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Wishbone: Mr Favor sent us in here to get supplies, not to waste time gettin’ prettied up!
Rowdy: See you later. *jumps off chuck wagon while it’s still moving*

Shirtless Rowdy!

Oh come on, that shirtless scene wasn’t nearly gratuitous enough (I am shallow)

Rowdy decides to enter a saloon on his own. I wonder if he’ll get into trouble.

Drunk!Rowdy

“Why couldn’t we just… go on bein’ lonely together?”

Rowdy has an amazing bedhead

“Here comes Mr Favor. This ought to be a real interesting conversation.”

Rowdy: Mr Favor? Well, uh, things didn’t go quite right in town last night.
Favor: What? You in trouble with the law again??

I totally love the exchange that follows (quoting from memory before going to work):

Rowdy: We kinda, sorta, got married.

Favor: You’re fired.

Knee-jerk response at anything R does without his permission?

Hell hath no fury like a trail boss who believes he’s been scorned?

fuckyeahbarbarastanwyck:

Rawhide (1962): behind the scenes

“The Captain’s Wife” is one of the RH episodes I dislike most (my Bottom Five would be, in any order, this one; I of the Married Widow; I of the Last Chance; I of the 100 Amulets; and Clash at Broken Bluff). Glad Ms S agreed to the publicity shots, but how she managed her last scene in the ep without puking all over Favor, beats me completely.

That said, isn’t she wonderful, her beauty being made of competence  and confidence and strength?

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I’m not sure that I’ve ever related to character as much as Rowdy Yates. I love a lot of characters, and I relate to elements of other characters (like Vila and Trapper). I’m very attached to Pete (still not entirely sure why), but I swear I keep seeing so much of myself in Rowdy

apologies for derailing this, but i was thinking about why Rowdy is my favorite the other day and it struck me that although i like Rowdy the best, i’m probably a lot more similar in personality to Mr. Favor. 

Rowdy has a lot of qualities that i wish i had (kind and understanding, emotional…sometimes to a fault, suave but somehow still kind of awkward and uncertain of himself; he’s a fucking cinnamon roll) but Mr. Favor (distant, calculating, brutally pragmatic at times; more of a leader than a friend) is more what i am. 

i don’t quite understand what makes Rowdy tick, not in a firsthand sort of way, and maybe that’s what fascinates me about him so much.

I think it’s those qualities of Rowdy’s that are why I relate to him- emotional, his awkwardness and uncertainty, a bit of a temper (and that habit of touching his face when he’s feeling awkward). Rowdy is a little more confident and outgoing than me, but that’s a matter of my own issues rather than personality I think (I was a lot more outgoing when I was younger, and I can be more outgoing in the right circumstances).

If anything, I think Pete is the one I wish I was more like- cool and level-headed, dependable, easygoing

This question is interesting and I have been mulling over it for a day or so. I think I “am” both Favor and Rowdy (I tend to be rational, pragmatic and task-oriented, but I am also outgoing and fairly helpful, and can be impulsive at times). But I “desire” Rowdy, because he is young, enthusiastic and sweet, and if I met someone like Favor in RL I wouldn’t touch them with a barge pole (way too bossy and unwilling to negotiate).

Twenty or so years ago I wrote a dozen or so RH stories, mostly from Favor’s pov, because I could articulate why I found Rowdy desirable, but a few were from Rowdy’s pov, because I tried to articulate the desire to be “taken in hand” and “taken over” sexually. But I am not particularly good at sex scenes, and someone who disappeared from fandom did it far better than I ever could.

They have a lovely bedtime conversation in Widowed Dove (one of the first episodes I saw); the way Favor said “Yeah, I’ve been married” led me to think that his wife had left him (and I wrote a ficlet to that effect (blushes). Love the intimacy in Power and the Plow. Love this gif.

rawhiiiiide:

Paul Brinegar, Clint Eastwood, Sheb Wooley, and Gil Favor on the set of Rawhide

Yes, they are boomerangs. As a (hyphenated) Australian, I find parts of the episode problematic (all those stereotypical boomerangs; the incomprehensible slang needing an interpreter; and Woody Strode as a Faithful Non-White Sidekick, representing a people almost completely slaughtered by the invaders, makes me ill), but Guthridge is a great character, likeable, honest and brave, and there’s a lovely lunch-time scene between him and Favor as they observe their partners flirting with each other.

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“Did you seriously think I’d go swooning into your arms?”

“N-no, ma’am!”

“I appreciate your loyalty to your employer. But I resent your opinion of me.”

“Ma’am, I ain’t got no opinion of you!”

I have mixed feelings about the episode. But I am part of a group of (mostly baby boomer) Rawhide fans, and we have met 5 or 6 times in the past dozen years. Ever since the first time we gathered, we have managed to find bottles of wine (even in Utah!!) and to quote together; “French wine?” “Is there any other kind?”

Yeah, I don’t really like the episode on the whole very much–but it has a number of little moments I enjoy. Favor getting fancy and dancing and Rowdy, Pete and Wishbone’s puzzled reaction. That opening scene with Rowdy and Favor sitting together, eating lunch. This little bit with Rowdy being adorable. Clint Eastwood breaking character and giggling through one scene with his back turned to the camera, lol.

And haha, that is a wonderful running joke to have, I love it. Only French wine for Rawhide fans. I should gif that exchange next.

Yeah, like I said, I have mixed feelings. Hate the woman, her cowering daughter, and the ghastly gunfighter. Like the lawyer, not saddle-wise but sensible and sensitive to the daughter. Love R and F having lunch together, and R reading self-improvement books, heh heh. Love++ F and R sitting close together at the “hearing”. Love F while he is being questioned (and adore R giving him proud glances). Love R sneaking off to try and talk to the woman, and F’s abrupt “Where’ve you been?” when he turns up defeated. But it’s all downhill from the dinner dance on.

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