somniloquence

I'm so glad you found us! Honestly, some of the people who were most into doing a Justified rewatch have sort of disappeared, so I'm really happy to have you join us! Don't even worry about being too excited, in my view that's what fandom's all about, and you can never be too excited about something.

That's a really great observation, about the cultural codes. A lot of people I tried to rope into the fandom back in the day were all "I hate Westerns" and so I could never convince them that they were using the imagery from Westerns to tell a very modern story. It was always kind of a bummer that I couldn't get them to watch. And that's a great point about him being lost. I kind of love that the show never really explained why Raylan started with the hat and the boots. Why he created that image, when a lot of people would see those trappings as a hilarious cliche. His only answer is deflection: "Tried it on and it fit."

At the end, we get to see through Winona that he's not as self-aware as he pretends to be, and that adds to the intrigue of just where along the lines he affected that image.