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The trouble with Deadwood
Aug. 1st, 2012 06:56 pmI'm finishing up the first season of Deadwood, not sure if I'm going to watch more. Mainly this is because I'm only interested in Calamity Jane, Trixie, Alma, Joan, Sofia, Joanie, Jewel, Sol, and the doctor, and yet the show persists on focusing on characters I'm not into. I think Seth is supposed to be heroic? But he just comes off as completely bland to me, I don't give a damn about him, and it's weird because normally I'm all over the one good guy in the middle of a rough horde, but I guess Sol fills that niche, leaving Seth out in the middle and uninteresting.
It's not so much that there's too much swearing, but that there's only two or three words that get used, so they lose all their effect and I just start rolling my eyes at the writers (one of whose first and last name are my dad's first and middle, which is hilarious) for thinking they're conveying the lawlessness of the setting.
Secondary annoyance that doesn't really affect my interest is that Alma's costuming is so weird. I would expect that, since the vast majority of female characters go around in underwear nearly all the time and Calamity Jane dresses like a man, they'd be into making her more accurate, but ... all the lace and the very high collars, it's so Edwardian. Though they do get the skirt silhouette decently. ETA: Oh, the underbust corsets all over the place, I have no idea why the designer likes them so much when they're not period and they make boobs look awful.
It's not so much that there's too much swearing, but that there's only two or three words that get used, so they lose all their effect and I just start rolling my eyes at the writers (one of whose first and last name are my dad's first and middle, which is hilarious) for thinking they're conveying the lawlessness of the setting.
Secondary annoyance that doesn't really affect my interest is that Alma's costuming is so weird. I would expect that, since the vast majority of female characters go around in underwear nearly all the time and Calamity Jane dresses like a man, they'd be into making her more accurate, but ... all the lace and the very high collars, it's so Edwardian. Though they do get the skirt silhouette decently. ETA: Oh, the underbust corsets all over the place, I have no idea why the designer likes them so much when they're not period and they make boobs look awful.
