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OUthunder
3/9/2005, 12:49 PM
I haven't seen a thread about Deadwood the series so I thought I'd start one. I just switched my DirecTV from the sports package to HBO again and just set up a season pass on TIVO.

Did anyone watch the first episode of the new season yet and if so, how was it?

NickelBack
3/9/2005, 12:53 PM
I haven't seen a thread about Deadwood the series so I thought I'd start one. I just switched my DirecTV from the sports package to HBO again and just set up a season pass on TIVO.

Did anyone watch the first episode of the new season yet and if so, how was it?

Yeah, it rocked, as usual. You can read a summary here if you'd like:

http://www.hbo.com/deadwood/

Czar Soonerov
3/9/2005, 12:54 PM
/**********s

OUthunder
3/9/2005, 12:56 PM
Thanks! I never watch HBO for anything besides Deadwood and the Sopranos so I switched my DTV lineup to get the Golf channel instead. I now have HBO again and I should hear at least ten versions of the word "**********" by the end of the 1st episode.

SoonerNinja
3/9/2005, 01:44 PM
I didn't watch the season premiere (won't pay for hbo), but I just finished watching the DVD set of the first season. Deadwood is cool. Now I'm going to spend the next week getting mentally prepared for the season premiere of The Shield.

Hatfield
3/9/2005, 01:45 PM
i am sure it will be on again sometime this week.

NickelBack
3/9/2005, 01:47 PM
i am sure it will be on again sometime this week.

Yeah, it will but I'm not sure when. The bad part is, Sopranos isn't on before it like usual.

OUthunder
3/9/2005, 01:47 PM
i am sure it will be on again sometime this week.


Tonite at 10pm and the tivo is ready.

critical_phil
3/9/2005, 02:03 PM
my b-i-l was an extra throughout the 1st season (he was always standing next to ed rooney)


i guess he pissed off the casting agent, and wasn't allowed back for season 2. kinda sucks because they had actually written that character in for a speaking role for this season.

oh well, he got his SAG card out of the deal.

IB4OU2
3/9/2005, 03:30 PM
I haven't seen a thread about Deadwood the series so I thought I'd start one. I just switched my DirecTV from the sports package to HBO again and just set up a season pass on TIVO.

Did anyone watch the first episode of the new season yet and if so, how was it?

In a nutshell, Swearingen got f**ked up and so did Mrs. Garrett........

Czar Soonerov
3/9/2005, 03:34 PM
my b-i-l was an extra throughout the 1st season (he was always standing next to ed rooney)


i guess he pissed off the casting agent, and wasn't allowed back for season 2. kinda sucks because they had actually written that character in for a speaking role for this season.

oh well, he got his SAG card out of the deal.

My f-i-l was good friends with Jim Beaver, the guy who plays Ellsworth.

http://www.hbo.com/deadwood/cast/character/ellsworth.shtml

Czar Soonerov
3/9/2005, 03:46 PM
http://x2.putfile.com/3/6714374940.jpg

No truer statement has ever been spoken. :D

Scott D
3/9/2005, 03:46 PM
lol

Mjcpr
3/9/2005, 03:47 PM
http://x2.putfile.com/3/6714374940.jpg

No truer statement has ever been spoken. :D
Word!

BlondeSoonerGirl
3/9/2005, 03:51 PM
Damn you, Czar. Airing our private bidness...

Czar Soonerov
3/9/2005, 03:54 PM
I'll make it up to you hon..

YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY YY
(deep breath)
YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY YYYYY

;)

BlondeSoonerGirl
3/9/2005, 03:57 PM
Oh my. I'll be back in a few...

Paperclip
3/9/2005, 03:59 PM
In a nutshell, Swearingen got f**ked up and so did Mrs. Garrett........

Tonight, on a very special "Facts of Life"...

mdklatt
3/9/2005, 04:02 PM
Speaking of dead wood, I just got spam for "Professional Viagra". :eek:

OU4LIFE
3/9/2005, 04:09 PM
DUDE! That **** is WAY better than amatuer viagra.

Mjcpr
3/9/2005, 04:11 PM
DUDE! That **** is WAY better than amatuer viagra.
Violent Viagra is how I roll.

mdklatt
3/9/2005, 04:11 PM
DUDE! That **** is WAY better than amatuer viagra.

Do you have pay a special licensing fee to use the professional version?

OU4LIFE
3/9/2005, 04:15 PM
Do you have pay a special licensing fee to use the professional version?

no but it does come with a warning sticker for your penis.

mdklatt
3/9/2005, 04:17 PM
warning sticker for your penis

Do not operate while using heavy machinery.

IB4OU2
3/9/2005, 04:19 PM
no but it does come with a warning sticker for your penis.

Warning! Call your doctor if your erection last's more than 6 weeks!

BlondeSoonerGirl
3/9/2005, 04:20 PM
Did they really talk like that back then? I know cuss words existed but I've been meaning to look up the history/origin of some of them because of this show.

There's gotta be a reason they say it so much in the show...

Paperclip
3/9/2005, 04:20 PM
Violent Viagra is how I roll.

