Gene Roddenberry was an insecure misogynistic hack?
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WyldeGoose — 9 years ago(September 18, 2016 08:20 PM)
I've read some of his scripts for Wagon Train, and they're pretty good. I'm sure he had an editor or two, but I think he probably had a better time writing in a genre he was more familiar with, meaning Westerns. That's hardly surprising, given that 90% of what came out of Hollywood at the time were either Westerns or crime dramas (and I didn't make up that statistic - Life magazine at the time ran a feature saying how much Hollywood, during the 40s and 50s, just loved westerns and gritty crime). You can literally count the number of true sci-fi stuff pre-50s literally on one hand (if you don't include superhero stuff), whereas westerns predominated the scene, and for a lot of people living in the first-half of the 20th Century, they could relate to some of it, due to the fact that the populace was transitioning from farms to the suburbs.
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Nakitaakita-1 — 9 years ago(September 18, 2016 09:10 PM)
Maybe. But really it's an entire genre I really don't like.
I think westerns are a guy thing for the most part, like the three stooges.
Now give me 1500-1800!!!
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