Really, really nice work.

I think it's awesomely hilarious how for all the power and sway the Hearst family had back then that now, almost 100 years later, most of what is left of their legacy (true or not) is Deadwood and Citizen Kane, showing how unloved and bat-shit insane both father and son were.

And don't forget:

the long awaited return of the indian head in the box !

Enlighten me?

Citizen Kane was supposedly based on the life of William Randolph Hearst.

OK, so I finally watched this episode last night, and all I can really think to say is: Oh my God the eye!! Whoah, wasn't expecting that at all. What a dirty, brutal fight that was. I thought it was a great episode, things are really starting to get cooking in Deadwood. Can't wait for the next episode.

And as someone else said, while I wasn't a big detractor from the half a season of The Sopranos that we just got, it didn't get me nearly this excited for the next episode.

Don't forget the media empire and the Manson family.

Last season actually when hostetler caught Steve doing an unmentionable to a horse made him admit to doing it on the board.

Laughed my ass off when Al opened the cabinet....Classic

Me too, I thought he got rid of it.

I've arrived very late to the party and just started watching this season. Your insights have helped me tremendously in understanding what's going on.

So Elsworth taste the dope and decides leave. WTF. Sure he seems like the type of guy not to do a doped up girl but why would he just leave. Why not confront her, or sit her down for a talk. Heck the doctor told her to take some. It was just so sudden. Iceberg.

I think it had more to do with Ellsworth's feeling of inadaquacy for Alma. Their relationship has never been at all sexual, and when she finally shows that kind of interest in him, she's heavily doped up. Along with Bullock being given possession of Sophie if Alma had died earlier in the season, I think Ellsworth felt the marriage wasn't all that fair to him.

Good stuff. I'm not completely sure he's crazy, I just think he thinks he's allowed to get away with anything because he's one of the richest men in the world. He's been getting away with it for his entire life by bribing, intimidating and killing that nothing is out of bounds for him by this point. I also don't he's scared of Al/Dan/Bullock at all. He thinks too highly of himself to ever be scared of anyone. The exchange at the end was him lashing out at Bullock as a direct result of the captain's death, not any desire to protect himself from Al. He certainly wasn't scared when Bullock pulled the gun on him, and if he were completely crazy he would have kept right on insulting him, daring Bullock to pull the trigger. He definitely still has a sense of self preservation.

Bullock asking Hearst if he just told him to go fuck himself was funny as hell.

Johnny stepped up to the plate and started acting as Al's right-hand-man. And then Al offered him a chair at the end of the night.

Poor Elsworth.

I was hoping Trixie would go off on Alma, but maybe she is patiently awaiting the right opportunity.

And Sol's face when Trixie finally broke down and asked him after her rant.

I really didn't need to see that intro.

took a sec. to figure out why alma was staring at and playing with that plant and talking so calm. doooope.


iceberg!

As I'm unwilling to create a Blogger account I'll respond here to some items I think may be misinterpretedAs we've seen consistently in his actions, Hearst feels he needs no discretion and has not had much cause to use it in his pursuit of 'The Color'. He is shrewd, talented, and powerful but has had very little use for guile.A better option that is both unfamiliar and unavailable. My take is that his will has not been thwarted often in his career and he is unable to deal with it. His meltdowns have given me an insight that his relationship with Wolcott was more of a 'brothers in arms' type. Both men have a thin veneer of civility covring a brutish and violent nature.I'd have to disagree with the take that Hearst is "playing by Al's rules". It was a violent, powerful, and dangerous display of an 'offering' that would have killed Al had he not the wits to recognize the clue and the talent to thwart the attempt. It was not a botched attempt but a cryptically telegraphed one. The two men were there not as backup but as witness and couriers of the message Al would deliver. Also Al was not willing to play ball in the manner Hearst wished. Hearst's pursuit of Alma's claim was clear, direct, and violent (Turner's sucker punch). Al's response was a sarcastic remark. That cost Al his finger.I think you missed the fact that Dan would have been dead if not for that pause Cptn. Cu^+face observed to get clarified orders from Hearst. Even after that Dan was near death on the rocks and got lucky with that eye gouge. The scene with Dan alone was (amongst other things) a reflection on how close he'd come if not for luck. Hearst was indeed over confident, but he'd seen Turner go against many a 'Dan' in the past without a problem.He's been repeated thwarted (by Al, Alma and Bullock) in his attempt at acquiring Alma's claim. He has not achieved his objective and has insisted on turning up the heat.

Overall I agree, sociopathic (his distaste for cities, people) and brutish which can overcome his natural intelligence and skill.

"When I say fuck yourself Sheriff, will you put that down to drunkenness or a high estimate of your athleticism"

Liked the Dan/Captain fight but it has nothing on the gladiator scene from Rome last season.

I haven't rooted that hard in a fight since Rocky.

I don't know, it's a close call for me. The Deadwood fight was so gritty, no real weapons involved. He pulled his damn eye out with his hand!!!

Rome's fight definitely had more blood, but Titus was cheating and used weapons.

Same way I felt, if they had let something happen to Dan I would have mighty pissed-off. Probably my favorite character on the series.