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This is the exact point it jumped the shark: https://www.jamesandmyles.co.uk/work/circuit-eb2rk-g9e4s-3dy3z
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Reuse of Western locations, notably Vasquez Rocks is a factor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_productions_using_the_Vasquez_Rocks_as_a_filming_location
Also seen in recent Westworld.
What we think of as classic 'Western' landscape is actually a bit of desert with rocks in, just inside a 30 miles-from-Hollywood union rule - which isn't much like Montana/Dakota/Idaho/Wyoming.
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Star Wars, A New Hope in particular, to be a western
It's more pilgrimage/quest with some Western trappings. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_West, Wizard of Oz
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I have just remembered I wrote an essay in 1994 as part of a post-modernism* uni module, saying that Terminator is original Yul Brynner Westworld, except he escapes from the future, instead of from the Wild West simulation of the past. And Yul Brynner is just replaying his gunslinger role straight from The Magnificent Seven.
Simulacra within simulacra or something.
*May have been post-structuralism
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I read somewhere that most zombie films are just retreads of specific Westerns that feature a 'last stand against overwhelming horde' act.
John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13 is an (ostensibly police) crossover:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault_on_Precinct_13_(1976_film)
inspired by the Howard Hawks Western film Rio Bravo and the George A. Romero horror film Night of the Living Dead.[3]
But then Zulu and some WW2 Pacific films (and probably others that need an 'of their time' caveat) fit into that too.
film thread
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Ah yes Tin Star looks to be a great example.
And Fargo, as it seems there is a season I missed.
I wouldn't have considered Star Trek.
However, I posted this question immediately after watching the Star Trek homage Black Mirror episode, which is the closest I have ever been to watching TV Star Trek.
Which goes to show that genre transcends setting (and re-appropriation) I guess.
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Thanks pardners will check some of these out.
Probably the Wyatt Earp one first as he popped up in Deadwood and I was struggling to remember how he fitted into the mythos.
Not sure about the Mandalorian, I did enjoy Andor, but my partner generally has a severe reaction to any sci-fi. I think Diego Luna may have helped.
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Are there any Western series, including neo-, revisionary- and other variants, that I should watch if I have already seen:
- Deadwood (nearly finished watching it again)
- Godless
- Hell on Wheels
- The English (might watch it again though)
I also need to finish Red Dead Redemption 2 that I started in COVID lockdown 1.0.
- Deadwood (nearly finished watching it again)
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Thanks, found the post (see last comment on it) https://strava.app.link/F9q9oHrZgPb
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Almost exactly what I was going to write.
I almost always found a surprising line of congruence with my own inner dialogue, despite being very different ages - although I suspect we had some of the same college/uni reading, decades apart.
I'm not going tag them (so they can read when it's right for them), but I would like to think Hayley's friends here will share some of these messages with other friends outside this forum.
PS: I have a more personal message of thanks which I would like send via a friend of Hayley's, rather than post here, if/when the time is right - as it relates to my own health.
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If your printer has Ethernet (cheap ones don't), also plug it into the switch.
If it doesn't, try plugging it via USB into the router. Your router may have some config which e.g. adds a proper print queue.
Failing that, via USB into the desktop. Other machines should be able to see the printer and may even be able to wake the desktop. May need some fiddling with BIOS/USB settings.
There is probably a cheap USB-Ethernet adaptor for this too.

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