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Post by Calamity Coyote ()Post by aaronPost by Calamity Coyote ()Post by aaronbeing a poker aficionado, i was hoping the they would work in the famous
hand WB was holding when he was shot. the "dead mans hand". no such
luck. the way they showed it, no one even saw it to record the hand. bah.
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Post by Calamity Coyote ()Post by aaronPost by Calamity Coyote ()Notice they did include it last night? The guy who got WB's bullet in
his wrist revealed the hand Bill was holding when he told his story to
Charlie. But the way they played that scene I wondered if people
thought this man was embellishing the story and making things up. That
maybe he never saw the hand at all. What was your impression?
not surprised at all. nobody was buying the story at all. at this point
it really doesn't matter. i mean really, if you see a guy get shot,
who'd looking at the $*&^%&^ cards.
Well, they mighta looked at his only cause he was infamous and had a
reputation for losing so badly at poker. But the way they played it in
Deadwood, it almost looked like the guy made WB's hand up.
In the Jack McCall trial episode, this guy tried to bribe the judge to
let him testify, citing his "possession" of the fatal bullet entitled
him to do. Obviously, he wants more than his measly 15 minutes, and is
is trying to insert himself into the historical Hickok murder tale.
Whether Hickok's "death hand" was actually documented, or invented
afterward for the sake of story has long been debated. IAC, the famous
dead man's hand has no provenance, and that is very likely the point the
writers are trying to make with Bullet Wrist. Cool, I reckon. :-)
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Post by Calamity Coyote ()Post by aaronher scene at the graveyard with charlie was great. speaking of
shakespeare (in other posts), they were like a couple of fairies
there.
Now the hungry lion roars,
And the wolf behowls the moon;
Whilst the heavy ploughman snores,
All with weary task fordone.
Now the wasted brands do glow,
Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud,
Puts the wretch that lies in woe
In remembrance of a shroud.
Now it is the time of night
That the graves, all gaping wide,
Every one lets forth his sprite,
In the church-way paths to glide:
And we fairies, that do run
By the triple Hecate’s team,
From the presence of the sun,
Following darkness like a dream,
Now are frolic; not a mouse
Shall disturb this hallow’d house:
I am sent with broom before,
To sweep the dust behind the door.
--Puck (aka Robin Goodfellow), A Midsummer-Night's Dream
Yep, and if she'd a garland of flowers in her hair, I'd have said she
was a direct rip off. ;-)
In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue, and white;
Like sapphire, pearl, and rich embroidery,
Buckled below fair knighthood’s bending knee:
Fairies use flowers for their charactery.
--Anne Page, The Merry Wives of Windsor
Post by Calamity Coyote ()That was by far one of the best scenes to date. The way they -try- to
be friends is just so funny.
They're pretending *not* to try. But they really do like each other
quite a lot. Recall Charlie's complaint to Bill in the first ep that
Jane liked Bill better, and that he (Charlie) always seemed to be on her
bad side no matter what he said or did. Jane has warmed to Charlie
lately (in her unique way of warming), because now Bill's dead, Charlie
is her only connection to him.
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Post by Calamity Coyote ()Post by aaroni don't know that EB is any more a scumbag than al. i do think trixie
is a lot less of one than either of those two, though she is working her
own angles. i guess that means she's bound to end up as pig food.
No way! Not the Trickster! Her 'angles' are usually to help someone
else or to keep from getting killed. But we (my gf and I) were talking
Might you talk on board, too, please? An additional bod makes for more
Deadwood discussion. :-)
Post by Calamity Coyote ()saying even though we'd like Tricksie to get free of Al, we don't,
because the two of them create something more interesting than Al
alone.
Or Trixie alone. How boring would she be (will she be?) hooked up with
Sol? Trixie and Al add depth each other. Excellent characters, both.
(Sol's obviously interested in Trixie. I wonder if the point in that is
to have him "rescue" her from Al. From one man to another--hardly a
proper rescue, by today's standards, but a rescue, nevertheless.)
Post by Calamity Coyote ()She's like an inside player we can count on to be on our side no
matter what Al's up to.
But because she's a 19th century woman, she has the luxury of doing the
right thing only to the point it interferes with her survival. Beyond
that, she'll have to be strong enough to face the unknown consequences
of her actions. And as a 19th century whore, she'll have to be willing
to accept the possibility of having to pay the ultimate sacrifice not
for another's life, but for another's daily bread (so to speak--IOW,
general welfare).
And, unless there's something going on behind scenes, it seems a bit odd
that Trixie suddenly tries to top herself with an overdose. IAC, she
recovers, and immediately she returns to submitting to Al. She carries
the assay sample to Al like a dog bringing kill to its alpha. To his
credit, he's more interested in what she's done to herself than what she
brung him.
Post by Calamity Coyote ()And the tension of worrying about her works to heighten Al's villainy.
I'm willing to bet Al's villainy won't extend to killing Trixie (unless
he has E B or Dan do her)...in contrast to Cy's villainy, which might
cut Joanie's throat should she be the first to cross his path on a day
he gets up on the wrong side of the bed.
(Ps. Sorry for all the Shakespeare quotin', above. The lines just
seemed sorta apt to the scene with Jane & Charlie in the graveyard, and
I just didn't know when to shaddup. I love Shakespeare, and try never
to miss an opportunity to bore people senseless with him.) :-D