Calamity Jane vs. Al Swearengen - Deadwood

From "Deep Water"

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Entertainment

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• Deadwood
• HBO
• Calamity Jane
• Al Swearengen
• Doc Cochran
• Robin Weigert
• Ian McShane
• Brad Dourif

[toepebble]

Some people you love to hate. Al is one ya hate to love. Jane was tough but in the end she was human. It is not so easy to make that case with Al. The devil came calling.

[TheDeadwoodfan]

this was jane's weakest moment. I love Al but I hated him here, only because I don't like knowing someone can scare Jane.

[Danorowski]

@KiLLxDoZeR If you don't appreciate her character, you don't deserve Deadwood. As a matter of fact, if you don't appreciate ANY characters you don't deserve Deadwood. They're all integral part of it.

[KiLLxDoZeR]

shes so annoying she ruined the show

[Murphdogg4]

This was not the Al we'd get to know later in the show..If this was pro wrestling this would be when he was still a heel..He'd eventually turn face. I hated seeing Jane punked like this to.

[irkofan]

@Hobgoblin1975

Four months, four days, four minutes--what's a little time? I could always relate with Al, because a lot of the things he describes in his upbringing, I had similar experiences with. Deadwood was a very interesting story, with characters that resonate like thunder.

[irkofan]

@k1227 Well said.

[Hobgoblin1975]

@irkofan I know its been four months since you got into the argument, with that other guy, but I just wanted you to know , I completly agree with your views on the character of Al in this show. The real guy wasn't this guy of course, but that not withstanding the character certainly was human, bad, and good as almost all humans are.

[k1227]

I agree, irkofan, if you're still reading. Al became the "sin-eater" of sorts, for Deadwood. He could have held the high moral ground and not sacrificed Jen or given up Trixie...and Hearst and his private army would have burned the place down, with all the innocents still in camp. Milch has said Al was a good man who knew none of the behaviors of goodness (as is believable from his upbringing, which, btw, would have almost certainly included being sexually abused as a child.

[Stiletos]

This scene would have went very differently if Charlie or Bill had been in the back.

[countacolor]

@hrothgleas Cy was definitely more evil than Al.

Al still would have whooped his ass though.

[irkofan]

@6905632418 Oh, and to add one more thing sorry to be so opinionated, I know it must be unusual to you. To get back to the original topic of the plot. It wasn't ritualistic slaughter (he wasn't sacrificing her to a God) he was saving Trixie, and setting into motion a kind of damage control. To take on Hearst would have been immensely ill-planned and bad for the camp and its progress. He saw both the big and small of it, and chose what he thought was best--I think.