drama
I've started listening to another radio program called Tales of The Texas Rangers. I don't like it as much as The Six-Shooter but, then again, who can hold a candle to Britt Ponset?
Anyway, listening to it, I can't help but think about the history of detective/police/crime drama*. The show is pretty much CSI: Texas, 1950 or Law and Order: Horse Unit. Sometimes, it's amazing how little has changed in modern story-telling.
Now that I've listened to several of the shows, it's kind of fun to wait for the moment when Jayce Pearson, Texas Ranger, says something like: "Well, it'll be faster if we take horses," and then unloads his horse, Charcoal, from the horse trailer that is always in tow. Then, there is usually a moment when Jayce decides something like: "We'll have to go the rest of the way on foot. I'll tie Charcoal to this mesquite here." I think there has been one episode in which Jayce didn't need to ride Charcoal, and in that episode he paddled a canoe, instead!
*I guess there is a name for this genre: Police Procedural Drama
Anyway, listening to it, I can't help but think about the history of detective/police/crime drama*. The show is pretty much CSI: Texas, 1950 or Law and Order: Horse Unit. Sometimes, it's amazing how little has changed in modern story-telling.
Now that I've listened to several of the shows, it's kind of fun to wait for the moment when Jayce Pearson, Texas Ranger, says something like: "Well, it'll be faster if we take horses," and then unloads his horse, Charcoal, from the horse trailer that is always in tow. Then, there is usually a moment when Jayce decides something like: "We'll have to go the rest of the way on foot. I'll tie Charcoal to this mesquite here." I think there has been one episode in which Jayce didn't need to ride Charcoal, and in that episode he paddled a canoe, instead!
*I guess there is a name for this genre: Police Procedural Drama
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