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verb_to_trust wrote:I thought it must have been lil bow wow or some other non actor due to the horrible performance. Then I realized she was a female...
She is a non actor. And first viewing I found her extremely irritating.
What is her background?
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@SkitchP wrote:
verb_to_trust wrote:I thought it must have been lil bow wow or some other non actor due to the horrible performance. Then I realized she was a female...
She is a non actor. And first viewing I found her extremely irritating.
What is her background?
If memory serves, drug dealer
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I love how they have that George Wendt look alike in homicide eating something every time he is on camera.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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How can you not love the nail gun scene? That's just funny.
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The season 5 Waits intro is by far the weakest.
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Not far into season 5 but I can already tell it's the weakest of the bunch.
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This is my ranking just of the credit sequence songs: 2, 5, 1, 3, 4.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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The Argonaut wrote:This is my ranking just of the credit sequence songs: 2, 5, 1, 3, 4.
2, 4, 5, 1, 3
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No Prez in season 5 is a real let down
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verb_to_trust wrote:No Prez in season 5 is a real let down
agreed

i'd probably go 3, 4, 1, 2, and 5
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I like how Munch has a cameo in 5
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verb_to_trust wrote:I like how Munch has a cameo in 5
Did you notice the Rawls "cameo" in season three?
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verb_to_trust wrote:I like how Munch has a cameo in 5

I hate that Munch has that cameo. He is playing John Munch in a bar, while one his former partners is playing a different character (clark johnson) who enters the bar with the guy that the Munch character is originally loosely based on.

too many colliding worlds.
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@SkitchP wrote:
verb_to_trust wrote:I like how Munch has a cameo in 5

I hate that Munch has that cameo. He is playing John Munch in a bar, while one his former partners is playing a different character (clark johnson) who enters the bar with the guy that the Munch character is originally loosely based on.

too many colliding worlds.
yeah that felt a bit too network tv for me
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
@SkitchP wrote:
verb_to_trust wrote:I like how Munch has a cameo in 5

I hate that Munch has that cameo. He is playing John Munch in a bar, while one his former partners is playing a different character (clark johnson) who enters the bar with the guy that the Munch character is originally loosely based on.

too many colliding worlds.
Yea, that was weird. Also:
Spoiler: show
We never find out more about the captain's closeted life, after his brief scene in the gay bar. WTF?!

Im totally okay with that. A brief moment of humanization. It doesn't need further explaining.
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@SkitchP wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
@SkitchP wrote:
verb_to_trust wrote:I like how Munch has a cameo in 5

I hate that Munch has that cameo. He is playing John Munch in a bar, while one his former partners is playing a different character (clark johnson) who enters the bar with the guy that the Munch character is originally loosely based on.

too many colliding worlds.
Yea, that was weird. Also:
Spoiler: show
We never find out more about the captain's closeted life, after his brief scene in the gay bar. WTF?!

Im totally okay with that. A brief moment of humanization. It doesn't need further explaining.
Same.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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