McShane was incredible, but Milch might’ve been talking about Ed O’Neil’s star power rather than his talent.
I think it just all detracts from Milch being a near basket-case and too out here for HBO to trust with another $100 million+ for S4.
He may be off the marching powder but he still can’t keep his story straight. The man lost it. He was really sprawling towards the end of S3.
Great show, great, great dialogue - in a way I’m glad it died young.
Deadwood: It couldn’t *get *so bad as to pull Ian McShane’s performance into teh suck.
Why did you have to mention zombies and Deadwood? I never knew I wanted to see something so much until it was mentioned, and the knowledge I’ll never see Al Swearengen and Bullock and Jane fighting off reanimated Jewel, Cy, and Wu while Doc feverishly looks for a cure and Merrick preys on the town’s boys (but turns out not to be a zombie) causes despair.
In spite of the failure of COWBOYS AND ALIENS, I’ll bet the right person could get a megamillion dollar commitment right now if they went into a studio office and said “zombies in the HBOld West”.
Milch did not want to ditch Deadwood in any way “for another project”. Deadwood was his baby. He made a mistake in announcing that amongst the new characters for season 4 would be one William Levingston, a snake oil salesman and hustler whose real name was…(wait for it)…William Rockefeller who was JD Rockefellers daddy. Yes, really.
Now the Rockefeller estate is not particularly proud nor did they not care for their tainted heritage to be hung out to dry in a successful series like Deadwood.
All it took was some gentle persuasion via the CFR channels to trickle down to Time Warner and their subsidiary HBO and presto… There never came a fourth season of Deadwood. Do not fall for the “o poor us out of money” story or the other crap that is floating around. Deadwood was killed by the Rockefellers - period.
Watch David Milch lament the loss in this video and pay particular attention what he says starting at the 08 minute 10 seconds mark.
Who keeps the metric system down?
Who keeps the Martians underground?
WE DOOO! WE DOOO!!
Most of you won’t understand how pure MouthOfHorse’s moonshine is because the clue is subtle and you won’t get the reference.
CFR in my world stands for Code of Federal Regulations, the compendium of all rules and regulations of the government. But that’s boring. (No, really. Boring, boring, boring.) In the hoodoo of the voodoo world CFR means Council of Foreign Relations, which has been a target of conspiracy theorists of the the first magnitude, as given in this RationalWikiarticle. That’s the shortest explanation I could find. Google council of foreign relations conspiracy theories for the full panoply of madness.
I must say that I’m impressed that the CFR took time out of its weighty agenda of ruling the world in secret to quash a television show that would dare to reveal historical facts that you would otherwise have to turn to gasp a book to learn. But we all know about the power of low-rated cable shows.
I thank the previous poster for his reply - even though it appears to be somewhat beliggerent in nature.
Let’s not make this an argument about conspiracy theories.
The question of the influence the CFR has in our world has been more than adequately answered by the mere presence of prominent captains of industry and politicians in their membership ranks.
Yes, for all intents and purposes the CFR (and Bilderberg group and Trilateral commission) are ruling the world we live in and how we perceive that world through the media. A few years back not a single individual would even know what CFR is or does nor what the Bilderberg group is. However, times are changing. Hey, before you know it John Doe will start wondering why so many powerful politicians are member of the CFR? Or heads of state attending closed Bilderberg meetings on a yearly basis. Imagine that.
And the infamous David Rockefeller (no relation to the CFR whatsoever right?) would not have had to push hard to terminate a show that would potentially embarass the Rockefeller legacy on a mass medium like cable. All it took was a simple hint to the right person. Funny how well people with power are listened to.And seriously, you cannot compare a “book” to a cable show but you already knew that. It is one thing for historical facts to exist. It is another if those facts get (mass) media attention. No conspiracy theory needed for this one - even mainstream thinkers can figure this out all by themselves.
“A few years back?”
I went to a fundamentalist Christian school and we heard this shit all the time in high school. There were pamphlets about it, radio shows, speakers-for-hire, books, tracts…
And this was in the late 70s and early 80s. That’s nearly FORTY YEARS AGO, and it wasn’t new then. The CFR/Bilderberger conspiracy bullshit has been around since at least the 60s.
Maybe YOU just found out about it a few years ago…
Wow. :eek:
You hear jokes about people who mistakenly believe that the Bilderberg Group and the Trilateral Commission secretly run the world, but I don’t think I’ve seen one in the wild before.
That reminds me, I have to go to the grocery store… I’m out of tinfoil.
I rest my case.
Settle down and drink your Ovaltine, citizen.
I have a well-earned reputation for being beliggerent about conspiracy theories. What bothers me most about them is that they allow people to make accusations without the need for providing one scintilla of proof. My beliggerence against such cowardly tactics is without bounds. I hope all right-minded people join in my beliggerency.
And Justin, you can’t buy tinfoil any more. All you can find is useless aluminum foil. You think that’s a coincidence? Unh-uh. THEY did it.
Descriptivism can be stopped by no THEM. Aluminum foil (which I believe is better for blocking radio waves anyway) can also be tinfoil because the public wants it to be.
I guess the Hearsts are just chopped liver?
Just like all the people from your planet. Sheesh, Martians are all the same.
Tin is used to stop hard radiation. People sometimes think of Lead, because Lead is a better radiation shield per unit of thickness, but Tin is a better shield per unit weight.
And the weight is what matters when you are carrying it around. Particularly when you are carrying the weight on your feet or on your head.
“Let’s not argue about my theory; it’s correct, after all.” :rolleyes:
You missed the Rothschilds, the Masons, the Jesuits, and the Girl Scouts. You really do need to do your homework.
Also, linking to YouTube videos rather than words on the screen marks you as an amateur who is used to talking to illiterates. We can read and don’t need pictures to follow a story. Make an effort to understand your audience next time.
And all this time I thought they canceled it because it started to suck.