Red Mosquito

verb_to_trust wrote:So that's how the Omar thing ends huh?

tragabigzanda wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:

@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.

It's not like I wanted dirt, just more humanization. He's such a hardass every day, you get the one scene, then...nothing. Wish they had humanized him further.

cutuphalfdead wrote:Aimee's tits.

A Reddit User wrote:What was the point of that topless scene in season 2 of the wire? You know, the one where Nicky's girlfriend has some ultimately meaningless dialogue for thirty seconds while her gorgeous set is exposed for all to see?
Almost everything in The Wire, no matter how subtle, seemed to have a deeper meaning.
Was that just because she had great bewbs?

David Fucking Simon wrote:She did. But how could we know they were that remarkable when we hired her from one fully dressed audition? The point was to show Nick Sobotka having an adult relationship but marginalized within his parent's rowhouse basement. The nudity suggests intimacy and familiarity between the two, and the surrounding suggests that their life together is not yet viable. Next in the sequence was a visit to a rowhouse in the neighborhood that they couldn't afford, if you'll remember.

cutuphalfdead wrote:Those are some amazing boobs.

A Reddit User wrote: Was that just because she had great bewbs?

David Fucking Simon wrote:She did.

cutuphalfdead wrote:Doing another rewatch. Halfway through season 1 and god damn it's easy to forget just how good this show was.

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.

dimejinky99 wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:Doing another rewatch. Halfway through season 1 and god damn it's easy to forget just how good this show was.

Indeed

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:Can't remember if I actually posted this thought or just meant to post it, but LV was decrying episodic television a couple weeks back -- something along the lines of "the film format works best for stories."

Anyway, the thought I had was that The Wire made great use of the episodic format. Watching all the work that goes into their wiretapping and decoding of the language used by the dealers imbues the police (or po-leece) with a dignity that I don't think would translate if we just got a two minute scene of them wiretapping. The countless hours spent listening to phone calls adds a depth and realism to the characters that would have to be conveyed differently in film.