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Jarome_Turner
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| I'm downloading Ep. 4 as I type this from tvtorrents.com... sorry, it's a private site that you need an invite and I have none to spare. The good news is that Ep.4 will probably be up on public trackers (isohunt has the other leaked episodes i think) very soon. I wish I could have held out from watching 5-7 last night.... |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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| I was completely floored by Lester helping McNutty out with his serial killer plan. It doesn't really seem to jive with his earlier clash w/ McNulty about Barksdale. Maybe he's just had enough. |
Strangely I found it easier to believe Lester would go along with it than McNulty doing it to begin with. And I'm surprised McNulty actually thought people would care about homeless people being murdered. I thought he was more jaded/less naive than that.
What I found puzzling in this episode was Prop Joe's behaivor towards Marlo when he asked for clean money. Shouldn't that have sent a warning to Joe about what Marlo is trying to do? |
I didn't get the whole "black guys killed v. white guys killed" conversation with McNulty Freamon and Griggs. Although true, it seemed way too heavy handed, and I agree that most of these cops would have already gone through their "wrong zip code" phase after a couple of months on the force. I think somebody on Slate wrote that that conversation pretty much summed up the entire message of the show, and anyone watching would already get that message.
I'm thinking that Prop Joe and the Greek are a few steps ahead of Marlo on this and they're going to get the drop on him. Another thing I don't get is the value put on Marlo's muscle when forming the co-op. If Prop Joe has the product, how can attracting muscle be that difficult? Maybe it's guys that you can trust, but I still think Prop Joe would have the upper hand, regardless of the superior firepower Marlo supposedly has.
Btw the Times article was good stuff. Bunk on the take? Not the worst idea I've heard.
There's so many articles on the show now. I think it's because he started writing about journalism.
Slate's doing their back and forth on it as well.
That's here: http://www.slate.com/id/2181449/entry/0/
There's one on The Atlantic's blog: http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/01/david_simon_and_the_audacity_o.php
And a blog critiquing Simon for being too cynical: http://theamericanscene.com/2008/01/01/the-bleakness-of-the-wire
And a review about Simon's take on journalism:
http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/secrets_of_the_city.php
And another one from the Atlantic:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200801/bowden-wire |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:04 am Post subject: |
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Anyone who's watched ep 3: go to 46:25. Cutty's walking in the foreground to McNulty's right.
BTW, ep 4 is available at the Pirate Bay. The sound goes out of sync once at the beginning, and again a few minutes in (and the video quality's not the greatest), but it works. |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:12 am Post subject: |
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| Big C's prices are very reasonable. |
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Jarome_Turner
Joined: 10 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 4:22 am Post subject: |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
Anyone who's watched ep 3: go to 46:25. Cutty's walking in the foreground to McNulty's right.
BTW, ep 4 is available at the Pirate Bay. The sound goes out of sync once at the beginning, and again a few minutes in (and the video quality's not the greatest), but it works. |
Who's Cutty? |
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Billy Pilgrim
Joined: 08 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 4:55 am Post subject: |
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| Jarome_Turner wrote: |
| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
Anyone who's watched ep 3: go to 46:25. Cutty's walking in the foreground to McNulty's right.
BTW, ep 4 is available at the Pirate Bay. The sound goes out of sync once at the beginning, and again a few minutes in (and the video quality's not the greatest), but it works. |
Who's Cutty? |
The ex-con who opened the gym and got shot in the leg. But that's not him anyway. |
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Don Gately
Joined: 20 Mar 2006
Location: In a basement taking a severe beating
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:19 am Post subject: |
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| Jarome_Turner wrote: |
| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
Anyone who's watched ep 3: go to 46:25. Cutty's walking in the foreground to McNulty's right.
BTW, ep 4 is available at the Pirate Bay. The sound goes out of sync once at the beginning, and again a few minutes in (and the video quality's not the greatest), but it works. |
Who's Cutty? |
Blasphemy!
There's been a severe lack of Cutty this season! Bring him back! |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 11:52 am Post subject: |
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| Don Gately wrote: |
| Jarome_Turner wrote: |
| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
Anyone who's watched ep 3: go to 46:25. Cutty's walking in the foreground to McNulty's right.
BTW, ep 4 is available at the Pirate Bay. The sound goes out of sync once at the beginning, and again a few minutes in (and the video quality's not the greatest), but it works. |
Who's Cutty? |
Blasphemy!
There's been a severe lack of Cutty this season! Bring him back! |
yeah, not knowing cutty (or forgetting who he is)... man oh man..
