Deadwood - Season 3 - on HBO in HDTV - Page 4

cancelled? oh man that sucks. that's a real shame.

this show give me so much joy. imho it's the greatest show ever aired.

From what I have read, it was only going to have 4 seasons anyway. Instead, now it will be 3 full seasons and 2 two hour movies to finish up. Too bad, but better than just leaving us hanging after the end of this season.

This is the first I have heard of movies. Is this confirmed?......If so....this is perfect.

yeah, well it will be two, two hour episodes to end the series.

It looks like Doc's fairly sick coughing up blood like that. I hope he doesn't die. The camp would be in dire straights with him gone.
I hope HBO will have this series pressed into HD-DVD's after the final show. The detail in this show deserves it.

Absolutely, that opening sequence has some of the most detailed HD image quality I've ever seen, the gold dust pile and the horse when it steps into the puddle, great stuff.

The article I read had indicated that the two 2hour movies were indeed a go. The one hitch is that the actors were all released from their contracts and allowed to pursue other opportunities. Hopefully, they will all be signed for the extra Deadwood episodes. I would assume it could still fall through if they can't re-sign any of the major players.

Hoopleheads... What can you do?

As to Sweggin handling Hearst, screw history, I wanna knifefight.

Watching this episode again.....I just cannot get over how great this is and how wonderful the writing and acting is. "If his pigs get that body, Wu is their next f*c*ing meal. "

I really like Farnum and his pal. Their scenes always make me laugh. Like the last one when he was begging for his job with Hearst. Then Richardson pokes his head out grins throws thumbs up. Funny stuff.

It was great with Farnum acting like this "beat" dog, and then later when Hearst says "Your duties will be to answer like a dog when I call." to Cy. It all works together. Great writing.

I keep expecting Bob Newhart to peep around the corner whenever Farnum has a scene in his hotel.

Classic. A capon... who comes up with this stuff? Brilliant!

Hearst: Your proposal is thoughtful, but I'm afraid I lack the qualities that minority participations require.
Alma: As I said, these are the most preliminary thoughts.
Hearst: A vulgar man would ask before preceding any further if you would require him to produce his jackknife and make himself a capon before you.
Alma: (pausing) What in my ideas do you find emasculating?
Hearst: I can offer no inside explanations, Mrs. Ellsworth, as I am not a capon, which details offend me and why your proposal offends completely. It mistakes my nature absolutely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capon

I cant wait for season 3 to come out on DVD I have 2 but dont have HBO so I'll just have to be patient. I need to find season 1 someday so I'll have the whole series. I havnt decided which HBO series is better Band of Brothers or Deadwood, BOB has better SQ I'll have to decide after seing season 3.

I missed the Swearegen and Woo conversations. Glad to see them back together again!

Tough to compare them and make either/or type of decisions. BoB is amazing in that each episode is better than 99% of War movies that you might normally pay $8.50 to see at the theater. Deadwood is....well, Deadwood--also amazing.
Both are definitely worth the inflated prices HBO charges for their DVDs.

I love it, Deadwood as written by Milch is the exact opposite of the whole 'Dumbing Down of America' phenomena. Usually you can follow the conversation's meaning by context. Then, when the episode is over, run and look up a word, or the real history of some character.

Yes, the writing on Deadwood is in a class by itself. We are unlikely to see its equal. I have found myself saving snippets of dialog from Deadwood from its beginning. For example, in one of the later episodes from Season 2, there is in exchange in which Star asks Trixie why she went back to Al's place after having secured her release from his service as a whore:

Sol: Why did you go to him?
Trixie: (She pauses, takes his hand and sets it on the counter, holding it.) Now, hold to this counter as I reveal this, Mr. Star.
I've lived most of my life a whore, and as much as he's her misery,
the pimp's a whore's familiar, so the sudden strange or violent draws her to him.
Not that I wouldn't learn another way.

I thought that was smart, funny, and sad, all at the same time. "Not that I wouldn't learn another way." Jesus!

I was wondering if anyone knew how people traveled from Deadwood to San Francisco in those days. I know the east west railroad was finished in 1869, I just wondered where they would have to go by coach to pick it up. Also they talk of Yankton and Adams going back and forth. Has anyone looked on a map? Yankton is at the other end of the state. It must have taken weeks to get there.
This show makes you wonder just how Inconvenient simple things must have been.

Doesn't look like they had to go all that far. A quick check of the entry for the First Transcontinental Railroad in Wikipedia shows the route. Looks like the closest railheads are in Cheyenne, WY or Sidney Nebraska. The 300 mile route from Cheyenne was used by Charlie Utter for the mail and freight and the stage lines on that route have some colorful history. Yankton is 350 miles away and would be even longer by stage. But from there its not far to Omaha which is where the Union Pacific began its line west or you could head east.

Story of the Cheyenne to Deadwood Stage: http://www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com/deadwood.html

God, this show is the highlight of my entertainment week. There is no chance of me going out to the movies on Sunday night because honestly, whatever is playing just isn't up to level of 'Deadwood'.

Heh. Had two friends over when Deadwood started, they couldn't get best the profanity. Al seems recovered from his "miner" damage. Can't wait for Dan .vs. the Captain.

I can't imagine introducing Deadwood to someone who had not followed it from the beginning. Despite the beautiful writing, the show goes out of its way to be shocking and controversial. For example, Al's soliloquys have usually been delivered either to the severed head of an Indian or to a whore who is performing fellatio on Al. Either situation is a little hard to explain to someone new to the Deadwood scene.

I too am anxious to see how the Captain v. Dan contretemps plays out. While both are bone loyal to their employees, Hearst and Al respectively, they are also extraordinarily dangerous killers. It ought to be fun.

You got that right. Two of my best friends from college were visiting last weekend and after their Sunday night flights were cancelled due to weather they came back to our home and watched "Deadwood" for the first time. I think they both fell asleep by the half-hour mark. "How can you follow along with that?" asked one of them. I had to laugh.

The woman Al was talking about, the one that got on the ship to New Orleans while he was being held down, that's his mother right? I vaguely recall his Season 2 reflections of the orphanage and his mother, but not enough to remember exactly what happened.

Humm ... no mention of Alma starting to "take walks" on the wild side ...

Alma back on the dope, bad news for her, especially if Hearst gets wind of it.
How funny were the Seth/Steve conversations that didn't go more than 30 seconds before Bullock punches Steve? I know he's drunk all the time, but you would think it would eventually dawn on him that Bullock has a short temper and doesn't mind puntuating his sentences with a quick smack to the face.
Next though, oh baby, next week we get Dan vs The Captain and Bullock sticking a gun in Hearst's face!!! I can't wait.

Not at all what I meant ... one has to pay close attention to the small details. Understatement is the watch word.

Yeah, I guess I missed and I'm stilling missing it. I thought you were referring to her 'taking the air' as a pretext to meet with Leon and buy some dope.