Mostly I wanted to know your thoughts on Cartman. He's one of those characters I would have apped AGES ago, except I'd give him plot, and... he's Cartman. It doesn't work.
Karen Davis is the direct superior of Charlie Crews and Dani Reese; the former is an ex-con and the latter had/has a drug problem (and is sticking to a twelve-step program fairly well). In addition, she's up in the ranks of the LAPD, and as such has to balance the shenanigans of her superiors while managing Crews and Reese and while managing public relations. While investigating certain cases. She's a tough lady who has to deal with a lot of crap, and she's very, very good at her job. ...except when the conspiracy that sent Charlie Crews to jail for twelve years comes in, but there really isn't any good way to navigate that kind of thing.
As for Seth Bullock: fictionally, he left Montana, where he was the sheriff, because he was totally sick of imposing laws where (he thinks) there shouldn't be any other than "behave yourselves". And as the Deadwood camp coalesces into an actual town attached to the United States, he unwillingly finds himself getting sucked back into the whole lawman schtick -- because there's nobody else as good for the job, and he knows it. He's completely fueled by anger, and over the course of the show he has to figure out how to live with it -- and gets considerably less selfish in the process.
They're both fascinating, weighty characters who've got a lot to do with ethics and the law, and where the two meet and diverge. At least to me (and maybe I'm crazy) that seems like one of the many things you do really well.
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Date: 2008-10-23 04:24 am (UTC)Karen Davis is the direct superior of Charlie Crews and Dani Reese; the former is an ex-con and the latter had/has a drug problem (and is sticking to a twelve-step program fairly well). In addition, she's up in the ranks of the LAPD, and as such has to balance the shenanigans of her superiors while managing Crews and Reese and while managing public relations. While investigating certain cases. She's a tough lady who has to deal with a lot of crap, and she's very, very good at her job. ...except when the conspiracy that sent Charlie Crews to jail for twelve years comes in, but there really isn't any good way to navigate that kind of thing.
As for Seth Bullock: fictionally, he left Montana, where he was the sheriff, because he was totally sick of imposing laws where (he thinks) there shouldn't be any other than "behave yourselves". And as the Deadwood camp coalesces into an actual town attached to the United States, he unwillingly finds himself getting sucked back into the whole lawman schtick -- because there's nobody else as good for the job, and he knows it. He's completely fueled by anger, and over the course of the show he has to figure out how to live with it -- and gets considerably less selfish in the process.
They're both fascinating, weighty characters who've got a lot to do with ethics and the law, and where the two meet and diverge. At least to me (and maybe I'm crazy) that seems like one of the many things you do really well.