Six-plus hours and counting…
What does “jonesing” mean?
Less than two hours away. Come on, Deadwood.
Normally I’d be jonesing, but I only watch it with my wife, and she’s away. We’ll probably watch it Tuesday, when The Movie Network reruns it in Canada.
I was crazy about Deadwood for about a season and a half. Then I felt as if I had O.D.'d, and the thrill was gone for me. No jonesing anymore. I guess I suffer from Bullock burnout or Calamityjadedness.
I start counting the hours as soon as an episode ends. 55 minutes to go.
This season hasn’t been as flashy as the first two, but I still watch every episode four or five times, and get something out of it every time. (I can hardly wait for the season three DVD, so I can watch them all at once.)
I was even inspired to put King Lear (with Brian Cox) in the Netflix queue.
The episode guide for tonight has me quivering with anticipation. Alma at the Gem!?!?!
Gasp* :eek: You’ve never heard of “Basketball Jones?” Or “Love Jones?” Or “Me and Mrs. Jones?” 
Yeah, I know that song’s about an affair, but tell me that isn’t a jones, too.
Anyway, yeah, I’m jonesing. Can’t wait to see what happens with Hearst and his 25 “bricks.”
It’s going to coincide with the first NFL action since January. This will be like having two of your children stuck in a burning building with time to save one.
But there’s gonna be lots more football, and only four more Deadwoods.
Have the big kid carry the little one out. There ya go. 
It is my firm, fucking belief that those who, after having experienced the last two-and-a-half seasons of the finest fucking show on television and being a party to this discussion, express no fucking anticipation or inkling of comprehension for the fucking gravitas of this episode (which airs in less than 20 fucking minute’s time, and is among the last of four unseen ever to be produced for all of fucking eternity [not counting the paltry miniseries of four fucking hours promised by that cocksucker Milch and his whoremasters at HBO, which, by all hopes will satisfactorily tie up half the loose ends and unanswered fucking questions yet dangling in the wind like tits on an old sow]), or those who, having chosen to ignore all indications that Deadwood is indeed the finest fucking show on television, and thus cannot partake in this conversation, or worse yet, those who share the enthusiasm of Zeldar, myself, and other right-minded fucking individuals, yet check their expression for reasons of haste, laziness or outright goddamned cowardice, are all a bunch of fucking cocksuckers whose opinions are of no fucking consequence anyhow.
Watched Deadwood. Should have saved the other kid.
I’m assuming this will be the default thread for discussion of tonight’s episode. This was a pretty good one. I loved Morgan Earp shooting the Hearst’s thug in the leg. Liked seeing the other one get the ear treatment from Bullock even more. I also liked Deadwood Idol.
Next week’s episode looks like it will be great. Who was Al stomping the shit out of in the previews? Was it the same Pinkerton cocksucker that Seth dragged off to jail?
Yeah, it looked like the same Pinkerton cocksucker. Name’s Jarrett, or something.
This was my favorite episode of the season, maybe the series. It felt like an explosion, or something – great pacing.
Phantom Dennis, huzzah! BabaBooey, you were disappointed? <Bullock’s patented sideways glance>
Two questions:
(1) What did Tolliver say when he walked up to the schoolhouse door? I listened like 4 times, but all I could make out was something about “inseams”
(2) Does anyone have any idea why the schoolchildren are treated in such a precious fashion by Joanie and Jane, et al? All this interminably lengthy discussion of what’s proper and exactly when they will move and on and on and on? It’s very odd…
That was fucking brilliant.
Been watching Season 1 in a fairly successful attempt to convert my boyfriend into a Deadwood fan. There really is a great deal of continuity and little recurring themes and characters.
The transcript’s not up yet, but I believe Joanie said, “Oh my God,” and Cy replied, “Oft confused with the Most High, though our inseams have different lengths.” Powers Boothe can sure chomp on the scenery. Tolliver seems to miss Joanie and not want to let her go into the straight world, and is showing it the way he always shows his love to her, by being cruel and grasping.
