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<blockquote data-quote="bmasters9" data-source="post: 105977" data-attributes="member: 77">I just saw an episode of the 1958-61 CBS Western series called Wanted: Dead or Alive w/the great, late Steve McQueen that, IMO, is incredibly relevant to these crazy times of #metoo and #timesup-- the first-season episode called &quot;Rope Law,&quot; OAD Jan. 3, 1959 on CBS. How is this episode relevant? Well, it&#039;s an excellently-done (at least IMO) 25-min. Western treatise on mob mentality in the Old West, and how this #metoo/#timesup bull gipp is sort of like the 1800&#039;s Old West rope law of sexuality; specifically, the mob can say someone is guilty of something (in this episode, murder) and deserves to be hung then; they&#039;ll usually skip the &quot;hear &#039;em&quot; and go straight from &quot;hunt &#039;em&quot; to &quot;hang &#039;em.&quot;After all, even Judge Milton C. Hardcastle (the great, late Brian Keith) in the pilot of Hardcastle and McCormick in 1983 on ABC said, &quot;Hunt &#039;em, hear &#039;em and hang &#039;em-- that&#039;s the way!&quot;This #metoo bull gipp, however, is like the lynch mob/posse in that Wanted episode-- the people behind it won&#039;t listen to reason, and as such, as I said, that Western episode that I just saw is incredibly relevant to our times today.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bmasters9, post: 105977, member: 77"] I just saw an episode of the 1958-61 CBS Western series called [I]Wanted: Dead or Alive [/I]w/the great, late Steve McQueen that, IMO, is incredibly relevant to these crazy times of #metoo and #timesup-- the first-season episode called "Rope Law," OAD Jan. 3, 1959 on CBS. How is this episode relevant? Well, it's an excellently-done (at least IMO) 25-min. Western treatise on mob mentality in the Old West, and how this #metoo/#timesup bull gipp is sort of like the 1800's Old West rope law of sexuality; specifically, the mob can say someone is guilty of something (in this episode, murder) and deserves to be hung then; they'll usually skip the "hear 'em" and go straight from "hunt 'em" to "hang 'em." After all, even Judge Milton C. Hardcastle (the great, late Brian Keith) in the pilot of [I]Hardcastle and McCormick[/I] in 1983 on ABC said, "Hunt 'em, hear 'em and hang 'em-- that's the way!" This #metoo bull gipp, however, is like the lynch mob/posse in that [I]Wanted[/I] episode-- the people behind it won't listen to reason, and as such, as I said, that Western episode that I just saw is incredibly relevant to our times today. [/QUOTE]

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