Re: [Scalzi] Is Science Fiction this generation's Western?

> http://www.filmcritic.com/features/2010/12/is-science-fiction-this-eras-western/

> With all due apologies to my correspondent, I don't know that the idea 
> that science fiction is the new Western is all that groundbreaking -- if 
> nothing else, the first *Toy Story* made it explicit that the frontier 
> of space was replacing the Wild West as the locus of the imagination 
> when it had Buzz Lightyear eclipse Woody as the cool toy.

And then Toy Story 2 revealed that the eclipsing had begun in 1957, when 
Woody's TV show was cancelled following the launch of Sputnik.

> . . . the most financially successful Western of the last decade is the 
> one about two gay cowboys . . .

Well, um, shepherds, actually.  They herded sheep.  They didn't herd cows. 
And they only have that job during the first act of the movie.

> *1. It's infinite.* The general era in which the classic Westerns took 
> place is between 1850 and 1900, with the 1880s (the era of the gunfight 
> at the O.K. Corral) being ground zero for Western mythology, and it's 
> all -- by definition -- taking place in the U.S. West.

Hey, what about Canada!?

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