Jane is really un…unwomaned? by these vicious men. Remember how she folded with Al in Season 1? She and Joanie do make a cute couple though.
Joanie feels like providing a place for the school is a sort of atonement for all the screwed up things she’s done, esp. to children. Jane obviously has a big soft spot for kids; that was established at the beginning of the series. I think Mose Manuel has a redemption issue going on here too. I imagine the schoolkids comprise the entirety of Deadwood’s population of children, so they are a precious commodity of innocence in that wretched hive of scum and villainy. At least, that’s my take on it. I agree this plotline has dragged on a bit and hope it has some significance in the endgame, somehow.
Random thoughts:
–Poor AW. Ironic as hell that Hearst’s son would be such a newspaper magnate, considering his sire’s attitude towards freedom of the press.
–Are Langrishe and Hearst OK despite the Swearengen connection? Langrishe is a great bullshitter, though we know how well Hearst takes proclamations of neutrality…
–I was hoping Trixie and Alma would make up, and I guess they sorta have. Alma is frustrating to me b/c she always comes right up to saying what she really wants to say, then stops short. Grrrr. I hope she doesn’t lose Ellsworth.
–The NG keeps saying he’s leaving, yet he’s still pushing Steve around in that wheelbarrow. Will Steve come out of his coma, have some Scrooge-like reawakening and be grateful to the NG? Will they establish Fields & Fields Livery?
–What is up with Yankton now? I take it when Deadwood is incorporated into the US, Hearst will have a lot of say in who represents them in Congress. That Yankton guy doing a baby bird impression for Hearst was creepy.
–Odell is dead? I imagine Hearst is behind this? Aunt Lou believes so and has wished death on Hearst. Anyone worried there’d be repercussions for Aunt Lou for cussing at Hearst?
–Richardson is shaping up to be quite a cool, weird little guy. I like him more and more each episode. Him and Aunt Lou holding each other and crying damn near brought a tear to my fuckin’ eye. Every time EB is mean to him, I want to kick him in the balls, hard.
–Johnny Burns is growing some brains, eh? Not that Al appreciates it. Wu’s got the ace up his sleeve with those reserve troops, I’m guessing.
—So Earps are gone. Wyatt had a history of leaving town when he anticipated legal trouble. What’s with using “Hiram” as an insult? I was recently rewatching Season 1 and that name was used as an insult once then too. Anyone know?
–Doc seems to be feeling better. Yay.
–That freakin’ soap-with-a-prize guy is still around?!?
–Al’s song was awesome, and I felt sad for him that he couldn’t go out there and sing with everyone else. “Some people have to fuckin’ work…” If you had told me I’d feel that way about Swearengen during Season 1, I’d never have believed you.
[spoiler]–I’m excited to watch Al kick that Pinkerton guy’s ass.
–Is someone going to try to kill Alma? Will Bullock rushing to her defense piss off Martha? Why is Ellsworth in handcuffs? [/spoiler]
Didn’t Langrishe pull a knife out of his sleeve for cutting up his breakfast ham when he ate with Hearst?
Nice catch! I noticed it maybe subliminally, but it took your question to help me see its potential significance! Can’t you just see Langrische, Al, Dan and a few other knife-wielders getting into a knife fight like in Rebel Without A Cause or The Iron Mistress?
Actually, Morgan left Deadwood, but Wyatt remained for the winter and made a hefty profit hauling firewood. There was a lack of horses in Deadwood in winter, since there was no grazing to speak of in that narrow gulch and livestock was taken to another location. The Earps had arrived in town (in reality) with a team of four and Wyatt immediately saw the possible profit in hauling firewood in winter. He struck a deal with a landowner who had a significant amount of deadfall on his land, paying him about $10 a cord. He set out to secure commitments from many people to purchase from him and left town the following spring with about $5000 in his pocket.