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John Adams

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John Adams	comment	A 2008 Mini Series on HBO about the life of John Adams, second President of the United States, from his defense of the soldiers accused in the Boston Massacre in 1770 to his death in 1826. It's based on the biography by David McCullough, and is divided into seven parts.Two major themes stand out throughout this work: "Behind every great man is a great woman" and "The more things change, the more they stay the same".With executive producer Tom Hanks and directed by Tom Hooper, it stars Paul Giamatti as John Adams and Laura Linney as Abigail Adams.
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John Adams / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
John Adams / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: The entire scene where John Adams and Thomas Jefferson reconcile through an exchange of letters. In one scene, it's revealed that Jefferson has a bust of Adams in Monticello. John Adams gives his second son, Charles, nothing but a hard time during their interactions. But upon disowning him and, later, learning of his death, even he is reduced to tears. The former act, especially, is one of the hardest things John does in the entire series, even with all of the frustration and shame Charles has caused him.
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John Adams / int_14c791fb	type	Conflicting Loyalty
John Adams / int_14c791fb	comment	Conflicting Loyalty: Some members of Congress still feel loyalty towards the king, though grieved by him.
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John Adams / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
John Adams / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Charles Adams gets this treatment in the series; with his father being largely absent during his childhood and teenage years, Charles becomes resentful, neglects his own wife and children and devolves into alcoholism and self-destructive behaviour before dying an early death. Not quite how history really played out, and more likely done to invoke Rule of Drama.
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John Adams / int_1cc527d7	type	Asskicking Leads to Leadership
John Adams / int_1cc527d7	comment	Asskicking Leads to Leadership: The prestige gained by Washington as the main general of the Continental Army makes him a virtually uncontested candidate for the first presidency, much to Adams' chagrin.
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John Adams / int_21e53d92	type	Shouting Free-for-All
John Adams / int_21e53d92	comment	Shouting Free-for-All: During Adams' time as Vice President, which makes him president of the US Senate, there's a scene where the entire Senate is in furious debate over some matter. All the senators are on their feet, yelling at each other. Adams, who can't participate unless there's a vote to conduct, sits at the front desk, bored out of his mind, reading a newspaper, occasionally looking over the noisy chamber and sighing.
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John Adams / int_23be181a	type	Patriotic Fervor
John Adams / int_23be181a	comment	Patriotic Fervor: The Dutch regents (regenten) are very quick to remind Adams that the United States of America is a very young republic compared to the Republic of the United Netherlands. Not wanting to offend his hosts, Adams concedes the point.
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John Adams / int_2740531a	type	She Cleans Up Nicely
John Adams / int_2740531a	comment	She Cleans Up Nicely: John Adams is visibly impressed when his wife puts on a nice dress at Versailles. Apparently Truth in Television.
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John Adams / int_2e121b44	type	Southern Gentleman
John Adams / int_2e121b44	comment	Southern Gentleman: A lot of the Southern delegates—including Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson—are also portrayed this way. Edward Rutledge of South Carolina stands out though. When he privately informs Adams that his colony—pardon—state is willing to vote for independence he says that one of the reasons the southern delegates delayed for so long is that they are used to a more "courtly forum".
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John Adams / int_434d893c	type	Funny Foreigner
John Adams / int_434d893c	comment	Funny Foreigner: Played to the hilt by Franklin. The French stereotype of Americans is that they are all rustic backwoodsmen, so he goes about Paris as though he's been tailored, as Adams says, by a taxidermist and deliberately speaking French in his abominable English west country accent. As Franklin explains to Adams, in Paris everyone is an actor and he is playing the role of village idiot that the French judged him to be from the getgo in order to gain their sympathy and support.
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John Adams / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
John Adams / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Played with; aside from Adams, few of the Founding Fathers sound notably American, and many of the Founding Fathers are played by British actors who either keep their normal accents or adopt another British regional one. This is intentional, however, as the Founding Fathers probably wouldn't have sounded the same as a modern American from their regions would.
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John Adams / int_452cda57	type	Eternally Pearly-White Teeth
John Adams / int_452cda57	comment	Eternally Pearly-White Teeth: A rare aversion. Every character's teeth get noticeably more hideous-looking the older they get. In fact, George Washington is so tight-lipped, his teeth are never shown (he had false teeth).
