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Am I obsessed?
It's been raining for days and I've been watching Deadwood again, from season 1. 4 episodes so far.
I've changed my mind about Seth Bullock. He was attractive at the beginning of the show, definitely, he even smiled quite a lot in the first episodes, and there was premise of the Raylan Givens' charm in early Seth. Actually Seth and Sol were the pretty fresh men arriving in a town full of wino's faces and scruffy older men. The hardware boys (almost the name of a boys band!)!
I guess that Brom Garret was also supposed to be handsome...except that he looked gay. I got the feeling that the Garret marriage was chaste. Alma was obviously underfucked. I think that Al and Dan actually seduced Brom easily because Al saw right through him (just like he saw the frightened girl in Jane).
And ok chestless Seth building the store was hot! A bit too skinny, but hairier than I remembered (what can I say? I like them hairy!).
Also, I had forgotten certain things. For instance the Trixie/Dan conversations that pointed out a friendship or a sort of siblings thing that simply disappeared later.
Also Ellsworth wasn't quite the man he became later.
And the dog! The dog was Driscoll's. E.B told Wu to give the dog to the pigs too or to eat the dog himself, and the dog knew it, he was aware of the danger (he ran for cover when Dan showed up, and remained hidden while he was talking to Ellsworth).
Of course, I had noticed Bill's addiction to whiskey and gambling the first time around, and how he immediatly spotted Alma's shaking hands, but this time it seemed more relevant, as if all those characters were, through parallels and connections, already parts of one big organism, the Deadwood's body.
And how in love with James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, Jane was!!! She worshipped him like a groupie, and he treated her like a lady, but it was also cute to see Jane being such a girl around him (and the irony of having the female dressed as a male be the girliest of them all actually). She was all blushing, smiling at everything he said, fantasizing about them sharing a room, and possibly a bed – which is true to history given that the real Calamity Jane even told that they had been married while they probably never were.
And she was rather sober when he was still there. I had forgotten that she did see Sofia's family as they were leaving the camp, and that Sofia smiled to her, establishing the connection there and then.
I had forgotten that Alma confided in Jane, about her father's ways and her marriage to Brom. Jane and Alma, those two so mirrored each other!
And that ending scene in "Here Was A Man", Bullock and Jane entering the Number 10 to see Wild Bill's body. And Seth on his knees, his eyes filled with tears. Damn it, I think he was in love with Bill too!
Of course on a metaphorical level, it's a part of himself that Bullock saw dead. And from then on, he was harsher, less smiling, angrier, more impatient, more ill-tempered than ever.
Wild Bill was such a catalyst. His last day and his death just threw Seth in Alma's arms, and Sofia under her care (given that Jane deserted the kid).
Oh show...
I've changed my mind about Seth Bullock. He was attractive at the beginning of the show, definitely, he even smiled quite a lot in the first episodes, and there was premise of the Raylan Givens' charm in early Seth. Actually Seth and Sol were the pretty fresh men arriving in a town full of wino's faces and scruffy older men. The hardware boys (almost the name of a boys band!)!
I guess that Brom Garret was also supposed to be handsome...except that he looked gay. I got the feeling that the Garret marriage was chaste. Alma was obviously underfucked. I think that Al and Dan actually seduced Brom easily because Al saw right through him (just like he saw the frightened girl in Jane).
And ok chestless Seth building the store was hot! A bit too skinny, but hairier than I remembered (what can I say? I like them hairy!).
Also, I had forgotten certain things. For instance the Trixie/Dan conversations that pointed out a friendship or a sort of siblings thing that simply disappeared later.
Also Ellsworth wasn't quite the man he became later.
And the dog! The dog was Driscoll's. E.B told Wu to give the dog to the pigs too or to eat the dog himself, and the dog knew it, he was aware of the danger (he ran for cover when Dan showed up, and remained hidden while he was talking to Ellsworth).
Of course, I had noticed Bill's addiction to whiskey and gambling the first time around, and how he immediatly spotted Alma's shaking hands, but this time it seemed more relevant, as if all those characters were, through parallels and connections, already parts of one big organism, the Deadwood's body.
And how in love with James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, Jane was!!! She worshipped him like a groupie, and he treated her like a lady, but it was also cute to see Jane being such a girl around him (and the irony of having the female dressed as a male be the girliest of them all actually). She was all blushing, smiling at everything he said, fantasizing about them sharing a room, and possibly a bed – which is true to history given that the real Calamity Jane even told that they had been married while they probably never were.
And she was rather sober when he was still there. I had forgotten that she did see Sofia's family as they were leaving the camp, and that Sofia smiled to her, establishing the connection there and then.
I had forgotten that Alma confided in Jane, about her father's ways and her marriage to Brom. Jane and Alma, those two so mirrored each other!
And that ending scene in "Here Was A Man", Bullock and Jane entering the Number 10 to see Wild Bill's body. And Seth on his knees, his eyes filled with tears. Damn it, I think he was in love with Bill too!
Of course on a metaphorical level, it's a part of himself that Bullock saw dead. And from then on, he was harsher, less smiling, angrier, more impatient, more ill-tempered than ever.
Wild Bill was such a catalyst. His last day and his death just threw Seth in Alma's arms, and Sofia under her care (given that Jane deserted the kid).
Oh show...