Seems like Trixie has been spending some time at the hardware store. Sol told her to lock up (last week) and she didn’t have to ask where the keys were.
I can’t quite see Al letting her go easily, but he’s a pragmatic sort. Now that he knows how she feels, he’ll probably let her go. It’d be a nice contrast with Cy and Joanie. What’s that line? If you love something, set it free.
If she was backing Sol and Seth against Al, I don’t think Al will want her back at the Gem. She can clerk at the hardware store, or spruce up and see if Joanie will have her.
I don’t think that makes any sense. If her loyalties were mixed, why did she go back to the hardware store and get a proper gun for Sol, instead of his little purse gun? And she even specifically said that she’d use the rifle, “because on the first shot, the recoil will knock you out with pain”. It was totally obvious to me that she was on Sol’s side, which means she was on Bullock’s. She’s certainly pissed that she’s in this position, but I saw absolutely no hint that her loyalties were divided. And I never saw her aiming at Seth - I saw her taking up a position and aiming her gun in the general direction of the Gem, waiting to see what was about to happen. She was backing up Sol and Bullock’s play, just as Charlie and Jane were.
It seems to me that during the 7-month gap between the end of the last season and the start of this one Trixie has changed her relationship with Al. As AuntiPam points out, she seems to know where everything is in the hardware store, and she seems awfully comfortable being with Sol (whereas last season she was still clearly conflicted about it). And note that Al called up a different whore to service him, and not once did he ask where Trixie was.
On the other hand, her offering a blowjob to Charlie would indicate that she still sees herself as a whore, so perhaps the arrangement with Al is that she still ‘works’ and turns the money over to him, but what she does with Sol on her own time is her business.
I thought Sol’s lecture to Seth was pretty good, especially the part where he pointed out that in real life not everything works out cleanly and you have to make due with what you’ve got. That would certainly apply to him falling in love with a prostitute. It’s the frontier - tough choices are a part of life.
Best line of the night was when Trixie was cursing and complaining about Bullock to a drunk Sol without mentioning who she was talking about. Sol opens his eyes and reminds her “Dulled faculties.”
I loved the episode. I do have one question, though. Al’s big speech to Bullock made it seem like Al knew Bullock was strongly considering leaving the camp that night. How would he know that? I caught the part where he was breaking down Bullock scenarios while he was being ‘serviced,’ but he’d have to be a mind-reader to know Bullock was thinking of an immediate departure.
Dan adds ‘sissy’ to his season two resume. Quit cryin, sonny. He’s got a long way to go to get back to his season one form.
I wish ‘Deadwood’ was on the Playboy channel - that way, when Trixie offered to fellate Charlie, he could have whipped out his hogleg and said ‘here, feast on this.’ That would have been great television.
HBO does hoglegs too. Remember the road agent from last season, putting his brand on one of Al’s whores? (Poor woman.)
I’m not clear on where everyone got the idea that Seth might leave. Maybe they thought that since he and Al were at odds, he’d take Martha and William and go someplace safer. ?
Seems unlikely they’d think he’d be leaving with Alma, and leave his family behind.
Well… Perhaps the assumption comes from the fact that Bullock was called out in the street about having sex with Alma, and his wife and child arrived shortly thereafter. Perhaps it was a common expectation that after a humiliation like that a man would be seriously thinking about leaving town in shame. Maybe Al didn’t know that Seth WAS planning to do so, but he also realized that an honorable person like Seth would no doubt consider it, so he wanted to pre-empt the thought.
The remark about running away seemed ambiguous to me. It could have been that Al was talking about himself (“running away” in Al’s case meaning to murder the sheriff).
Incidentally, does anyone know the reasoning behind the thumb-up-the-ass treatment and whether it had any efficacy?
On another board discussing this, someone mentioned prostatitis or something like that, an infection of the prostate. A common treatment back before antibiotics was to insert a finger and apply pressure to the infection to cause it to ooze out. Which would also explain why Al was asking her if anything came out afterwards.
If it’s okay to ask, would that be Television Without Pity, or somewhere else? I can’t get enough Deadwood talk. There are as many interpretations of this show as there are people watching.
No, it was a thead about Deadwood on the AVSForum, which is a Home Theater forum. There’s a High Definition Programming board there, and Deadwood is broadcast in HD. It looks glorious in HD, by the way.
I liked getting Bullock’s story on how it came to be that he married his brother’s wife…and the subtle regret he seemed to be having now.
And whodathunk Bullock would be so loud and active in the bedroom…guess it is true, you have to be wary of those quiet ones.
And stupid question, but do pigs really eat a dead human being dumped in their sty? I mean, I have been on farms before and the pigs seemed sort of docile happily munching on their mealmash or whatever…
Still, not a bad deal…5 bucks and you can dump the body and get rid of it. Would love to see CSI (the real one) figure that one out.
I heard a farmer say once that you don’t ever want to take a nap in a pig pen. I wondered what the heck he meant. Why would anyone want to sleep with pigs? Had to have it explained to me.
It is interesting to see Dan react to the growing role of Silas in Al’s operation. Beyond money and power, he seems to need Al’s approval on an emotional level. Too bad for the rest of Deadwood that he depends on displays of brutality to get recognition.
Spoiler alert for anyone who hasn’t seen Season One:
Two questions:
The name of the episode is A Lie Agreed Upon. What fucking lie did they agree upon? The illusion of law and order and decency in Deadwood? Al’s statement that he wants Bullock around for a good long time? The apparent truce that Al and Bullock have declared? How Seth got back the badge and gun?
2. Al tells Bullock that Reverend Smith’s body was found and that he’d apparently been “killed by the heathens some months back.” But Al killed him and told Doc that Smith had died. WTF was that all about?
