If you can get beyond that - and plenty of people probably will, as this show clearly wasn't meant for me - there is a family drama that makes up the other half of the show. Kevin Costner Is Back in a Cowboy Hat in New Yellowstone Trailer It's about ownership, which is where Yellowstone comes off as icky rather than noble. And this doesn't seem to be about the sanctity of preserving some of our country's most beautiful land (though it's probably better off in the Dutton's hands than some of these other groups) as the Duttons never talk about that. Yellowstone will hide behind traditional work ethic espoused by some as reason to make the Duttons the victims, all the while Native Americans stand on the other side of the border fence with their arms out saying, "Are you friggin' kidding me?" It makes it hard to root for the Duttons, even when greater assholes are eyeing their stake as a great spot for a par 5. The Duttons are portrayed solely as the victims here, which doesn't allow for the level of nuance a good television show needs. The pervading idea while Dutton is under attack is that the land - and he definitely has too much of it, if his helicopter rides around it are any indication - is his now, so it's unfair for anyone else to lay claim on it or even try to purchase some, whether it's because it used to be theirs or because someone else wants to build a resort on it. What's particularly disappointing about Yellowstone is that just about everyone who isn't a Dutton is the enemy, even the Native Americans who are only where they are because they were kicked out of everywhere else by the government generations ago. He's the western genre archetype of the quiet gunslinger (he's a former SEAL) who just wants to put the past behind him but gets pulled back in. And youngest son Kayce ( Luke Grimes) is the one who gets the "divided by two worlds" shtick, as he's married a Native American woman and lives on a reservation breaking wild horses, with all the metaphors that entails. Daughter Beth (a vicious Kelly Reilly, who will always be that jazz-dancing woman from Black Box to me) joined the corporate world and is devouring everything in her path Beth's the type of character who has a scene devoted solely to showing that she will absolutely destroy you if you mess with her, as one dumb tourist does when he tries to pick her up at a bar. Other son Lee ( Dave Annable) stuck with Pa and is working the ranch.
Son Jamie ( Wes Bentley, who was much more interesting filming plastic bags than what does here) is a lawyer with political ambitions, a convenient ally for John since the landscape has literally and figuratively changed in the ranching business.
DAMN IT OR DAMMIT UPDATE
I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).Kevin Costner, Yellowstone Paramount Network
DAMN IT OR DAMMIT CODE
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), and express.js.Ĭurrently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.įinally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more).
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words.