Since I didn’t see a thread for this, I figured I would start one.
This series keeps hitting home runs in my eyes. It looks like some couples are forming up, Sol and Trixie, Seth and Alma. Al isn’t going to be pleased about either of those.
Al seems to have bad day after bad day. Trixie was fooling him. His right hand man kills a customer in the bar over a young skirt. E.B. stands up to him. Seth came into the Gem and threatened him.
The young “brother and sister” seem to be pretty interesting. Dan was definitely creepy. From the scenes for next week, it seems that they are going to be even more entertaining.
Jane was very funny in this episode, as was Doc talking to the preacher. It was a good episode. I’ll have to try to watch this one again.
I think I laughed harder and more often at this episode than I have at anything else in the series. Jane was just incredibly funny…I loved the exchange with Charlie in the graveyard:
Charlie: “Is it all right if I tell him the rest tomorrow?”
Jane: “What the fuck are you asking me for?”
Did I hear those kids right? Are they planning a con? It seemed like the whole “brother protecting his sister’s honor” thing was a fake! Ditto for the ‘lost dad’! I love it! In Deadwood even the children are lying, cheating, thieving whores. . .
The “brother and sister” (if that is indeed their relationship) were whispering to each other about which place would be easier to scam: The Gem or The Bella Union.
Calamity Jane is my favorite. The way the actress plays that character, is how I think I would be had I lived during that time.
“I’m gonna put this on your fuckin’ lips now.”
She just kills me. She can turn the most tender moment to comical with her lack of tenderness.
I can’t figure out why the widow Alma won’t just offer to take Trixie and the little girl with her. I guess because they are two of the best female characters on the show and there won’t be much of a plot without them. Has anyone who has surfed the real Deadwood history sites found any historical information about the women in Deadwood? Is Alma based on anyone real?
RikWriter, yeah, that exchange was a hoot. “I don’t make the rules!” Like there are rules for talking to dead people in graveyards.
I’d been waiting for things to calm down a bit, because I wanted to see an episode that showed everyday life in Deadwood. This was a good start on that.
I read an interview somewhere (here, maybe?) where one of the producers or writers said that they have enough material for five seasons without going past 1877. Apparently the Adams Museum in Deadwood has had to hire someone to mine the newspaper articles and artifacts because people are hitting their website looking for more info on the characters.
What are Flora and Miles going to do? And are their names coincidental? (Re Turn of the Screw/The Innocents) I can’t imagine they think they can rob the place in the normal way.
I haven’t seen anything indicating that Alma is a real character. Sol, Seth, Al, Rev. Smith – that’s all I’ve found, but I haven’t looked really hard.
I finally watched this last night – another amazing episode. I especially enjoyed the scene in the bar where Hickok was shot – the one guy telling the “story” of Hickok’s demise, the bullet in his hand, etc. I liked the implication that the origin of the “Dead Man’s Hand” was all just from his BS story.
I finally got to see this one last night. I guess I’m going to have to start activating the closed captioning while I watch because I’m having a hard time catching a lot of what’s being said. I hadn’t picked up on the brother and sister pulling a scam. Very interesting!
It’s a damn good thing that this is on HBO and plays several times a week. Otherwise I’d be missing half the episodes. I haven’t watched a TV series this regularly since I got hooked on Star Blazers in third grade.
I need context sometimes, to figure out what they’re saying, so repeat viewings help a lot.
The Yahoo discussion group DeadwoodHBO now has two regulars participating – W. Earl Brown (Dan Dority) and Jim Beaver (Ellsworth) – in addition to Jennifer Bloom (the whore that Joanie kissed in the tub in episode 5). They’ve been great with inside info, but no spoilers.
An example is E.B. Farnum. We wondered why in the first episode he was fairly well-dressed, but in subsequent episodes he’s wearing that dirty frilly shirt and that jacket full of holes. Jim said the first episode was the pilot, and there was several months between filming the pilot and subsequent eps. Sometimes the same costumes aren’t available, or they disappear. And sometimes they tweak the character. If E.B. looked more prosperous, he might not be so effective as Al’s water boy.
After episode 7, focusing on Earl/Dan and Flora, it was really helpful for Earl to explain his motivation, and how conflicted he was about his feelings for Flora.
It’s a sign of good writing that people are speculating about the history and future of these characters. They’ve been made real. Really real.
I’m REALLY intrigued about what con the brother/sister team is planning. I wonder if they are simply planning on robbing both salloons and skipping town. It should be interesting.
Kinda disappointed that they moved away from history and had Seth find McCall rather than Jane. Then again, I guess they had to give Seth’s character something interesting to do (Jane is doing all the interesting stuff so far, IMO).
Hubby insists that Seth and Charlie couldn’t have found McCall and taken him to Yankton and been back in Deadwood in ten days. Even if he was close to Yankton when they found him, it just takes longer than that to travel that distance on horseback.
It doesn’t matter one whit to me, but now I wonder how much distance a horse can cover in a day, carrying a rider. Anyone know?
Glad to see I’m not the only one having trouble getting some of the dialogue – thought for awhile it was me or my tv. I try to catch the re-runs for this reason. I, too, think Jane is great. Today, I was checking my dictionary for a word in the “bu” entries, and noticed a picture in the margin – Jane! The actress looks very much like the real Jane. Her real name was Martha Jane Burk (1852?- 1903) - “she was reputed to be a crack shot and an expert rider.”
I do wish they’d cut back on the profanity. It seemed way overdone in this episode – every other word was “fuck” or a variation of it. I’m no prude - I use the word myself - but I find it distracting; I think even my s.o. is put off by it. He’s been watching it when I put it on, and has made comments about the profanity; he saw this ep, but when I mentioned watching tonight’s episode, he seemed disinterested. In any case, I’m enjoying it and I hope the show garners many Emmy nominations (and I hope Jane wins one).
