Hearst is still alive, Al's sick but we don't know if he lives or dies, i dunno they got a chance to come back after all these years and give us closure with these characters and i don't feel like we got it. The ending just felt like the ending of an episode in the middle of a season.
I heard someone say Deadwood burns down at some point, why not end the movie with that? that would have been a perfect way to end the show and be a final ending.
I think Al did die. But yeah, I agree with what you're saying.
shareDeadwood burned between when the show ended and the movie takes place.
shareI think it's safe to say Hearst is not long for Deadwood. Meaning I don't think after that kickdown he'll want to stay. With Alma buying Utter's property and Bullock more or less telling him to get the hell out of Dodge, he's done. Al died. Jane and Joanie are together. Sol and Trixie got married and had a baby. All the others will be what they will be...... Nope, we got closure.
shareClosure would be seeing Hearst die, he's almost in the same position he was by the end of the last season, Bullock arresting him, him leaving town, but he gets to live, its bullshit. He murdered Charlie and gets away with it, how is that closure?
shareHearst is a real person. You can't kill him just because you want to see him die. He didn't die in Deadwood. This is what Wikipedia had to say on his death:
Hearst died at the age of 70 in Washington, D.C., on February 28, 1891. The California Legislature and state courts adjourned so officials could attend his funeral. When Phoebe Apperson Hearst inherited her husband's wealth, she donated a great deal of it to help found new libraries at several universities. Hearst is buried in Cypress Lawn Cemetery in Colma, California. His widow and son were later buried there after their deaths.share
The Hearst Memorial Mining Building on the Berkeley campus is dedicated to George Hearst.
Gerald McRaney portrayed a fictional version of Hearst as a villain on the HBO television series Deadwood, set in South Dakota as he acquired new claims and expanded the Homestake Mine. McRaney reprised his role in 2019's Deadwood: The Movie. This time Hearst returns to Deadwood ten years after the events of the third season and is now a Senator but still the main villain. The crimes committed by the fictional character appear to take poetic license with those attributed to the real personage of Hearst at the Homestake Mine.
Yeah i get that, but sometimes you need to take liberties and change things to make them more exciting and entertaining for the movie or show, as it even says in that quote they made a fictional version of Hearst and did things with him he really didn't do.
So big deal if they killed him and changed his death from real life, its not like everything in Deadwood was as it really was to a tee.
And sometimes you just need to leave well enough alone. I'm grateful we got a film. Considering David Milch's health issues, we just should consider ourselves lucky. I know I am. I was happy to see all our favourites again. Just be glad for that. I was happy Hearst got the shyte kicked out of him. He deserved that and I was happy it happened. I had no expectations going into it and it made me happier than the whole season eight of Game of Thrones.
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