Seven Men, One Legend

Sol I was recently rewatching the first season of 'The Magnificent Seven' and soon I'll be watching the second season of it, but I digress.

I loved that show so so much when it was first on, even though I kept missing it, so some episodes are new to me. See, when it was on, the channel it was on kept changing the time and the night and then it wasn't on that channel, it was on a different channel, it was very frustrating and confusing, but I still loved that show so much I was willing to hunt it down and watch it.

Then it was cancelled.

So, that's the background story on the Magnificent Seven. Yes, it's a tv show based on the western movies which are in turn based on Kurosawa's Seven Samurai movie(s?) and yes, I do plan to watch them all. There's something about the theme of a group of disparate characters coming together for a common goal that appeals to me so much.

I loved that show and each character was so unique and so interesting to me, although I find that the characters I liked or disliked when I first watched it as a middle schooler have changed as a college student.

When I first watched the show, I loved loved loved Ezra, and I still do, but I liked Vin and JD next after him, and didn't care for Josiah and Buck. I still liked them, they had their moments but I was of the opinion that they were too 'weird' for me, and I hardly noticed Nathan, which is fair because they hardly seemed to give him any time at all, and Chris, well, who doesn't like Chris? When I was younger, I thought he was a jerk, but still cool, like...a bad boy with a cause, kind of thing. Wow that was the longest run on sentence ever. Vin seemed so cool back then, the casual tracker sharpshooter with a bounty on his head, that he often was my favorite character to watch but Ezra was my favorite character over all.

Now that I'm older, I still love Ezra, but I'm noticing the subtle nuances the actor put in him, the subtle eye expressions and the small smiles and frowns that I never thought of before and now Ezra, rather than the jovial devil may care con man character, is becoming the tragic but hiding it under a veneer of charm character and becoming more complex.

I don't care for JD as much, he needs to shut up and listen to the elders, and Buck and Josiah are becoming pretty cool old geezers, if you'll excuse the term. Chris is more sad than angry as I watch it more and am more familiar with people who have lost someone they cared for. Nathan still doesn't get as much screen time but Vin is becoming more of a regular guy and I find myself wondering why he doesn't just go back and fix his problems instead of running away? I guess now I just don't have patience for Vin complaining that he has a bounty but not neccessarily doing something to fix it.

So in short, I really liked that show, sure it was basic and formulaic and had some issues with the plots but come on! Cowboys! Not all of them good decent men. Even the PREACHER had issues and in a lot of ways, he was more intimidating than the whole of the rest put together.