Golden Steer
250+ Posts
I bought and got around to watching the whole Deadwood series. OK, could have been really good, terrible ending.
The sherrif was just the actor's impersnation of Clint Eastwood. If I was his business partner I'd have been pissed - he never did anywork in the store at all.
For being set in an interesting time and place, in the Black Hill before it was annexed, I didn't think they used that aspect to make the stories better. It really could have been set anywhere in the west in a boom town. I'd have liked more of a tie in with that time and place - conflicts with the Indians, treaty issues, how it got annexed, and more details about the gold rush. All you ever saw about the gold mines were a couple of passing scenes set in the mining areas.
Ian McShane was awesome, of course, and carried the entire show. The banter between him and EB was the highlight. I'd have liked to have the entire show use period language and grammer - like the new version of True Grit. But they probably figured no one would want to watch it like that, so they added in all the contractions.
The ending sucked. Sucked bad. Chrome off a trailer hitch bad. All that build up about a big battle, and nothing happended. The Gerernal McRainly chracter who's name I forget now chopped off Al's fingers, killed the nice miner, fixed the elections, and not only do the main characters let him leave, but they murder one of their own girls to cowardly surrender to him. And after that big deal about the letter the Sherrif wrote to the murdered miner's family - they just roll over and kill some innocent girl so things will be easy for them.
Is there more to it that I didn't catch as to why they folded up, or did HBO just run out of time and money to have an actual ending? At least something in character with what I'd think Al and the Sherrif would do - fight it out, at least a little bit.
I enjoyed seasons 1 and 2, but the last year ruined the entire series for me. It just went on and on without purpose, then the fold up ending. Your thoughts, and if you liked it, please expain.
The sherrif was just the actor's impersnation of Clint Eastwood. If I was his business partner I'd have been pissed - he never did anywork in the store at all.
For being set in an interesting time and place, in the Black Hill before it was annexed, I didn't think they used that aspect to make the stories better. It really could have been set anywhere in the west in a boom town. I'd have liked more of a tie in with that time and place - conflicts with the Indians, treaty issues, how it got annexed, and more details about the gold rush. All you ever saw about the gold mines were a couple of passing scenes set in the mining areas.
Ian McShane was awesome, of course, and carried the entire show. The banter between him and EB was the highlight. I'd have liked to have the entire show use period language and grammer - like the new version of True Grit. But they probably figured no one would want to watch it like that, so they added in all the contractions.
The ending sucked. Sucked bad. Chrome off a trailer hitch bad. All that build up about a big battle, and nothing happended. The Gerernal McRainly chracter who's name I forget now chopped off Al's fingers, killed the nice miner, fixed the elections, and not only do the main characters let him leave, but they murder one of their own girls to cowardly surrender to him. And after that big deal about the letter the Sherrif wrote to the murdered miner's family - they just roll over and kill some innocent girl so things will be easy for them.
Is there more to it that I didn't catch as to why they folded up, or did HBO just run out of time and money to have an actual ending? At least something in character with what I'd think Al and the Sherrif would do - fight it out, at least a little bit.
I enjoyed seasons 1 and 2, but the last year ruined the entire series for me. It just went on and on without purpose, then the fold up ending. Your thoughts, and if you liked it, please expain.
