Now the bandits drive pick-up trucks or ride motorcycles, the outlaws hole up in grungy No Tell Motels at highway rest stops, the sheriff has a modern handgun and rifle (possibly a revolver and lever-action rifle if the creators want to contrast, in a Good Guns, Bad Guns way, against crooks' submachine guns and assault rifles), and the great plains of America are surrounded on all sides by airports, highways, and cities. The easiest way to revitalize the genre is to set it in the future, when man's expansion onto other planets has created a similar state of lawlessness and grit in the off-world colonies in a distant galaxy-hence the Space Western, where the sheriff has a laser blaster.Ī less popular choice is the New Old West, in which Western traditions and tropes are shifted forward a hundred or so years into the modern day. The Western genre is a rich one, but has been decidedly played out over the years, to the point where it's hard to do a Western series without looking like you're ripping off a rip-off.
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