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Bass Reeves on Paramount
« on: January 09, 2024, 10:33:27 AM »
Anyone watching it?

I've just started streaming it. It's about the first black US Deputy Marshall west of the Mississippi after the Civil War.

So far it's not exactly what I expected. It's still building the background, but I have to be honest, after 2 episodes, I'm not sure that my interest is building.

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Re: Bass Reeves on Paramount
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2024, 10:35:42 AM »
My wife and I watched it a few weeks ago.  We enjoyed it, but it wasn't quite as good as some of Taylor Sheridan's other offerings.  It takes a bit for the story to build out.
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Re: Bass Reeves on Paramount
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2024, 01:37:21 PM »
Isn't Reeves supposed to be the inspiration for the Lone Ranger?
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Re: Bass Reeves on Paramount
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2024, 02:00:03 PM »
Let us know how it goes.  I am reluctant to sign up for Paramount again, but I might. 
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Re: Bass Reeves on Paramount
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2024, 02:55:30 PM »
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Re: Bass Reeves on Paramount
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2024, 03:40:26 PM »
Quote from: Perd Hapley on January 09, 2024, 01:37:21 PM
Isn't Reeves supposed to be the inspiration for the Lone Ranger?

Alleged but disputed.
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Re: Bass Reeves on Paramount
« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2024, 06:42:49 PM »
I’m a couple of episodes in and haven’t picked it back up. What I saw wasn’t bad, just not great.
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Re: Bass Reeves on Paramount
« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2024, 06:59:17 AM »
I binge watched the first season of The Mandalorian yesterday. When I got Hulu I got a subscription to Disney+ as part of the package, so I figured why not fire it up.

I enjoyed Season 1, but I couldn't help thinking that it was so much like Firefly it wasn't even funny.
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Re: Bass Reeves on Paramount
« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2024, 09:04:45 AM »
Quote from: K Frame on January 11, 2024, 06:59:17 AM
I binge watched the first season of The Mandalorian yesterday. When I got Hulu I got a subscription to Disney+ as part of the package, so I figured why not fire it up.

I enjoyed Season 1, but I couldn't help thinking that it was so much like Firefly it wasn't even funny.
But it didn't last.  If they would have just kept the story about a lone bounty hunter going after bad people and getting into fights, they could have milked that for a long time.  They could have even made Grogu his sidekick in that story line.  For a number of reasons, they didn't stick with that. 
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Re: Bass Reeves on Paramount
« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2024, 09:33:24 AM »
Thinking along those lines, I have to wonder if Firefly is better off having only lasted one season and the movie.  Had it gone multiple seasons, the story and characters may have suffered.  Of course, that cast of actors could have survived bad writing quite a while.
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Re: Bass Reeves on Paramount
« Reply #10 on: January 11, 2024, 10:09:46 AM »
Quote from: MechAg94 on January 11, 2024, 09:33:24 AM
Thinking along those lines, I have to wonder if Firefly is better off having only lasted one season and the movie.  Had it gone multiple seasons, the story and characters may have suffered.  Of course, that cast of actors could have survived bad writing quite a while.

I think Firefly could 100% have had a successful second season, and a good chance for a third. After that seems to be when show and network executives start getting bright ideas about changing stuff "to keep things new and interesting".
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Re: Bass Reeves on Paramount
« Reply #11 on: January 11, 2024, 12:04:29 PM »
Quote from: Ben on January 11, 2024, 10:09:46 AM
I think Firefly could 100% have had a successful second season, and a good chance for a third. After that seems to be when show and network executives start getting bright ideas about changing stuff "to keep things new and interesting".
And also the writers and people who started the show often move on to better jobs and various hacks worm their way in for the career credit of working on a known show.  If it is really successful, idiot executives start mandating things that screw with the writers/directors. 

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