Thoughts After Watching Complete Run of Deadwood

[sisabet]

Man. Just. With the. And then. And. Man.

Wow.

If they ran the second season and just called it "The Al Show" I swear I would fucking watch it. Cocksuckers.

Or they could call it "Alma and the Whores."



Wow. So when does Season 2 start - cause I might have to get HBO.

Episode 11-12 could also be called "When Sol and Seth decided to fuck some girls"


Aww - they are trying to separate. Boys, boys, boys - that would just be unwise. Trust me.

Still - Seth finds Sol fucking Trixie and he makes a beeline for Al's and hits the liquor hard. Then he has to apologize to Sol for being an ass - Sol has to keep Seth from killing Alma's daddy and then Seth is so outta sorts he decides to sleep with Alma and be the town's sheriff.

Who's your daddy, now?

Poor Seth - darlin' if you walk around town looking like the sheriff and talking like the sheriff and acting like the sheriff and saying "Now y'all - I don't want to be the sheriff" no one is gonna ever fucking believe you. Cocksucker.

I mean - every year I am like - "oh, don't worry about my birthday and don't make a fuss and why I don't need any gifts at all, it just isn't important" and hell I don't mean it. I want a people to make a fuss and gimme presents and I'm all passive-aggressively hurt when they don't, so Seth baby - I hear you. I understand where you are coming from and I am here to tell you that of course we want you to be Prom Queen - I mean Sheriff. We all agree that you've pretty much been that since you rolled into town. Seth - you are important to us and you matter. Now go sit on the porch with Sol.

Momma's gotta go see Al about a horse.

Comments

[kadymae.livejournal.com]

Chika, I am all about the bagman. Watching Al and the Bagman hook up, now *that* was fun.

[elynross.livejournal.com]

And Al! With the Reverend! It was brutal, but Al's a brutal, hard man -- the only one hard enough to do that. And in an inexplicable way, that's the moment I fell hard for Al Swearengen, a hard, mean, selfish bastard capable of such brutal, beatific grace.

And Seth is just a lawman at heart, he can't help it. It's partly a matter of how injustice just makes his stomach hurt and his fists clench, and partly, on some dark level, of how it aims him and focuses him and gives him a place to maybe sometimes use those fists. If Sol isn't there to save him.

[vagabondage.livejournal.com]

Yay, you've seen them all now! Now I can talk about how much I went nuts for the way the Reverend brought out the humanity in almost everyone, even though he was driving them batty. I agree with elynross about falling hard for Al at that moment... he broke my damn heart.

Let's hear it for the whores with the hearts of gold, and for a show that isn't afraid to make them intelligent and complete characters. Joanie really blossomed as a fascinating character, IMHO.

The best moment, though, is when Al and the Chinaman are yelling cocksucker at each other, trying to communicate. That was fucking priceless.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Now I can talk about how much I went nuts for the way the Reverend brought out the humanity in almost everyone

Today at lunch I was considering this very fact in a vid idea.

I am much in love with Deadwood.

[vagabondage.livejournal.com]

God yes, that would be a killer vid. Do you have a song in mind? I'm sure you do. :)

I love how the decline of the Reverend unfolds, how he's annoying as hell, but you don't see a lot of pity being tossed his way, just compassion and people dealing with the realities of the situation. I love how Al is an asshole to him, but in the end is his salvation. I love how at first, when Seth, Sol and the Reverend are walking back from Bill's funeral, the way Sol is completely compassionate and understanding, but we see Seth losing his patience. The way people react to the Reverend tells us so much about who they are as people, deep down.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Do you have a song in mind?

All of a sudden this is all about Emmylou Harris's "Waltz Across Texas Tonight" - but I am giving it time because I have wanted to vid that song for a while now and so I could be forcing it. But (and I see now what Killa was saying to me about all songs being ensemble because you just love *all* of the characters so much) I think it is a multi-character song with the Reverend Smith as the unifying theme - the moments of grace each received.