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John Adams / int_4f62bde6	type	Kavorka Man
John Adams / int_4f62bde6	comment	Kavorka Man: Benjamin Franklin is not what some would call traditionally attractive. Nevertheless he is very popular with the ladies - although he directs his lustful attention towards a French lady equal to his age, whom he genuinely adores.
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John Adams / int_506ffa51	type	Tears of Joy
John Adams / int_506ffa51	comment	Tears of Joy: Adams awakens after a serious illness to the news that the British have surrendered at Yorktown. After several moment of digesting the information he breaks down in tears and kisses the messengers hand over and over.
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John Adams / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
John Adams / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: How the French ambassador treats Washington because of his refusal to support the new French Republic after the revolution and execution of the French king. He claims America owes France for their support in the revolutionary war. Alexander Hamilton points out that their old alliance was with the previous French government that just got executed, and is thus voided. Adams feels this way about Jefferson from the time after his presidency when he discovers all Jefferson did to undermine his administration, right up until Abigail dies and they rekindle their friendship through written letters.
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John Adams / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
John Adams / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License – History: Putting aside the fact that there's reasonable limitations on how true-to-life historical dramas can get, there are some inaccuracies and changes that stand out: The famous engraving of the Boston Massacre was printed two whole years later, not mere hours. Only six of the eight soldiers of the Boston Massacre were acquitted of any charges. The other two (specifically the two who fired directly and purposefully into the crowd) were convicted of manslaughter, but received a reduced sentence and avoided the death penalty. The tarring and feathering of a British customs official. Not only was this scene not present in the original book, it depicts the use of petroleum tar (AKA asphalt/bitumen) on the victim. The actual sort of tar used for tarring and feathering was pine tar, which has a melting point of 55 to 60 °C (130 to 140 °F) compared to petroleum tar's 100-190 °C (212-380 °F). Suffice to say, this change makes an act meant to be uncomfortable and humiliating into a (very likely) Cruel and Unusual Death. Charles Adams is depicted as The Unfavorite of the Adams clan, who (among other things) gets left at home while his older brother John Quincy accompanies John to Europe. According to most accounts, though, Charles did go to Europe with his father and brother, which is never depicted in the series. The Adams' stay in France, and later London, deviates greatly from history: John Adams actually made two separate trips to France, which the show condenses into one continuous stay. In doing so, however, it omits one of Adams' greatest achievement: singlehandedly drafting the Constitution of Massachusetts in 1780, the oldest written constitution still in use in the world. Abigail and John reunited in London before departing to Paris. Abigail "Nabby" Adams actually accompanied her mother to Europe, and both courted and married Colonel William Smith there (and not in the United States). John Quincy Adams also stayed in Europe with his parents for a time, before leaving early to attend Harvard. Thomas Jefferson's daughter Patsy, who lived with him in France, is entirely omitted. John Adams did not cast the deciding vote on the Jay Treaty. Though it was close, it was in fact a 20-10 split in favor, exactly the bare minimum needed to approve it. Not only did Adams not need to cast a deciding vote, he couldn't, as treaty approvals require an outright two-thirds majority in the Senate, with no vote from the President of the Senate allowed. Nabby was diagnosed with cancer in 1810, not 1803. She would die years later in 1813. This is lampshaded in the final episode when a now-elderly John Adams is presented with Trumbull's "Declaration of Independence" and critiques it for the many historical inaccuracies is contains, leading an argument between the two over historical representation. Adams bitterly concludes that the truth of the Revolution is lost, turned into myth and artistic fabrications as the generation who was there gradually dies away and are replaced by generations who have to interpret events they were not part of. The meta-critique of the series as doing the same thing is clear, if subtle.
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John Adams / int_598513bb	type	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling
John Adams / int_598513bb	comment	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The subplot about Adams's sons Johnny and Charles, with the fun-loving, rakish Charles as the Foolish Sibling, and the serious, studious Johnny as the Responsible Sibling. Charles died of cirrhosis of the liver at 30; Johnny served as a diplomat in Europe and became President himself.
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John Adams / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
John Adams / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: France of the Ancien Régime and the Rebellious States.
