WriterCon and Deadwood
Jul. 23rd, 2006 11:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxI don't want to list names for fear of leaving someone out. I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed meeting everyone.
I had a great time. It was a hell of a lot of fun to indulge all my love of sci-fi and fanfic, and even more fun meeting so many people that I've "known" online (also meeting several people that I didn't know, but that I intend to know better in the future. I've already been on a friending frenzy.) All in all, Writercon was a hell of a lot of fun, with many, many great people -- dorkazoid Spuffy shippers and beyond. The writing panels were hilarious and informative, and I'm inspired to write (at least until my brain reminds me that I've got writer's block from hell.)
So many great people, so much love of fanfic and writing, and so much heat. How could you go wrong? (Okay, maybe a little less in the muggy heat department. But, beyond that, it was a great weekend.)
The drive home was easy. There wasn't 1/2 of the traffic that there was on Friday. Made it home in just under two hours, and I've fired up FauxVo to watch "Deadwood."
"We need a can of peaches..."
Such a short line to inspire such a weird thought...I want an AtS/Deadwood crossover!
Hot off the end of Writercon, I have Spike and Angel on the brain, and with the Deadwood line about the peaches (while remembering the importance of peaches on Deadwood), I cannot help but think it would be awesome to have a fab four flashback to Spike/Angel/Darla/Dru in Deadwood with an origin story for Spike calling Angel "Peaches." (Yes, I'm aware that it would take being historically inaccurate with the timeline since Deadwood should take place at a slightly different time than when the fab four would be available, but... what the hell. It would be hilarious.) Come on, Angelus and William the Bloody would, in some twisted way, be right at home with Deadwood's band of murderous (yet strangely lovable) cut throats.
You've got to love Calamity Jane. I loved her in last week's episode for the scene with the General. When he expressed his reservations about a white woman accompanying him to the cemetary, how could anyone not love her sarcastic, "Question I wake to in the morning and pass out with at night, 'what's my popularity with my fellow white people?' "
Also the Joanie/Calamity Jane kiss tonight was sweet. I've always found Joanie to be an endearing (if suicidal) character and Jane to be an equally good (and self-destructive) soul. I think Joanie/Jane would make a nice couple (though -- YIKES! -- at Joanie's confession that she'd slept with both her sisters. ...Yes, in THAT way.)
As for the general season arc, you would have to be blind to not see that they're speeding toward complete tragedy. They've already made several mentions of fire. They've again mentioned the plan to start a fire brigade, but haven't actually formed one. Now, Hearst saying he wants to tear down the place like "Sodom and Gomorrah." Of course, the ultimate spoiler is simply to google what took place in Deadwood. Yes, the show takes very liberal license with history, but I think that they are heading to the same place... or something similar to it.
Still, I have to say that, though Milch has a damn dirty mouth, he does often produce amazing dialog. Al saying, "Last night, from my balcony advantage, I watched you drag Hearst by the ear to Utter's freight office. I was awaitin' you coming out of Utter's, thinking that you might make a call on me, tell me what the fuck is going forward... but you did not appear. I finally asked myself, could our Sheriff have took another route home, maybe through Chinaman's alley, and what would that bespeak of his frame of mind."
"It bespoke that I fucking did not feel like talking to you."
" 'Busy night. Short on joy.' Could'da told me that. 'Let's talk another time.' " He leaned in. "I too -- when suspecting that I had fucked the dog -- would keenly seek some solitude. But... our hour is wrong. Having lost his man Turner, having been embarrassed by you, Hearst will be on the muscle. And we, who will be his wrath's object, are to stay close and confide. (pause) Our alternative is flight. Does that appeal?"
"No."
"We ain't that sort, which is maybe more the pity..."
Seemed to have a particular air of Shakespearean tragedy about it (and dear lord, Ian McShane can act). Also, how many other shows have convincing soliloquies? Okay, so it was a drug addict talking to his reflection in a puddle. But still... soliloquy.
