I'll say right now that I'll be with "John Adams" till the end of the series. That's the beauty of a mini-series. You know how long you're in for and you know that it can't be picked up for a second season. And it's that knowledge that helps me look past last Sunday's worthless episode, "Don't Tread on Me". Other than bringing John's character into sharper focus, it basically summed up his particiaption in the Revolutionary War as thus: He went to Europe and accomplished nothing. I give the series credit for portryaing the events objectively so that viewers can debate who was more at fault: Adams or Benjamin Franklin (I think Adams comes off worse as he doesn't he's completely out of his element in France). But there was none of the brilliant politicking and intrigue we saw in the first two parts. Hopefully next week's episode will focus on the construction of a free America and its constitution.