Who is the best character in Deadwood and why is it Doc Cochran?

Because Brad Dourif was the best actor on the show

>Timothy Oliphaunt's fw everyone else can act circles around him

Why was he chosen to play the mainish character?

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This is now a ROME thread

What's Deadwood? TV show or movie?

E.B., Wolcott and Doc Cochran are the best after the obvioud first place

>tfw we will never get that Doc in the Civil War spinoff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMAl2fCYgCQ

>>82727511
TV show. Try it.
>>82727560
Who's first?

Al was the best

>>82727608
Al

>>82727572
>tfw no Fawlty Towersesque spinoff with EB, Richardson, Aunt Lou, and Jewel

What is the /tv/ consensus on Trixie? She's never mentioned in these threads despite how important a character she was.

Charlie Utter, you complete spergs.

>>82727486
why not have a rome thread and a deadwood thread? there are enough capeshit and blarmph threads already.

>>82726626
It's not entirely his fault. Bullock is just a boring character, I cant imagine there's anyone that could improve the role without changing the character's writing

>>82726626
You don't want to be talking that way

btw Dan is the best character

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>>82728239
>not Johnny

tfw Al killed his waifu

>>82727728
Loopy cunt

COCKSUCKA

>>82726409
Sorry, you seem to have misspelled "Mister Wu".

San Francisco cocksucka

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I would break my dick off in Calamity Jane

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Plebs, the lot of you.

>>82728012
>blamph
hahahahaha xD

Best moment in the show?

EB helping Trixie get by to shoot Hearst was best imo. The bike ride was pretty goat too.

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>>82726460
This

Based Dourif is the best in whatever he's in

>>82726409
Can I just say that the guy who plays Doc Cochran is one of those chameleon actors. Billy in One flew over the cuckoo's nest, Worm Tongue in Lotr and Cochran in Deadwood.

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>>82729224
You know you did something bad when both Al Swearingen and Cy Tolliver are outraged and disgusted. Fucking FARNUM was so disgusted he put aside his cowardice to abet the (attempted) retaliation. Without even thinking about it. Ellsworth was a good man and every single person of note was pissed by Hearst's action.

>>82729437
I didn't know he played those other characters. Pretty based.

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>MFW it's a deadwood thread and I don't get the best character nomination

>>82729554
God that scene,
twas Shakespearean

>>82729554
>>82729588
link? been a while since ive watched the first season

>>82728213

Plenty of people liked bullock and you needed a straightman in the cast.

I miss this show.

>best character
>not based Al

Wew.

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>>82729554
I apologize.

>>82730795
Wasn't that the other reverend saying that or did they both

>>82726409
I was not a fan of doc, although he had some great soliloquies.

Probably the last time i genuinely cried was the al killing the preacher scene. Put your hand over their mouth. Make a seal. Like packing a snowball.

You can go now, brother.

Al swerengen is the personification of satan himself, after you realize satan is gods favorite and most trusted angel.

>>82732593
Cy seemed more devilish desu

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>>82726409
There is only one choice COCKSUCKA

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>>82726409
>he didn't skip every calamity jane scene

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>>82732805
They made it clear when he killed those two kids, loved it.

>>82726626
like someone else said it was more his character than him. I loved his ability to just fucking snap into a raging maniac at a moments notice.

it was wild bill

I stopped watching after he died to be honest.

>>82733118
I don't remember exactly, but I think Al called the sheriff a "fucking psychopath". I loved that. Bullock was a demented violent asshole and still a good person.

>>82728817

Kek

>>82733065

Kristen bell. He should have raped her first.

>>82729554
honestly one of the most powerful scenes in television desu

Anna Gunn was sexy as fuck in this show. Those who doubt me suck cock by choice.

>>82732994
I skipped every theatre troupe scene and Bullock family scene.

ad fucking hoc
free fucking gratis

>>82732805
No, cy is just evil to be evil.

The devil has a plan and works for god himself.

>>82726626
What are you even talking about, Olyphant is fantastic. Bullock's pretty one-note and routinely gets outshined by the more interesting characters, but Olyphant totally nails the role.

Swearengen is better because he has more to do, but Dourif gives the best performance in the show and also in almost everything he's ever been in.

>>82733718
best x-files episode too

>>82733673
He's not evil for the sake of evil, he's evil for the sake of his own benefit. (Though he's definitely also a sadist.) Swearengen, being a much more clever and forward-thinking cocksucker, is evil for the benefit of the camp, knowing that the camp's benefit is his own.

>>82728012
>why not have a rome thread and a deadwood thread?
I'd rather try touching the moon than take on a whore's thinking.

Sothe elseworth death. Cy just wattches it. All swerengen says fuck the whole world vengance shall be done even though i didnt like that idiot. The only thing that stops him is the widow garret has no one else andcomes into the bar, presumably hoping to find trixie.