Yes, as they foreshadowed more than once, "There will be blood." And, as Al told the doctor, "No one gets out alive."
Finally, smarmy little dweeb that he is, E.B. continues to be hilarious. "I imagine the pool which spawned you. I am filling it with rocks. I am holding shut your gills [He makes a fish face] to prevent you taking air..."
Okay, so maybe you had to be there for that one.
Anyway, looking forward to what will no doubt be an apocalyptic rest of the season.
ETA: Hearst on this show is a total psycho!
I had a great time. It was a hell of a lot of fun to indulge all my love of sci-fi and fanfic, and even more fun meeting so many people that I've "known" online (also meeting several people that I didn't know, but that I intend to know better in the future. I've already been on a friending frenzy.) All in all, Writercon was a hell of a lot of fun, with many, many great people -- dorkazoid Spuffy shippers and beyond. The writing panels were hilarious and informative, and I'm inspired to write (at least until my brain reminds me that I've got writer's block from hell.)
So many great people, so much love of fanfic and writing, and so much heat. How could you go wrong? (Okay, maybe a little less in the muggy heat department. But, beyond that, it was a great weekend.)
The drive home was easy. There wasn't 1/2 of the traffic that there was on Friday. Made it home in just under two hours, and I've fired up FauxVo to watch "Deadwood."
"We need a can of peaches..."
Such a short line to inspire such a weird thought...I want an AtS/Deadwood crossover!
Hot off the end of Writercon, I have Spike and Angel on the brain, and with the Deadwood line about the peaches (while remembering the importance of peaches on Deadwood), I cannot help but think it would be awesome to have a fab four flashback to Spike/Angel/Darla/Dru in Deadwood with an origin story for Spike calling Angel "Peaches." (Yes, I'm aware that it would take being historically inaccurate with the timeline since Deadwood should take place at a slightly different time than when the fab four would be available, but... what the hell. It would be hilarious.) Come on, Angelus and William the Bloody would, in some twisted way, be right at home with Deadwood's band of murderous (yet strangely lovable) cut throats.
You've got to love Calamity Jane. I loved her in last week's episode for the scene with the General. When he expressed his reservations about a white woman accompanying him to the cemetary, how could anyone not love her sarcastic, "Question I wake to in the morning and pass out with at night, 'what's my popularity with my fellow white people?' "
Also the Joanie/Calamity Jane kiss tonight was sweet. I've always found Joanie to be an endearing (if suicidal) character and Jane to be an equally good (and self-destructive) soul. I think Joanie/Jane would make a nice couple (though -- YIKES! -- at Joanie's confession that she'd slept with both her sisters. ...Yes, in THAT way.)
As for the general season arc, you would have to be blind to not see that they're speeding toward complete tragedy. They've already made several mentions of fire. They've again mentioned the plan to start a fire brigade, but haven't actually formed one. Now, Hearst saying he wants to tear down the place like "Sodom and Gomorrah." Of course, the ultimate spoiler is simply to google what took place in Deadwood. Yes, the show takes very liberal license with history, but I think that they are heading to the same place... or something similar to it.
Still, I have to say that, though Milch has a damn dirty mouth, he does often produce amazing dialog. Al saying, "Last night, from my balcony advantage, I watched you drag Hearst by the ear to Utter's freight office. I was awaitin' you coming out of Utter's, thinking that you might make a call on me, tell me what the fuck is going forward... but you did not appear. I finally asked myself, could our Sheriff have took another route home, maybe through Chinaman's alley, and what would that bespeak of his frame of mind."
"It bespoke that I fucking did not feel like talking to you."
" 'Busy night. Short on joy.' Could'da told me that. 'Let's talk another time.' " He leaned in. "I too -- when suspecting that I had fucked the dog -- would keenly seek some solitude. But... our hour is wrong. Having lost his man Turner, having been embarrassed by you, Hearst will be on the muscle. And we, who will be his wrath's object, are to stay close and confide. (pause) Our alternative is flight. Does that appeal?"
