anim8rfsk
2018-04-10 17:14:21 UTC
Well, having watched the final four episodes of the series, all of which
involved Shenandoah finding somebody who knew his name and then killed
them (well, he or somebody else) before they could talk, I saw the pilot
episode today.
Shenandoah finds somebody who knows his real name and ... kills him
before he can talk.
Just ... wow.
Nothing in this pilot made sense, from the writing to the staging, and
then I saw why: Executive Producer Fred Frieberger.
So A Man Soon To Be Called Shenandoah rides into town, registers at the
hotel, and asks if the guy he's meeting, Sam Elkins, has shown up yet.
Since he hasn't, A Man Soon To Be Called Shenandoah goes across the
street for a hot bath. 3 bad guys spot him. The main one wants him
dead. He breaks into the bath and gets a bot of boiling water in his
face, knocked flat, and is helpless. So A Man Soon To Be Called
Shenandoah, having won the fight, inexplicably knocks down an innocent
guy, steals his gun, and runs outside half naked to have it out with the
other two guys that he has NO way of knowing are there, steals a horse,
and rides out of town with them shooting at him. Later he's on foot
leading said horse through a sandstorm, and the first bad guy, having
changed his clothes and gotten ahead of A Man Soon To Be Called
Shenandoah on foot, shoots him again. A couple trappers find him and
bring him to presumably a different town, where Miss Kitty takes care of
him (she has a barmaid for every 4 customers!). A kindly doctor tells
Miss Kitty that now that he's removed the bullet in A Man Soon To Be
Called Shenandoah's shoulder, he'll be fine, and then ... proceeds to
remove the bullet from A Man Soon To Be Called Shenandoah's shoulder,
because he hadn't actually done it yet! A Man Soon To Be Called
Shenandoah wakes up, having lost his ... eyesight. Wait? What??? The
kindly doctor says it must be because of the sandstorm, and reaches into
his bag and pulls out an open glass test tube full of sulphuric acid,
because waving sulphuric acid in your eyes cures blindness! And ... IT
WORKS!!
A Man Soon To Be Called Shenandoah mostly lays around griping about not
knowing his name, so the kindly doctor dubs him Shenandoah. When A Man
Now Called Shenandoah asks why, kindly doctor says it's because it's the
name of the most beautiful piece of land God ever created. Yeah, this
show is now officially totally creepy.
Anyway, the main bad guy wanders in and challenges A Man Called
Shenandoah to a gunfight. Realizing the bad guy knows his name, A Man
Called Shenandoah promptly kills him and then rides off despite Miss
Kitty's entreaties for him to stay, totally at random, to find out his
real name. Um, one guy already walked in that knew you. Wouldn't this
be a fine base of operations?
involved Shenandoah finding somebody who knew his name and then killed
them (well, he or somebody else) before they could talk, I saw the pilot
episode today.
Shenandoah finds somebody who knows his real name and ... kills him
before he can talk.
Just ... wow.
Nothing in this pilot made sense, from the writing to the staging, and
then I saw why: Executive Producer Fred Frieberger.
So A Man Soon To Be Called Shenandoah rides into town, registers at the
hotel, and asks if the guy he's meeting, Sam Elkins, has shown up yet.
Since he hasn't, A Man Soon To Be Called Shenandoah goes across the
street for a hot bath. 3 bad guys spot him. The main one wants him
dead. He breaks into the bath and gets a bot of boiling water in his
face, knocked flat, and is helpless. So A Man Soon To Be Called
Shenandoah, having won the fight, inexplicably knocks down an innocent
guy, steals his gun, and runs outside half naked to have it out with the
other two guys that he has NO way of knowing are there, steals a horse,
and rides out of town with them shooting at him. Later he's on foot
leading said horse through a sandstorm, and the first bad guy, having
changed his clothes and gotten ahead of A Man Soon To Be Called
Shenandoah on foot, shoots him again. A couple trappers find him and
bring him to presumably a different town, where Miss Kitty takes care of
him (she has a barmaid for every 4 customers!). A kindly doctor tells
Miss Kitty that now that he's removed the bullet in A Man Soon To Be
Called Shenandoah's shoulder, he'll be fine, and then ... proceeds to
remove the bullet from A Man Soon To Be Called Shenandoah's shoulder,
because he hadn't actually done it yet! A Man Soon To Be Called
Shenandoah wakes up, having lost his ... eyesight. Wait? What??? The
kindly doctor says it must be because of the sandstorm, and reaches into
his bag and pulls out an open glass test tube full of sulphuric acid,
because waving sulphuric acid in your eyes cures blindness! And ... IT
WORKS!!
A Man Soon To Be Called Shenandoah mostly lays around griping about not
knowing his name, so the kindly doctor dubs him Shenandoah. When A Man
Now Called Shenandoah asks why, kindly doctor says it's because it's the
name of the most beautiful piece of land God ever created. Yeah, this
show is now officially totally creepy.
Anyway, the main bad guy wanders in and challenges A Man Called
Shenandoah to a gunfight. Realizing the bad guy knows his name, A Man
Called Shenandoah promptly kills him and then rides off despite Miss
Kitty's entreaties for him to stay, totally at random, to find out his
real name. Um, one guy already walked in that knew you. Wouldn't this
be a fine base of operations?
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