If garetdidntwalk through that door al would have killed hearst with his own fucking hands. God damn yankton and their beurocrats.

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>>82733786
this, tolliver was an unrepentant despicable asshole by nature, al behaved as such only when it came to business, otherwise he was pretty cool. i liked the little glimpses into his past.

does anyone else think swearengen and wednesday are very much alike, aside from being portrayed by based mcshane?

Who else thought Garret Dillahunt playing two roles was distracting, especially when watching seasons 1 and 2 close together? It's interesting HBO even allowed this.

>>82734279
Everyone thinks that, despite garret dillahunt being a fabulous actor.

But hes forever burt chance in my mind

>>82734279
i didn't care because Wolcott is one of the best characters, obligatory:

Past hope. Past kindness or consideration. Past justice. Past satisfaction. Past warmth or cold or comfort. Past love. But past surprise? What an endlessly unfolding tedium life would then become.

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Don't mind me, best character coming through.

>>82734524
The simple addition of the word then. Competely changes the whole meaning.

Did they know they were making a shakesperian western, or did it just happen?

>>82727728
she looks like a witch, very bony
I'm not happy whenever she's on screen as it's very distracting

>>82729135
Jane a CUTE

>>82734638
>"My goodness....bare breasted....my word."
>"Who has commissioned such behavior? Who summons you with such power to do his will?
>"Did someone interrupt your rendezvous? Did someone ELSE attack him?"
>"Cover those things!"

How can one man be so based?

>>82726409
>not Richardson

>>82735322
>tfw the actor is dead so even if the film happens we'll never get more great richardson and farnum banter

>>82729135
One of my favorites quotes comes from a very hungover Jane.
"Every day takes figuring out all over again how to fucking live.

>>82735239
Eb knowing full well trixie just shot the second richest man in america and all he can say is "cover those things"

Priceless.

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How come this fuck came away unscathed when he and Bullock's wife's son got hit by the horse? Did he use the kid as a human shield?

>>82734638
The best scene in the whole show is the one where Bullock beats him.

>>82735735
The way he was watching Tom and Bullock's son with the bike and what he did to that poor horse made me think they were going to go for a child molestation storyline with him.

>>82735777
Why didn't Bullock arrest himself for assault after that?

>>82735529
Janes soliloquies were absolute trash, but she had some of the best one liners.

Leave this board. And draw a map for anyone who wants to beleive your fuckin lies. Anyonw who wants to put your daughter or her holdings in jeapordy. You show them how to get here.

And you tell them I'll be waiting.

>>82730795
SHUT DA FERK UP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHiGW0UePT8

Every time.

>>82727728
good character. her and sol were fun

>>82729351
the whole shooting Hearst sequence was amazing, and one of the few scenes of the show really notable for its direction

How do I become as well spoken as EB?

>>82738639
drive the other hotel out of town

>>82734279
Eh it's not that noticable. Actor is good so characters are totally different.

>>82733630
pro bono

There will never be a show on the same level as Deadwood.
It's not a kino, it's a fucking theater.

>>82726409
farnum and richardson are the goat duo.

>>82726626
At least they helped him later in the series by sticking him in the majority of his scenes with skyler white and a child.

>>82727608
Wolcott

>>82739914
Steve and Richardson are god tier characters.

The B story with Steve and Hostetler was fantastic.

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>>82739726
You are correct. The show was fucking perfect.

>mfw Deadwood was cancelled and ends on a cliff hanger

Man I can't think of a show with better characters and setting, perhaps Battlestar Galactica. Fucking solid10/10 show.

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>>82729507
Someone able to make a town full of pyschopaths unite like that is too good for this world.

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>>82740242
>perhaps battlestar

Could you have been born, Richardson? And not egg-hatched as I've always assumed? Did your mother hover over you, snaggle-toothed and doting as you now hover over me?

>>82734188
Well they are both manipulative, charismatic, extremely jaded, con-men working towards a magnificently insane goal (Al wanting to forge Deadwood into an actual town while keeping the feds at bay. I wont spoil what Wednesday wants for the showfags).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Th4I3aJ68wY
NIGGER MOTHERFUCKERS

Who's that retard E.B FARNUM or some shit? He was an amazing cocksucker in this.

>>82739726
>theater.
kino itself means theater in Germarabic

>>82727608
Tolliver

>>82740551
William Sanderson, he's greatness. Perfect comic relief.

>Why, even in Richardson, my chef, my eyes see a beloved household pet somehow walking upright - see in Richardson a half-witted child, nonetheless adored.

>>82740691
man, the dialogue's so Shakespearingly good.

>>82740514
Farnum's lines are so hilarious.

>>82727728

Her tits look like spaniels ears senpai

Who /niggageneral/ here?