And now for the REALLY bad news "Deadwood" fans...

CandyStick on 28/8/2006 at 01:54

What was so great about Deadwood? I normally love westerns (my favorite genre) so I made sure to see what all the hype was about. I only saw two episodes (long fricken boring episodes) and all I saw was a bunch of people talking and some dude with a mustache saying Cocksucker this, Cocksucker that. It looked like some kind of lame soap opera to me with a lot of swearing. All the stuff that normally makes westerns great and interesting seemed to be absent, Lonesome Dove now there was a tv western done right.

Scots Taffer on 28/8/2006 at 02:20

What exactly is it that makes Westerns great for you? I've not seen nor heard of Lonesome Dove so I'm left to make wild guesses...

Cowboys and Indians?
A lone sheriff against a town of bad eggs?
A minds-his-own-business rancher who gets caught up in some shenanigans?

thefonz on 28/8/2006 at 09:51

Its the brothels isnt it.

Yeah...everyone likes the brothels.

TheGreatGodPan on 29/8/2006 at 20:16

I've never had HBO, and as a result I've never watched the show. I've never been into shows like "Lost" or 24 where you're supposed to follow story arcs, keep track of characters and whatnot. I prefer stuff like "Law & Order" or "Seinfeld" where the episodes have almost no relation to each other, so you can watch it whenever it comes on without missing anything even if you haven't seen it in months. Nevertheless, a poster at Econlog pointed out (http://voluntaryxchange.typepad.com/voluntaryxchange/deadwood/index.html) this series of posts on the economics of Deadwood, and I have to say I'm intrigued.

I've heard that the profanity is deliberately anachronistic as blasphemous phrases were more common (because of their significance to people of the time), whereas Americans now use sexual curse words, Germans scatological and who knows what for other types of them foreign peoples.

Vigil on 29/8/2006 at 20:45

Quote Posted by TheGreatGodPan

I've heard that the profanity is deliberately anachronistic as blasphemous phrases were more common (because of their significance to people of the time), whereas Americans now use sexual curse words, Germans scatological and who knows what for other types of them foreign peoples.

Damn, that's a shame. I was hoping people back then really did go around calling each other cocksuckers and cunts, because it would have put the lie to every other western.
:(

ignatios on 29/8/2006 at 20:51

Quote Posted by TheGreatGodPan

[citation needed]

But seriously, Americans still use religious curse words (god damn, christing fuck, etc); it's just not the only sphere of American profanity.

TheGreatGodPan on 31/8/2006 at 04:56

Quote Posted by ignatios

[citation needed]

I remember reading something somewhere else about it with regard to American and German curses, and I think some asian and italian ones were mentioned and possibly yiddish, but for now you'll have to settle for (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadwood_%28TV_series%29#Use_of_profanity) this more Deadwood specific Wikipedia article.