Now that the Seven are together, the production staff has to come up with a reason for why they're sticking around in one location so there can be a TV series. So this episode is mostly world-building.
We do get two TV veterans: Robert Vaughn and Brion James. Vaughn appears to be having a good time, although there's no nods to his previous appearance in the original movie. Besides his presence. Here Vaughn plays a tough-as-nails circuit judge who also happens to be Mary's father-in-law. Vaughn is as professional as you'd expect, as the judge who has come to Four Corners to bring law to the town... and gets his daughter-in-law to leave with him.
James plays another bad-guy role, as eeevvillll rancher Lucas James. I don't recall Four Corners (the town) being as deserted at it's shown here, from the pilot episode. Oh well. James doesn't have much to do here, but he's suitably "tarnished noble". His brief confrontation with Vaughn's Judge Oren is short but good.
Basically, the episode is set-up for the series as a whole. The Seven have their reasons for staying in Four Corners: J.D. is a young man who wants the experience, Ezra wants a pardon, Josiah wants to save lost souls, Chris is sweet on Mary even though he hides it, Buck just seems to want the thrill and not abandon his friend Chris. The one who put a razor to his throat earlier. Nathan and Vin aren't as well-defined, and Nathan has a girlfriend at the Seminole tribe that we won't see until later. Vin wants to clear his name elsewhere, but they stick around anyway.
Nathan gets to do some doctoring, and throws a knife into one thug's arm. But hey, Nathan is the token black and it was 1998.
"One Day Out West" is a pretty standard Western, livened up with 1998 American TV "character development. And you've got Perlman, and even Biehn and the others are pretty good. Kind of like 'Silverado", you get the impression it's modern actors having a good ole time riding horses, shooting revolvers, and being manly men. But that may just be an artifact of the times. Did anybody take Westerns "seriously" in '98?
Bu that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?
We do get two TV veterans: Robert Vaughn and Brion James. Vaughn appears to be having a good time, although there's no nods to his previous appearance in the original movie. Besides his presence. Here Vaughn plays a tough-as-nails circuit judge who also happens to be Mary's father-in-law. Vaughn is as professional as you'd expect, as the judge who has come to Four Corners to bring law to the town... and gets his daughter-in-law to leave with him.
James plays another bad-guy role, as eeevvillll rancher Lucas James. I don't recall Four Corners (the town) being as deserted at it's shown here, from the pilot episode. Oh well. James doesn't have much to do here, but he's suitably "tarnished noble". His brief confrontation with Vaughn's Judge Oren is short but good.
Basically, the episode is set-up for the series as a whole. The Seven have their reasons for staying in Four Corners: J.D. is a young man who wants the experience, Ezra wants a pardon, Josiah wants to save lost souls, Chris is sweet on Mary even though he hides it, Buck just seems to want the thrill and not abandon his friend Chris. The one who put a razor to his throat earlier. Nathan and Vin aren't as well-defined, and Nathan has a girlfriend at the Seminole tribe that we won't see until later. Vin wants to clear his name elsewhere, but they stick around anyway.
Nathan gets to do some doctoring, and throws a knife into one thug's arm. But hey, Nathan is the token black and it was 1998.
"One Day Out West" is a pretty standard Western, livened up with 1998 American TV "character development. And you've got Perlman, and even Biehn and the others are pretty good. Kind of like 'Silverado", you get the impression it's modern actors having a good ole time riding horses, shooting revolvers, and being manly men. But that may just be an artifact of the times. Did anybody take Westerns "seriously" in '98?
Bu that's just my opinion, I could be wrong. What do you think?
