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The dialogue is amazing and I just love the characters...Doc, Sol, Swearengen. Although, I must say, Timothy Oliphant always seems a bit out of his depth. There are other ways to convey intensity besides constantly talking through gritted teeth.
I hope this last season is good. I'm going to miss Cocksucker Sunday. With Sopranos and Deadwood signing off, I may have to cancel my HBO and sign up again when Rome returns in 2008.
I like Bullock as well, part of the thing that is offputting about him, I think, is most of the other characters are out there doing Richard Pryor meets Shakespere and he's basically doing a physical and gestural channeling of John Wayne, his clenching and the look in his eye is all he's got. Generally I think he does a good job.
Bullock is all self-repression, denial, and anger until he erupts in verbal or physical violence. I think the clench works. He is also quite charmingly out of his element around ladies and children, and I think Oliphant is adept at showing that as well.
The only other character on the show that even comes close to Bullock's self-repression is Alma Garrett, so naturally everyone else in a show about a frontier camp is going to be Richard Prior meets Shakespeare. :)
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