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John Adams / int_5f9fbd83	type	Not Allowed to Grow Up
John Adams / int_5f9fbd83	comment	Not Allowed to Grow Up: The on-screen portrayals of Nabby and John Quincy don't age at all from the Boston Massacre (5 March 1770) in "Join or Die" to the American victory at Yorktown (19 October 1781, but probably a fair bit later considering the speed of the mail at that time) in "Don't Tread on Me". This also applies to Charles, who (accurately) isn't portrayed during the Boston Massacre scene but later appears to be roughly five or six years old as John prepares for the trial (which occured the autumn after the shooting), foregoing aging for the remainder of the war.
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John Adams / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
John Adams / int_61a12ee2	comment	Eccentric Mentor: Benjamin Franklin succeeds in Adams toning down his obnoxiousness... a little.
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John Adams / int_61b576af	type	I Take Offense to That Last One
John Adams / int_61b576af	comment	I Take Offense to That Last One: Adams' only response to a scathing newspaper article that hurls numerous physical insults at him:
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John Adams / int_6aa5bcb8	type	Vice President Who?
John Adams / int_6aa5bcb8	comment	Vice President Who?: Adams is chagrined when President Washington excludes him from Cabinet meetings. He later chafes at the uselessness of his office. His annoyance at the uselessness of the office is actually one of the things that resulted in changing the nature of the Vice Presidency. As originally envisioned (and indeed, what happens to Adams), the Vice President was actually second place in the Presidential election. In other words, the guy who ran for the Presidency and lost to the victor. This was rectified relatively quickly, and the Vice President became the running mate to the President that is much more familiar in modern times.
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John Adams / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
John Adams / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: The Crown Officials are quick to point out that taxes that the colonies complain again were passed to pay for The French and Indian War: in which British Soldiers protected the colonies from the French and Native Americans, and the colonies seems unwilling to pull their own weight as it were One of John Dickinson's concerns about seeking independence for the colonies is the possibility of Civil War. 84 years later, just such an occurrence would indeed happen. When the French ambassador tries to engage the United States in war with Britain to defend the fledging First Republic by pointing out that the United States has a treaty with France, Alexander Hamilton — no friend to France, and generally someone with a lot of tension with most of the other officials — points out that said treaty was made with and signed by Louis XVI, and since the French have just overthrown and executed him then it is now legally null and void.
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John Adams / int_6c275297	type	The Fettered
John Adams / int_6c275297	comment	The Fettered: It's his loud and vocal commitment to his principles that earns Adams most of his victories throughout the series, and most of his defeats too.
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John Adams / int_6e37c196	type	Once Done, Never Forgotten
John Adams / int_6e37c196	comment	Once Done, Never Forgotten: Outgoing president Adams is concerned that he will only be remembered for the Alien and Sedition Acts.
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John Adams / int_70ade2c4	type	Culture Clash
John Adams / int_70ade2c4	comment	Culture Clash: Funnily enough not as strongly between enemies US and UK. John and Abigail Adams seem more baffled by the land of their allies, France. John's visit to the business-minded Dutch also proves more productive.
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John Adams / int_74ef476c	type	Kneel Before Zod
John Adams / int_74ef476c	comment	Kneel Before Zod: Played for laughs — having been sent to England as the American ambassador right after the Revolution, Adams has to go through an elaborate kowtowing ritual to King George III (staring coldly from the other side of a large hall) in order to present his credentials. Neither person is particularly happy about it.
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John Adams / int_75a91f67	type	Tar and Feathers
John Adams / int_75a91f67	comment	Tar and Feathers: Adams witnesses a British tax collector being tarred and feathered by an angry Boston mob. Can serve as a Tear Jerker and horrific for some, conflicting emotions and all. Sure, the mob was angry over a rightly felt injustice, but to see a man screaming in agony for only trying to do his job is enough to make anyone feel for the unbearable pain he must have gone through. (But see Artistic License – History above; the "tar" used was not actually asphalt.)
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John Adams / int_76cde6e	type	Better the Devil You Know
John Adams / int_76cde6e	comment	Better the Devil You Know: In the run-up to the vote on independence, John Dickinson points out that, by his opponents' own admission, forgien aid will be required to fight the British and the fledgling United States could be willing trading the "light yoke" of Britain for the heavy influence of an alien nation.
