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July 14, 2012

Open Thread: Longmire! [OregonMuse]
— Open Blogger

In a thread a week or so ago, some of the moronettes' hearts were going pitty-pat over the lead actor in a new A&E show called Longmire, about a sheriff in a remote county in rural Wyoming. I've watched a couple of episodes, and as a detective/crime drama, it's not bad.

So this is for the moronettes:

It also has that hot chick from Battlestar Galactica, so there's that.
[Update] Sackhoff pic below the fold:

This thread is wide open, as are my pants.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 12:12 PM | Comments (84)
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1 Why yes, I would hit it....to my bunk I go!

Posted by: Cheri at July 14, 2012 12:15 PM (EAgmr)

Admitted Felony Cocaine Freak Barack Obama in Action.

@markknoller

Pres Obama tells suppporters there are "para-legals if they feel weak from the heat

Posted by: robtr at July 14, 2012 12:15 PM (MtwBb)

Where is the pic of the hot chick from BG?

Posted by: Invictos at July 14, 2012 12:15 PM (OQpzc)

4 It also has that hot chick from Battlestar Galactica, so there's that.

Which one?

Posted by: Lee Reynolds at July 14, 2012 12:16 PM (rJMw2)

5 Implying that women have a sex drive drive fills me with rage and commits me all the more to my mission.

Posted by: Squeak hole explosive storage unit 1142 at July 14, 2012 12:17 PM (CmkBo)

6 hot chick? she looks like the back of my ballbag and she ruined BSG

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 14, 2012 12:17 PM (OgiBc)

"Long"mire, huh?

Posted by: Wm T Sherman at July 14, 2012 12:18 PM (8hBZi)

8 The television series is pretty good. The books are much better. I highly recommend them.

Posted by: mamawolf at July 14, 2012 12:19 PM (K7KaF)

Yes, I find him to be an attractive man.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Posted by: George Costanza at July 14, 2012 12:19 PM (BAS5M)

10 I've never even heard of the show, but will be sure to catch it now.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at July 14, 2012 12:20 PM (piMMO)

11 You mean the Korean chick? I only watched the first three or so episodes and she was pretty much the only hot one.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at July 14, 2012 12:20 PM (csi6Y)

12 What hot chick from BG? I don't remember any.

Posted by: Invictos at July 14, 2012 12:20 PM (OQpzc)

Something long, getting into the mire.

Was it planned as a chick show? Does he talk about his feelings?

Posted by: Wm T Sherman at July 14, 2012 12:20 PM (8hBZi)

14 Ok that chick is hot, but I still maintain since it wasn't Grace Park I was let down.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at July 14, 2012 12:21 PM (csi6Y)

15 She's a little hot.

Posted by: Reader C.J. Burch writes..... at July 14, 2012 12:21 PM (sJTmU)

16 I'm still watching CHUCK season 2. And PRIMEVAL. And ANDROMEDA. And a show called ReGenesis.

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 14, 2012 12:22 PM (OgiBc)

17 This reminds me that, a few days ago, Dana Perino tweeted about the sexy guy on Justified to which Nick Searcy immediately responded to ask if she was talking about him.

It was really funny.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at July 14, 2012 12:22 PM (piMMO)

18 I'd hit it. When is that show on?

Posted by: Jumbo Shrimp at July 14, 2012 12:23 PM (DGIjM)

By hot you mean she had a temp from a yeast infection? What hot chick?

Posted by: Invictos at July 14, 2012 12:23 PM (OQpzc)

20 19 By hot you mean she had a temp from a yeast infection? What hot chick? Posted by: Invictos at July 14, 2012 04:23 PM (OQpzc) What's wrong? elbows too pointy for you?

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at July 14, 2012 12:26 PM (csi6Y)

21 Hot? I hope she's wearing leather chaps to cover those sharp knees.

Posted by: Fritz at July 14, 2012 12:26 PM (02fNe)

22 I've watched 2 episodes so far and I see a obnoxious pattern that's killed the show for me.

The pattern: horrific crime, all signs point to the indian reservation, "White man took our land, now thinks we are criminals," whoops! it's actually whitey's fault. Gosh dern, those indians are stoic folk jus' tryin' to make their way in the white man's world...A'huck!

