Bad writing or bad editing?
The shows seem too contrived. It had the feel of a one hour show that has been cut down to 30 minutes through bad editing.
shareIt's too formulaic in wanting people automatically suspicious of 'our hero'.
I just watched two eps and was absolutely dumfounded by the immediate summation in both episodes.
In the first one, Peter Whitney accused Yuma of killing his son.
"Lets have a vote. Right hand for guilty, left for innocent. Anyone who votes innocent gets an enemy in me for life!"
Then the second episode, with John Dehner as Yuma's godfather, he is confronted by a fellow who says Yuma killed his brother at a battle during the war. When the guy pulls his gun on Yuma, Johnny shoots him in the shoulder then guns down the guy's son who is pulling a gun, killing him.
Yuma is wounded in the leg in the road. The guy goes out and says he runs the town, Gambletown, and virtually word for word, "anyone who helps him will be punished by me!"
There are bad people, but it runs like the Agatha Christie detectives, something that was touched on in a Peter Ustinov movie and has been hinted on Murder she Wrote; everywhere Yuma goes, someone is going to turn on him, but funnier, it is going to be the one in charge.
Obviously this show was to appeal to an encroaching anti-establishment ideaology.
I agree. But not only are they against Yuma... It is usually the rebel cap that sets them off. So why wear it?
shareblktoptrvl: "I agree. But not only are they against Yuma... It is usually the rebel cap that sets them off. So why wear it?"
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I havent watched enough episodes to see why exactly they always turn on him, just caught the two this weekend and it seemed pre-ordained they be against him.
Does he pretty much frequent out west or is he up north?
I gather he wears the cap as this was the side he fought on and he is . . . . a rebel.
As it is, this has always puzzled me about Hollywood. I thought about it this weekend, beginning with Birth of a Nation (granted, based on a book written by a Klansman, but heralded well past the civil rights era as a masterpiece), Gone With the Wind, considered the greatest movie of all time, even my fave, Buster Keaton, would do The General, in which he was on the side of the south.
Hollywood, for all its intentions of straining to be racially aware, truly fails continuously with this intention, even up to Johnny Yuma, portraying the southern soldier as misunderstood and meaning no harm, regardless of how African-Americans at the time might have perceived this.
Even still, I am a native southerner, but one parent is not American, so maybe that is why I don't feel some deep pride in the confederate cap he wears as a full-blooded southerner might. What's the harm in the cap, a true redneck might say.
I suppose it would be about the same as a wandering Klansman or Nazi with a soft-spoken demeanor and well intentions. The confederate cap is merely the oldest of these adornments.
I suppose it would be about the same as a wandering Klansman or Nazi with a soft-spoken demeanor and well intentions.
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No it would not. It would be more like an ex-German soldier with a soft-spoken demeanor and good intentions.
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