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Yes. Completely. Many thanks for responding @Velocio. Sorry.
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It's more than 'disappointing'.
I have an expectation that posts I have made in non-public areas of the forum are not made public.
The privacy policy makes it clear posts are considered personal information:
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I'm now spending part of Christmas Day removing information about me that I never intended to be public. It's already been made public, of course, and may well have been compiled into archives.
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Was there any announcement about what was being opened up to the entire Internet and archives?
Edit: as for example people may have wished to review potentially personally identifying information they have posted, in areas of this site which they expected to remain available to members.
Edit 2: should we expect all content, including PMs, may become globally accessible/archived?
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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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I claim mitigating factors, and have said sorry.