"Rome" vs "Deadwood"

Self | February 11, 2007 | PJ-Comix

[Cyclopean Squid]

I was speaking about the novel. I've never seen the miniseries (and probably won't, since I hate the novel). I find it to be postmodernist trash (we don't know what really happened, so I will create a reality and no one can prove me wrong, so it counts).

Good from the perspective of twisting and perverting history, but I find it to be a mockery. I know a lot of people like it, but I think it an abomination and am sorry I read it. Alas, I suffer from a complex that once I start a book, I have to finish it--but Graves helped cure me of this condition.

I am a member of the Leak Green Party.

[Cyclopean Squid]

I guess I meant the Leek Green. Eh, close enough

[Atlas Sneezed]

I haven't read the novel, but the miniseries is an absolute tour de force of great acting and screenplay.

[PJ-Comix]

Good from the perspective of twisting and perverting history, but I find it to be a mockery.

It's called Historical Fiction. Not meant to be 100% factual. However, it does raise a lot of interest in the actual history.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

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."

My favorite moment was the announcement of Caesar's funeral, "No actors, prostitutes, or low tradesmen may attend."

[SoCal Pubbie]

I haven't watched Deadwood for a couple of years. My wife and I burned out on hearing c*cksucker every other word. Plus, there really were no good characters to root for. The range was pretty much bad to evil.

The swearing is definitely not true to the time period. Words like gosh darn and tarnation were invented in those days to substitute for real cuss words, and used more often than not.

Rome is fantastic. There are a few anachronistic issues there too. Primarily, the armor and weapons of the soldiers are from the later Imperial period, not the Republic's fall.

[Zeroisanumber]

I agree with you about Rome, but completely disagree with you about Deadwood. Ian McShane is a fantastic actor, and watching him play Al Swearengen was always a treat.

[Cyclopean Squid]

I don't like the fact that Graves claimed it was accurate. Say it was fiction, fine, make it clear that it is. He declared that his was a good explanation for the truth, and that since no one could prove it wrong it was to be accepted as true. I think it's in the foreward--I don't have easy access to the book at the moment.