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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 289752" data-attributes="member: 8">The Beck brothers turn out to be notorious troublemakers, and it&#039;s great to see how that affects the Dutton/Rainwater/Jenkins feud.The Duttons are the horrible protagonists; people who have too much and will stop at nothing to protect it, and the only reason to root for them is because they are&nbsp; the series, like the Ewings were DALLAS and the Sopranos were THE SOPRANOS and the Lyons were EMPIRE.Destroy them, and you don&#039;t have a show anymore. It&#039;s almost like supporting a drug addiction.But they&#039;re also very damaged characters and there aren&#039;t many moments of happiness or victory. Or just plain rest, for that matter. The relentless antagonism that these greedy prime time soap clans have to deal with - episode after episode - kind of redeems them, and it also manipulates the viewer to believe in their &quot;cause&quot;.And like the less fortunate folks they also have to deal with loss and trauma and there&#039;s plenty of that in YELLOWSTONE. Nevertheless, there&#039;s no sanitizing going on in this series and the characters are often depicted in the most brutal way possible.The thing that YELLOWSTONE does so well is to use that ugliness and brutality to make the characters seem more likeable, and daughter Beth Dutton is probably the best example of that.Her whole life being dominated by that fateful day she&#039;s balancing between extreme rebellion and extreme loyalty. In other words, Fallon Carrington on steroids.She can be hard to watch sometimes, especially the way she treats her brother Jamie, but I find her brilliantly consistent.Son Kayce is the Bobby who&#039;s trying to make things better on the ranch, good luck with that. He and his cute family represent the little bit of wholesomeness in YELLOWSTONE but in some ways I find him the weakest and most unreliable character. His trauma is the war in Afganistan but since this show has nothing to do with Afganistan I find the way it&#039;s being used in this character plot a little too casual.The killing of Sarah Nguyen was kind of predictable and at the same time it didn&#039;t make much sense to me. Did Jamie really think his plea would make her change her mind? I guess he had been pushed around and scolded a few times too many and like Andre Lyon he often seems to teeter on the brink of something.His father doesn&#039;t love him even though he&#039;s never disobeyd him until very recently (and for reasons caused by his father), his sister certainly doesn&#039;t and I&#039;m not sure about Kayce because they haven&#039;t shared any storylines yet.Jimmy becomes a horse bucking champion because he&#039;s too stupid to fall off. The female cowboy has left the ranch just as unexpectedly as she arrived, I&#039;m still not sure what that was all about.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 289752, member: 8"] The Beck brothers turn out to be notorious troublemakers, and it's great to see how that affects the Dutton/Rainwater/Jenkins feud. The Duttons are the horrible protagonists; people who have too much and will stop at nothing to protect it, and the only reason to root for them is because they [I]are[/I] the series, like the Ewings were DALLAS and the Sopranos were THE SOPRANOS and the Lyons were EMPIRE. Destroy them, and you don't have a show anymore. It's almost like supporting a drug addiction. But they're also very damaged characters and there aren't many moments of happiness or victory. Or just plain rest, for that matter. The relentless antagonism that these greedy prime time soap clans have to deal with - episode after episode - kind of redeems them, and it also manipulates the viewer to believe in their "cause". And like the less fortunate folks they also have to deal with loss and trauma and there's plenty of that in YELLOWSTONE. Nevertheless, there's no sanitizing going on in this series and the characters are often depicted in the most brutal way possible. The thing that YELLOWSTONE does so well is to use that ugliness and brutality to make the characters seem more likeable, and daughter Beth Dutton is probably the best example of that. Her whole life being dominated by that fateful day she's balancing between extreme rebellion and extreme loyalty. In other words, Fallon Carrington on steroids. She can be hard to watch sometimes, especially the way she treats her brother Jamie, but I find her brilliantly consistent. Son Kayce is the Bobby who's trying to make things better on the ranch, good luck with that. He and his cute family represent the little bit of wholesomeness in YELLOWSTONE but in some ways I find him the weakest and most unreliable character. His trauma is the war in Afganistan but since this show has nothing to do with Afganistan I find the way it's being used in this character plot a little too casual. The killing of Sarah Nguyen was kind of predictable and at the same time it didn't make much sense to me. Did Jamie really think his plea would make her change her mind? I guess he had been pushed around and scolded a few times too many and like Andre Lyon he often seems to teeter on the brink of something. His father doesn't love him even though he's never disobeyd him until very recently (and for reasons caused by his father), his sister certainly doesn't and I'm not sure about Kayce because they haven't shared any storylines yet. Jimmy becomes a horse bucking champion because he's too stupid to fall off. The female cowboy has left the ranch just as unexpectedly as she arrived, I'm still not sure what that was all about. [/QUOTE]

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