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Cut 'em Off at the Horsehead Nebula!
http://rantingroom.blogspot.com/2009...-part-one.html
Notes on how the TV show Firefly borrowed character archtypes as if it were "Stagecoach in Space." A valuable way for game masters to create non player characters. Or for players to create their own characters, for that matter.
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Interesting. Especially when you realize that Star Trek was originally pitched to NBC as being "Wagon Train in space."
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Gaaaah!!! where's part Two!?! I'm invested.. I have to know how the extended blog ends!!!!
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http://rantingroom.blogspot.com/2009...-part-two.htmlOriginally Posted by SuperPheemy
http://rantingroom.blogspot.com/2009...rthoughts.html
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Wow, without even knowing it, I have *for years* been enjoying the wrong type of adventure fiction. Cause I'll admit proudly that the Western and Space Opera go hand-in-hand dancing through the tulips. At least now I know I've been wrong.
I still don't want to be right though.
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Incidentally, for those who don't know, the term "horse opera" was a pejorative for cheesy, formulaic westerns. The term "space opera" was coined as an analogous term for cheesy, formulaic science fiction.
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Those three posts are a great read, and educational to boot. Good stuff. Repped.
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Re: Cut 'em Off at the Horsehead Nebula!
Ah, the Despoilers of the Golden Empire is available as a free download from Project Gutenberg. With illustrations.
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/24091
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They lied! They lied!
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Not really. The reference was used to point out the fact that the characters would be traveling to different places every week, rather than being in a fixed location and having the stories come to them. And, since Wagon Train was a popular show, making the connection between the two in the minds of the execs couldn't hurt.They lied! They lied!
Whether Star Trek was as good as Wagon Train is a matter of personal taste.
back to the original topic: Anyone remember the movie Outland? Very much a western set in space.
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