Definitely not a space western.

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On space westerns...

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for the scholarly discussion of space westerns and the space western genre as a whole.
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Have there been any true space westerns aside from Firefly/Serenity?
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Star Trek TOS was a space western of a kind
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what about the early camp stuff like flash gordon?
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wasn't ST:DS9 designed as a space western??
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eh, it was on the frontier, but it was more like casablanca in space or something.
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it was babylon five 2: pistols at dawn.

Seriously. Staczinski proposed bab5 to paramount and they said no, then he goes and does it with WB and lo and behold, ds9 comes out a little while later. faggots.
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i liked the first part of b5, but honestly ds9 had alot more staying power and more fully developed its ideas by the end. b5 just floundered at the end, its pacing was wierd, and the war was poorly done imo.
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yeah but...b5 was written all at once and...straczinski is awesome.

I've heard from some people that the last season or so dissapointed them. It wasn't everything I'd hoped, but then again, I wanted to see endless space battles shown in tactical minutia over the course of thirty or forty episodes.
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me too on the space battles :D

really, around season 3 i felt that it went off course. i mean, there was a war, and they never fought, just constantly alluded to it. and then it was over. wtf? and the characters, which were what really drove the show, felt less worthwhile around that time. then there was the deal with the psychics that went poorly (an actor issue i think actually)... meh.
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