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John Adams / int_77538ed4	type	Admiring the Abomination
John Adams / int_77538ed4	comment	Admiring the Abomination: Adams views his biggest opponent in the Continental Congress, John Dickinson, as a ditherer at best and a coward at worst. Later, he privately admits to the man that he admires his integrity and principles, even if he disagrees with his opinions.
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John Adams / int_779009b5	type	Beware the Quiet Ones
John Adams / int_779009b5	comment	Beware the Quiet Ones: George Washington is depicted as a highly modest and soft-spoken man who barely speaks above a whisper. When he wants to command a room, though, he does.
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John Adams / int_7a570c0	type	The Good Chancellor
John Adams / int_7a570c0	comment	The Good Chancellor: Adams to Washington during his time as vice-president.
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John Adams / int_7bd44eb9	type	Smart People Play Chess
John Adams / int_7bd44eb9	comment	Smart People Play Chess: Combined with a fair amount of Squick for Adams (and hilarity for us), when Adams heedlessly barges into Franklin's quarters at the American Mission in Paris...only to find Franklin playing chess in a bathtub with Madame Helvétius.
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John Adams / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
John Adams / int_7c9dcc1	comment	Charles Adams is depicted as The Unfavorite of the Adams clan, who (among other things) gets left at home while his older brother John Quincy accompanies John to Europe. According to most accounts, though, Charles did go to Europe with his father and brother, which is never depicted in the series.
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John Adams / int_7e74d66f	type	Politically Correct History
John Adams / int_7e74d66f	comment	Politically Correct History: The trial of the Boston Massacre soldiers hinges on Adams' belief that mob rule cannot be allowed to ignore the facts of the case, and his defense hinges on the eyewitness testimony of a black freedman. In reality, Adams' defense relied heavily on race-baiting, arguing that the mob was composed of "saucy boys, negroes, and molattoes, Irish teaguesnote An old slur for the Irish, based on the Irish name Tadhg and outlandish Jack Tarrsnote Sailors, with "outlandish" having the connotation of ''gay'' sailors." He also characterizes Crispus Attucks, a man of black and American Indian ancestry who was one of the five dead, as a Scary Black Man who incited the mob and was only shot after he physically assaulted the soldiers. Prosecution witnesses claimed that Attucks was fifteen feet away from the soldiers when they opened fire.
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John Adams / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
John Adams / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Adams is having trouble finding other delegates at the Continental Congress who share his desire for a complete split from England. Then he's introduced to George Washington, a hero of the French and Indian War who's attended the congress in his army uniform, and offers to round up a new regiment to defend against future attacks like Massachusetts has suffered. Adams is left speechless by the man's natural leadership skills. Washington does this without even saying a word. On his uniform, he wears a black arm band. When Adams asks if he is in mourning, Washington humbly and simply replies “For Massachusetts, Mr Adams. An Attack made against one of our sister colonies, is an attack made against all of us.” You can watch the blowhard, loud talking Adams start to choke up right then and there.
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John Adams / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
John Adams / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: Part IV: "Reunion" takes place just after the end of the British surrender at Yorktown and the conclusion of the war for independence. Abigail joins John in France and everyone gets to finally relax and enjoy the rewards for their struggles. It's notably the last time we see Dr. Franklin as he passes away shortly afterwards. It is also the happiest times for John and Abigail and even Jefferson who is greatly comforted by her since the loss of his wife and child.
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John Adams / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
John Adams / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: Yes. Both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams really did die on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. This would be seen as too on-the-nose if it wasn't for the fact that it actually happened.
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John Adams / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
John Adams / int_875615dd	comment	Similarly, King George III is sympathetically treated when Adams actually meets him. Evidently Truth in Television.
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John Adams / int_946b0af0	type	Warhawk
John Adams / int_946b0af0	comment	Warhawk: Alexander Hamilton and his crones Pickering and McHenry in Washington's cabinet are itching to wage war just to gain power for themselves (and less so for America), no matter how flimsy the pretext. After Adams is elected, he retains the old cabinet, not realising that Hamilton is plotting to use them to steer him towards war with France. Initially it looks like Hamilton has a justified reason for doing so - he argues that that the hotbed of revolutionary France will lead to a French "liberation" of the Americas from the tyranny of the American federal government. However, once Napoleon takes power in France and establishes his own pseudo-monarchy it becomes clear that America no longer has anything to fear from the French who are now setting about conquering Europe. Still, Hamilton, Pickering and McHenry are dead set on war with France and closer ties with Britain. They tell Adams that he'd be assured of re-election if he were to take America into war because the people are also in favor of it. Adams goes ballistic and fires Pickering and McHenry on the spot for engaging in Realpolitik for their own gain, rather than for the actual good of the nation.
