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!
