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« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2009, 03:54:44 PM » |
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I've now watched the first five episodes, and everyone will probably think I'm crazy and quickly have me put in a mental institution like in "Changeling," but the format of Rawhide reminds me of the original "Star Trek." Here is this crew on a mission, and they always run into off the wall situations, like the church in the middle of nowhere and the guy who wants to start a confederacy in Panama. The situations even affects the guys mentally and causes them to turn against each other. And another similarity is that if someone from their party gets killed, it's someone that you've never seen before. Since Rawhide came first, perhaps Star Trek copied their format, or, perhaps I'm just crazy. 
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« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2009, 07:43:28 PM » |
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I think it was quite common for dramatic TV series to have roughly that format, at least those where the premise was that the characters were on a journey from somewhere to somewhere. Basically, you had a small group of recurring actors, but the shows were mostly not about them, but about the people they encountered in their travels, and these would be played by guest stars, often movie actors trying to revive fading careers. Another show like that from around that time, but in a contemporary setting, was the two-guys-and-a-Corvette drama Route 66. It's actually a very old literary genre ... you could trace it all the way back to Homer's Odyssey: Guy moves around, meets interesting people and encounters interesting events, interacts with them in some way, and then moves on to the next place and never hears anything about them again. In the Spanish Golden Age, they called it "picaresque" (that actually refers to a satiric subgenre where the hero is a rogue and the intent is to show up the foibles of the society he moves through). It's also familiar as a film genre; in that case, we call it the "road movie," and Clint made a few of 'em (the Which Way movies and Honkytonk Man).
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« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2009, 11:04:06 AM » |
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For those who are much more familiar with "Rawhide" than I am, during what season did Clint get out of the boyish, green stage and become a full adult? I'm assuming that happened. Also, I am only familiar with season 1 and have some questions about the drive. I'm assuming they experienced several different drives over the run of the show; was there ever an episode where they actually reached the end of a drive and delivered the cattle, or was the entire series just one, long, continuous drive? Did they have different trails or was it always the same one. I noticed that it appeared to be their first time on the Sedalia trail during season 1.
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« Reply #16 on: September 23, 2009, 06:22:57 PM » |
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I really enjoyed it. I think the reason being that even though it's 50 years old, to me, it's brand new, having never seen any episodes before.
The only problem I now face is, do I take my time with these 22 episodes since it took three years to finally get the DVD's of season 1, & who knows how long before we get to season 2, but holding back on watching the rest may be too hard.
I'm half way through season 2 and am really enjoying it. I think the episodes get even better. For some reason, it took me a few episodes for it to grow on me, but now I really look forward to watching an episode. And I too haven't seen them before, so it's like a brand new show. I think it was ahead of it's time. Some of the writing reminds me of today's shows with all the twists and turns. It's not one of those shows where you figure out how it will end in the first 15 minutes.
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