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It's going to have to have something new/different from other yellowstone shows. We already know Spencer lives until 1968ish from the epilogue. Yellowstone flashbacks show John II (the baby born in 1923) as an old man and didn't father John III (Costner) until the 50s. They could try and create life or death tension but we know who lives so any death drama will have to involve non-mainline Duttons. The mainline family tree is known now so there's no drama around which pregnancy produces the heir.
These shows are basically printing money right now though, so I'm sure it will do well. There's plenty of unknowns to create stories for as well; Jack and Elizabeth's child, Spencer's second son with some widow. There's also other Dutton headstones in present day that haven't been explained although there's no logical explanation for them yet (they could be older siblings to Costner, but why would a younger son be the "third"). They could also repeat a Jacob/Cara situation and just make up new Duttons who show up as needed to fill in generational gaps.
These shows are basically printing money right now though, so I'm sure it will do well. There's plenty of unknowns to create stories for as well; Jack and Elizabeth's child, Spencer's second son with some widow. There's also other Dutton headstones in present day that haven't been explained although there's no logical explanation for them yet (they could be older siblings to Costner, but why would a younger son be the "third"). They could also repeat a Jacob/Cara situation and just make up new Duttons who show up as needed to fill in generational gaps.
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Ok but the real question is which noble savage trope are they going with this time for the indian plotline, since they already used up girlboss indian.
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1944 would be a good time period to use a jap girlboss, her parents are being sent to internment camps but she's a girlboss working at Los Alamos and secretly helps develop nuclear bombs while men steal all the credit
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What makes you think they can't re-use tropes?
They've been pretending Indians were peaceful and wise and white men were brutal savages in literally every single Indian story since Dances With Wolves. Why stop now?
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If it's 1944 then John Dutton Sr. could have gotten drafted, he'd be 20-21. New villain is making a play for the ranch, Spencer is too old to fight now and John Dutton Sr. has to get home with his newfound war experience to save the ranch...
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After rewatching the 1923 epilogue I'm fairly certain '44 will involve some conflict with the half brother from the widow. It's such an irrelevant thing for Elsa to mention that it has to serve as backstory for a new bastard half-Dutton. Add in Jack's child's claim as the eldest son of the eldest son and they've got a pretty easy 3 way fight for the ranch.
I hope they're not so lazy as to just recast the war vet son (Kayce, Spencer) vs the bastard (Jamie) vs the one running the ranch (Beth/Rip, John I/Jack) vs outsiders/Rainwaters but I'm sure that's the majority of what we'll get.
I hope they're not so lazy as to just recast the war vet son (Kayce, Spencer) vs the bastard (Jamie) vs the one running the ranch (Beth/Rip, John I/Jack) vs outsiders/Rainwaters but I'm sure that's the majority of what we'll get.