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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 120603" data-attributes="member: 57984"><p>R U nu to the BV??</p><p></p><p>I liked the very early episodes of Season 1 -- Stanwyck is still self-contained and the essence of matriarchal cool, Audra is kind of bitchy initially, and those episodes are well-constructed. Fairly quickly, of course, the show slips into pedestrian formula, Stanwyck slides into flailing camp, Evans soon enters the gorgeous Aphrodite phase in which she'll remain until 1982, with the occasional goodish episode here-and-there throughout the series' four years.</p><p></p><p>There is a slightly autumnal vibe of decay and loss in the earliest part of the series, and it tells you this show wants to be a classic (seems most Linda Evans series start out that way) even though things get a bit banal and anachronistically "mod" before too long as it begins veering away from strict period accuracy (eg, leather midi-skirts, green eye shadow).</p><p></p><p>The guys are okay, but I find the damsels-in-distress installments -- with Victoria and/or Audra -- seem to work the best, for some reason. Probably because of the casting.</p><p></p><p>It's notable that the one thing which made it so hard to for Stanwyck to get her own western when there were a sea of horse operas flooding the tube in the '60s -- that she was a woman who wanted in on the action and not sitting on a porch with a shawl -- is exactly why BIG VALLEY has been so successfully syndicated over the last half century. There's not a town you can drive through across America where BV doesn't air at least once a day.</p><p></p><p>I sometimes wish the series was a little bit better -- or more consistent -- than it is, but then it's '60s TV.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/12/c9/67/12c967d1d78841bbc7c7eddd08bf3540.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/5e/5f/d4/5e5fd4b53c93d6bccbfd73d1ac2d1c38.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 733px" /></p><p><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d3/e7/63/d3e76325b7d4ebec17c802ee4385ad44--richard-long-victoria.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/8200000/Nick-Barkley-the-big-valley-8269885-615-418.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 731px" /></p><p><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/514kiKnQsdL._SY445_QL70_.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 751px" /></p><p></p><p>I always wanted the Barkley ranch to have a proper name.</p><p><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-naDtbs_rtag/VHt1nSV1uGI/AAAAAAAAJb4/S0VdK5Iepzo/s1600/1966%2B(1965)-Big%2BValley%2B1.20-mansion.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 120603, member: 57984"] R U nu to the BV?? I liked the very early episodes of Season 1 -- Stanwyck is still self-contained and the essence of matriarchal cool, Audra is kind of bitchy initially, and those episodes are well-constructed. Fairly quickly, of course, the show slips into pedestrian formula, Stanwyck slides into flailing camp, Evans soon enters the gorgeous Aphrodite phase in which she'll remain until 1982, with the occasional goodish episode here-and-there throughout the series' four years. There is a slightly autumnal vibe of decay and loss in the earliest part of the series, and it tells you this show wants to be a classic (seems most Linda Evans series start out that way) even though things get a bit banal and anachronistically "mod" before too long as it begins veering away from strict period accuracy (eg, leather midi-skirts, green eye shadow). The guys are okay, but I find the damsels-in-distress installments -- with Victoria and/or Audra -- seem to work the best, for some reason. Probably because of the casting. It's notable that the one thing which made it so hard to for Stanwyck to get her own western when there were a sea of horse operas flooding the tube in the '60s -- that she was a woman who wanted in on the action and not sitting on a porch with a shawl -- is exactly why BIG VALLEY has been so successfully syndicated over the last half century. There's not a town you can drive through across America where BV doesn't air at least once a day. I sometimes wish the series was a little bit better -- or more consistent -- than it is, but then it's '60s TV. [IMG]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/12/c9/67/12c967d1d78841bbc7c7eddd08bf3540.jpg[/IMG] [IMG width="733px"]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/5e/5f/d4/5e5fd4b53c93d6bccbfd73d1ac2d1c38.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d3/e7/63/d3e76325b7d4ebec17c802ee4385ad44--richard-long-victoria.jpg[/IMG] [IMG width="731px"]http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/8200000/Nick-Barkley-the-big-valley-8269885-615-418.jpg[/IMG] [IMG width="751px"]https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/514kiKnQsdL._SY445_QL70_.jpg[/IMG] I always wanted the Barkley ranch to have a proper name. [IMG]http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-naDtbs_rtag/VHt1nSV1uGI/AAAAAAAAJb4/S0VdK5Iepzo/s1600/1966%2B(1965)-Big%2BValley%2B1.20-mansion.png[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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