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11-08-2012, 03:45 AM
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Lifer
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Originally Posted by AznAnarchy99
yea no. Being introduced with 15 different characters off the bat and trying to decipher who's who isnt really the best introduction.
I think I made it through 6 episodes and I pretty much only got the main cop and the dude who's a gay gang banger that stuck in my mind and it never hooked me.
I keep giving it chances just because everyone seems to love it so much.
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The characters are really different. You must think all blacks look-alike...
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11-08-2012, 04:00 AM
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Lifer
Join Date: May 2002
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I watched all seasons but the ordering escapes me...
First season was about drugs
Season 2 is about shipyard & drugs
Season 3 is about politics?
Which season is about omar?
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11-08-2012, 05:26 AM
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Originally Posted by RocksteadyDotNet
Wait, my bad. I was sure he was Irish.
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Dominic West is from an ethnically Irish family, but born in England. More to the point he went to Eton (the super-hyper-ultra-elite English 'public' school) and if that doesn't make him English it makes him an Old Etonian, which is a nationality all of its own.
Old Etonians - is there nothing they can't do? Prime Minister, Chancellor, half the front bench, Mayor of London, and (as of today) the archbishop of Canterbury. And they even get the roles of American doctors and street-wise Irish-American cops over actual Americans.
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11-08-2012, 06:46 AM
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Originally Posted by AznAnarchy99
yea no. Being introduced with 15 different characters off the bat and trying to decipher who's who isnt really the best introduction.
I think I made it through 6 episodes and I pretty much only got the main cop and the dude who's a gay gang banger that stuck in my mind and it never hooked me.
I keep giving it chances just because everyone seems to love it so much.
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I was 100% you. I couldn't stand it and didn't get all the godlike hype. I watched about first 5, and couldn't get into it. Watched 2 more... nope.
Then I gave up altogether. 8 months later, I was forced to watch it when internet was down due to Hurricane Sandy. Now I'm hooked.
I'm surprised to find people disliking season 2. It's one wholesome season that focuses on singular event in the shipyard. It felt like you're in Mario water level after playing ground level all the time. I loved the believable characters, all with their own motives in the shipyard.
And the season ends properly with wrapping up everything that it introduced at start.
Season 3, you're back in the familiar grounds of season 1.
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11-08-2012, 07:04 AM
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Lifer
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Jacksonville, NC
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Originally Posted by Spineshank
Season 2 was my least favorite.
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Same. I love the last three. And the last episode...wow. I just wanted more and good on them for not giving it to me. That is how a TV show should be ended.
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11-08-2012, 07:23 AM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Apr 2002
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Randy: [as Carver walks away] You gonn' help, huh? You gonna look out for me? You gonna look out for me, Sergeant Carver? You mean it? You gonna look out for me? You promise?! You got my back, huh?!
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Originally Posted by z0mb13
I watched all seasons but the ordering escapes me...
First season was about drugs
Season 2 is about shipyard & drugs
Season 3 is about politics?
Which season is about omar?
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omar & politics were everywhere i think.
s5 was media
s4 was school system
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11-08-2012, 08:22 AM
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Diamond Member
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Pennsylvania
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Originally Posted by DainBramaged
Same. I love the last three. And the last episode...wow. I just wanted more and good on them for not giving it to me. That is how a TV show should be ended.
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Season 5 was my 2nd to least favorite haha. I think a lot of it had to do with the reporter. For some reason I do not like that actor.
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11-08-2012, 08:34 AM
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Member
Join Date: Jul 2011
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Originally Posted by Printer Bandit
just like Rick in the walking dead, who is british.
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Jax Teller from Sons of Anarchy is also British.
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11-08-2012, 08:35 AM
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Lifer
Join Date: Sep 2001
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11-08-2012, 08:42 AM
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Lifer
Join Date: Sep 2003
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I don't understand how season 1 was hard to follow. I never had a problem.
Also, season 1 had my FAVORITE scene of the wire, (besides McNulty banging a couple prostitutes in season 2  ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN5e....1.4CsEGEvu63E NSFW
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Originally Posted by Ns1
...I was in it for the mutton kebabs but found myself eating penis. It happens.
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11-08-2012, 09:03 AM
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Platinum Member
Join Date: Jul 2005
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I came in here to say
Where's Wallace!? String! Where the fuck is Wallace!
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11-08-2012, 12:27 PM
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Diamond Member
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Location: dust2
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omar's comin
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11-08-2012, 12:31 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2012
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Omar and Bubbles were amazing actors. It confuses me that everything they have made since was terrible.
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11-08-2012, 12:54 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 11,150
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Originally Posted by winniethepwn
Omar and Bubbles were amazing actors. It confuses me that everything they have made since was terrible.
