“How can we jazz up this Western?” “Throw in some aliens!” “Yes—that’s the ticket!”
Wrong. The Western is a tried and true genre that stands the test of time. Somebody should have reminded the film producers that “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
We all know Americans lost their minds in the 1870s, and stampeded west during the gold rush. It’s not common knowledge, however, that the aliens were ALSO in on the gold rush. Oh, yeah. That’s why this story takes place in 1873. They were here, panning for gold too, and using advanced panning technology.
However, their technology was not yet advanced enough to do what aliens do NOW, which is the well-documented beaming up of humans for the standard probing. At that time, their spacecrafts utilized a more primitive lassoing technique, similar to the way that the cowboys they intended to probe—lassoed cows. It should be mentioned that these interesting facts only came to light after some deep après-le-cinema pondering.
