Tafdolphin wrote:It takes about 3 full episodes to get going. After that though...
Yeah, took me 3 or 4 episodes to get into it. After the first I thought 'this is gooseberry fool!' but once I was hooked, I was hooked.
Still need to watch series 3, 4 and 5 though.
Re: The Wire - Greatest TV show of the decade
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:48 pm
by Dual
Finished S4
strawberry floating Marlo man. He's strawberry floating ice cold. Horrible bastard. When he's first introduced I kinda liked him - young upstart making Avon work - but you don't know half the gooseberry fool he's up to. I think for the first time the writers want the viewer to actually dislike a character. There's no fair way to view the Stanfield organization - they are extremely violent and don't live by a code. I want them to fall.
Can't believe Bodey's dead He was a good kid.
strawberry floating Chris and Snoop corrupting young Michael how old is he supposed to be? 15? strawberry floating unreal man.
At least Major Crimes are back together now McNutty's seen sense . Apart from Haulk. But he's a banana split anyway.
I'm really angry that all the kids have been failed by the system. Duquont's now on the corner. Randy's in social care. Michael's a soldier. Only Naymond's survived the irony of course being he was the G at the start of the season.
Omar
strawberry float Marlo man. It's not cool.
EDIT: The best season so far without question. It's just light years ahead of anything I've ever seen, including the previous seasons.
Re: The Wire - Greatest TV show of the decade
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:53 pm
by Memento Mori
It's debatable whose story is sadder, Randy, Dukie or Michael. I'm going with Randy but they all made me cry.
Re: The Wire - Greatest TV show of the decade
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:54 pm
by Baron Zemo
Memento Mori wrote:It's debatable whose story is sadder, Randy, Dukie or Michael. I'm going with Randy but they all made me cry.
Dukie by far.
Re: The Wire - Greatest TV show of the decade
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 10:57 pm
by Memento Mori
Baron Zemo wrote:
Memento Mori wrote:It's debatable whose story is sadder, Randy, Dukie or Michael. I'm going with Randy but they all made me cry.
Dukie by far.
The thing with Dukie though is he's always had a bad life. For a while at least Randy was in a relatively happy stable home and just because he tries to do the right thing, his life is burned down.
Re: The Wire - Greatest TV show of the decade
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 11:06 pm
by Baron Zemo
Memento Mori wrote:
Baron Zemo wrote:
Memento Mori wrote:It's debatable whose story is sadder, Randy, Dukie or Michael. I'm going with Randy but they all made me cry.
Dukie by far.
The thing with Dukie though is he's always had a bad life. For a while at least Randy was in a relatively happy stable home and just because he tries to do the right thing, his life is burned down.
Good point!
Re: The Wire - Greatest TV show of the decade
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 11:08 pm
by Memento Mori
Season 5 spoilers
The change in his personality after being ground down in the shared house is heartbreaking.
Re: The Wire - Greatest TV show of the decade
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 12:54 pm
by Tafdolphin
About halfway through 3 at the moment. It's just unbelievably good, I could literally watch it all day and not get bored. I always felt I coasted through 4 the first time I saw it so looking forward to that even more.
Interesting fact, Jaime Hector (Marlo) provided the voice for Emile in Halo Reach.
Re: The Wire - Greatest TV show of the decade
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 2:26 pm
by jiggles
Tafdolphin wrote:Interesting fact, Jaime Hector (Marlo) provided the voice for Emile in Halo Reach.
Yeah, I caught that as soon as I started the game.
Re: The Wire - Greatest TV show of the decade
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 5:44 pm
by Memento Mori
Anung wrote:Re-watching this all again. My god its glorious. Getting through like 7 eps a day.
Midway through season 4 now and its strawberry floating brilliant. Chris Partlow is such a brilliant character, and pretty much anything he and snoop does are the highlights of the season.
The best scene hands down is when he kills Michael's father, it was actually scary (even Snoop looked shocked and she Is a cold-blooded killer)
Also Slim Charles
Bottom of the strawberry floating PAGE!!!!
You didn't even wait to get the mothafucka in the house!
Re: The Wire - Greatest TV show of the decade
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 7:52 pm
by smurphy
Just thinking about The Wire gives me more pleasure than watching over 99% of other TV shows.
Feck it, careful spending out the window. As soon as I get paid the 1-5 set is mine.
Re: The Wire - Greatest TV show of the decade
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 8:04 pm
by Poncho
Anung wrote:Season 4 spoilersBodie's death made me
Yep, I let out tears, for the first time ever watching something. I've been stone cold dry through so many moments in TV and film that everyone else cries at, and after all that I finally let it go for a drug-dealing murderer. A contemptible human being I'd never be within a mile of if I could help it in real life.
Nothing special. Just a pawn that made it quite far down the chessboard.
Re: The Wire - Greatest TV show of the decade
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 8:20 pm
by Dual
Yeah, I too was terribly upset over ^^his^^ death. Probably more so (SEASON 3 SPOILER) than when Stringer Bell is topped
Anung wrote:The best scene hands down is when he (Chris) kills Michael's father, it was actually scary (even Snoop looked shocked and she Is a cold-blooded killer)
That scene will stay with me until I die. So frightening. Probably the most violent thing I've ever seen on TV It was parts like that towards the end of S4 that made me really start to dislike hate the Stanfield organization. They're just horrible people.
I've started to download S5 now. Can't wait to start it, but I at the same time I don't want it to end.
Re: The Wire - Greatest TV show of the decade
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 9:04 pm
by Memento Mori
How did that scene make you hate the Stansfield people? Chris wasn't exactly murdering Mother Theresa.
Re: The Wire - Greatest TV show of the decade
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 9:45 pm
by Dual
Err, apart from him not doing anything wrong? Didn't Michael make Chris think he was a child molester? When really he was just taking the mother's benefits. Didn't deserve to be killed anyway (not like that)
Chris wasn't exactly murdering Mother Theresa.
how old is he supposed to be? 15? strawberry floating unreal man. 
. Apart from Haulk. But he's a banana split anyway.