{"id":105057,"date":"2020-11-05T00:16:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T21:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-western-genre-lives-on-in-sci-fi-television-series\/"},"modified":"2020-11-05T00:16:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T21:16:10","slug":"the-western-genre-lives-on-in-sci-fi-television-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-western-genre-lives-on-in-sci-fi-television-series\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Western Genre Lives On in Sci-Fi Television Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#The Western Genre Lives On in Sci-Fi Television <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Series<\/a><\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.7-->In the last few decades, the Western has become an unfashionable genre. But even if you haven\u2019t seen a lot of popular formal Western films and television series of late, you\u2019ve likely still been watching and enjoying Westerns for some time, just in a different set of clothes than you might expect: under the guise of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> fiction television.<\/p>\n<p>Westerns are about exploration, justice, and survival. Inside the Western genre, there are a number of subgenres where the Western takes on comedy, horror, and more surreal aspects in order to tell their tall tales in new ways. But your basic Western will have <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theme<\/a>s of nobility and perspective, and of violence and how that violence is used, and where justice is upheld, and what justice really is. Combine those themes with the complicated relationship with Native Americans, the fallout of the American Civil War, and how crime made a lot of people pay in the Old West, and you have the skeleton of the Western.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, new seasons of two popular science fiction television shows trotted into town: <em><strong>Star Trek: Discovery<\/strong><\/em>, which is found on CBS All Access; and the<em> Star Wars<\/em> drama <em><strong>The Mandalorian<\/strong><\/em>, which is streaming on Disney+. As continuations and spinoffs of large and lengthy TV and film franchises, both of them have huge devoted fanbases and have been lassoing positive reviews. Both shows also take a number of elements from the conventions of Western film and television. <\/p>\n<p>The Season 3 premiere of <em>Star Trek: Discovery<\/em>, titled \u201cThat Hope is You,\u201d posits Commander Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) as a literal stranger in a strange land, placing her light years in time and distance from anyone she knows, on an unfamiliar world. This is the new frontier, and before long she\u2019s entering the local saloon and getting involved in brawls and disputes over precious dilithium. The second episode of the season, \u201cFar From Home,\u201d leans even more into this, as the intrepid crew of the USS <em>Discovery<\/em> finally catches up with her \u2014 at least where time is concerned \u2014 and gets into their own Old West-style scrapes.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, the <em>Discovery <\/em>crash lands on an icy planet. Some of the crew go out to investigate, with Saru (Doug Jones) and Tilly (Mary Wiseman) venturing toward a local mining settlement and wind up at a particular establishment. There are no bones about it, this is a space-saloon, complete with a bar and the swingy doors. As we quickly learn, the miners are deathly afraid of a grungy dude called Zareh (Jake Weber) who is running the settlement.<\/p>\n<p>Clint Eastwood\u2019s 1985 Western <em><strong>Pale Rider<\/strong><\/em> stars the film icon as a stranger named \u201cPreacher\u201d who wanders into a mining town where prospectors are being intimidated by a corrupt mining boss. Preacher stands up to the boss and eventually helps defeat his thugs and save the prospectors. The crew of the <em>Discovery <\/em>does the same. This theme of the town kingpin is also explored in the 2003 Kevin Costner film <em><strong>Open Range<\/strong><\/em>, as well as a 1978 episode of the science fiction TV series <em><strong>Battlestar Galactica<\/strong><\/em> entitled \u201cThe Lost Warrior.