I have been watching Texas Rising on The History Channel with great interest over the course of the past week and it has been really good so far. I do not know how historically accurate it is and I am sure they have taken artistic license with some of the facts and added a little bit of Hollywood to them.
There was one scene in last night's movie that really bothered me. A homesteading family had taken over a ranch and it was a father, a wife, and two children and they had a little puppy that looked like an Australian Shepherd. The family gets attacked by a party of Comanche Indians early one morning. A brutal struggle for the family's lives breaks out. The father is shot with an arrow and the mother is gored with a spear as the father tries to heard them all into the root cellar to try to hide. The Comanche set the house on fire and the little girl realizes the puppy is still in the house. She comes out of hiding and goes back into the burning house to save the puppy.
That action gets her, her little brother, and her father all killed by the Comanche and the little puppy takes off running through the woods for it's life. A Comanche arrow ends it's life and the last scene of that sequence shows the puppy laying there dead with an arrow through it and the rain pouring down on it's lifeless body.
I thought the scene with the puppy getting killed was completely unnecessary and I would have been happier if the Comanche would have taken the puppy back to the Comanche village with them. I realize that living on the Plains was often a life and death struggle and I guess the director wanted to show that even dogs were not isolated from this struggle. That scene took a lot of enjoyment out of Texas Rising for me. The dog should never die in such a brutal fashion.
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