Did I miss a Deadwood thread already started?I looked back a few pages and didn't see one...So what did you all think of the first episode last night?Even with the "seen previously" scenes I found myself racing a bit to keep up when it started.Show seemed to come out of the gate fast and furious until I got my dead-speak game back on.Looks like some serious shit is brewing between Hearst and Al.Loved how you didn't quite know how he was going to play it when he went in to talk to Hearst, and then suddenly the raw threatening - yet always well-spoken - energy that is Swidgen came out (along with all the hooch from that deadened bottle!).Pretty pissed to hear that HBO is cancelling after this season, even though Milch has always stated that it was a story in four parts. I already did my "Save Deadwood" bit and wrote a few emails to HBO complaining.
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Noone's mentioning Wolcott. But I guess he got what he deserved. Bullock better stop beating heads like he does. And if Alma starts dpoing again, it's gonna get crazy.
Anyhow, DEADWOOD's probobly my favorite HBO show now. You know they're ending DEADWOOD with two, 2 hour finals? At least that will be nice to see.
I was surprised that they did not show him hanging himself in the scenes from last season. He was definitely one of the best things about last season. What a truly twisted, well-realized character!
They made a point of Woo being "out of town".
I wonder if that is going to be important?
second season DVDs just got pushed from May to July
Unfortunately I just read that even this is a shaky promise at this point...
"HBO is already positioning itself to break it's latest promise for 2 2-hr Deadwood movies. In a New York Times article, CEO Chris Albrecht stated: "It's possible that this turns out to be a plan that doesn't come to fruition, but at least we have one."
From this site:
Save Deadwood
"After watching it for a while, I noticed that the wallaby keeps on chewing after the crow takes its food. That kind of made me feel better, like the wallaby figured "what the heck" and kept on eating whatever it had left.
That's my motto for the new week: What the heck? I'll just keep on eating whatever I have left."
According to Rolling Stone they aren't doing the 4th (which was supposed to be the final) season because they are trying to move on the new Milch thing. Sounds like some ultimatum stuff to me.
Deadwood is the best thing on TV. This season is what this seasons Sopranos wished it could have been like. Sundays eps was soooo off the hook. Al is the hardest muther phauker.
If high schools showed this in english class and tied it in properly, I'm betting they could get kids interested in Shakespeare again. Tho I'm sure no teacher could ever get the OK with the swearing, nudity & violence.
So far this season is straight
this past episode was especially great
the battle between dan and the general was E P I C
But my favorite part of the whole show is how once a season Swearengen is in some sort of sexual act and he just goes off about his life to his new woman. All of them are great, but the one from the first season, when Trixie leaves him for Sol and he's genuinley hurt, was one of those great soliloqueys (sp?) that I can't shake from my memory, even if I wanted to. He's such a larger-then-life charachter but those moments add so much humanity to him. Just fantastic stuff.
Last night's show was off the fucking hook!
As you said, easily one of the best fight scenes on TV ever.
I too liked Dan's reaction after the fight, and what Al had to say to Johnny about it. Also, the look on Al's face when he thought Dan was finished, and the slow nod he gives Dan to let him know to finish the guy off. Seriously, I haven't been that edge of my seat tense for something on TV in a long long time.
One thing i have to say, although I like the Jack character and his relationship with Al, the whole theatre troupe storyline in general has me a bit
If you aren't watching this show yet you are seriously missing out on something special.