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Started watching /Deadwood/ tonight; I expected a pleasant way to spend time with John, mellow unwinding after a lazy dinner and mop-up errands. I thought it would be something interesting. Warren Ellis said good things about it, and while I do feel the man is cracked when it comes to /The Mummy/, I generally have a high opinion of his writing.[1] So. Watched the first episode.
Watched the second.
Watched the third.
Absolutely must wind down and fall over now, or I would be watching the fourth.
The characters. Dear god, the characters. And the set-ups and the interaction and the dialogue that doesn't drop completely needless expository lumps. I was expecting... I don't know, some kind of well-plotted Western with name-dropping. Something that didn't insult my intelligence and could be geeked over, clipped down or sliced up into short-hour segments.
It's more and better than that. It's got a coherency I didn't expect, and I want to sit down and watch the character interaction and take notes except I can't stay detached enough to write when I could be watching.
...dammit, it's late and I'm going to stop before I start using the word "epic". But yeah. Really, really impressed.
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[1] By which I mean that if he died, I would find myself giving a depressing amount of consideration to the completely unacceptable idea of cracking open his skull and sucking down his brainmeats in the hopes of acquiring some measure of his skill.
Watched the second.
Watched the third.
Absolutely must wind down and fall over now, or I would be watching the fourth.
The characters. Dear god, the characters. And the set-ups and the interaction and the dialogue that doesn't drop completely needless expository lumps. I was expecting... I don't know, some kind of well-plotted Western with name-dropping. Something that didn't insult my intelligence and could be geeked over, clipped down or sliced up into short-hour segments.
It's more and better than that. It's got a coherency I didn't expect, and I want to sit down and watch the character interaction and take notes except I can't stay detached enough to write when I could be watching.
...dammit, it's late and I'm going to stop before I start using the word "epic". But yeah. Really, really impressed.
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[1] By which I mean that if he died, I would find myself giving a depressing amount of consideration to the completely unacceptable idea of cracking open his skull and sucking down his brainmeats in the hopes of acquiring some measure of his skill.
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