I actually think I give the edge to "Legend," though I thoroughly enjoyed them both. I've watched the whole thing twice. I can see why it wouldn't hold enough people's attention, but I still think it's got a lot of charm for people who enjoy RDA's little corner of the television world. It's especially fun if you've already seen "MacGyver" and "Stargate SG-1," because the title character is basically a mashup of RDA's two most famous roles. His nature is to be Jack O'Neill, but he's forced by circumstances to keep up a MacGyver image.
"The Adventures of Brisco County Jr," on the other hand, is just utter Bruce Campbell zaniness at the peak of his nineties glory, which is great if, again, you're into that kind of thing. (He's probably my favorite character in the Hercules/Xena-verse).
One thing I did like about both of them was the way they ended up being modern/pro-science Westerns. It's become incredibly common for that genre to just be pure nostalgia, treating the "taming of the West" as the tragic death of a heroic age (think of how the coming of the railroad is usually portrayed in these stories). It was pretty refreshing, therefore, to watch a couple of shows whose heroes are totally old school cowboys, but treat new science and the modern age as something exciting and to be embraced, not something tragic and to be mourned.
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