in the UK, they are only loosely based on fact, most of the time the people are too neat and tidy. I watched the first 3 weeks and have recorded the rest but am not really inspired to watch them.

[majm]

Oh, and the Union Flag is correct JM. about the only thing in the series that is.

Agh, so there's some factual basis afterall       

[Wiggy]

46 marines had their wives with them, where are they?

One of the marines died within three weeks of landing, and his widow married my GGGGgrandfather!         
So - one accounted for - except apparently this series is only about the first 2 weeks!    Oh bother - forget that.   

[majm]

46 marines had their wives with them, where are they?

One of the marines died within three weeks of landing, and his widow married my GGGGgrandfather!         
So - one accounted for - except apparently this series is only about the first 2 weeks!    Oh bother - forget that.   

Exactly .... and NO women were landed in those first two weeks.  The landing of the women commences from 7 February.  So the women in the series, if it is for the first two weeks, are those women who were locals, born of locals, who were of course born of locals themselves.  http://www.aboriginalculture.com.au/introduction.shtml

The first NSW Governor recognised these locals, but somewhere along the line, perhaps from about the time of the gold rushes (1850s), the migrating peoples to the Australian continent began to call for their own 'rights' to occupy land, regardless of who were the traditional owners.  Simplistically,
those who had been part of the day to day administration in the years BEFORE Queen Victoria, eventually retired, and their understanding was no longer part of the administrative culture.  And so developed a culture even among the general populace that the traditional owners were about to die out, and so their land was occupied by the new settlers, new squatters and etc.   But that's decades after 1788.

Cheers,  JM

[healyjfch]

Is the series finished ?
The last episode that I saw had Freeman hanging his friend Tommy Barret.
The soldier that Barret had assaulted must guard Freeman.

[osprey28]

Yes that was the last episode of the series

Osprey