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Definite spoiler alert. If you DVR'd the last episode and haven't seen it yet the don't read the article.

I agree on all 6 points and can probably come up with half a dozen more. But "Justified" is no more and my already limited TV watching will shrink. Thanks for the memories, Boyd and Rayan and Ava, Tim and Art and Rachel and the rest of the guys. And thanks for all those wonderful villans; the Crowders, the Bennetts, Elston Limehouse, Nicky Augustine and Robert Quarles and Wynn Duffy (sorry Mikey got killed). It's been a great ride.

1 posted on 04/16/2015 6:18:39 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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The writing really suffered once Elmore Leonard died.

Good show. Dewey Crowe is still my favorite character.

2 posted on 04/16/2015 6:20:23 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If obama speaks and th<uere is no one the<ire to hear it, is it still a lie?)
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JUSTIFIED was awesome.

Simple premise. Cops vs. Criminals, Good vs. Evil, with some complications.

The setting, language, and atmosphere is what made it unique.


3 posted on 04/16/2015 6:23:59 AM PDT by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
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I DVR’d the entire last season, saving it for a rainy boring day. So I guess I’ll not read it. I hope it doesn’t screw the proverbial pooch like LOST, BSG (heck, even Fringe to an extent).


4 posted on 04/16/2015 6:27:14 AM PDT by Gaffer
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Agree on all points. Very sad to see it go.


8 posted on 04/16/2015 6:37:47 AM PDT by mykroar ("Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." - Otto von Bismarck)
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Raylan — cool, calm, collected — even after he got his butt whipped a few times.


10 posted on 04/16/2015 6:42:12 AM PDT by TomGuy
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“Justified” was well worth watching. My top reasons for watching were Timothy Olyphant, Timothy Olyphant, Timothy Olyphant, and Timothy Olyphant.


11 posted on 04/16/2015 6:42:48 AM PDT by Helen
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5. It was about working-class characters just trying to get by....

Not familiar with this show, so can't comment on it, but would like to address the corruption of the term "working class."

It is now often used as a euphemism for the "urban poor" underclass, subsisting largely on drug-dealing and other crime combined with welfare, often obtained fraudulently. In general, there's remarkably little work being done by this group.

Admittedly, it is becoming more difficult each year to survive as a proud member of the real blue-collar working class, and I suspect people fall out of that group into the underclass with depressing regularity and possibly increasing frequency, but to my mind they are very distinct groups.

The problem is exacerbated by most Americans refusing to admit we have classes, with almost everybody thinking of themselves as middle-class. Including those who by any logical classification would be working and upper class.

13 posted on 04/16/2015 6:48:31 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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Waiting for the season on blu ray.

Just as an aside, how many people did Raylan shoot over the course of the series?


17 posted on 04/16/2015 7:00:14 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty)
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Recorded and I’ll watch it tonight. Liked it a lot too. Might be able to fit it in my top 5. Yes I watch a bit of TV.

Use to watch Longmier too but it disappeared. Did it pop up on Netflix???


18 posted on 04/16/2015 7:02:05 AM PDT by Allen In Texas Hill Country
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I think slightly above average TV writers could do a good “Dewey Crowe” prequel spinoff.
Will miss one of the few shows I could stand to watch...

“Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing”
http://archive.freep.com/article/20101106/FEATURES05/130820014/Elmore-Leonard-s-ten-rules-of-writing

“...10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.
A rule that came to mind in 1983. Think of what you skip reading a novel: thick paragraphs of prose you can see have too many words in them. What the writer is doing, he’s writing, perpetrating hooptedoodle, perhaps taking another shot at the weather, or has gone into the character’s head, and the reader either knows what the guy’s thinking or doesn’t care.”

*”the reader either knows what the guy’s thinking or doesn’t care.”*

90% of TV is “parts that readers skip” LOL!


20 posted on 04/16/2015 7:04:57 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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Do not mourn too much as Justified was near to exhausting its premise. After six great seasons, even new characters and plot lines in a TV show tend to become reminiscent of past ones.

Fortunately, there will be more quality shows because of the newly fluid economics of TV production and distribution, an abundance of talent at all levels of the industry, and lots of money chasing show proposals. I have no doubt that we are in the true golden age of TV.

27 posted on 04/16/2015 7:37:21 AM PDT by Rockingham
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Well besides my on going crush on Timothy Olyphant which started with Deadwood the characters and the dialogue were the big plus’s for me. I love edgy stuff and Justified was that. There will never be another Raylan Givens.


31 posted on 04/16/2015 7:56:40 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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It was a story about poor rural Southeasterners that didn't make fun of them and actually pictured them as intelligent and sympathetic (even the villains).

And yes, the language was poetry (not counting the obscenities and vulgarities that every show has to have nowadays).

35 posted on 04/16/2015 8:22:00 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (The "end of history" will be Worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
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I love some of the actors Like Olyphant but seemed to just stereotype to me

Jewish Hollywood hipster defines hillbillies

I liked Elmore too

The first show was shot on location but the rest is California

Easy to tell if u live in near Appalachia like me


44 posted on 04/16/2015 11:06:17 AM PDT by wardaddy (Dems hate western civilization and GOP are cowards...We are headed to a dark place)
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I always get a huge kick out of Art and his antics. Supposed to be a very conservative guy in real life.


45 posted on 04/16/2015 11:32:59 AM PDT by doorgunner69
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I’m just disappointed that Raylan and Winona didn’t get married...

That would have been a sweet ending to the series, rather than some other guy raising his daughter.

Ed


55 posted on 05/02/2015 2:39:23 AM PDT by Sir_Ed
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