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John Adams / int_96c812a4	type	Pair the Smart Ones
John Adams / int_96c812a4	comment	Pair the Smart Ones: Why John and Abigail have such a good marriage.
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John Adams / int_98576799	type	Throw the Dog a Bone
John Adams / int_98576799	comment	Throw the Dog a Bone: Part IV sees John get a minor victory after all his troubles in France; his hard negotiating work to secure a loan from the Dutch government seemingly for naught in the previous episode, instead results in them enthusiastically granting one after the surrender of England.
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John Adams / int_997d5872	type	"Ass" in Ambassador
John Adams / int_997d5872	comment	"Ass" in Ambassador: Adams, to a degree while representing America in France. Franklin eventually gets him removed because of it. Though it's played with; while Adams does generally come across as rather high-and-mighty and overall fails to ingratiate himself, his main problem is that he's a sober, practical-minded man of business who just wants to knuckle down and get his job done, which would normally make him the opposite of this trope were he not ambassador to a court generally devoted to hedonistic indulgence. Hilariously, Adams has the opposite problem in Holland, where Adams goes into a long spiel about the virtues of republicanism in an attempt to convince the representatives of the Dutch Republic. They tell him to skip the pleasantries and just tell them what kind of investment he's looking for. Ambassador Genet while whipping up support for the French in America is very much this.
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John Adams / int_9ae8eea9	type	Character Tics
John Adams / int_9ae8eea9	comment	Character Tics: George Washington often wriggles his jaw in discomfort while speaking, hinting at the fact that he wore dentures.
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John Adams / int_a00c13e0	type	Awesome Moment of Crowning
John Adams / int_a00c13e0	comment	Awesome Moment of Crowning: Or rather, Awesome Moment of Swearing In. George Washington becoming the first president is truly a sight to behold. From the other Founding Fathers gathering behind him to walking towards the balcony where the audience hears the buzz of a crowd until a woman shouts "There he is!" and thousands of people cheer as Washington appears to take his oath. "God bless George Washington! President of the United States!" Though Washington does deflate the mood a bit with his soft-spoken taking of the oath, forcing everyone to lean forward.
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John Adams / int_a0797fb3	type	Stunned Silence
John Adams / int_a0797fb3	comment	Stunned Silence: The delegates of the Second Continental Congress after they pass the Lee Resolution, declaring the United States an independent nation, July 2, 1776.
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John Adams / int_a0c55654	type	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized
John Adams / int_a0c55654	comment	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: The (historically inaccurate) Boston mob's use of petroleum tar/bitumen instead of pine tar really ramps up the savagery of the event.
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John Adams / int_a4e9a09e	type	Dude, Where's My Reward?
John Adams / int_a4e9a09e	comment	Dude, Where's My Reward?: Adams is somewhat disgruntled by his fate and career post-revolution, particularly when Vice President; while other Founding Fathers become vital, influential and respected members of the administration and the government, he is shunted into a do-nothing post where he has no real authority or responsibilities, no one seeks out or listens to his advice, and he is increasingly ignored and forgotten despite his contributions to the Revolution being as vital as any of theirs.
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John Adams / int_a67b86a7	type	General Ripper
John Adams / int_a67b86a7	comment	General Ripper: Alexander Hamilton. The enemy X is Revolutionary France, although President Adams accuses Hamilton of it all being his convenient excuse to justify his desire to turn America into an empire to rival Britain and France, and thus his only concern for making war with France is to take French colonial territory.
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John Adams / int_a90f0639	type	Entitled Bastard
John Adams / int_a90f0639	comment	Entitled Bastard: Franklin's letter to the continental congress regarding Adams's many diplomatic gaffe's towards the French government paints him as this, describing John as treating the French like they should be the ones on their knees begging to help America in the war.
