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i can't afford to buy the second season of Deadwood so last night, having come by a wee windfall in the book-selling-back department (the college gives you 50% back! who knew ~ i was expecting to get $5 a book or something more pitiful), i went and rented some of the episodes i hadn't seen.
i like the show, i like the characters (mostly), i think Al Swearengen ranks up there with the greatest screen villains of all time, and i think david milch is a brilliant and wonderful guy....
...but...
no matter how eloquently milch defends the excess of profanity in this series, it's just a pill i'm not swallowing. yes, people cussed back then and yes, i'm sure in Deadwood they cussed much more readily than they would back east. i have no problem believing that Swearengen is as foul-mouthed as he can be. but i think it 1.) robs his thunder to have everyone spouting his phraselogy, and 2.) defies the suspension of my disbelief that everyone else in Deadwood cusses exactly like him! (i mean, Miss Irsinghausen? pleeeeease!)
not to mention it just gets tired on the ears. what would normally take a character a second to convey becomes a string of endless adjectival profanities (mostly repeated over and over), so that by the time you've finished watching the program, they're rendered completely meaningless and you feel as though you got 30 minutes of programming and 30 minutes of cussing.
honestly, we don't need it, david. we get your point with a few well-placed swear words and one or two characters who are especially profane in their own special way. but when it's this exrteme across the board ~ boo! boo, i say. it's the province of the weak to resort on such "shock" language, and a weak writer who spackles their dialogue with so much blither to convey the story (which, by the by, also serves to wreck any sublety in character development).
okay, rant over.
i still like the show, which is a testament to how good it is in spite of itself and the fact that its ambivalently moral lead, seth bullock, is prolly the most boring character badly acted in televisionland today.
oh, and more doc cochran and charlie utter, less seth and sol. that'd be my vote.
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i like the show, i like the characters (mostly), i think Al Swearengen ranks up there with the greatest screen villains of all time, and i think david milch is a brilliant and wonderful guy....
...but...
no matter how eloquently milch defends the excess of profanity in this series, it's just a pill i'm not swallowing. yes, people cussed back then and yes, i'm sure in Deadwood they cussed much more readily than they would back east. i have no problem believing that Swearengen is as foul-mouthed as he can be. but i think it 1.) robs his thunder to have everyone spouting his phraselogy, and 2.) defies the suspension of my disbelief that everyone else in Deadwood cusses exactly like him! (i mean, Miss Irsinghausen? pleeeeease!)
not to mention it just gets tired on the ears. what would normally take a character a second to convey becomes a string of endless adjectival profanities (mostly repeated over and over), so that by the time you've finished watching the program, they're rendered completely meaningless and you feel as though you got 30 minutes of programming and 30 minutes of cussing.
honestly, we don't need it, david. we get your point with a few well-placed swear words and one or two characters who are especially profane in their own special way. but when it's this exrteme across the board ~ boo! boo, i say. it's the province of the weak to resort on such "shock" language, and a weak writer who spackles their dialogue with so much blither to convey the story (which, by the by, also serves to wreck any sublety in character development).
okay, rant over.
i still like the show, which is a testament to how good it is in spite of itself and the fact that its ambivalently moral lead, seth bullock, is prolly the most boring character badly acted in televisionland today.
oh, and more doc cochran and charlie utter, less seth and sol. that'd be my vote.
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But the bigger question is... do you have those snazzy school uniforms? LOL...
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no snazzy uniforms, alas! i feel positively cheated!
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as to the scandals, ithink there's been some hideous judgment on the part of bishops in the Church, hideous conduct (obviously) on the part of some of the clergy, and then a full measure of hideous slant coverage on the part of the media ~ and then a whole slew of hideous behavior on the part of some of the the "faithful" (which the media then justifies). i returned to the Church in the midst of (and largely because of) the scandal, oddly enough. despite my own biases against the Church at the time, i call bullshit on things when i see them and there was serious bullshit going on.
so it doesn't shake my faith in the legitimacy of the actual teachings of the Church that some people abuse their power ~ anymore than i should hate america and lose faith in it just because we have a sock monkey in the oval office.
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Yeah, so do I!!! LOL....
Like I said, I believe that the Catholic Church has done a lot of good. They are actually far more liberal than a lot of these evangelical churches could ever dream of being.
I think faith is important and I truly do respect those with a true and honest belief.