Why didn't anyone kill George Hearst? Everyone was about to kill him at the last few minutes of the final episode. Tolliver, Langrishe, Merrick etc..
Why would any community put up with the *beep* Hearst did? Someone would have murdered him if he was truly like the man depicted in the show. Whether it was Bullock,Saul, Trixie, a random cornish worker, some drunken fool, Ellsworth, or even Alma as vengeance for Ellsworth???
Al spends a large part of the season lamenting the fact he can't just slit Hearst's throat because of the insane amount of power and influence his wealth brings with it.
Deadwood was already on the radar of powerful people looking to harness its potential wealth, whether or not Hearst was out of the picture. Killing Hearst would simply demonstrate that the infrastructure and community Al had toiled at building was unwilling to cooperate with people like Hearst, and the next Hearst would simply come in and mow everyone and everything down to set up their own system.
Al wasn't ready to watch everything he had built reduced to ashes by the Pinkerton's and was struggling for another way to push Hearst out.
I'll pump her full of motley seed, until she pops out a little me! -Shagwell
I'm not implying that it would have been AL doing the throat opening, there's about 5-10 people that were ready to murder him.
Tolliver,
Aunt Lou,
N. General Fields, (for aunt Lou)
Charlie Utter,
Or any random person who thinks Hearst is due some kind of Frontier Justice, like some random drunk who got swindled out of his claim by Wolcott, Hearst's Geologist.
Or Someone avenging Ellsworth or the murdered Cornish guys.
Trixie did try.
Tolliver was too much of a coward. His final scene shows this, he wants so badly to take a shot at Hearst for reducing him to his loyal mutt, but he knows it would be a death sentence so he takes his wrath out on Leon instead.
I'll pump her full of motley seed, until she pops out a little me! -Shagwell
Agree. That was one of the most pointless 'finale' episodes ever. 18 and a half mercenaries plus Sweringen's men, 100+ Chinese laborers plus Wu's men, and whomever owed loyalty to Ellsworth. And they don't fire a shot at any of the Pinkertons, nor the Pinkertons at them.
Bullock looks really grouchy and does nothing
And what happened to the Earps?
Now that I have finally gotten around to watching all the episodes in order, it really seems the first season was best, and it gradually got more boring from the middle of the 2nd season on.
Heck Sweringen only kills two people in the whole 3rd season!
Wants me to tell him somthin' pretty.
I'll pump her full of motley seed, until she pops out a little me! -Shagwell
Exactly!!!! ?????
I think the answer to your question is basically; history. Hearst most likely wasn't the maniacal psychopath that they portrayed him to be and he did live in Deadwood briefly to secure the Manuel brothers claim but then (as he does in the show) headed to Anaconda Mountain in Montana.
I would love to have seen someone put one in that roostersuckers head but I couldn't see them bucking history that badly and having someone kill such a famous historical figure. It'd be like the Earp brothers getting killed, even Morgan. We all know he died in Tombstone (poor Bill Paxton) so you knew they were never in danger on the show. Same with Hearst.
My father was a wild west buff so when we met Jack McCall and the Number 10 saloon I knew it was just a matter of time before Wild Bill took one to the head. And they did it right. Aces over eights. "Take that you son of a bitch".
Don't censor yourself. This is a Deadwood board for *beep* sake. That *beep* should have been shot or stabbed by everyone in town a la 'Julius Ceaser'...
Or mowed down by early hand cranked Gatling guns by the Earps in the woods outside of town...
Or have some mauraders eat his flesh when they camp for the night.
Didn't realize IMDb censors us automatically.... them c o c k s u c k e r s should know that S H I T don't work!!!
shareNo one would kill Hearst because he was essentially backed by the US government. They would lend him an army for all his needs such as decimating people he didn't like or voting for politicians he backed - all of which was shown.
Hearst had many enemies that he hurt enough to want to kill him. But they know that as soon as they do, they'll be killed themselves when the government decides to send more people.
Also, Deadwood was supposed to go for a Season 4, leaving a very unsatisfactory ending for an entire series. The end of Season 3 was meant to be a cliffhanger, but the producers and writers probably didn't realize HBO wasn't going to renew the show.
Deadwood has enough masterminds and muscles to destroy Hearst and his current number of bodyguards. But Deadwood cannot stop the wave of greed and power that will descend upon them because of their gold. As soon as Hearst dies, his equivalent will show up.