{"id":82,"date":"2010-05-27T12:12:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T16:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/?p=82"},"modified":"2010-07-18T12:13:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T16:13:52","slug":"questionable-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Questionable Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the absence of classes and in the absence of Eileene, I&#8217;ve been watching <em>Deadwood<\/em>.  It&#8217;s pretty good; I can see where all the interest came from.  Lots of scandalous behavior, lots of fireworks between the characters, lots of character.  The acting&#8217;s fair to good, but not great.  (That the cast includes Brad Dourif says a lot.)   Not sure whether I&#8217;ll stick with it; scandal and firework and character, interesting though they are, aren&#8217;t what draws me to a show.<\/p>\n<p>The historicity is an oddly mixed bag.  The social dynamics seem plausible, so far as I can offer an opinion at all, compressed (for obvious and forgivable reasons) beyond plausibility.  The set and outfits look really good: plenty of filth, but not so much as to look ridiculous.  The dialogue, however, is unconvincing.  I&#8217;m sure swearing was profuse in frontier mining towns.  I&#8217;m less sure that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cocksucker\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was the favored form it took.  You can&#8217;t watch five minutes without hearing someone called a cocksucker, sometimes five or six times in rapid succession.  It&#8217;s like HBO does it just to remind us it can use swear words and broadcast stations can&#8217;t.  I suppose \u00e2\u20ac\u0153god damn,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d popular in the era, isn&#8217;t scandalous enough today to make the point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>spirited but unconvincing cussing in Tombstone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}