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by RedShirt » Fri Oct 11, 2019 3:00 am
Saw a large portion of this again recently.
Still don't think it was *all* a dream; it is possible that White Buffalo Woman (there's a fair number of legends around figures with similar names) might really have existed, and indeed really have patched up a fatigued, dehydrated, fever-stricken Adam after finding him wounded. The real lack of her apparent interest in the man struck me as more appropriate for a professional nurse, on re-viewing.
You can argue that the "romance" is born out of gratitude on his part, too -- but the best scenes in this are (aside from the sheer unadulterated scenery) the early scenes where Ben and Adam argue; (and o, by the way, how come Adam here is aware of and knowledgeable about windmills, but by the time we see the episode featuring a drought-endangered community and a man insisting on artesian water, the whole notion of windmills appears to be a new strange alien concept?) -- I absolutely love the way Adam, completely at wit's end, simply throws his hat in the floor, turns his back and shuts up altogether. It's both a display of temper and of control -- he retains a great deal of respect for the father who's raised him, despite really being fed up with the current situation. Would Adam fall for a woman who saved his life? I don't know; but he very well might think he *should*, especially if her situation kept her in what he thought of as dangerous circumstances. But it might even be as simple as being isolated with an eligible woman while convalescing. Or partly so -- she's long gone before his family finds him.
Now that I've got HDTV to watch on, some of the continuity bits (socks that look like they belong on a basketball court, forex, peeking over the tops of his boots) are worth a chuckle too.
A gun is only a tool, like your jackknife; no better 'n no worse than the man who handles it. Any man can pull a trigger. It's not hard. But it takes a big man not to pull one. -- Adam Cartwright