BTW, I was thinking that Doc is the only “good” pedophile in TV history, for boinking the girl hustler who Cy kills along with her brother. Then I thought – maybe I’m just getting old. So is Doc a pedophile? I didn’t see any evidence he was doing any other the other hookers.
And regarding Eddie stealing from Cy – where the hell would he hide the loot? Not in his room – and in a camp like that, anyvidy could see your comings and goings, and anybody is likely to sell any valuable info they have.
I think it would be really interesting for a Deadwood bank to open – with a banker just as devious and nasty as Cy and Al.
“Mrs.” Bullock will undoubtedly arrive, with son in tow. Given Seth’s obvious sense of duty towards his dead brother, I can’t imagine that there is any way he will abandon them. Expect lots of ennui with Alma.
There was an interview with the actress who plays Jane about midway through the season in the Dallas Morning News. She said there were some interesting preliminary ideas about how Jane could come back next season, but nothing definitive. The real Jane, of course, became a highly respected person in the community for her role in fighting the smallpox outbreak, though she did not settle in Deadwood.
FWIW, the creator of the show was giving interviews early in the season to the effect that the Indians were nothing more than an illusory menace used by folks like Swearingen as a scapegoat/boogeyman. I would doubt that we’re going to see anything more than a glimpse of the native residents of the area. There are more than enough stories to tell just among the people in the town.
I think what we saw in Seth in the last couple of episodes was his Achilles heel - he has a very hot temper. I think his going over to the Gem to tell Dan to kill him was just a fit of rage. Once he calmed down, he felt remorse. He also accidentally ratted out Sol and Trixie because he was hot about having to leave the store. Seth is a good guy, but he’s also a powderkeg waiting to go off.
In real life, Seth Bullock was apparently a great man. He became friends with Teddy Roosevelt, who thought so highly of him that he sent his sons to live with Seth for a time because he thought Seth would be a good role model. Seth Bullock is actually a very famous old-west figure. He was a Republican member of the Montana senate, and he was the guy who introduced legislation making Yellowstone a national park. He also introduced alfalfa as a crop into the west.
The hardware store that Seth and Sol built in Deadwood is still standing, btw.
Would somebody please explain the magistrate stuff to me? I’ve managed to be out of the room for the most of it and I’m lost.
Why did Al say that Alma’s not speaking to him was a reason not to kill her? Or whatever, maybe he said not take her claim, I forget.
I want to know what’s going to happen with Mr. Woo, because he’s very unhappy and I keep hoping those who deserve it will receive justice, Mr Woo-style.
Is Doc unafraid of Al because he knows he’s more valuable than a pain, so far? Is he crazy? Is he crazy to the point of not caring whether he lives or dies? And he slept with that horrid little girl?
I’ve got to glue myself to the couch, cause I miss the good stuff.
Well, you got the magistrate, who, of course, requires some bribes to be amenable to Deadwood’s requests. He also said that he would wipe out Al’s warrent for murder of a man in Chicago. The magistrate decides that in order to wipe out the warrant, he needs some more money from Al. Al says no way, and talks to the magistrate’s assistant. He offers the assistant some money to off the magistrate (making the assistant the new magistrate most likely) and then quash the warrant. Basically, Al didn’t want to be the (old) magistrate’s bitch.
He’s the only doctor in camp as far as we know, and thus invaluable.
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Anyway, GREAT finale! Really showed why we love this show. Seth finally took the sheriff’s badge after getting pissed off enough about what was going on. He realized there would be a sheriff, and best not to have one that can be bought off at the drop of a hat (better to not have a sheriff at all then). Al likes it because Cy can’t buy Seth off, and Al and Seth seem to have some sort of understanding.
The Seth-Alma affair should be interesting with the wife and kid coming up to Deadwood, especially since Seth only married the woman because she was married to his deceased brother.
Alma and Al have never come into contact with one another which means she’s not much of a witness against him.
I don’t think he’s worried to much so long as he doesn’t interfere with Al’s business. I don’t remember him sleeping with anyone but I may have missed something.
But the road agents could be identified by the girl, and they in turn would connect Al. But Wild Bill took care of one of them, so Al’s choice was to either kill the last road agent, severing any connection to himself, or kill the little girl. He ultimately chose to kill the road agent, stabbling him in his office.
That office floor of his sure must have a lot of stains on it.
As for Al supporting Seth, I think the main reason is because he can see that Cy is fomenting a race war with Al as the scapegoat. Al can’t murder his way out of that problem. So he needs a sheriff - a real one, who knows what he’s doing and can keep the peace. And of course, Seth can’t be bought. If you can’t buy your own sheriff, the next best thing is to accept one that also can’t be bought by your enemies.
It’s interesting that in real life Seth Bullock became sheriff and then hired a couple of real tough guys as deputies to help him control the town. I wonder if Dan is going to wind up a deputy?
