Hi-O-Silver, Awaaay

An OCS buddy suggested getting some Lone Ranger DVDs for Mr. Boy. I’d already thought of that and ordered one. It took some coaxing. He wanted to watch his Ninja Turtles, instead. But a few minutes into one episode and he was hooked. "I liked the action," he said, meaning the gunplay and the way the Ranger and Tonto and the rest are always swinging into the saddle to ride off somewhere. He even liked the black-n-white episodes, when he was sure he wouldn’t. I’d forgotten how stilted and contrived Clayton Moore’s lines were. Goody-two-shoes with sixguns. Did I see them for that when I was young? I think so, but I had fewer choices then.