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Jul 26, 2010 - 7:08 PM
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Jim Phelps
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Oh, and Zelig, you're also alive-on-target with your assessment of "Jubal Tanner"; it's particularly vexing as it has so many marvelous moments between Stanwyck and Arthur O'Connell (in the title role), especially concerning the frustrating caught-in-the-middle performance of our favorite, Richard Long (the only one in the cast who could match and equal Stanwyck's power, acting authority, depth and distinction).
And because of that horrendous bit of "writing", the wonderful sentiment gone to waste becuase of that hurried ending, which completely destroyed Victoria's motivation.
”The Odyssey of Jubal Tanner Department:
We earlier pointed out this episode as extraordinary evidence for the special chemistry of equally
mature artistry that existed between Barbara Stanwyck and (our favorite) Richard Long.
This is only one of many classic sequences (3 minutes or so into the clip) these two shared yet it has particular eloquence for what says about the courageous convictions of the individual versus the selfish majority (and
Thoreau’s quote ties it all together superbly).
It's three years(!) later and my outrage still burns white hot!!!  That wonderful rapport between Stanwyck and O'Connell makes that ending all the more shameful when Victoria betrays that bond with the single worst example of "wrap-it-up-quickly" and cringe-inducing--no, make that rage-inducing pap ever committed to celluloid. That episode's ending is maddening and downright insulting.
BTW, I'm "enjoying" my outrage over this. 
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I have my doubts as I would with any remake/reimagining of a classic property. But if the publicity from it gets Fox to unstall the series from DVD limboland, it will have been worth it IMO.
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