Where are people getting the idea that the Doc slept with that horrible girl who tried to steal from Tolliver? I’m not remembering that at all, and it also seems extremely out of character. If someone could direct me to the episode and incident where this happened, I’d like to re-watch it. To me, the Doc is the only truly moral, good man in the show (Seth Bullock, though good at heart, has shown some deep flaws, as have Sol and Alma) and I’d hate to have to reassess him at this late date because I missed noticing him screwing someone inappropriate.
IIRC, Al paid the magistrate $5000 to wipe away his warrant. The magistrate, greedy bastard that he is, wouldn’t stay bought, and sent Adams, asking for even more money. Al subverted Adams by indicating that, if Adams wanted to have a future in Deadwood, he’d have to have Al as an ally (also, Dan Dority’s two guns pointing at him greased the wheels on Adams’ homicidal tendencies). The magistrate showed a large amount of naivete and overconfidence by showing up in Deadwood with the warrant and going up to Al’s office with it in pocket. He got just what he should have expected to come to him.
I’m assuming that the “horrid little girl” that Ashes, Ashes was referring to is the Gem’s sweeper (who’s actually not a “little girl” at all) that Doc built the boot brace for and was dancing with at the end of the episode (sorry, don’t recall her name). Surely he’s not referring to either the little girl on Alma’s charge or the girl that was killed for robbing the Belle Union. In either case, I think Ashes, Ashes is correct in stating the need to stay glued to the couch because many details are being missed.
The girl hustler was named Flora. Doc didn’t sleep with her or otherwise purchase her services. There was some guy that looked vaguely like Doc (hair and mustache) that was following her around though. It was definitely NOT Doc.
As far as Doc standing up to Al. It seems like Doc has already seen hell, so I don’t think he’s too afraid of anything Al is going to do. He is definitely invaluable as the camps only doctor, as someone else stated.
I think he was referring to Flora (see the first paragraph).
The Gem’s sweeper aka. The Gimp we have now found out is named Jewel. Her and Doc’s scenes the last two weeks were excellent.
OK, so I think Flora is the one that people are thinking the Doc slept with, but he definitely did not. As for Jewel, I think the dancing was the result of much alcohol consumption on the Doc’s part, not necessarily out of any sexual relationship they have or will have. It’s an innocent dance, IMO.
Great series, great season finale…hope it comes out on DVD soon as this year my brother is in for a real treat for his Christmas present.
A woman at work has gone ape-crazy over this show and is leaving tomorrow for her vacation - to Deadwood! I told her to bring me back some pictures and souvenirs.
For a show that I originally had few expectations, especially considering I generally hate Westerns, I am truly amazed how good it is.
I could be wrong, but I think it was Doc following Flora around. There was no sex scene, but they had a brief exchange and she said something along the lines of, “You’ll have to wait”, as she was going in to work in Cy’s – like “wait your turn” or “wait till I’m on the clock.”
I’m not certain which episode, but I think she was only in two, or three at most. It would have been in the second or third one.
If that’s the exchange that’s given people the impression that Doc slept with Flora, then no, that wasn’t Doc – it was just one of the many horny men in the camp.
Tolliver was using the fact that Al had handed over his man to Mr. Woo, as a tool against Al. Trying to stir up the whites to… oh, who knows, maybe burns Al’s place down, or just piss people off enoght that they’s switch to Cy/
More of a guess, but I think he just wanted to buy a small army. He seems kind of short on thug assistants. So again, I think this was a move to challenge Al. I think Cy’s assumption would be that if he paid 50K for a squad of soldiers, they would be his to order about.
That was my idea, and maybe wrong. Nobody else seems to remember the scene I do between Flora and Doc, so maybe I mistook someone else for Doc. I’m not convinced yet, however.
I think pretty clearly not. Al would be happier with an honest sheriff thaan with one who could be bought by the opposition.
Seth had suggested to Dan and Al that it would be in their best interest that Alma’s father not leave camp alive. Then he had an attack of conscience and asked the military to guard him. So he was explaining his reversal and, by taking on the sheriff job, offering to protect Al (in this one instance) from the consequences of Seth’s change of heart.
Even if the Doc had slept with the girl who tried to rob Cy, does that make him a pedophile? Remember, these are the 1800’s when 14 year old girls were often married. And that girl was of indeterminate age, and could have easily been 18. She was certainly of ‘marrying age’, and I think that’s what counted back then.
To say nothing of the fact that she was a working prostitute.
I wasn’t thinking that Bullock could be bought, just that the people that Al typically dispatched were scum. I brought this up because of Bullock mentioning the blood stain. Perhaps it was just an “I noticed this and won’t be able to tolerate it if I’m sheriff” type of thing.
