In our last episode <34jkf5F4c0jabU1@individual.net>, Robibnikoff lept out
of the bushes shouting:

LOL! I went to sleep last night with "Deadwood" on the TV in the
background. Consequently my dreams were unduly influenced. Nothing
like having your pistol jam when you're in a gunfight with Al
Swearengen! :)

Don't you find his name rather apt?

LOL, gee, ya think? I must admit, I simply LOVE the character. Eloquent
in a vulgar way and terrifying as well.

I do love what they do with the dialog. Sometimes it's as if Shakespeare
were in a *really foul mood. <g>

Still, here I was trying to shoot this guy and the bullets just drifted
out of the gun and fell a foot in front of him!

Neo Swearengen?

Luckly, this was one of
those dream where you weren't running through quicksand. I got out of
there as fast as I could. I do recall ending up in conversation with
Calamity Jane. Having such vivid dreams can be a blast :)

Not for me. My vivid dreams are always relentlessly downbeat. Especially
back when I was on an SSRI. Fortunately, it's easy to forget dreams.

You know, I like Deadwood but they have irritated me several times by just
up and dropping threads. Like they couldn't think of a way out of a plot
complication so they whipped out a contrived resolution and moved on to
something else.

Sigh. One problem with my push to get the fiction off the ground finally
is that when I am writing, I become increasingly aware of what other
writers do in their work. I can get *really critical. Makes watching TV
difficult. <g>

(Some time back, I commented on the camera work in a show because they did
something that was *really *hard and I was amazed they pulled it off. The
roommate gave me this funny look and said "you appreciate television at a
whole other level than I do." Dryly as he said it, I'm not sure this was
a compliment.

in front of the TV, running the Tivo back and watching a single scene half
a dozen times or more with the only explanation being "I'm trying to
figure out why that works." I always get one of those "oookay" kind of
looks. <G>)

I'm afraid Deadwood *and Carnivale (after the season opener) are both on
my "you better straighten up and fly right mister" list.

I worry Knauf listened to the critics too much. The first episode of
season two tries "explaining" too much in my opinion. Which could lose the
core audience without satisfying the critics. It's a tightrope he's
trying to walk now. Have to see what he does with it the rest of the
season...