"No."
"We ain't that sort, which is maybe more the pity..."
Seemed to have a particular air of Shakespearean tragedy about it (and dear lord, Ian McShane can act). Also, how many other shows have convincing soliloquies? Okay, so it was a drug addict talking to his reflection in a puddle. But still... soliloquy.
Yes, as they foreshadowed more than once, "There will be blood." And, as Al told the doctor, "No one gets out alive."
Finally, smarmy little dweeb that he is, E.B. continues to be hilarious. "I imagine the pool which spawned you. I am filling it with rocks. I am holding shut your gills [He makes a fish face] to prevent you taking air..."
Okay, so maybe you had to be there for that one.
Anyway, looking forward to what will no doubt be an apocalyptic rest of the season.
ETA: Hearst on this show is a total psycho!
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Date: 2006-07-24 05:06 am (UTC)*salivates at the thought*
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Date: 2006-07-25 04:18 am (UTC)1) I don't have a plot.
2) I don't have a plot.
I realize that's only one point but such an important one that I thought it bore repeating twice.
Okay, so now I'm totally ripping off Red Dwarf.
Maybe I will write a Deadwood/Fab Four crossover. I'm trying to figure out what I could do with one.
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Date: 2006-07-24 07:16 am (UTC)Yes, and I continue to be amazed by Gerald McRaney in this role -- who knew the man who played Major Dad and Dash Gough (from Designing Women) was such a terrific actor? I now realize that Francis Wolcott was just a weak mirror image of the huge, voracious monster that is Hearst. He's a gigantic sociopath who barely manages to tamp down his baser instincts, all in the name of commerce (the scene in which he nearly raped Alma a few weeks back was horrifying). Really, he's even eclipsing Swearengen for me this year, and his presence dwarfs Bullock and Tolliver. He's the only reason I'm still watching, actually.
Well, I also want to see the amazingly greasy Wyatt Earp's debut next week. Talk about a 180 for Gale Harold -- he looks awful.
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Date: 2006-07-25 04:20 am (UTC)Great villain though because he's not only scary, he's powerful. And the season feels like it's just a matter of time before it all goes very, very wrong (but in a good -- as in exciting -- way).
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Date: 2006-07-24 08:25 am (UTC)Not a problem. The Series is set in 1876 - I'm sure most of the inhabitants would still have been around just after 1880. Go for it. Take Al (I presume it was him?) a big can of peaches from me. Tosses you this icon.
...the Deadwood line about the peaches...
I had to skip most of what came next, because we've only just started Season 2 here, but I remember it was just such a random comment that started me on the dark road of fanfic writing. Remember that piece of speculation about why Buffy had gone to Italy and her love of footwear? I could have used a WriterCon back then.
It's great to see so many of my Flist reporting back on what sounds to have been a wonderful event.
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Date: 2006-07-25 04:21 am (UTC)And I have to admit that I'm not the first to mention how a Deadwood/Spike/Angel crossover holds the potential for serious coolness.
Still... it would be cool.
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Date: 2006-07-24 09:12 am (UTC)Hot off the end of Writercon, I have Spike and Angel on the brain,
Heh! My normal state of mind.
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Date: 2006-07-24 11:32 am (UTC)Okay, you have made this line quite funny and i have yet to see yesterday's deadwood yet.
Thanks for giving me the image of Angel in a can! That's up there with Arf...well, you know the rest.
Great meeting nyou this weekend.
Off to kill 90 minutes at the airport while the Sidekick sleeps and I blow way too much for internet access because I am Teh Bored.
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Date: 2006-07-25 04:24 am (UTC)And, Angel in a can... hee!
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Date: 2006-07-25 04:27 am (UTC)There's nothing else on that comes close for me.
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Date: 2006-07-26 04:34 am (UTC)Damn, that would really work.