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"Rome" vs "Deadwood"
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| February 11, 2007
| PJ-Comix
Posted on 02/11/2007 3:03:10 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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I would like to hear your opinion on Rome and/or your critique of the ghastly Deadwood.
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posted on
02/11/2007 3:03:10 PM PST
by
PJ-Comix
To: PJ-Comix
Deadwood is fun to watch if you can deal with the language. Perfect casting!
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posted on
02/11/2007 3:05:59 PM PST
by
neverhillorat
(IF THE RATS WIN, WE ALL LOSE)
To: neverhillorat
I HATE Deadwood. First of all, it seems completely anachronistic with its frequent talk of oral sex. That type of sex was almost unknown in the USA until the Doughboys went to France in WWI. Also it seems to be more about whorehouses than about the West. I'm not a prude and, in fact, get a chuckle from the portrayals of sex in Rome but Deadwood just seems flat out sordid. It was sort of okay until Wild Bill Hickcock was murdered but then went downhill from there. Rome is a much SUPERIOR series!
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posted on
02/11/2007 3:11:45 PM PST
by
PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix
Deadwood, the real place, wasn`t a place people brought the fmily to for a vaction. But, PJ, give credit where credit is due, that time of sex ISN`t sex, didn`t you hear our last President explain?
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posted on
02/11/2007 3:19:17 PM PST
by
neverhillorat
(IF THE RATS WIN, WE ALL LOSE)
To: PJ-Comix
Husband and I love Rome. There is plenty action, intrigue, history. I especially love the characters.
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posted on
02/11/2007 3:24:25 PM PST
by
GottaLuvAkitas1
(Ronald Reagan is the TRUE "Father Of Our Country".)
To: neverhillorat
I know the Old West was full of whorehouses (funny how in movies of the past the whores always looked like Ann Margret or Urusula Undress) but the type of sexual activity depicted in Deadwood is anachronistic. Plus just WHAT are the characters saying? It is barely understandable.
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posted on
02/11/2007 3:24:45 PM PST
by
PJ-Comix
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To: GottaLuvAkitas1
Husband and I love Rome. There is plenty action, intrigue, history. I especially love the characters. Notice how it is the first depiction in fiction of Mark Anthony as a complete sleazebag? Previously he might have been somewhat flawed as Richard Burton in Cleopatra but never such a lowlife as in this series. Out of curiosity, I did some historical checking on Mark Anthony and he was indeed something of a dirtbag.
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posted on
02/11/2007 3:27:12 PM PST
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PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix
My favorites are:
Atia & Mark Antony= They play the slimball very well.
Pullo & Lucius= I'm crushing on both of these guys ;)
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posted on
02/11/2007 3:59:03 PM PST
by
GottaLuvAkitas1
(Ronald Reagan is the TRUE "Father Of Our Country".)
To: GottaLuvAkitas1
I laughed like hell when, right in the middle of a conversation, Mark Anthony "watered" Cicero's house plant.
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posted on
02/11/2007 4:09:02 PM PST
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PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix
Hi, PJ:
Haven't been a fan of "Rome", but I do enjoy "Deadwood". Well cast and written in a way that's reminiscent of Shakespeare of the Sagebrush.
What's cool about "Deadwood" is that it has reused actors in different roles. The actor who played the slimy little punk who back-shot Wild Bill returned the following season to play the psychotic, throat cutting front man for Hearst.
If you don't pay close attention, you'll miss how he was hanged from a balcony during the last moments of the second season's finale episode.
I still prefer HBO's "The Wire" to either "Rome" or "Deadwood".
Jack.
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posted on
02/11/2007 4:35:01 PM PST
by
Jack Deth
(Knight Errant and Resident FReeper Kitty Poem /Haiku Guy)
To: PJ-Comix
My husband and I have been Deadwood fans from day one. While he watches Rome, and I've watched it a little, I never got the same feeling of anticipation that I got when Sunday rolled around during Deadwood days.
I think the characters of Deadwood were (are) very complex. Al Swearingen is simply the best "villain" on tv.
But what do I know? I'm also a big fan of "Big Love."
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posted on
02/11/2007 4:48:32 PM PST
by
melissa_in_ga
(Duncan Hunter for President 2008)
To: melissa_in_ga
I can't stand Swearingen. His ramblings sound too "modern." BTW, one of my favorite characters in Rome is that fat herald who makes the public news announcements. I get a real chuckle out of the way he moves his hands and arms while announcing the news.
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posted on
02/11/2007 4:51:44 PM PST
by
PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix
The little bit Ive got to watch of Rome, I really like it, but then I have a big interest in that time in history and am fascinated by ancient Roman society and politics - the Old West - well not so much.
I really need to catch up on the first season. Is it on DVD yet? Last years episodes aren't available on On Demand.
Ive been hooked on Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series. She takes a few liberties with history but then most novelists do, but her descriptions jive every much with all the more serious historical non-fiction books Ive read about every-day Roman life. Shes very detailed in her writing.
As for HBOs the Wire? I live in Baltimore. I work with a wonderful woman who grew up in the hood and had the smarts to get out and make a better life for herself.
She told me The Wire is good but as gritty as it is, thats only half of it.
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posted on
02/11/2007 5:17:10 PM PST
by
Caramelgal
(Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.)
To: Caramelgal
I enjoyed "I Claudius" by Robert Graves. That was also turned into a mini-series.
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posted on
02/11/2007 5:25:50 PM PST
by
PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix
I absolutely love Rome. I think the writing, the actors,
the whole look of the show is spectacular. I loved the actor who played Octavian and they picked the perfect actor to play him now too. I was a huge fan of Deadwood. But I agree that it got a little boring last season. Sweringen is fabulous and I love the doctor. Oh, I do agree with you about the news reader on Rome. Isn't he perfect!
To: Jack Deth
The Wire is Great, better even then the Sopranos
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posted on
02/11/2007 8:18:48 PM PST
by
neverhillorat
(IF THE RATS WIN, WE ALL LOSE)
To: PJ-Comix
I get a real chuckle out of the way he moves his hands and arms while announcing the news. Better still was how he had to read the same advertisement from the Millers guild so many times, and kept getting more and more blase every time he repeated it. "Real Roman bread ... for real ... romans."
To: PJ-Comix
I really enjoy the show Rome, but I despise I, Claudius.
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posted on
02/12/2007 9:20:35 AM PST
by
Cyclopean Squid
(Patron Saint of Mediocrity)
To: PJ-Comix
I enjoyed "I Claudius" by Robert Graves. That was also turned into a mini-series.
Amen. Love Rome, but "Clau-clau" is the best that has ever been shown on the boob tube. Rome makes a good pre-quel. (On vacation, we had the pleasure of meeting the man who protrayed young Claudius as a child actor - he is now a talented musician).
Love Deadwood, too. Can't wait for season 3 on DVD.
Notice how the Mayor is the only one who speaks politely, but no one respects him?
I think "Xuin-jin" (Chinese for Swearingen) has gotten more sympathetic and interesting through season two (no season three spoilers, please!)
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posted on
02/12/2007 2:10:21 PM PST
by
Atlas Sneezed
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To: Cyclopean Squid
I despise I, Claudius.
Aside from the iffy production values, why do you despise the production that I think is about the best there ever was?
("Aren't people just awful!" -Caligula)
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posted on
02/12/2007 2:12:10 PM PST
by
Atlas Sneezed
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