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John Adams / int_aca32000	type	Armor-Piercing Response
John Adams / int_aca32000	comment	Armor-Piercing Response: Abigail and Washington are discussing the terrible cost of the war, and Abigail suggests that it might be God's punishment for the sin of slavery. Washington gives a pained expression of acknowledgement.note Like many slaveowners nagged by conscience, he did not free his slaves during his life but stipulated manumission in his will. Specifically, his death immediately freed his own personal valet but stipulated that the slaves he got through marriage would only be free on Martha's death, and she decided to free them because she didn't want that death to happen too soon.
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John Adams / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
John Adams / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: George Washington certainly had his moments. And in general this was sort of Ben Franklin's thing.
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John Adams / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
John Adams / int_af696bef	comment	Fish out of Water: To say that Adams doesn't fit in at the French court is an understatement. Adams' meeting with George III, in all its awkwardness, surely counts as an example. Abigail at either the British or French courts, as she had never left provincial Massachusetts before.
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John Adams / int_afa7bfd5	type	Reunion Kiss
John Adams / int_afa7bfd5	comment	Reunion Kiss: Actually reunion sex upon Abigail's arrival in France. Those two really missed each other.
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John Adams / int_b2414474	type	Talk to the Hand
John Adams / int_b2414474	comment	Talk to the Hand: Rutledge casually waves the back of his hand at an angry Adams and his supporters during the debate over independence.
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John Adams / int_b4a44588	type	Tough Love
John Adams / int_b4a44588	comment	Tough Love: John's parenting style in a nutshell. Among other things, he orders John Quincy to break up with his girlfriend so that he won't be distracted from his career, and he forces all of his sons to follow in his footsteps and become lawyers, regardless of whether they actually want to.
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John Adams / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
John Adams / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Adams may not like the British, but he doesn't like mob violence either which is why he defends the British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre since they were attacked by a mob and only defending themselves. Nor does he approve of the tarring and feathering of a tax collector who was just doing his job.
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John Adams / int_b72ae7	type	Omnidisciplinary Scientist
John Adams / int_b72ae7	comment	Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson to a certain degree.
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John Adams / int_ba44639	type	Killed Offscreen
John Adams / int_ba44639	comment	Killed Offscreen: Happens to every major historical figure outside of Adams' family, with the exception of Jefferson, his death being included since he and Adams both died within hours of each other. The other major figures simply disappear into legend after their political careers end.
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John Adams / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
John Adams / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: For both Washington and Adams, injecting party politics into the business of government. The only time the audience sees Washington truly shout in anger is when he scolds Jefferson and Hamilton for continually arguing over "factions" in the government. Both of them look like sheepish schoolboys afterward. Adams, meanwhile, does constantly stress over Jefferson and the Republicans' attempts to oppose him. However, he still explodes in anger and fires Timothy Pickering and James McHenry from the Cabinet on the spot when they suggest he prolong tensions with France in order to increase the Federalists' chances in the upcoming election. Adams doesn't regret it later on, either. While naturally disappointed at losing reelection to Jefferson, he says that he would have hated to have a second term simply because of possible war when peace was possible in just one.
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John Adams / int_bcc9f4f7	type	Realpolitik
John Adams / int_bcc9f4f7	comment	Realpolitik: Nearly every American politician in the series is willing to play this game except for Adams and Washington who are both just too darn honest and principled. Of all of them, Alexander Hamilton is depicted as the worst offender, initially being the Chessmaster Sidekick to Washington, and later trying and failing to be the same to Adams. Jefferson even says Hamilton has the cynical worldview that the people are only motivated by self-interest or by force, and that Hamilton doesn't possess the benefit of the latter - yet. Fortunately for the country, Hamilton never gets his chance to grab real power.
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John Adams / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
John Adams / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: John and Abigail Adams. A stark contrast to the French court.
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John Adams / int_c256bad3	type	Weapons of Their Trade
John Adams / int_c256bad3	comment	Weapons of Their Trade: Following the Boston Massacre, the British authorities claim that the rope makers had been looking for trouble because they had all been carrying batons. It is then pointed that out that the baton is a tool of the rope maker's trade—being used to beat the strands in the huge hawsers into position—and that every single man in the rope factory carried one.
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John Adams / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
John Adams / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: King George III is portrayed by revolutionary propaganda as a tyrant, but when John finally meets him in person, he's one of the most agreeable and well-spoken people John ends up meeting.