The pathetic PC shit is to be expected with most H-wood crap but this is truly lazy writing.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at July 14, 2012 12:26 PM (Vcb44)

23 Funny how "Hot Chick" has devolved, from Ava Gardner or a Senta Berger, Kim Novak , they were hot oven chicks.

Posted by: Clemenza at July 14, 2012 12:28 PM (qA9lG)

24 Her name is "Sackhoff"? Are you sure you spelled that right?

Posted by: beancounter at July 14, 2012 12:28 PM (p18em)

25 ahh, so it's Law & Order: Western Ranch Division?

Posted by: Soothsayer at July 14, 2012 12:28 PM (OgiBc)

26 BSG was silly. If you want humaity to die out, just invent a sexbot that looks like Morena Baccarin.

Posted by: Invictos at July 14, 2012 12:29 PM (OQpzc)

27 Sackhoff. Rhymes with...

Posted by: George Lakoff at July 14, 2012 12:29 PM (OgiBc)

28 "Sweet Hitch-a-hike-a" Was Ridin' along side the highway rollin' up the country side. Thinkin' I'm the devil's heatwave what you burn in your crazy mind? Saw a slight distraction standin' by the road; She was smilin' there yellow in her hair; Do you wanna I was thinkin' would you care. Sweet Hitch a Hiker We could make music at the Greasy King. Sweet Hitch a Hiker Won't you ride on my fast machine? Cruisin' on thru the junction, I'm flyin' 'bout the speed of sound, Noticin' peculiar function, I ain't no roller coaster show me down. I turned away to see her, Woa! she caught my eye, But I was rollin' down, movin' too fast; Do you wanna, She was thinkin' can it last. Was busted up along the highway, I'm the saddest ridin' fool alive. Wond'ring if you're goin' in my way, won't you give a poor boy a ride? Here she comes a ridin', Lord, She's flyin' high. But she was rollin' down, movin' too fast; Do you wanna, She was thinkin' can I last.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 14, 2012 12:30 PM (MCDCp)

29 Here is how Barack Obama understands American Business. He said this in VA: "If youÂ’ve got a business Â— you didnÂ’t build that. Somebody else made that happen".

Posted by: robtr at July 14, 2012 12:30 PM (MtwBb)

30 Oh and it might be fun for gun enthusiasts. You get to play "BS on That" every episode.

The Dog Soldiers episode: Longmire and the deputy drive to 'The Rez' and stop outside some trailers. Trailers on one side of the dirt road, on the other is a fence and an empty field. No one standing in the field.

Longmire approaches a trailer. We hear a shotgun rack behind Longmire and bingo, there's an angry Injun holding ))) a double barrel shotgun? (((( behind him. Just appears outta nowhere. The fuck?

Lazy writing, lazy direction, and apparently an overly-creative sound guy.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at July 14, 2012 12:35 PM (Vcb44)

A very interesting show, with some genuinely quirky characters. Also, I enjoy shows set in the contemporary rural west. I am reading the first book, which is in some ways darker.

The flashbacks and bits related to the death of his wife have caught my interest. The are carefully integrated. Hopefully they are explained in the books, or will be by the end of the summer run. All the solutions I can come up with are dark indeed.

Posted by: Tregonsee at July 14, 2012 12:35 PM (ParxH)

32 29 Here is how Barack Obama understands American Business. He said this in VA: "If youÂ’ve got a business Â— you didnÂ’t build that. Somebody else made that happen". Posted by: robtr at July 14, 2012 04:30 PM (MtwBb) did he really say this?

