Other main characters - Wild Bill, for instance, or Brom - are actually killed.
Except they're not main characters, are they? They're red shirts: it's obvious from day one that they're both going to die. Just as it's obvious that the child is not going to die. The point is not that the violence in Deadwood doesn't have consequences, it's that those consequences don't carry any weight. The whole thing feels like it's just going through the motions.
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Date: 2006-06-08 12:48 pm (UTC)Except they're not main characters, are they? They're red shirts: it's obvious from day one that they're both going to die. Just as it's obvious that the child is not going to die. The point is not that the violence in Deadwood doesn't have consequences, it's that those consequences don't carry any weight. The whole thing feels like it's just going through the motions.