I'd think it would prevent you from rolling. Not unlike a kickstand.

mdklatt
3/9/2005, 04:21 PM
Did they really talk like that back then? I know cuss words existed but I've been meaning to look up the history/origin of some of them because of this show.

There's gotta be a reason they say it so much in the show...

You must not have noticed, but this thread's been jacked.

BlondeSoonerGirl
3/9/2005, 04:25 PM
Jacked by Viagra, no less.

My question has no chance of being answered, does it?

Paperclip
3/9/2005, 04:27 PM
My question has no chance of being answered, does it?

I've often wondered the same thing when I watch movies/shows set in earlier eras.

NickelBack
3/9/2005, 04:57 PM
Jacked by Viagra, no less.

My question has no chance of being answered, does it?



Deadwood'' was created by David Milch, a co-creator of ``NYPD Blue,'' which pushed language boundaries on broadcast television.

Milch has said the vulgar language on ``Deadwood'' is used to define the vulgar characters of 1876.

Therefore, school marms, the better educated and the good guys don't cuss as much




The show's colorful language is the subject of a featurette on one of the set's bonus discs. Milch explains the language of the "real West," how that vernacular has been portrayed over the years in film and on television, and why he chose to take Deadwood in its crass direction.


So the answer appears to still be vague :) On one hand he does it to define the bad guys, (wait, Jane isn't a bad guy) and on the other, it show the "real west."

:confused:

Paperclip
3/9/2005, 05:04 PM
Hmm, this used to be accomplished by giving the bad guys a black hat and handlebar moustache.

mdklatt
3/9/2005, 05:17 PM
Thread unjackers. :mad:

Czar Soonerov
3/9/2005, 05:22 PM
****
O.E. cocc, O.Fr. coq, O.N. kokkr, all of echoic origin. O.E. cocc was a nickname for "one who strutted like a ****," thus a common term in the Middle Ages for a pert boy, used of scullions, apprentices, servants, etc. A common personal name till c.1500, it was affixed to Christian names as a pet diminutive, cf. Wilcox, Hitchcock, etc. Slang sense of "penis" is attested since 1618 (but cf. pillicock "penis," from c.1300). ****-teaser is from 1891. ****-sucker is used curiously for aggressively obnoxious men; the ancients would have understood the difference between passive and active roles; Catullus, writing of his boss, employs the useful L. insult irrumator, which means "someone who forces others to give him oral sex," hence "one who treats people with contempt." Cocky "arrogantly pert" (1768) originally meant "lecherous" (16c.); modern sense of "vain" is 18c. A cocker spaniel (1823) was trained to start woodcocks. ****-and-bull is first recorded 1621, perhaps an allusion to Aesop's fables, with their incredible talking animals, or to a particular story, now forgotten. Fr. has parallel expression coq-à-l'âne.

felon
1297, from O.Fr. felon "wicked person, traitor, rebel," from M.L. fellonem "evil-doer," of uncertain origin, perhaps from Frank. *fillo, *filljo "person who whips or beats, scourger" (cf. O.H.G. fillen "to whip"); or from L. fel "gall, poison," on the notion of "one full of bitterness." Another theory (advanced by Professor R. Atkinson of Dublin) traces it to L. fellare "to suck," which had an obscene secondary meaning in classical L. (well-known to readers of Martial and Catullus), which would make a felon etymologically a "****-sucker." O.E.D. inclines toward the "gall" explanation, but finds Atkinson's "most plausible" of the others. Felony is c.1290.

Czar Soonerov
3/9/2005, 05:23 PM
Hmm, this used to be accomplished by giving the bad guys a black hat and handlebar moustache.

Black hats and handlebar moustaches make you look like a **********.

critical_phil
3/9/2005, 05:29 PM
another good deadwood-ism:


squarehead...............



i must've laughed for a week after first hearing this.

lexsooner
3/9/2005, 05:51 PM
Deadwood beats The Sopranos hands down. I especially like Ian McShane (Al), who is a fascinating character - a dark, evil, shrewd, conniving, sociopathic killer, yet also capable of humor, wit, irony, great intelligence and a keen understanding of social order in the town. It's hard to explain, but there is so much more to him than just badness.

I think The Sopranos has gone down hill the last few season. Success ruins a lot of shows, and I think this one is one of them. There are so many characters I can't keep track, and worse than that, they jump from one character and subplot to another, with no depth or continuity from episode to episode. You might see one character and his or her story one episode, and not see the person/subplot for a month or more. I understand this is the last season, which I hope is true. Tony needs to be either whacked, or sent to federal prison for life on a RICO conviction. The series badly needs to sleep with the fishes.

lexsooner
3/9/2005, 07:06 PM
Did you know the actor who plays Doc Cochrane, Brad Dourif, was also Billy Bibbit, the stuttering mental patient in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? He was nominated for an Oscar for that performance, and won a Golden Globe and a British Oscar. I had not seen much of him for a long time. He really does not have a lot of meaty scenes in Deadwood, but his drunken tirade towards God/his mother regarding the suffering of the preacher near the end of the first season was nothing short of great acting. I have not seen anything remotely as good in The Sopranos.