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at July 14, 2012 12:37 PM (csi6Y)

33 Mam-Maw, is Pap-Paw a felon?

(most would likely kick ass over that)

Posted by: Craig Poe at July 14, 2012 12:37 PM (BVkEs)

34 I guess it's a tribute to the makeup and costuming people on BSG that they made Katee Sackhoff look far less attractive than she does normally. There was an early episode in which she wore a party dress and did a good job of being awkward and unaccustomed to it as the character. Check out her cameos on Big Bang Theory for how she looks in proper Hollywood glam prep.

She didn't write the show but she executed well on her assigned material. If you want to point a finger, go looking for Ron Moore. He was the one who didn't have a plan.

It gets a little weird for me because she also looks a lot like one of my sisters at that age.

Posted by: epobirs at July 14, 2012 12:37 PM (kcfmt)

35 Lazy writing, lazy direction, and apparently an overly-creative sound guy.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 14, 2012 04:35 PM (Vcb44)

Yeah. hearing somone rack the slide on a double barrel does have lefty dbag written all over it. Or, it could be northeastern R. One of those.

Posted by: Invictos at July 14, 2012 12:39 PM (OQpzc)

36 She should never have been Starbuck. Starbuck is a man's role. Boomer, okay, but not Starbuck.

Posted by: George Lakoff at July 14, 2012 12:39 PM (OgiBc)

37 Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 14, 2012 04:26 PM (Vcb44)

I thought the show had some potential, but then I noticed the trusted mystic Indian sidekick (in spiritual tune with the tribe and Mother Nature) and concluded I had been there and done that. The Dog Soldiers episode reinforced my conclusion that the easy way to write a TV script is to have a healthy dose of evil whites screwing over the people of color.

Posted by: Hrothgar (CJSC Designated Serf) at July 14, 2012 12:41 PM (Cnqmv)

38 #30

Reminds me of a DandD game I was in, must be close to 35 years ago, in which were hiking across open savannah and found ourselves being attacked by a brontosaurus.

"Where did that come from?" we shouted at the DM.

"It was hiding in the grass," was his reply.

Posted by: epobirs at July 14, 2012 12:41 PM (kcfmt)

39 It gets a little weird for me because she also looks a lot like one of my sisters at that age.

What's weird about that?

Posted by: Jaime Lanister at July 14, 2012 12:41 PM (p18em)

40 Posted by: Jaime Lanister at July 14, 2012 04:41 PM (p18em)

Pics or it didn't happen!

Posted by: Hrothgar (CJSC Designated Serf) at July 14, 2012 12:43 PM (Cnqmv)

41 A crafty Indian can always sneak up on a white man. I've been doing it for years.

Posted by: Double Barrel Pump Warren at July 14, 2012 12:43 PM (02fNe)

42 36 She should never have been Starbuck. Starbuck is a man's role. Boomer, okay, but not Starbuck. Posted by: George Lakoff at July 14, 2012 04:39 PM (OgiBc) WTF!! She was Starbuck? They really did know how to manify a woman.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at July 14, 2012 12:43 PM (csi6Y)

43 So, which second rate chick did the coblogger mean? The asian girl or the ugly yellow haired girl?

Posted by: Invictos at July 14, 2012 12:43 PM (OQpzc)

44 Posted by: epobirs at July 14, 2012 04:41 PM (kcfmt) LOL A brontosaurus? Did it mistake you for a tree?

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at July 14, 2012 12:44 PM (csi6Y)

45 "Where did that come from?" we shouted at the DM.
"It was hiding in the grass," was his reply.Posted by: epobirs

Of course you replied, "That must be some fucking grass" ?

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at July 14, 2012 12:44 PM (Vcb44)

I like 'Longmire'.

I've watched every episode....more than once.

It's nice to see a show that's....a) Not another damn reality show....b) Is not another big-city cop show.....and c) Filmed in a setting other than East Coast or West Coast....in other words, a show about flyover people.

There are a few little details, that reflect some liberal sentiments being applied.

But for the most part....it's a great show, imo.

People noticed a big bandage on Longmire's hand.

So, he was asked, more than once....."Hey, what happened to your hand?"

Longmire replied each time....."Hurt it".

Heh.

He reminds me of the big guy I'm married to.