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Boardwalk Empire is good. Don't think I've seen anything else with Bubs in it.
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11-08-2012, 01:35 PM
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No Lifer
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Bay Area
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Originally Posted by preslove
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I'm guessing this is the "fuck" scene?
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11-08-2012, 01:39 PM
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No Lifer
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Bay Area
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Quote:
Originally Posted by z0mb13
I watched all seasons but the ordering escapes me...
First season was about drugs
Season 2 is about shipyard & drugs
Season 3 is about politics?
Which season is about omar?
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The whole point of the Wire is "follow the money to follow the drugs" Drugs, money, and how it is all connected to every corrupted branch of civil and social life.
1: establishes the Investigation--so the Po-lice and the Drugs gang. The front lines.
2: trafficking
3: Politics (this is the first time we get the candidate and his campaign, so while politics is throughout, this is specifically a politics season)
4: education
5: the media
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PAB: My dad blew a tranny. I've been asked to see if I can get one replaced free.
brianmanahan: zinfamous is such a fool
he's known as AT:OT's tool
mentally he's such a klutz
his head is made of 50 butts
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11-08-2012, 01:50 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: London, ON, Canada
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Could not get into this show either. Will have to give it an honest try again.
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11-08-2012, 03:06 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Washington
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Might have to watch these all again with my girl...
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11-08-2012, 03:24 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 14,952
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Quote:
Originally Posted by zinfamous
I'm guessing this is the "fuck" scene?
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Yup. Fuuck, Motherfuck, Fuck me, Fuckin a etc.
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Originally posted by: binister
i find preslove guilty of being awesome
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Originally Posted by Ns1
...I was in it for the mutton kebabs but found myself eating penis. It happens.
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11-08-2012, 03:30 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 11,311
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Originally Posted by zinfamous
The whole point of the Wire is "follow the money to follow the drugs" Drugs, money, and how it is all connected to every corrupted branch of civil and social life.
1: establishes the Investigation--so the Po-lice and the Drugs gang. The front lines.
2: trafficking
3: Politics (this is the first time we get the candidate and his campaign, so while politics is throughout, this is specifically a politics season)
4: education
5: the media
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The way David Simon explained it, I thought the "real" point of the show was to portray an American city in all of its glory and all of its shortcomings; to show what causes systemic failures in its institutions.
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11-08-2012, 08:21 PM
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Lifer
Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 18,021
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Quote:
Originally Posted by zinfamous
The whole point of the Wire is "follow the money to follow the drugs" Drugs, money, and how it is all connected to every corrupted branch of civil and social life.
1: establishes the Investigation--so the Po-lice and the Drugs gang. The front lines.
2: trafficking
3: Politics (this is the first time we get the candidate and his campaign, so while politics is throughout, this is specifically a politics season)
4: education
5: the media
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Oh yes!!
Season 1 was good, but season 2-5 just pure gold. I loved 2-5 equally.
It's probably the best written and acted TV show of all time. ALso I loved how the writer doesn't dumb down the show for the general TV audience
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11-08-2012, 08:47 PM
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No Lifer
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Bay Area
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Originally Posted by torpid
The way David Simon explained it, I thought the "real" point of the show was to portray an American city in all of its glory and all of its shortcomings; to show what causes systemic failures in its institutions.
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yep. I believe season 5 was the actual darling of the creators--being the Simon spent many years working for the Herald (or Sun? forget what it is/was in Baltimore)
that season was sort of a black sheep as well, as it focused more on journalism and the newspaper industry as a whole--not really about the drugs and money, but the inherent limitations, the rampant failures, and the degradation of journalism, forecasting the rise of the blogosphere. It was quite prescient, as the concept for the season was fleshed out before the major news organizations really started to feel pressure from the web.
IIRC, they were given a short order for that season, so it ended up a few episodes shorter than desired. Still, it ended perfectly and probably remains the best visualization of moral and economic bankruptcy in our contemporary institutions.
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PAB: My dad blew a tranny. I've been asked to see if I can get one replaced free.
brianmanahan: zinfamous is such a fool
he's known as AT:OT's tool
mentally he's such a klutz
his head is made of 50 butts
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11-10-2012, 03:41 PM
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Golden Member
Join Date: Jul 2004
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I LOVED this show. I watched the series in its entirety last year. Damnit this thread makes me want to watch it again. There was so much dynamic in that show, everything tied together and was real. The show didnt always go where you wanted it to go, but it went where it should. I had to youtube mcnulty and stringer talking lol, impressive acting. I had no idea. However this clip is entertaining too on casting the actors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRNm...eature=related
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