Centennial, the miniseries

I started reading the book about two weeks ago. As of this post, I've read about 70% of the book.

As I started reading the book, it motivated me to watch the miniseries. The miniseries aired on NBC from October 1978 to February 1979. I just finished watching the 12 episodes of Centennial on STARZ.

Overall, I would rate the miniseries 8 stars out of 10. The first 4 episodes were excellent. I feel that the quality of the miniseries went into a decline after episode #4, mainly due to the loss of the original main characters (Pasquinel, McKeag, Clay Basket, etc.) due to their deaths, and the arrival of new main characters and story lines that didn't interest me as much.

I'm sure James Michener, the author of the book, meant well when writing book when he included a massacre, a cattle drive involving gun fights, a range war, and the Dust Bowl in order to preserve some level of historical accuracy. I guess I'm not into gun fights, range wars, cattle drives, and massacres.