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There's talk about Nick Adams elsewhere in the forum.

This here's the Nick Adams I am familiar with.

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🎶Johnny Yuma was a rebel..🎶
Loved Nick Adams!
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Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: Fri Nov 04, 2022 8:26 am 🎶Johnny Yuma was a rebel..🎶
Loved Nick Adams!
I loved the show as a kid too.

But since I posted that video the other day, I've been thinking about the underlying themes it promoted.

Johnny Yuma VOLUNTARILY went off to fight for the Confederacy because, according to his aunt in this episode, he thought he was 'doing what he thought was right'. At the time the series was being made, this was the narrative that the Lost Causers were trying to project: the Confederate soldiers were fighting for a noble cause.

And when he returns from war he is constantly 'unfairly' discriminated against by Union veterans and sympathizers. This is a continuing theme throughout the series and the 'excuse' for Johnny to get involved in whatever shenanigans are going on. And it demonstrates that the South wasn't bad, just misunderstood, and the Union on the other hand was uncaring and nasty in comparison.

But there is no way to get around the fact that Johnny was fighting for slavery because he thought it was right. This is NEVER discussed in the series; I haven't watched it in years, but I have a very good idea that there were never any black actors in the series, because if there were they would have had to address the slavery issue (on second thought they could have had a defenceless black family being victimized by somebody and have Johnny rescue them to 'prove' that Johnny wasn't against black folks - I suspect that would have lost them some stations in the south though).

In this episode he gets pushed by bad guys who are stomping on the good townspeople. This isn't a discrimination issue, per se, though he is tormented at the outset before the baddies know who he is. In the end, his solution is to summarily blow up the bad guys with a bomb. This is eerily akin to some of the violence first solutions to personal problems that is rife in society today.

The good thing is, however, that Johnny finds out why his dad seemingly allowed himself to be shot down like a dog - his gun didn't work.

Damn, this series needs to be analysed by someone for their Media Studies Master's Degree or something.
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I don't remember any of that! Wow!
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Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: Fri Nov 04, 2022 8:26 am 🎶Johnny Yuma was a rebel..🎶
Loved Nick Adams!
🎶He got fighting' mad, that rebel lad..🎶
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Maybe we should laugh at DFO a lot more.

But that's hard to do.
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How many who remember this show knew these words to the theme song ???

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“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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