Posted by: wheatie at July 14, 2012 12:44 PM (MbB0O)

47 A crafty Indian can always sneak up on a white man. I've been doing it for years.

Posted by: Double Barrel Pump Warren at July 14, 2012 04:43 PM (02fNe)

That reminds me of The Outlaw Josey Wales. Good flick.

Posted by: Invictos at July 14, 2012 12:46 PM (OQpzc)

48 I thought the hot chick was the Six model. Sackoff can jackoff my sack.

Posted by: EC at July 14, 2012 12:47 PM (dnv2s)

When is that show on?

Sunday nights, Shrimp.....on A-and-E channel.

Posted by: wheatie at July 14, 2012 12:48 PM (MbB0O)

Dkos fools are dreaming that Mitt will get replaced on the ticket. They just don't want it to happen too fast...

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at July 14, 2012 12:48 PM (HPQnO)

51 38 #30

I was with a party that was surprised by a T Rex in open plains...

Posted by: s☺mej☼e at July 14, 2012 12:49 PM (HNn1q)

52 40. HBO retained exclusive license to the photos. Bastards.

Posted by: Jaime Lanister at July 14, 2012 12:50 PM (p18em)

53 Posted by: s☺mej☼e at July 14, 2012 04:49 PM (HNn1q)

Must have been some par-tay!

Posted by: Hrothgar (CJSC Designated Serf) at July 14, 2012 12:51 PM (Cnqmv)

54 So, another show where Indians are treated like enigmatic aliens rather than people. No need to waste my time on that basis. Scalped is coming up on its last issue. I'm planning a marathon reading of that and that should be all the Indian related material I need for a long, long time.

Posted by: epobirs at July 14, 2012 12:51 PM (kcfmt)

55 Dkos fools are dreaming that Mitt will get replaced on the ticket. They just don't want it to happen too fast...

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at July 14, 2012 04:48 PM (HPQnO)

Um, since Reagan, have you noticed a big difference between presidents, until the radical socialist?

Posted by: Invictos at July 14, 2012 12:51 PM (OQpzc)

54 So, another show where Indians are treated like enigmatic aliens rather than people.

That seems to be some viewers takeaway on it.

But for me.....I'm seeing more of a....

'Watch the unflappable western sheriff, deal with the professionally aggrieved and pissy Indians, and look after their best interests in spite of their crankiness towards him'.

Longmire's best friend in an Indian....played by Lou Diamond Phillips.

He doesn't live on the reservation.

He owns a bar, in town....Longmire's town.

And he often goes to bat for Longmire, with the pissy reservation Indians.

Posted by: wheatie at July 14, 2012 01:00 PM (MbB0O)

57 ....*is* and Indian.

Posted by: wheatie at July 14, 2012 01:01 PM (MbB0O)

58 shit. I can't type at all today.

Posted by: wheatie at July 14, 2012 01:02 PM (MbB0O)

59 I like Longmire. The Indians are treated as people, but ones that have a community hostile to the larger white community. It's pretty clear that the reservation police are corrupt, for example.

Yes it has a some lefty quirks, but compared to many other shows they aren't obnoxious. The show doesn't treat the community as a bunch of dumb rednecks who need to be enlightened.

Posted by: Alex at July 14, 2012 01:05 PM (79B50)

60 Howard has a problem with his fantasies being too fully developed and talking back:

http://tinyurl.com/63d884k

http://tinyurl.com/6v6rhse

http://tinyurl.com/86v5rnt

Posted by: epobirs at July 14, 2012 01:05 PM (kcfmt)

61 Yes, Longmire is great. I really like that show, and the main actor is amazing in the part. He really plays the Matt Dillon rough western detective well, with a bit of a softer side to him to make all the girls go gooshy inside. And the female lead manages to be capable and tough without being obnoxious. I even like the jerk rival to Longmire, even though he's an ass.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 14, 2012 01:05 PM (r4wIV)

62 And the res indians are sometimes victims of bad guys, and sometimes they're the bad guys. Sometimes they are real jerks, and sometimes they're good people. The bad guy in the main "indians as victims" episode was... a government social worker. Yeah, real PC leftist.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 14, 2012 01:07 PM (r4wIV)

63 Yes, Longmire is great. I really like that show, and the main actor is amazing in the part. He really plays the Matt Dillon rough western detective well, with a bit of a softer side to him to make all the girls go gooshy inside. And the female lead manages to be capable and tough without being obnoxious. I even like the jerk rival to Longmire, even though he's an ass.