GDC
3/9/2005, 08:20 PM
Did you know the actor who plays Doc Cochrane, Brad Dourif, was also Billy Bibbit, the stuttering mental patient in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? He was nominated for an Oscar for that performance, and won a Golden Globe and a British Oscar. I had not seen much of him for a long time. He really does not have a lot of meaty scenes in Deadwood, but his drunken tirade towards God/his mother regarding the suffering of the preacher near the end of the first season was nothing short of great acting. I have not seen anything remotely as good in The Sopranos.

I remember him from Dune and Alien 4.

Scott D
3/9/2005, 08:23 PM
*cough*thetwotowersgivingbadadvicetothatkingguy*co ugh*

Actually Brad Dourif has made a career out of horror flicks...the voice of Chucky in the Child's Play movies..

GDC
3/9/2005, 08:47 PM
*cough*thetwotowersgivingbadadvicetothatkingguy*co ugh*

Actually Brad Dourif has made a career out of horror flicks...the voice of Chucky in the Child's Play movies..

I feel stupid, I also forgot Mississippi Burning, Blue Velvet, and Exorcist 3.

BlondeSoonerGirl
3/9/2005, 08:48 PM
Well. Now we know...

lexsooner
3/9/2005, 08:52 PM
That's more movies than I recall him being in. Maybe Dourif never had the looks to be a leading man, but he sure convinced me he is a great actor. Ian McShane isn't far behind. That last episode in which Doc ranted at God and the preacher was mercifully smothered by Al was television at its very best. I was glad to see Dourif nominated for an Emmy, and McShane win a Golden Globe.

Scott D
3/9/2005, 10:03 PM
well that'd be putting it about right lex...he's one of those guys whose looks pretty much scream character villain/horror flick. The best news for him in that regard is that he's likely to always be employed, but he really is a good actor.

critical_phil
3/9/2005, 10:09 PM
there are several strong characters in deadwood. bottom line is: good writing and good acting.

it's probably so rare these days, we're just amazed by it..........

OUthunder
3/9/2005, 11:27 PM
Who jacked my thread **********?

Scott D
3/9/2005, 11:38 PM
Who jacked my thread **********?

Brad Dourif did.

Geekboy
3/10/2005, 07:03 AM
I don't have HBO and I made the mistake of borrowing my brother's first season DVD's of Deadwood.

I'm hopelessly hooked now. And those cable '**********s' will force me to upgrade to digital to get HBO back which will in turn cost thousands of more dollars a month!

Thankfully I have a friend or two that have committed to recording the episodes for me on Sunday night.

Seems to be an impressive account of what it was really like back then.

Can you imagine today if you stayed in a hotel room and had to **** in a pot
in the corner of your room?

Any opinions on what other movie westerns you think fairly accurately represented how it really was back then? I like Eastwood's 'UnForgiven' and I liked 'The Long Riders' and 'The Missouri Breaks.' 'Open Range' also seemed pretty good.

OUthunder
3/10/2005, 10:12 AM
The 1st episode of the new season was very good. I especially liked the sex scene with the chick with the hairy pits. The fight was also entertaining.

hairy pits or not ...I'd have to tap that *** like a keg.

critical_phil
3/10/2005, 10:25 AM
i almost pissed myself when al did his "e.b." impersonation.....



good stuff..............

GDC
3/10/2005, 05:54 PM
I don't have HBO and I made the mistake of borrowing my brother's first season DVD's of Deadwood.

I'm hopelessly hooked now. And those cable '**********s' will force me to upgrade to digital to get HBO back which will in turn cost thousands of more dollars a month!

Thankfully I have a friend or two that have committed to recording the episodes for me on Sunday night.

Seems to be an impressive account of what it was really like back then.

Can you imagine today if you stayed in a hotel room and had to **** in a pot
in the corner of your room?

Any opinions on what other movie westerns you think fairly accurately represented how it really was back then? I like Eastwood's 'UnForgiven' and I liked 'The Long Riders' and 'The Missouri Breaks.' 'Open Range' also seemed pretty good.

I don't think anything out of Hollywood could be considered "realistic". We'd all be pretty damn shocked if we could go back in a time machine and see what it was really like, and how much it deviates from the celluloid images we have been exposed to. Just go visit the cowboy museum or read this. (http://www.nationalcowboymuseum.org/g_ente_info.html) Anyway, nice choice of some kickass Westerns, and I would have to add The Searchers, Shane, and the greatest of all time, Lonesome Dove.

SoonerBBall
3/10/2005, 06:38 PM
I don't have HBO and I made the mistake of borrowing my brother's first season DVD's of Deadwood.

I'm hopelessly hooked now. And those cable '**********s' will force me to upgrade to digital to get HBO back which will in turn cost thousands of more dollars a month!

Thankfully I have a friend or two that have committed to recording the episodes for me on Sunday night.


http://www.btefnet.net/index.php?show=125

You're welcome.

GDC
6/15/2006, 03:08 PM
I'm trying to tell you if you like Deadwood go see or rent The Proposition.

NormanPride
6/15/2006, 03:32 PM
It took you this long to tell us that?

GDC
6/15/2006, 03:33 PM
I don't get out much.