This write-up on Salon about Deadwood is awesome.
Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.
Mal ,'The Message'
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Tom Scola - Jun 06, 2006 7:09:30 am PDT #2049 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
lisah - Jun 06, 2006 7:18:18 am PDT #2050 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
Echoing all the Deadwood supporters in saying
From what I hear it's a bunch of people in cowboy boots swearing and shooting at each other.
does not even begin to describe Deadwood. Although there is a lot of swearing. There really aren't even any cowboys on the show, strictly speaking.
P.M. Marc - Jun 06, 2006 7:22:10 am PDT #2051 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Also? Deadwood has Molly Parker.
Some day, when I have more time, I'll watch the rest of it. Sadly, Paul didn't take to it.
Scrappy - Jun 06, 2006 7:25:43 am PDT #2052 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Deadwood is brilliant. I practacally browbeat Erika into watching it, and she's glad I did. Aren't you glad, you puerile cocksucker?
erikaj - Jun 06, 2006 7:26:54 am PDT #2053 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Calamity Jane is my favorite. That is probably not a surprise. Yeah, Robin. I'm so glad you taught me that word, too. At first, it was kind of heavy going, but then I got invested and stuff.
Hayden - Jun 06, 2006 7:29:10 am PDT #2054 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Thanks for making me want to watch the show EVEN MORE. Geez.
Get to it before more of us start throwing around words like "cocksucker," "hoopleheads," and "gleets"!
I mean, S1 & 2 are out on DVD, and you don't want to fuck your life up flatter than hammered shit, only to find yourself beholden to some human cocksucker.
erikaj - Jun 06, 2006 7:37:32 am PDT #2055 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
cracking up. I even wrote a little ficlet once. But my friends' list must have thought I was on laudanum because it dropped like a rock. Well, at least I'm not crawling around scrubbing bloodstains. Yet. But I'm completely ruled by three guys named Dave at HBO.
DavidS - Jun 06, 2006 7:54:17 am PDT #2056 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Bwah!
Martha: I'm trying to imagine what courtesy of mine would have forestalled the last awkwardness between us.
Oooh, snap! And the like! Martha is referring, of course, to rolling into town only to find her husband pickling his prick in the cunt brine of another. Thus rebuked, Alma soon regretted playing the class card and the damn-you-for-being-my-lover's-wife card, and our sympathies shifted ever so fucking slightly closer to Martha, despite her having interrupted some seriously provocative prick pickling.
Strega - Jun 06, 2006 8:51:01 am PDT #2057 of 10001
none of them seemed like My Kind of ThingThat's my problem as well. I like westerns, but I watched the first four episodes of Deadwood and... it was fine, but I didn't care. Six Feet Under? Fine, but I didn't care. The Wire? Fine, but I didn't care.
And then there was Carnivale.
Polter-Cow - Jun 06, 2006 8:54:04 am PDT #2058 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I like westerns, but I watched the first four episodes of Deadwood and... it was fine, but I didn't care.
And I don't really like Westerns, so.
But I never expected to love Oz as much as I did. It took me a few episodes to get into it, but after that, I was hooked.