The Longmire / Branch conflict has been done well so far. They work together, but you can tell there is tension because Branch is challenging Walt's leadership at the same time that he has to take orders from the Sheriff. Branch is the standard young buck who thinks he knows everything, while Walt has decades of experience to draw on. Vic doesn't come off as obnoxious, just someone used to the crime and tempo of a big city police department who is now stuck out somewhere that she hates. Heck, I even like Ferg. He's clumsy and out of his depth, but not completely incompetent. Their interactions hint at a lot of small town politics without being blatant about it.

Posted by: Alex at July 14, 2012 01:10 PM (79B50)

60.... I even like the jerk rival to Longmire, even though he's an ass.

You mean 'Branch'? ....the younger deputy, who is running for sherrif against Longmire?

I think that Longmire has already figured out that that's who's sleeping with his daughter.

From the previews....that part of the storyline may be coming to a head in the next episode.

Posted by: wheatie at July 14, 2012 01:10 PM (MbB0O)

65 the setting and acting and feel of Longmire is all great, but the plots themselves are pretty bland and unoriginal

Posted by: Jose at July 14, 2012 01:14 PM (srIqv)

66 Yeah Ferg is great, you feel for the guy but he's trying his best and the way Longmire works with him is terrific.
"Longmire replied each time....."Hurt it"."
Exactly, I loved that scene. It was character defining, he doesn't need to complain or explain. It just doesn't matter.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 14, 2012 01:15 PM (r4wIV)

67 the lead actor is Australian btw, impossible to find any manly American male leads these days

Posted by: Jose at July 14, 2012 01:15 PM (srIqv)

68 two new threads?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at July 14, 2012 01:16 PM (piMMO)

The series is not....always about the Indians, either.

There have been several episodes which were about other things.

The one about the dead horses....the one about the 'Amish' stripper girl....the one about the pot-growing, with the Mexican cartel connection.

Seems like there was another, but that's all I remember off the top of my head.

Posted by: wheatie at July 14, 2012 01:18 PM (MbB0O)

70 "the setting and acting and feel of Longmire is all great, but the plots themselves are pretty bland and unoriginal"
Sure, same thing with Blue Bloods, but its how you handle the story that matters a lot more than the plots. Nothing is really new. Its what you do with it that's new.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 14, 2012 01:21 PM (r4wIV)

I like Longmire. I like that they're always out of breath up in the hills, lol. I thought I caught a whiff of "white people bad" in a few episodes, but it's not quite the same as L & O lib propo. For instance, last week the bad guys were white, but they *were* the statist government drones, and one of the last shots of the show was the wife of the couple who wanted to adopt the little Indian boy sitting sadly on the swing, holding the shoe he left behind. Those were "good' white people who were caught up in something outside their control. (My husband thought she was Native American...I wasn't sure. But the husband was definitely white.) Anyway, they can't have every episode featuring an Indian as the bad guy. And let's face it, interesting crimes don't happen once a week in small towns in Wyoming, so that right there is unrealistic.

I'm looking forward to reading the books.

And Nick ("Whose porn is this?") Searcy....you ARE the sexy man on the show. (Okay, one of them.)

Posted by: Gem at July 14, 2012 01:45 PM (zw+pb)

72 Longmire is filmed in New Mexico. The scenery is grand and the show is ok. The PC aspects haven't bothered me yet but I have a long fuse. Its formulaic but I'll give the show a few episodes before I decide to keep watching it.