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John Adams / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
John Adams / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Sarah Polley naked? Thank you. Covered in scratches? Jesus Christ...
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John Adams / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
John Adams / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Several to 1776 In the final episode of the series, Adams is pacing nervously and Abigail says to him, "For God's sake, John, sit down". Her words are identical to the repeated line from "Sit Down, John", the opening number. When John sees Trunbull's painting, he scathingly remarks that he "is no Rubens." Reminiscent of the play when he tells Franklin that the man painting his portrait "is no Botticelli." When convincing Jefferson to write the Declaration, Adams mentions he is "obnoxious, suspect and unpopular." In the play, the song "But, Mr. Adams" conveys the same sentiment. While recovering from an accident on his farm, Adams tells Abigail that people will think that Franklin hit the ground with his "electric rod" and out came Washington and Jefferson to win the war. In the play, Adams says that Franklin would smote the ground and Washington and his horse arose. Same description, different context: In the series, Dickinson mentions that they are about to fight a was in a "skiff made of paper," meaning they have no hope to win if they sign the document. In the play, as John Hancock is about to put his signature on it, he refers to the Declaration as a "skiff made of paper," but meaning the start of a new nation.Context This was actually something said by Dickinson in the first place, which John Hancock says in 1776, which was restored to the correct speaker in HBO Adams.
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John Adams / int_c7f294da	type	Large and in Charge
John Adams / int_c7f294da	comment	Large and in Charge: Washington, whose leadership is certainly not hindered by his large presence. After being introduced to Washington by Franklin, Adams notes that the former is a natural leader. Franklin quips that he's bound to lead something by virtue of always being the tallest man in the room.
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John Adams / int_c819533b	type	Rage Breaking Point
John Adams / int_c819533b	comment	Rage-Breaking Point: The Crown placing Massachusetts under Martial Law is the catalyst for the American Independence in general and what motivates Adams to be a full-fledged revolutionary.
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John Adams / int_c9790040	type	Decadent Court
John Adams / int_c9790040	comment	Decadent Court: The French nobility are all debauched party animals, and Franklin is only too happy to ingratiate himself by joining them. He tells Adams that to be fully accepted in French high society, one must become somewhat of a depraved sex addict, and even counsels him to get a French mistress to improve his standing with the aristocracy.
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John Adams / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
John Adams / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: John Dickinson, who's adamantly opposed to independence but for very sympathetic and understandable reasons. This is markedly different from most other portrayals like 1776. Similarly, King George III is sympathetically treated when Adams actually meets him. Evidently Truth in Television. Captain Preston and the British soldiers in Boston accused of murder are shaken and scared at what happened, and genuinely think they acted in self-defense. Adams is able to successfully defend them by demonstrating this.
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John Adams / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
John Adams / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Invoked by John Adams to Sam Adams following the Tar and Feathers scene.
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John Adams / int_d8d22bb0	type	Dutch Angle
John Adams / int_d8d22bb0	comment	Dutch Angle: So, so many of these.
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John Adams / int_db0ffe92	type	Follow in My Footsteps
John Adams / int_db0ffe92	comment	Follow in My Footsteps: The elder Adams doesn't so much expect this of his sons, as command it. His eldest son John Quincy remains The Dutiful Son, eschewing marriage to become a lawyer first just like his father, and eventually becomes president too. John's second son Charles winds up hating him for it and self-destructs over the lack of love and acceptance from his father.
