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The Adventures of Brisco County jr - Bye Bly
episode 20
USA 1994
produced by Paul Marks, Jeffrey Boam (executive), Carlton Cuse (executive) for Boam/Cuse Productions, Warner Brothers/Fox Network
directed by Kim Manners
starring Bruce Campbell, Julius Carry, Christian Clemenson, Billy Drago, Melanie Smith, Richard Herd, Stewart Bick, Dennis Cockrum, Kevin Lowe, Ryan Thomas Johnson, Craig Richards, Kane Hodder
written by Carlton Cuse, created by Jeffrey Boam, Carlton Cuse, music by Velton Ray Bunch
TV series The Adventures of Brisco County jr
review by Mike Haberfelner
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After failing to capture safecracker Pepe (Stewart Bick), the last of
John Bly's (Billy Drago) gang still roaming freely, Brisco (Bruce
Campbell) is awakened from sleep by Karina (Melanie Smith), a naked lady
from the future who tells him Bly is to escape from being imprisoned in
the orb this very night, and Brisco is to stop him, otherwise the far
future will experience a 2000 year long reign of terror (as stated in the
episode Fountain
of Youth, Bly is actually a time traveller from the future). In
the meantime, safecracker Pepe has actually been hired by gouvernment
agents gone rogue Brown (Kevin Lowe) and Grimes (Dennis Cockrum) to steal
the orb, and by doing so, he has rather unintentionally freed Bly. So it's
now up to Brisco, with companion Lord Bowler (Julius Carry) and employer
Socrates Poole (Christian Clemenson) in tow, to stop Bly, and he can only
do so by travelling back in time to borrow the second orb from himself in
the past (actually the episode A.K.A.
Kansas) and match the super-powers Bly has accumulated through the
orb. Brisco manages to kill Bly, but only after Bly shoots Bowler dead, so
Brisco travels back in time again to set this right, and this time Bly is
not only killed but also disintegrated. Karina now happily travels back to
her own time, the two orbs in tie, and Poole now reveals to Brisco and
Bowler that he runs a new secret gouvernment agency for odd cases directly
under president Cleveland (Richard Hard), and wants Brisco and Bowler to
be his top agents ... On the plus side, all the series'
regulars (including Billy Drago) are once again great here (and the rest
of the cast's pretty decent as well), succeeding in giving the story a
comicbook feel without making it silly, and execute their comedy without
drifting off into the moronic. On the not so good side though, with all
its time travelling and visitors from the future, it also goes a bit to
the esoteric side of things, which ultimately keeps it from becoming a
fully coherent western adventure. And somewhat unfortunately it ties up
the over-arching narrative thread of the series, with the coda with Poole
becoming head of a gouvernment agency to give the characters further
purpose for the rest of the series tacked on a tad poorly. It's still good
entertainment mind you, just not one of the better entries into the
series, which is a bit of a shame given its narrative significance.
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