Posted by: stillers at July 14, 2012 02:54 PM (gVUg0)

73 In Dogsoldiers, you morons are forgetting the white lady's Indian confederate who was working from inside the Rez. The opening scene was of the Dogsoldier beating the snot out of him. Also, it was established at Walt arrested the Rez's last police chief for corruption and he is in prison. Far cry frow all whites are bad and Indians good. I think its a great show in terms of acting, directing and written dialogue. however, the plots are the weakest link and is holding this show back a bit....but is enjoyable.

Posted by: Assman at July 14, 2012 03:19 PM (HfA9V)

74 I watched the pilot. It had some good points and some promise but I haven't watched it since for a few reasons: The deputy called the 2 guys who found the body (in the pilot opening) "wingnuts". I took it to mean "right wing gun nuts" in the context of the story. I could be wrong but other things strengthened my feeling: The sheriff didn't seem to know anything about rifle calibers and didn't have a clue what a Sharps rifle was. No real Westerner, let alone a sheriff would be so deliberately stupid. Then, as if to solidify his peaceful and non-gun culture bonafides the sheriff has to go tell someone their spouse is dead. It takes him 10 minutes and he agonizes to get any words out at all. Watching the scene, you didn't empathize with his pain and discomfort, no, you watch him and think, "Is this guy actually retarded and the show is really about a retarded sheriff?".

Posted by: Daybrother at July 14, 2012 03:20 PM (LCWgc)

75 "'Then, as if to solidify his peaceful and non-gun culture bonafides the sheriff has to go tell someone their spouse is dead. It takes him 10 minutes and he agonizes to get any words out at all."
He just lost his wife less than a year ago, so he's a bit tore up about that. I agree it was a bit overdone but he is seriously a mess right now because of that, so it wasn't without reason.
The gun stuff though, that's just ignorant writers, I agree.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 14, 2012 03:27 PM (r4wIV)

76 I love Katie Jackoff.

Posted by: Chris R at July 14, 2012 04:04 PM (v362Z)

77 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at July 14, 2012 04:18 PM (Xb3hu)

78 I like the show, the lead guy is great in the role.

Posted by: Ted at July 14, 2012 04:29 PM (0zaO4)

79 I'm just happy Katee Sackhoff is working. Kinda bummed that basically she got handed a uniform and a gun and told to act a little like Starbuck. Then again, A&E might well be hoping to attract the rabid BSG fan base to watch Katee.

Personally, I'd like to see Michael Trucco (Anders from BSG) get a solid TV series. I met him at DragonCon a couple years ago, and he was one of the nicest guys you'd ever want to meet.

Posted by: SGT Dan's Cat at July 14, 2012 07:08 PM (O0YsD)

80 decent show actually. It's like one of those 1970s, early 80s type of mystery shows. You actually see the lead character use their brain and piece things together themselves. None of that CSI stuff. Good ole fashioned detective work. Between Longmire and Dallas it feels like the 80s all over again.

Posted by: sunny black at July 14, 2012 07:20 PM (0LX7P)

81 That Sackhoff chick? Nice ass!

Posted by: Krissy DeMonte at July 15, 2012 07:47 AM (YyVZT)

82 Okay, so I'll check out the Longmire show. Just wanted to say, though, that the offerings for Moronettes still seems sort of unequal. Not that I necessarily want Magic Mike, and I'm sure an old dude with grey whiskers can still be a testosterone rush and all, but... Actually, I really don't care for the pretty boys at all, but I will admit to making a whole hearted exception for Neil Caffery. The exception that proves the rule, or something like that.

Posted by: Synova at July 15, 2012 02:19 PM (7/PU+)

83 I was always - personally - kind of partial to Leah Cairns on BSG :-) She looked pretty hot in the last two seasons!

Posted by: Paul at July 15, 2012 03:31 PM (D2lBm)

84 Sakhoff isn't hot, in my book, she's more the country girl who you wouldn't mind but is kind of rough looking. I've known a lot of girls like them, and usually they come across rough but are sweethearts deep down. I'll take them over the beauty queen any day.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 15, 2012 04:19 PM (r4wIV)

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