#doyle bennett

I saw somebody talk about their favorite Justified videos about a week ago, I think. And here is one of mine absolute favorites. I’ll just copy my comment from YouTube to not repeat myself: (...) I'm positively shocked that there is a tribute to Raylan that isn't just depicting him as that "cool dude" in the words of Timothy Olyphant. Because, common! If that cowboy marshal persona was all that there was to Raylan, we wouldn't get a show half as fantastic as Justified is. Raylan is a cool cowboy marshal, but the show is primarily about the reasons he became one, and what it does to him, what choices he makes (forces himself to make) because of that and how these choices sometimes alienate him from everybody else and even from himself. It's not an easy job to do, and it demands even more sacrifices when you make yourself do it in the way nobody else will because nobody else can. Only Raylan.  

Then, you’ve got “all the voices”, right. Because the story of Raylan isn’t told only from his perspective, yeah. You even used DOYLE’s monologue! I don’t like Winona and Raylan’s relationship, but you captured it amazingly in just a few seconds – why they can’t be together no matter how much they want to make it work between them; and they try, they want, they do. Also, the moment with Helen’s voiceover is gorgeous, mesmerizing, epic, wow. WOW! How she knows Raylan sooo well, and how she is right about him but also wrong, how stubborn Raylan is but also he has no other choice – or thinks so. 

(...) Your choices for Raylan’s narrative are also beautiful, not too obvious, very fitting. And I’m semi-embarrassed to admit that I’ve almost screamed when I saw how you introduced Boyd after Art’s voiceover and your choice of the following frame. And then, the video goes on! Yes, Raylan got Boyd Crowder, but the story is not about it, the show isn’t your typical Western ballad about somebody who shot Liberty Valence (although I love the genre dearly) but about all the different things in-between their first reunion and their last (on-screen) one.