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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 354939" data-attributes="member: 57984">I&#039;m seeing more of the half-hour episodes than I have before and, frankly, they&#039;re a little better -- at least, overall -- than I had expected, more organic that the &#039;50s posturing one would anticipate. I mean, there&#039;s a little of that, but much less so than the period demands would lead you to believe. The B&amp;W camerawork is excellent, the acting goodish, and many scripts are almost progressive for the time (e.g., homicidal white thugs frame the Pawnee for sadistic raids of settlers&#039; farms, with Marshal Dillon giving an historical fact-based speech about Caucasian marauders having slaughtered entire Indian villages) and the show is comparatively free of cliches. It&#039;s western gothic for the small screen.No wonder it became the #1 series for several years in the late-&#039;50s. It really is better than the other TV horse opera entries of the decade -- the main problem being the brevity of the stories due to the 30-minute timeslot; they&#039;re a little bit rushed. I guess I&#039;d seen fewer of the early installments than I&#039;d thought.[ATTACH=full]43974[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 354939, member: 57984"] I'm seeing more of the half-hour episodes than I have before and, frankly, they're a little better -- at least, overall -- than I had expected, more organic that the '50s posturing one would anticipate. I mean, there's a little of that, but much less so than the period demands would lead you to believe. The B&W camerawork is excellent, the acting goodish, and many scripts are almost progressive for the time (e.g., homicidal white thugs frame the Pawnee for sadistic raids of settlers' farms, with Marshal Dillon giving an historical fact-based speech about Caucasian marauders having slaughtered entire Indian villages) and the show is comparatively free of cliches. It's western gothic for the small screen. No wonder it became the #1 series for several years in the late-'50s. It [I][B]really is[/B][/I] better than the other TV horse opera entries of the decade -- the main problem being the brevity of the stories due to the 30-minute timeslot; they're a little bit rushed. I guess I'd seen fewer of the early installments than I'd thought. [ATTACH type="full" width="689px"]43974[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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