"You're a Lunger" - Al & Doc Cochran - Deadwood

[Wulfiebaby]

Swearengen really is a brilliant character. You see how hardened he is from a damaged past, but you can also see how he might have been a real sweetheart had circumstances been different. The way his relationships evolve as the show goes on, as Deadwood becomes more of a community, is dynamic. I think he's at his best when the strong show weakness--he despises weakness in those who needn't be weak, and in those times he sets them back on the path. From a writer's perspective, this is...just wow.

[WiseGuy5674]

@Wulfiebaby That was a very well thought out comment my friend. The sad thruth is, the real Al would not have given 2 shits about Doc's problems. Ian McShane has breathed life and a bit of respect (and brilliantly, I might add) into a degenerate piece off shit women beater from 1876 who could care less if anybody lived or died..just as long as he profited from it.

[welcome2myhell]

@WiseGuy5674 there was one famous scene where Al killed the preacher who was going insane. There was a wee bit of tenderness in the killing.

[gnarlybirdman]

Didn't they find a cure for TB not long after the time this show was supposed to exist in?

[irkofan]

When Al's soft side comes out, it makes me smile. God bless that cocksucker!

[Veeshush]

-Continued-

He gives the swatches further meaning by offering them to the Doc as masks to use. That way, Doc can still pursue his life's purpose in helping others, by working. It's either human nature to give objects their own meaning or use, or it's our purpose to find the meaning in objects that the universe has given us. As Milch would say about his own father, whom many of the male figures of Deadwood are partly inspired by, "He'd scream at his son, trying to say "I love you" "

[Veeshush]

Watch the bottle in Al's hand. Jump cut. One second it's down and then the next it's pointing at Doc.

It'd take a whole wall of youtube comments to thoroughly explain this scene, but the gist is: The tailor gives Al the swatches which Al finds his own meaning in. (being reunited with his mother) Now seeing the Doc and afraid that the Doc is going to die, he yells at him basically reinstating all the help the Doc has been to everyone. - Continued in next comment-

[captainchild]

i have it the other way around but very very close

[juanlisdad]

Al's way of showing his sentimental side, I guess. He must think it would be easy to practice medicine while constantly on the verge of coughing up a lung. Strange fellow. I sure miss Deadwood. Second best show of all time, behind The Wire (and a very close second at that.)

[dunskie]

@juanlisdad This show beats em all. Easy.

[shawandking]

@juanlisdad

the wire is a far distant second to the genius of this show.