Gunsmoke: Call Me Dodie (1962)
Season 8, Episode 2
2/10
Dissapointment
24 March 2019
Dodie escapes an orphanage and the brutal yoke of a couple that uses child labor to wash and iron laundry and other drudgery. Dodie makes her way to Dodge City via the fortuitous meeting with ole Doc Adams. She has not a penny to her name but all cowpokes in Dodge are scrapping to show her a good time. The extremely naive Dodie let's her pent up whorish nature rule her as she begs saddle bums to make vigorous love to her; this is implied. Not once while cavorting with these wastrels did Dodie think of the plight of the poor little girls stuck at the orphanage. Dodie longs to be a saloon girl and altogether forget her lamentable past. It seems like this episode was frittered away indulging Dodie's carnal nature, barely 4 mins was left for Matt to show up and arrest the villains. It was unnatural and rushed, everything was saccharine and tied up tidily.

Another note is ole Doc's saintly restraint of his sexual nature; Dodie throws herself at him and all he does is act like an innocuous grandfather. All he wants is to feed her a hot breakfast when in reality Doc the man would want to feed Dodie something else. Doc was more holy than Gandhi

How long are we to believe Doc Adams could suppress rabid sexual compulsions innate in every man? All Doc does is wrinkle his eyebrows, wipe his mouth and let out a sound of detestation at the slightest crossroad of something that challenges his nature.
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