The wind can blow cold, it moans and it cries
When it carries the sound of a thousand goodbyes
But if you listen tonight on that high, lonely plain
You'll just hear my voice as it calls out your name
You'll just hear my voice as it calls out your name

You've been on a road that just don't seem to end
Where that broken old heart of yours won't ever mend
You've crossed over bridges and bridges they burn
So many rivers and so much to learn
So many bridges and so much to learn

But the moon is so full, the stars are so bright
And my hand is steady, my touch id light
Look in my eyes, hold on real tight
And I'll waltz you my darling across Texas tonight
I'll waltz you my darling across Texas tonight

We both have known hard luck
And love that's gone wrong
When the ghosts take the shadows and
The night takes too long
We folded our cards when the hand wasn't strong
But that wheel will keep spinning long after we're gone
Yeah, that wheel will keep spinning long after we're gone

And the moon is so full, the stars are so bright
And my hand is steady, my touch is light
Look in my eyes, hold on real tight and I'll
Waltz you my darling across Texas tonight

I'll waltz you my darling across Texas tonight
Look in my eyes, hold on real tight
And I'll waltz you my darling across Texas tonight
I'll waltz you my darling across Texas tonight


And the last part would be the Doc and Al and Smith and the interplay between them all and and and -OH - the movement - see the song itself is a waltz, so I would want to see if the camera could do a 1-2-3 count. Maybe.

I love this song

[renenet.livejournal.com]

Hi. I love you. I love Deadwood. I love the internet. I don't remember doing this, but I seem to have downloaded a season 1 torrent a week or two ago (before you started watching and posting), so I have the show on my hard drive already! Wheee! I'd still love to come rewatch it with you. What are you doing this weekend? Working? What's Dawn doing this weekend? Is she busy doing something with truthseekersara? Because there's a special, last-minute, internet fare this weekend from Chicago to Lexington and I'd have to move heaven and earth with a plastic spork at work to get Monday off in order to take the special fare's Monday morning return flight, but I'd try. For Sol and Seth. And Al. Cocksuckers. Oh, and you and Dawn. Or I suppose I could not do the spork thing and drive, but I get exhausted just thinking about doing that on a two-day weekend. But you guys are probably busy anyway, so I should just stay home and watch it here and re-read your LJ posts. Yeah, I could do that.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

OH - come on over - I think Dawn is free. I'm sorry I'm just now getting back to you but MY POWER WENT OUT AND IT JUST CAME BACK ON AND I MISSED SMALLVILLE.

I would be a lot more pissed if the reason I had no power had any other cause besides I forgot to pay the bill. Again.

That and I can no longer check LJ at work has put me in a foulish mood. Please come cheer me up.

[renenet.livejournal.com]

You missed Smallville? Oh, apple dumping, I'm so sorry.

Apple dumpling? The hell? Whatever. The crack makes me sleepy and incoherent. Or is that the lack of sleep and/or oxygen? But you are my sweet little apple dumpling. Actually, I think you're my sweet little apple dumplin'. Now that that's settled...

After the incident when my phone got turned off because I couldn't be bothered to pay the bill, I put the electricity on automatic withdrawal from my bank account. I could do this online without having to print out any form to mail in. (The form would have been the death knell.)

Right now I am so fucking tired (cocksuckers!) that I don't want to leave my apartment, let alone the state, but I'll regroup during the day tomorrow and see what the possibilities are.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

YAY!!!

And I like being your little apple dumplin' - especially since I really like apple dumplings period - actually, I've never met a dumpling I didn't like and now I am hungry.

OH - YES - We will have Dawn feed us this weekend! It'll be swell - we shall go to Lelia'a and Ramseys and maybe I Ching and I think Dawn should probably be allowed to pick being as I think she should pay.

[renenet.livejournal.com]

work: 1, spork: 0
All attempts to get out of work on Monday have utterly failed.

I was a fool a hope. I should have known I would never be able to escape Al. ::lays pride down on bedside table::

::misses my little apple dumplin'::

[coiledsoul.livejournal.com]

When you first posted that you were watching this, my original response said something about how much he rocked and I loved him, but I knew you wouldn't get it then and that that might have even spoiled you a bit so I've been waiting for you to post that you were done. He is the ultimate in Magnificent Bastards. Lionel Luthor, Angeleus, the Senior Partners, and Brian Kinney would all drop to their knees in front of Al and just start sucking.

Line of the series:

"Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh."

[coiledsoul.livejournal.com]

By he, I mean Al of course. God when I get excited I start rambling like a 12 year old girl.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

I knew you meant Al and yes - he beats all Magnificent Bastards everywhere. They all weep when they see Al because of his fucking magnificence. Cocksuckers!