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Philosophy:

Red Moon Tide is a meditative existential waking nightmare. It calls upon the meditation of existence, morality, and reason. Through single frames it covers the universal singularity. Calamity, loneliness, and despair... all on full display. It's most frightening aspect is what the film questions and doesn't resolve.

The open void of existence, and its apparent senselessness. Our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives.

There is no thought without reason, no morality without truth. No clear understanding of what nothingness equates to, (aka the voided vaccume of space and time). What's beyond, if there's a beyond? It's relativity, and simultaneous ambiguity, puts reality into question.

The film mocks reality, and confronts it's meaninglessness. Call it, terrifying, and staggeringly beautiful.

This film will haunt you. With the truth that there is no truth. To reject all beliefs is in fact a belief. Summarized by the fact that we are the joke... don't laugh. That is the paradox.. you must confront.

Logic dictates that life is simultaneously meaningless and meaningful at the same time. You cannot accept one without accepting the other. If life's only meaning is that it's meaningless. Is that still meaningful? ... Meaningless cannot be identified without indirectly giving it meaning. That is why everything is interconnected. It's our brain and the illusion of self - that creates, separation.

Thought, idea, atoms, life itself. Randomness, order, morality, reason, despair. Truth, objectivity, subjectivity... thought.. an idea.. ... bigger than life itself. A universal singularity represented in single frames, a meditative waking nightmare.. a Red Moon Tide...Art? An idea... Call it Bigger than... life itself.

I found this episode oddly compelling. It has multiple layers of complexity. Representative of politics in general domestic and abroad. Our elected leaders are cartoon characters with a real person behind the caricature. A caricature representative of an over inflated political ideology statistically speaking, gone amiss. Equipped with dick jokes, juvenile humor, and conflicting views. Our electoral system is broken. Broken as much as a political cartoon bear colored in blue. Apprehensive of his bearish representation that miscategorizes him in a unfavorable, jocose light. One that he can not get away from because of the immoralized status quo. Our huberous/ over-inflated egos lead us... Lead us... gone astray. Far away from our primordial predecessors, 3.5 billion years in the making. Equipped with the know-how to do what's right. Classified, immortalized, with all our shortcomings, arguably unevolved as such. Darwin was wrong - and our biology v. Psychology is a concrete representation of our polarized make-up. Vapid, uneducated, self-centered, micronized focused, and over-confident in our unintentional objective mass extinction. That we inevitably find ourselves in. Hurtling towards oblivion. A universal singularity - masked in unobtained knowledge of: unified greed. To be one, is to have one, and to have one is to accept defeat.

Writing often determines the success or failure of a show. It can bomb an actors career, make good actors look bad, and expose others outside their depth. So true is Deadwood.

The tv format is the most demanding medium, calling upon hours of screen time. A few bad paragraphs and the jaded audience is not forgiving. Playing alongside the legendary 2005 line-up. Arguably no other show having been a better representation of that year. Developed into a cult like following, having access to the password will help you gain entry.

Every show in HBO's line-up that year, has gone down in the history books. Appearing both on imdbs top tv show list, and wgaw's best written tv shows. Shows like The Sopranos and The Wire alternate in the #1 spot. Both seem to share the label "Greatest Tv Show of All Time."Both were airing in 2005. As well as other classics like Six Feet Under, Rome, and Deadwood. While The Sopranos might have revolutionized the anti-hero archetype, and The Wire had the irreversible permutation of the multi narrative episodic format trend. Six Feet Under elevated the melodrama with phenomenal writing, and great acting. Rome was the Americanized version of the Telenovela, denoted by an exceptional level of awesomeness. With self-aware performances inciting multiple conflicting emotions, amongst its many other high marks. Deadwood did 3 things. It re-popularized Shakespeare, while simultaneously setting a new record for most f bombs in a single season of television. Lastly it implemented the dissemination of the western genre.

Deadwood, like all great things, is an acquired taste. The dialogue is written as victorian structured Shakespeare, told through the colloquialism of the west. What does that mean you may ask. It's essentially Shakespeare - minus what makes it largely unintelligible. Told through wording and phrasing of the west. The most cryptic aspects of shakespearean dialogue, are its expired word and phrasing. As well as its unusual time signature, and distinct tempo. It is written as blank verse. Blank verse has alternating unrhymed lines. Written as iambic pentameter, traditional prose, and traditional poetry. In addition it has accented notes on every other word periodically, throughout.

Victorian Structure is writing that took place during Queen Victoria's reign as queen. Ie. 1837 - 1901. The writing is "thick", full of "big" words, and extended descriptive sentences. What are colloquialisms of the west? Some examples are balderdash, bazoo, fair to middlin, fit to be tied, hoosegow, lambasting, quirely, squinny, and taradiddles. Deadwood in writing is after all, wordy ways of saying simple things. "Has the ability to" in place of "can." "In regards to" in place of "regarding."

Writings such as* the aforementioned are spread throughout the entire series. Beyond the great writing we have Ian McShane's career high performance as AL Swearengen. McShane amongst others, is immediately, apparently, a classically trained actor. They all have a good grasp of the material, and deliver lines impeccably. Season 1's episode 10 "mister wu" could go head to head against any other, as the greatest episode in television. It's hilarious from Start to finish, and works as a good inductuctor into the series. It has a matter of fact nonchalantness about murder which speaks to the overall tone of the series. It also has a classic communication through non-communication scene. As well as another where this guy is voluntarily humiliating himself, while apologizing for not doing a better job at it.

Deadwood is good because it works as a hidden gem, lost to history. Almost everyone doesn't like Westerns, and most people who like Westerns don't like Shakespeare. Those who do, stumble across it and are enthralled, and glad they gave it a chance. It works as a anti-western, and a English Majors blank blank. It's poetry in motion, delivered in a western dialect, timeless, enigmatic, and prodigious. Its a nobby rowdy-dow, thats as fine as cream gravy, nuff said.