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Loser Araysar
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Rabbit_Games
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So... what you're saying is... I have until July 18th to binge the entire series to catch up again.
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I watched an interview where they admitted the show was supposed to be about Tim and Raylan riding around and Raylan having to deal with Tim's PTSD. But then they decided to change it and put in the jogger, then tell the audience she's faster on the draw and smarter than Raylan, which made me wonder why they didn't just make a show about her.
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Loser Araysar
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Boyd Crowder was supposed to a one-off character. I want to say I read somewhere that it was just for one episode, but its likely that it was a couple episodes. Once they realized he was a breakout character, they ended up rewriting the whole show around him and Raylan
By Season 3 you can see how much they struggle to write around Boyd Crowder because in that universe, Boyd would have been busted, arrested and locked away by end of first season but they have to constantly come up with shit to keep him out of jail, yet still make Raylan look like a competent lawman.
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Boyd takes a blast to the chest at the end of episode 1 and was supposed to be dead. They decided to write him back to life.
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They have to give him some reasons to have real "stakes" in play in Chicago. In Kentucky it was his family and ties to the place he was raised... They can't leverage "place he was raised" here so it goes to family. It would either be that or kill off his old boss at the hands of this new threat.
Which with the way Nick Searcy has been tee-ing off on Twitter lately they might just do anyways to get him away from their ESG score.
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The pilot episode of justified was a short story and Boyd was the villain that died at the end. They wanted Walton goggins from the get go but he was leary about the whole thing since Hollywood loves to portray southerners as idiots, racists and drug addicts. So they made a deal with goggins that he could have a little bit of freedom with the character and he signed up. It was initially just supposed to be a one episode appearance but while they were putting it together, they realized how perfect goggins was handling Boyd as well as they great chemistry that he and oliphant had so they had raylan miss boyd's heart and nick Searcy asks raylan at the end of the episode if he missed on purpose.
As for Rachel, I never got the impression that she was "better" than raylan, just that she was the only one of the three Marshalls that actually did the job by the book. Tim was a good marshall, but he clearly had PTSD and art couldn't promote him in good conscience until he addressed it. Anytime we see him off duty he's on his way to, or is already drunk. Raylan is a cowboy who uses his badge to legally kill bad guys so that just leaves Rachel, who seems to have anger management problems but that could just be a side effect of her being posted to a state full of racists.
As for Rachel, I never got the impression that she was "better" than raylan, just that she was the only one of the three Marshalls that actually did the job by the book. Tim was a good marshall, but he clearly had PTSD and art couldn't promote him in good conscience until he addressed it. Anytime we see him off duty he's on his way to, or is already drunk. Raylan is a cowboy who uses his badge to legally kill bad guys so that just leaves Rachel, who seems to have anger management problems but that could just be a side effect of her being posted to a state full of racists.
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It means he is terrible at doing a Marshalls job and following American law but he is fairly good at doing the "right thing".
Aka frontier justice.
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