I just always assumed the series would end in a huge blaze - with Deadwood burning to the ground.
Sorry to hear this show is ending - it really raised the bar in terns of realism in western themed stories…this ain’t your father’s Gunsmoke.
Not that even matters in the great scheme of things, I could swear that the teasers for tonight’s episode were prefaced by the words “The SEASON Finale” instead of series finale, when the week before it read Series finale. Maybe my wishful thinking just manifested as a hallucination. Damn it. HBO-cocksuckas!
My vote is for the fire being set and Deadwood starting to burn as the the screen fades to black. 
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=312749 seems the movie is on
All I see on there is the June story about the movie and one person saying there has been no action on it. :mad:
I was just watching the ep in S2 when Al has the gleets. Trixie and Dan are sitting downstairs smoking, and Trixie says, “Say you’ll burn it down with me, Dan.”
Dan: What?
Trixie: This fuckin’ place – before letting Tolliver take it over.
Dan: (choking back tears) Done.
So maybe the burning down of the Gem, and Deadwood along with it, will be a way that the writers have the Deadwood community finally get rid of Hearst, not Tolliver. Could be. We’ll know in like, 20 minues.
My prediction of how the show will end
Me cancelling HBO.
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Well, with the exception of Charlie Utter’s best scenes to date and the tension surrounding Hearst arriving at the Gem to see the body, I was reather displeased overall.
Maybe it’s just me being upset that it’s over. I’ll watch it again and reevaluate after I calm down.
That was just beautiful. Everybody stayed totally within character for every line. Just like we were gonna get the next episode in 6 months. Of course, we are not getting another episode. Damn you HBO.
There were more lines in this one episode that deserve quoting than in the entire run of most other series. I am going to miss this show, but I will try to be thankful for the wonderful times I had.
Thank you cast and crew of Deadwood, I enjoyed every one.
Fuck. And fuck HBO.
I didn’t mind so much that there was a sacrifice, but that Al had to be the one to do it. And that he couldn’t show to anyone how much he hated it. He couldn’t weaken. Fuck Hearst for what he did to Al.
And Johnny, and Trixie, and Alma, and fucking Ellsworth, and Sofia, and Deadwood. Fuck him indeed.
It’s over.
It felt like the camp sold part of it’s soul to survive, and that Al had to do the dirty work as always. The last shot of him cleaning another bloodstain alone was an apt image to end on.
Amen. It could not have ended better.
And his final words were magnificent. A simple response to Johnny followed by a dissapointed/confused “I was gonna tell him something pretty.”
I didn’t think there were going to be that many story lines to finish up. But we’ve got possible dissension between Al and Johnny, Seth and Alma exchanging longing looks, Cy still alive, and the election results. And what is killing Jen going to do to Al? He’s never killed an “innocent” before. (Let’s say the almost hit on Sophia was an aberration.)
What did HBO mean in its episode description by “Cy folds his hand”? I was sure he was going to kill himself. Is it that he’s working for Hearst – again? That’s “folding his hand”?
Can I have “Fuck HBO” as a sig line?
Is it me, or does anyone else have a problem with Seth and the murder of Jen? Would his character simply accept an innocent having her throat cut, even to avoid a showdown with Hearst or to protect Trixie?
I believe Seth was presented the murder as a done deed, something he couldn’t stop. I don’t think anyone was comfortable with it - on the other hand, I don’t think many of them see Al’s or Cy’s prostitutes as ‘people’, main characters being exceptions.
I think that episode was simultaneously a “Fuck You!” and an apology from David Milch.
(I think the scene with Langrishe and Claudia in the theater, Langrishe was speaking for Milch at the end)
I was never one of those people that thought everything should be tightened up and put in a little box marked “resolved” but still some sort of conclusions to the story or atleast the begining of new chapters should have been established. I think the closest we got to that was Jane and Joanie’s final scene. Otherwise we got nothing.
I can almost appreciate that Milch skipped the town coming together to defeat Hearst element of the community arc and went to the town sacrifices parts of its soul in order to survive aspect of community.
No Doc? Martha and Merrick are only in one scene? This was bogus.
Overall… it was a decent episode but a horrible finale.
So Al killed the innocent whore because he didn’t want Hearst to start shit? That doesn’t seem right. Seems like he was backing down to Hearst,and I can’t accept that. Still, I was a might proud of Johnny…and scared for him too.
I did like Hearst’s comment about maybe starting up his own newspaper to slant the other direction.
Overall, it was a fine episode, but not as a season closer, and especially not a series closer.
Well, he did it to save Trixie too.
Well, I’ve watched it twice at this point. I’m very disappointed. Charlie Utter was magnificant in his role. Everyone else just seemed to be on LSD or something. Way out of character.
Why would Al just give up without any fight at all? Totally out of character.
Why would Seth be so calm when finding out that Al killed the whore just as a human sacrifice? Totally out of character.
Why were Wu’s army and the 17 men led by the dwarf (?) just shunted off to the side? Totally out of character for everyone to just kowtow to Hearst. These men and women were tough fighters who didn’t generally grovel.
From the overall look of this episode I’d say they (the writers) found out halfway through filming that they (the show) was cancelled and they (writers, cast and crew) all just said Cocksucker and walked away.
In the three season span, this was the most disconnected episode I can recall. :mad: