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disappointed in the Connors cameo

posted 11 years ago by dustinthewind25
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It was great to see all the old familiar faces in this show.

I was a bit disappointed in the Chuck Connors cameo as Lucas McCain though. I know people might give me a bit of a hard time about this, but the Lucas McCain from the TV series was an intelligent church-going man who read the Bible, and taught his son from the Bible. That was a point that was made in the original show in more than one episode. In the Lucas McCain cameo in this show, he not only came off as a bit of a hick, just not the intelligent Lucas I remember, but it was also implied that he went to a brothel and we hear him swear.

Just not the Lucas McCain I remember from the original series.

And it's ok if you don't feel the same way about it as I do.

[–] Skye_Reynolds 11 years ago

I didn't catch any reference to a brothel. As for the swearing, it seemed somewhat fitting as Chuck Connors himself was known to swear excessively on the set.

For what it was, I thought it was a decent cameo.

[–] maxman-5 10 years ago

I don't recall the brother part (and I can't re-watch as the tape just broke), but I agree about the swearing. 168 episodes of The Rifleman without swearing. This was made in 1991; imagine what we could expect if it were made today? And they couldn't even do a Lone Ranger movie (The Legend of the Lone Ranger - 1981), a kid's movie, without cursing. I haven't seen the new Johnny Depp one yet; Lord knows what's in that one.

[–] Tjanssen411 9 years ago

re-watching my DVD and saw the Cameo

-- To read it as attending a Brothel would make Burgandy a Madame, and not just a saloon keeper (although without the Bowdlerization common among most pre-1990s westerns most 'Saloons' depicted were thinly veiled brothels)

-- as to swearing, his line was "Moving Pictures, what the hell is this world coming to."

this being said on TV Pre-NYPD Blue pretty much means it was/is not considered a Swear word to the FCC