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The story of Reno Raines, a cop framed for murder, on the run from the law, working as a bounty hunter for Bobby Sixkiller and his sister Cheyenne Phillips. Reno Raines is played by the dilectible Lorenzo Lamas, but frankly his Harley Davidson 1989 Softail FXSTC turns me on more than he does. :P

Really, Renegade can be thanked for seeing me through my unhappiest years. I used to spend whole weeks running only on the hope and excitement that a new episode brought. I'd sit in classes, or during lunch hours, and write down the weeks episode synopsis (as it was written in the Radio Times) again and again on a piece of paper. I'd end up with tons of the things, with the same synopsis repeated over and over - it comforted me! If it sounded particularly whumpish i'd spend hours writing potential scenes based on the synopsis information. Episodes were on Thursday nights at about 2am, for which i'd sit up in the dark and very quietly tape the episode to remove the commercials. The late-night program announcers were particularly funny at that hour too, less mainstream and more relaxed, often making comments on the length of Reno's hair just before the show started. I'd be sitting cross-legged with my face about a foot from the tv screen, with it turned down deathly quiet so as to not wake the parents, and i'd be grinning and grinning as the episode played out. Yup, definitely a memory show for me! And to think, they only ever aired seasons two and three over here. They recently released Season One on dvd, and i really enjoyed finally seeing those episodes.

I honestly thought i'd died and gone to heaven when, half way through the second episode, it became apparant that Reno was going to get well and truly beaten to a pulp. Not only that, but he was going to get to be heroic while he got well and truly beaten to a pulp. So, lets start with that episode...

Hunting Accident

The bad guy in this episode kidnaps a woman Reno is rather fond of (snogging her already, and his fiance was shot only a few days ago! He's such a SLUT!) and says he'll leave her to die if Reno doesn't let himself be beaten up, and beg for mercy. "Yikes!" i shrieked, at that point during the episode, and leant forward a bit more. Then i leant back a bit, because i can't focus any closer than 7cm. Anyhoo, Reno takes his punches, gets chucked out of the bar they're in, and then, joy of joys, the guy pulls out a baseball bat! BASEBALL BAT I TELL YOU!! And he had this damned devilish grin on his face when he took it out too, i think he's a whumper at heart. So Reno gets thwacked right in the stomach with this thing, then in the back of the knees, and is ordered to crawl away 'like a rodent'. Whoohooo! He then turns up at some random villagers house for some comfort, and amazingly his dislocated shoulder has swapped sides. MAGIC!

He triumphs in the end, and all whilst wearing the most pathetic and unsupportive shoulder wrap i have ever seen in all my days. Shoulder dislocation my ass. However, he fully redeems himself with some excellent whump acting as they rescue the girl. He lifts her free from the well she's held hostage in, and as she jars his arm he does this fantastic 'silent scream' moment that just looks so natural and painful. ::applauds::

Samurai

"nothin' like a bullwhip to get a man's attention, right bounty hunter?" says the man, with a cheeky smile, after doing just that to reno by whipping his face. Rawr! Any episode with a line like that has definitely got to be capped, even if there isn't really any whumping to speak of. It's all in the style...

Vanished

This one really needs a mention, seeing as Reno gets drugged. It's not extensively whumpish (Renegade doesn't really go in for that much, compared to other shows. okay fine i'm comparing it to I Spy. Fuck, Die Hard is tame compared to I Spy) but when they inject him with the drug, he looks a bit wierd, and then he drops like.a.stone. It's gorgeous, because he just drops, straight down, and the sound of him hitting the floor is delicious. Not really something i can cap though, darnit. Short video clip maybe, sometime. The drug makes him loopy, 'instant crazy' as the bad woman says, and they dump him for the police. He chucks himself over the road embankment though, and the police miss him. Starts talking to Bobby, as if he were there, tries to get up and fails, and the next time we see him it's daytime and he struggles back to Bobby. As is typical for Renegade, the after-effects last about TWO DAMN SECONDS. and then he's fine. bastards.

Random Pics

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Links

I designed and maintain the Official Branscombe Richmond Fanclub website for it's president Val, and have managed to somehow make it not work on Branscombe's mac, lmao. I'm not linking to Lorenzo's official site, because it's awful and i refuse to up its page rank with my own. ::spits in its general direction::
Fan fic is sparse on the ground, i've always written my own stuff when i've wanted to read something. If i find any decent Renegade fics i'll link them here, but for the moment i got nothin'.