The Wire is over - discussion, spoilers inside
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luka
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those 2 dopey cousins! how can you like those characters. i like stringer bell and colvin. i swear you lot dont understand good writing!
the way those two stories played out. let me tell you the moral of the story. dont try and think outside the box, if youre living inside a box.
i loved how they twinned those two mens fates.
the way those two stories played out. let me tell you the moral of the story. dont try and think outside the box, if youre living inside a box.
i loved how they twinned those two mens fates.
crackerjack
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Because Frank Sobotka is a tragihero, doing the wrong things for all the right reasons.
Because Ziggy is a comedy genius
Because it introduces Brother Mouzone and puts flesh on Omar's (superhero) character.
Because Stringer comes into his own (printing shop)
Because Amy Ryan is waaaaay cute
Because the scene where McNulty spends hours in forensics proving where the girls died just to piss off Rawls is just fucking timeless. As is his visit to the whorehouse.
Don't make me go on, I've got work to do.
luka
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and ive got to get to bed. but i don't agree. i didn't warm to those charcters at all. but agree absolutely that omar is a superhero/mythical character.
brother mousaone i thinkk is a silly charcter though. good for a laugh but thats about it.
i'll think i'll give up dissensus tommorow, although i'd like to have this discussion.
brother mousaone i thinkk is a silly charcter though. good for a laugh but thats about it.
i'll think i'll give up dissensus tommorow, although i'd like to have this discussion.
crackerjack
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don't give up dissensus just as you're starting to learn something. That would be madness.
crackerjack
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BM is obviously a bit cartoonish, not meant to be taken too seriously.
But I like the way the Greeks are done - too cool to worry, they've got all ends covered.
david simon slumming it at harvard with Venkatesh (gang leader for a day)
http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Multimed...re-A-Compelling-Portrayal-of-an-American-City
http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Multimed...re-A-Compelling-Portrayal-of-an-American-City
nomadthethird
more issues than Time mag
Those comedy eastern european gangsters are actually really realistic in terms of distribution networks in the port cities.
nochexxx
harco pronting
great stuff! what i found particularly funny was the twat who asked david simon why he didn't choose a baltimore snap track for the theme music.
and respect to the guy who brought up why omar got done by the little hopper.
thanks that was really good.
this, on the other hand, is swag. but, whatever:
http://smokingsection.uproxx.com/TSS/2009/02/if-rappers-were-characters-from-the-wire
crackerjack
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Oh God, I was with that to some extent until it got to LL as cutty. Wtf?
That moderator guy is just fucking brutal. He looks like he's got a shrunken head.
FWIW:
3 - as far as TV goes, this is just fucked
4 - moving, good shift of focus from the bureaucracy to something more human and generative
1 - good comparison between the administrations of both the police force and the criminal structure
2 - not good as a second season. kind of took the buzz off what was established in the first season. some good bits tho, just not as many as I was hoping for
5 - a little unbelievable and ridiculous. disappointing.
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scottdisco
rip this joint please
i have only seen - as i say up-thread - the first two episodes of season 1, and bits of another season 1 episode later in the series.
am i to assume that the information regarding Obama's favourite character Omar is what they call a spoiler?
i should probably pay attention to the thread title
god damn that Omar was a cool cat from the one bit i saw.
i like Bunk and Stringer Bell and McNulty and Greggs thus far. there's a brilliantly done arrest scene with Herc and his partner in the first episode and McNulty's boss chewing him out over talking to the judge is done well in the first episode or two, and the aftermath of Herc and his partner and that stupid cop who pistol whips a young man during a disturbance the cops initiate in some high-rise is superb with that lieutenant (who seems very interesting) putting words in their mouth for the internal affairs people.
and i rather fancy Greggs, although i fear i am the wrong gender for her, just, yunno, for starters.
sorry, just to bring the discussion down several notches..