DeadWood The HBO series

[DaMadman]

anyone watching this? I don't have HBO but a Friend loaned me the Season 1 on DVD and the Wife and I have been watching it. Man what a great series....

[GoodOlBoy]

My only problem with the series was the OVERUSE of profanity.

Other than that yeah it was a REALLY good series

GoodOlBoy

[DaMadman]

yes the do throw the gutter mouth language around int dang near every sentence.

[fabsroman]

I watched part of the first season, but not anything after that. It wasn't bad. Personally, I'm not one for watching these series things because they get you caught up in something that might not end for years. I prefer the movies. A couple of hours, and you don't have to worry about the sequel for a couple of years.

With that said, I am currently hooked on Lost and Grey's Anatomy. Both were my own doing, but I got suckered into Grey's Anatomy after this year's Super Bowl. Luckily for me, they are repeats now.

[lawdog]

I myself wondered about what seemed to be the overuse of profanity in the dialogue of the show until a trip to the Black Hills and Deadwood itself last summer. I ran across some printed material written by local historians that stated that the use of language portrayed in the series was dead-on for the language of that period.

Tim

[fabsroman]

Heck, in 100 years think about a series based on today with today's abusive language. That might make Deadwood seem tame.

[gregarat]

I wigh I still had H.B.O :( I saw the first and second season though. Its probably my favorite H.B.O show.

[Jonesy]

I'm just ready to head of the Hill to Deadwood right now for a streetdance.

[skb2706]

The dialogue in "Deadwood" amounts to 350 ways to use the "F" word in thirty minutes. I don't get it.................

[DaMadman]

OK here's a question to pose.

How many people on this board would have loved to have lived in that era. No particulary the town of Deadwood but Lived in that Time period in history, when the Wild was still wild and Men were still men.


I personally have always been infatuated with that era in history. Would have loved to live back then. Live by the gun Die by the gun. Live off the land and what you could create with your own two hands. raise your own food, build your own house. Hunt and fish to feed your family.

I know that they were hard times and I suppose we have it lucky as far as the niceties we have today. But it sure would have been a hell of a way to live and die, to have lived at the end of the 1800's early 1900's.

The people I think real had to have had about the most interesting lives in history were the people of my Grandmother and Grand Fathers (on Dad's side) Generation. People that were born in the early 1900's and lived into the 1980s. I mean to grow up from a toddler when most homes did not have electricity or indoor plumbing, to see the days where there are TVs that are in color and fit in the palm of your hand or as big as wall in your house. Where there was little to no communication other than telegraphs, to the internet and computers that send picture through a wire from one side of the country to the other in a matter of minutes/seconds.
The amazement, must be mind boggling.


I was born about 120 year too late I tell ya

[Aim to maim]

Originally posted by DaMadman
OK here's a question to pose.

How many people on this board would have loved to have lived in that era. No particulary the town of Deadwood but Lived in that Time period in history, when the Wild was still wild and Men were still men.


I personally have always been infatuated with that era in history. Would have loved to live back then. Live by the gun Die by the gun. Live off the land and what you could create with your own two hands. raise your own food, build your own house. Hunt and fish to feed your family.

I know that they were hard times and I suppose we have it lucky as far as the niceties we have today. But it sure would have been a hell of a way to live and die, to have lived at the end of the 1800's early 1900's.

I was born about 120 year too late I tell ya

Many aspects of the late 1800's life appeal to me as well. There were some serious downsides though. Imagine what it would have been like to have gotten an abcessed tooth. Worse still, imagaine your infant child coming down with penumonia or your spouse having complications during childbirth on the frontier a hundred miles from nowwhere in 1885. Those that did survive were indeed a hardy breed.

[fabsroman]

Quite honestly, I wouldn't want to live back then. Sure, there are upsides to it, but the downsides are pretty large. Medicine was nowhere as advanced as it is now. Hence, life expectancy was pretty short. The quality of life was pretty bad back then too. Lose a limb, you probably wouldn't end up with a prosthetic if you survived the lose of the limb. Don't know if wheelchairs were readily available either. Yeah, the stories sound great, but that is the upside. The stories you hear about the gunslingers, etc are about the equivalent of the stories we hear about the music and movie stars now, and last I checked most of us weren't music or movie stars. We probably would have been farming land or working in a factory just to barely get by. We would work and then come home and do absolutely nothing because there wasn't much to do. On the farm you would go to sleep when the sun went down because it was too costly to have candles on all the time. There were no 40 hour work weeks. There were no unions. There was no such thing as vacation time and sick leave.

How about plumbing and electricity? Try turning those off at your place for a week and see how much life sucks.

[M.T. Pockets]

When I was a kid an old uncle of mine always said "The good old days were awful".

[fabsroman]

Okay, there are issues with today too. Too much pollution. Too much traffic. Too many deaths from traffic accidents. I seriously doubt there were a lot of high speed horse collisions in the old west, and even when there were horse collisions, I doubt there were a lot of deaths from them.

About the only thing I worry about in the great scheme of things for man in total nowadays is population expansion and pollution.

[DaMadman]

I still stick by the fact I would have loved to have lived back then. I will take the bad with the good

[gregarat]

I guessing that there woul be big drawbacks, and advantages.




Many aspects of the late 1800's life appeal to me as well. There were some serious downsides though. Imagine what it would have been like to have gotten an abcessed tooth. Worse still, imagaine your infant child coming down with penumonia or your spouse having complications during childbirth on the frontier a hundred miles from nowwhere in 1885. Those that did survive were indeed a hardy breed. How very true. Al Swearingen did just about die from a kidney stone.