\u201d In the latter, Captain Apollo (Richard Hatch) lands on a distant planet where a small community is ruled by a boss who happens to have a reprogrammed Cylon as his main heavy. <\/p>\n<p>The third episode of <em>Star Trek: Discovery <\/em>Season 3, \u201cPeople of Earth,\u201d has the <em>Discovery<\/em> encountering a group of vicious raiders out to steal dilithium from anyone they come across. For anyone who\u2019s seen even a few Westerns, this is a standard trope with Native Americans raiding settlements (or vice versa), so for the sake of reference, you can go to <em><strong>The Searchers<\/strong><\/em>, John Ford\u2019s 1956 masterpiece, in which embittered racist Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) goes after Comanches who have raided his brother\u2019s home and stolen his wife and daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Like <em>Star Trek<\/em>, <em>Star Wars<\/em> has never been particularly shy about its Western influence, and that remains true with <em>The Mandalorian<\/em>. The premise im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely conjures up an older Western television show called <em><strong>Have Gun \u2013 Will <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Travel<\/a><\/strong><\/em> (1957-1963), in which a mysterious character called Paladin journeys the United States as a mercenary with a heart, taking on the concept of the \u201cnoble gunslinger.\u201d <em>The Mandalorian<\/em> also mirrors this show\u2019s time period: <em>Have Gun \u2013 Will Travel<\/em> is set in the late 1800s, after the end of the American Civil War, whereas <em>The Mandalorian<\/em> is set five years after the end of the Galactic Civil War, during which the Rebels defeated the Empire as seen in the 1983 <em>Star Wars<\/em> film <em>Return of the Jedi<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a measure of <strong>Shane<\/strong> (Alan Ladd) in Mando, from the 1953 George Stevens film of the same name. The character, a mysterious but highly proficient gunslinger, wanders into an isolated town and becomes the savior for the residents, who are being harassed by a cattle baron. The Season 2 premiere of <em>The Mandalorian <\/em>sees its title character journey to Tatooine after being told another Mandalorian is living there. Arriving at the town of Mos Pelgo, he actually finds Cobb Vanth, a former slave turned sheriff who had traded for a set of Mandalorian armor found by Jawas. <\/p>\n<p>That armor happened to belong to a certain character named Boba Fett, who himself was designed for the original <em>Star Wars <\/em>film (only to make his debut in the notorious <em>Star Wars Holiday Special <\/em>instead) as a straight homage to Clint Eastwood\u2019s \u201cMan With No Name\u201d character from Sergio Leone\u2019s spaghetti westerns, such as <em><strong>The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly<\/strong><\/em>. Right down to the poncho he originally sported in pre-production art. <\/p>\n<p>On Tatooine, Mando and Vanth rally the townspeople of Mos Pelgo and manage to make them come together with their enemies, the Tusken Raiders, to defeat a common threat: a monstrous Krayt Dragon that has been ravaging the area. Such a truce is something explored in a number of Westerns. One famous example is the 1965 Sam Peckinpah film<em> <strong>Major Dundee<\/strong><\/em>, which stars Charlton Heston as a Union cavalry officer who rounds up a group of Union and Confederate troops as well as a number of African-American soldiers and Native American scouts and has them work as a team to find an Apache raiding party.  <\/p>\n<p>The theme of enemies putting aside their differences to reach for a bigger goal is a noble one, especially powerful when combined with the echoes of<em> <\/em>1960\u2019s <em><strong>The Magnificent Seven<\/strong><\/em>. Mando and Vanth leading both townsfolk and Tusken \u201csand people\u201d is reminiscent of that iconic John Sturges picture where residents of a Mexican village under fire from a bandit are taught to fight back by more experienced gunslingers \u2014 of course, that film was a remake of the 1954 samurai classic <em><strong>Seven Samurai<\/strong><\/em>, directed by Akira Kurosawa, who was another major influence on <em>Star Wars <\/em>creator George Lucas.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s likely that we\u2019ll still be watching new iterations of <em>Star Wars <\/em>and <em>Star Trek<\/em> over the next fifty years, and we\u2019ll continue to point out their Western influences. It\u2019s also possible that Westerns could themselves be in vogue again someday. Perhaps these sci-fi franchises that boldly go to a galaxy far, far away will even be responsible for helping to usher in the next wave of the Western genre and influence the next generation of its fans.\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Social Media category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/sci-fi-western-television\/#utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=sci-fi-western-television\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#The Western Genre Lives On in Sci-Fi Television Series&#8221; In the last few decades, the Western has become an unfashionable genre. 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