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John Adams / int_e16217f8	type	Historical Villain Upgrade
John Adams / int_e16217f8	comment	Historical Villain Upgrade: Several characters get hit with this, largely due to the series' Protagonist-Centered Morality. John Hancock and Samuel Adams are depicted as inciting the tarring and feathering of a British customs official—with petroleum tar no less. In reality, both were just as opposed to mob violence as John Adams is shown to be. Alexander Hamilton. Here he doesn't get much screen time, but what little he does have makes him look like Adolf Hitler mixed with Otto von Bismarck. In reality he was philosophically conservative, a militarist, and a big government fan, but he was also one of the most senior American revolutionaries. The main reason is that Hamilton and Adams loathed each other, and Hamilton was at his worst during the Adams Administration, being out of office yet trying to exercise power by manipulating Adams' cabinet while creating a permanent standing army. It's not that the show's portrayal is inaccurate so much as emphasizing this particular period of Hamilton's life paints him in a highly unfavorable light. The Comte de Vergennes is depicted as a patronising, snobbish politician when he says the French Navy can't send its entire force to America to fight the British. Adams accuses him of not wanting to win the war, but de Vergennes' explanation, that the French have already sent a significant naval taskforce and are only holding back the forces needed to defend their own coastline against the Royal Navy, is actually quite reasonable. Even Thomas Jefferson receives this in later episodes, which portray his support for the French Revolution as unreasonable fanaticism that constantly undermines Washington and Adams's diplomatic efforts. Adams himself also gets a little of this in the second episode, which portrays his argument with Dickinson which results in Dickinson telling Adams that if he doesn't change his ideas then some of the northern colonies will break off and conduct the revolution by themselves as Adams essentially hitting first and Dickinson responding defensively. Adams' own diary, on the other hand, portrays the incident as Adams leaving for business during the congress' sitting, and Dickinson following him out of the debate chamber specifically in order to corner him and essentially scream his argument at him.
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John Adams / int_e43130c1	type	Interrupted Intimacy
John Adams / int_e43130c1	comment	Interrupted Intimacy: Adams is the one who is embarrassed when he runs into Franklin while the latter nude, inside a bathtub and enjoying the company of Madame Helvétius. Subverted in that they are seemingly just playing chess. Well, at the moment they were just playing chess. Knowing both Franklin and Mme. Helvétius, the chess was probably a prélude to something else.
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John Adams / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
John Adams / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Charles does this to John in "Unite or Die," when he describes their lack of contact when John and Abigail were in Europe.
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John Adams / int_e5448c9	type	Pimped-Out Dress
John Adams / int_e5448c9	comment	Pimped-Out Dress: Abigail wore one of these during a trip to France.
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John Adams / int_eedee4d	type	The Starscream
John Adams / int_eedee4d	comment	The Starscream: Basically, Adams' entire cabinet as President. Holdovers from Washington's Administration, they treat their boss with thinly veiled contempt and effectively answer to Alexander Hamilton. Eventually Adams grows tired of their scheming and fires two of them, Timothy Pickering and James McHenry, with undisguised relish...though it destroys any remaining loyalty Hamilton and the Federalists hold towards him. Thomas Jefferson himself while serving as Adams's Vice-President. His term as VP was spent mostly stoking anti-Adams sentiment in the country by financing opposition newspapers. The election of 1800 was the culmination of Jefferson's work, as he emerged victorious. Adams rightly considered Jefferson's undermining of his presidency, and Jefferson's subsequent campaign against him, as a serious betrayal, and led to Adams refusing to speak to his erstwhile friend for more than a decade.
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John Adams / int_f06b07ff	type	Locked Out of the Loop
John Adams / int_f06b07ff	comment	Locked Out of the Loop: Mundane example when Vice-president Adams, to his surprise, is excluded by Washington from the government meetings and the day-to-day ruling of the country.
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John Adams / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
John Adams / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: Adams, alerted to the British advance by a rider, comes across the remains of a skirmish, with wounded men dying as other try in vain to help, with a wounded British soldier ignored to die slowly. Then when Adams actually sees for the first time the army he created, it's suffering from cold, hunger, and smallpox. The naval battle he takes part in is a grisly affair, as well, during which he's forced to witness an amputation.
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John Adams / int_fdb6b8ad	type	The Magnificent
John Adams / int_fdb6b8ad	comment	The Magnificent: Adams insists the President's dignity should have several honorary and bombastic titles or surnames, but Washington overrules him and sets it as "Mr. President and nothing more"
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John Adams / int_fdbd6162	type	With Friends Like These...
John Adams / int_fdbd6162	comment	With Friends Like These...: Adams as President does not get along with his fellow Federalists any more than the Republicans.
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John Adams / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Washington generally sidelines and ignores Adams when the latter is his vice president, but after one particularly trying and rancorous exchange between Hamilton and Jefferson, Washington surprises Adams by inviting him to dinner:
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John Adams / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
John Adams / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Far more accurate than most works about The American Revolution. It's based on a legitimate work of history.
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