The event opens episode two and it is obvious what is going to happen. It happens in nearly every western. There is a raid on a town by outlaws or Indians and all the townsfolk run out into the street and get shot or chopped down. Why not stay inside under cover? Use your gun to fire at the targets in the street and possibly survive! It is risible!Other than that annoying incident it is worth a watch but not as good as 'Lonesone Dove.'

What I want to say for this so-called "Prequel" is that if those two main great characters in "Lonesome Dove" were developed and evolved from these two guys in this prequel, then I should call it a 'Mircale'. Because these two guys in this drama series or, should I say, if the writer of "Comanche Moon" was indeed Larry Mcgarrity as who wrote "Lonesome Dove", all I could say is ugly duckling indeed could become white swan later.What we saw in this mini-series was just a bunch of illiterate morons, imbeciles and stupid clowns, all from comic books. There's no way these two guys could have been evolved into those two guys later in "Lonesome Dove". All we got in this whole mini-series were just a bunch of brainless yoyos messed around like blind dogs chasing their own tails and didn't know what was what. They were just like headless chickens aimlessly running around in Taxas, shamelessly called themselves "Taxas Rangers". My god, if all the western genre novels, movies or mini-series are just full of such pathetic characters, then they'd be just worthless jokes.I do think that after won the Pulitzer, making "Lonesome Dove" so successfully popular, the author just wanted to keep cashing-in with prequels and sequels. Yet sadly speaking, none of them was as good as "Lonesome Dove", especially "Comanche Moon" and, by god, the adapted mini-series was even worse, all the figures in it simply all turned into laughable retarded jerks."Street of Loredo", the sequel to "Lonesome Dove", by the way, is at least serious enough, but the sad encountering of the story is miserable and anti-climax, completely toppled the greatness of its precedent origin.

Comanche Moon may have been one of the most anticipated films ever for me, as well as the most anticipated stories. When you think about it, this novel and movie should have been amazing. Call, Augustus, Deets, Jake, and Pea Eye all in their prime, the West still even more wild than Lonesome Dove, young Blue Duck, not to mention the great warriors Buffalo Hump and Kicking Wolf whose characters were built up greatly in Dead Man's Walk. With a setting like this how could it miss? If this had been done right it could have easily outshone even the original Lonesome Dove, the setup was just that good.But it was mostly a disappointment. It was way to rushed, did not truly recapture the characters we came to love so much in Lonesome Dove, was inconsistent in many ways from the history outlined in Lonesome Dove, and strayed away from the original characters to much. It was almost like an unfeeling and unemotional documentary of the lives of Gus and Call prior to Lonesome Dove, and an inconsistent one at that. I'm not going to go into to much detail about how it failed to truly establish and develop the characters to being what we knew and loved in Lonesome Dove, but it will be obvious as you watch it. Overall, Zahn and Urban probably did the best jobs of playing Call and McCrae since Duvall and Jones, but the problem was far more with the source material. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't terrible, but it fell well short of what it could been. You almost get the sense McMurtry was trying to just get this over with, and as a result did a great story a terrible injustice.

Okay, let's face it. Nothing will ever touch "Lonesome Dove". It had the great Robert Duvall after all. That being said, I have to say that Steve Zahn nailed it. He's usually cast as a dumb ass. So, I was worried he wouldn't pull this off...but he did. Not just because he was the closest to Robert Duvall's portrayal as you can get, but also because he really proved his acting ability. The movie itself was not necessary. "Lonesome Dove" explained their history, but it was fun to see the characters in their youth. It's also probably good for people who haven't seen "Lonesome Dove" yet. All and all I'm glad they made it. But, it's kind of like "Star Wars"...don't mess with a good thing.