Deadwood 2x7
Apr. 17th, 2005 10:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vaznettiAl/Alma is so completely my new OTP. Please tell me that I was not alone in feeling the crackling sexual tension between the two. Far, far more tension than there ever was between Alma and Seth. Alma and Al can run the town, fight off Hearst and the Pinkertons, and fall madly in love. And just think how much it will annoy Bullock. "What tea do you like?" indeed!
Ah, Charlie Udder. He managed that last scene pretty well (there was a moment when I thought Wolcott might try to knife him, although I suspect he only attacks women), but I'm still worried for Joanie. I'd also like to know how much he told Seth and Sol -- because Seth was very quiet in that meeting, but I have a hard time imagining him being happy to go along with Tolliver's "no penalty for murder if you work for Mr. Hearst" line. I don't have any trouble imagining Seth running a trial, conviction and execution through in the middle of winter, before anyone outside can intervene.
So either Trixie is just spying on Seth and Sol, or she wants Al to think she is; I'm guessing from her tone in the last episode that she's there to spy. She doesn't dislike Sol, particularly, but she doesn't feel as strongly about him as she does about Al. (And I have no idea what that whole thing about Moses doing the heavy lifting was supposed to mean. I need to see the script for these episodes, I think -- for that, and for Al's soliloquy to his parcel, which was another prize moment.)
I love the way Al's putting himself back into the driver's seat, one person and one issue at a time. Cy Tolliver isn't going to know what hit him, and neither will Hearst and his lackeys.
That's it for now -- not because I don't have more to say, but because this isn't brief any more.
Ah, Charlie Udder. He managed that last scene pretty well (there was a moment when I thought Wolcott might try to knife him, although I suspect he only attacks women), but I'm still worried for Joanie. I'd also like to know how much he told Seth and Sol -- because Seth was very quiet in that meeting, but I have a hard time imagining him being happy to go along with Tolliver's "no penalty for murder if you work for Mr. Hearst" line. I don't have any trouble imagining Seth running a trial, conviction and execution through in the middle of winter, before anyone outside can intervene.
So either Trixie is just spying on Seth and Sol, or she wants Al to think she is; I'm guessing from her tone in the last episode that she's there to spy. She doesn't dislike Sol, particularly, but she doesn't feel as strongly about him as she does about Al. (And I have no idea what that whole thing about Moses doing the heavy lifting was supposed to mean. I need to see the script for these episodes, I think -- for that, and for Al's soliloquy to his parcel, which was another prize moment.)
I love the way Al's putting himself back into the driver's seat, one person and one issue at a time. Cy Tolliver isn't going to know what hit him, and neither will Hearst and his lackeys.
That's it for now -- not because I don't have more to say, but because this isn't brief any more.
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Date: 2005-04-18 08:52 am (UTC)But I do feel other kinds of tension there, and I think it has the potential to be a really powerful, driving relationship. There's no question they would literally take over the town. And Alma's being so closely allied with Al would drive Seth NUTS. I love love love that.
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Date: 2005-04-19 06:40 am (UTC)OK, so, maybe that's not so likely after all.
But even a business partnership will be worth it for the effect on Seth.