Deadwood

[vc1111]

Lotsa cussing, lotsa killing.

[8mm/06]

At first I thought it was a Western conference hockey game...until I noticed that there were no referees on no octopi were thrown at the feet of the combatants..........

[vc1111]

There is a woman's team on the show.

Last episode did feature some interesting conversations from the women's locker room.

[slugman]

if your talking about the new show on HBO and not whats in John Kerrys pants, its a pretty good show.

[vc1111]

Are we the only 3 that have seen it?

[Jorgy]

Seen it, there was a post about it on here the other day. I thought that it was going to be a good old family type western, boy was I wrong. I work in the steel industry so I end up talking to alot of steel workers whom tend to be even more foul mouthed than me. I'm pretty used to hearing that type of language, but I even thought they went way over the edge. When the script was being written the writter had to be getting paid royalities for the f word.

[Carpicon]

Yeah, I watched it.

I watch The Sopranos regularly, I'm a huge fan of that show, so I thought I'd catch Deadwood afterwards.

I made it about halfway through, it wasn't the cursing that got me, it was just too damn boring. I never once cared about any of the characters and throwing in a few famous people like Wild Bill and Calamity Jane just seems stupid to me.

[vc1111]

Carp, I'm always amazed at how much we see things from the same perspective.

[Strut&Rut]

Haven't watched it yet...always seems to be across from the old Dennis Miller reruns on HBO comedy.

Thanks for the heads-up, won't waste my time...

[Indianahick]

Hickock and Calimity Jane Are buried there. They both were in Deadwood during the gold rush, although Hickock was a gambler and spent much of his time in the opium dens of the chinese. Jane spent quite a bit of time running pack trains and driving stages. To me the show is centered around the crooked owner of the Gem Saloon and how he relates to the supposed good guys, Hickock, Jane, and the ex Marshall that runs a store. The language is definitly overboard. If there was not any swearing there would almost be no dialog. Show would definitly be better with better dialog. Historicaly speaking it falls in the fair range as to it's accuracy.
Hickock was killed there. There is also the rumer that he was going blind and that he went to Deadwood to get himself killed. But he was togood with a handgun to be killed in a fair fight. So a dirty little coward did him like the dirty little coward did Jesse James. In the back.
Here is a little side bar on Calimity Jane, about 5-10 years earlier she actually nursed in a town in Colorado (?) that had a epidemic of small pox. State and disease may be wrong but she did nurse a town thru an epidemic. Was she a church goer, doubtful, was she a fallen angel. Definitly. Did she drink, swear, smoke, etc? Definitly.