He'll pop up in one of these episodes, no doubt. |
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Don Gately
Joined: 20 Mar 2006
Location: In a basement taking a severe beating
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| Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:43 pm Post subject: |
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| jkelly80 wrote: |
| bucheon bum wrote: |
| jkelly80 wrote: |
| I was completely floored by Lester helping McNutty out with his serial killer plan. It doesn't really seem to jive with his earlier clash w/ McNulty about Barksdale. Maybe he's just had enough. |
Strangely I found it easier to believe Lester would go along with it than McNulty doing it to begin with. And I'm surprised McNulty actually thought people would care about homeless people being murdered. I thought he was more jaded/less naive than that.
What I found puzzling in this episode was Prop Joe's behaivor towards Marlo when he asked for clean money. Shouldn't that have sent a warning to Joe about what Marlo is trying to do? |
I didn't get the whole "black guys killed v. white guys killed" conversation with McNulty Freamon and Griggs. Although true, it seemed way too heavy handed, and I agree that most of these cops would have already gone through their "wrong zip code" phase after a couple of months on the force. I think somebody on Slate wrote that that conversation pretty much summed up the entire message of the show, and anyone watching would already get that message.
I'm thinking that Prop Joe and the Greek are a few steps ahead of Marlo on this and they're going to get the drop on him. Another thing I don't get is the value put on Marlo's muscle when forming the co-op. If Prop Joe has the product, how can attracting muscle be that difficult? Maybe it's guys that you can trust, but I still think Prop Joe would have the upper hand, regardless of the superior firepower Marlo supposedly has.
Btw the Times article was good stuff. Bunk on the take? Not the worst idea I've heard.
There's so many articles on the show now. I think it's because he started writing about journalism.
Slate's doing their back and forth on it as well.
That's here: http://www.slate.com/id/2181449/entry/0/
There's one on The Atlantic's blog: http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/01/david_simon_and_the_audacity_o.php
And a blog critiquing Simon for being too cynical: http://theamericanscene.com/2008/01/01/the-bleakness-of-the-wire
And a review about Simon's take on journalism:
http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/secrets_of_the_city.php
And another one from the Atlantic:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200801/bowden-wire |
Thanks for the Columbia Journalism Review one; hadn't seen that.
The New Yorker's take:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/10/22/071022fa_fact_talbot
Got episodes 4-7 on the PC right now. Going to have to practice discipline because if I blow my whole wad today/tomorrow I'll have to go four weeks without before 8-10. |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:12 am Post subject: |
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| Don Gately wrote: |
| jkelly80 wrote: |
| bucheon bum wrote: |
| jkelly80 wrote: |
| I was completely floored by Lester helping McNutty out with his serial killer plan. It doesn't really seem to jive with his earlier clash w/ McNulty about Barksdale. Maybe he's just had enough. |
Strangely I found it easier to believe Lester would go along with it than McNulty doing it to begin with. And I'm surprised McNulty actually thought people would care about homeless people being murdered. I thought he was more jaded/less naive than that.
What I found puzzling in this episode was Prop Joe's behaivor towards Marlo when he asked for clean money. Shouldn't that have sent a warning to Joe about what Marlo is trying to do? |
I didn't get the whole "black guys killed v. white guys killed" conversation with McNulty Freamon and Griggs. Although true, it seemed way too heavy handed, and I agree that most of these cops would have already gone through their "wrong zip code" phase after a couple of months on the force. I think somebody on Slate wrote that that conversation pretty much summed up the entire message of the show, and anyone watching would already get that message.
I'm thinking that Prop Joe and the Greek are a few steps ahead of Marlo on this and they're going to get the drop on him. Another thing I don't get is the value put on Marlo's muscle when forming the co-op. If Prop Joe has the product, how can attracting muscle be that difficult? Maybe it's guys that you can trust, but I still think Prop Joe would have the upper hand, regardless of the superior firepower Marlo supposedly has.
Btw the Times article was good stuff. Bunk on the take? Not the worst idea I've heard.
There's so many articles on the show now. I think it's because he started writing about journalism.
Slate's doing their back and forth on it as well.
That's here: http://www.slate.com/id/2181449/entry/0/
There's one on The Atlantic's blog: http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/01/david_simon_and_the_audacity_o.php
And a blog critiquing Simon for being too cynical: http://theamericanscene.com/2008/01/01/the-bleakness-of-the-wire
And a review about Simon's take on journalism:
http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/secrets_of_the_city.php
And another one from the Atlantic:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200801/bowden-wire |
Thanks for the Columbia Journalism Review one; hadn't seen that.
The New Yorker's take:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/10/22/071022fa_fact_talbot
Got episodes 4-7 on the PC right now. Going to have to practice discipline because if I blow my whole wad today/tomorrow I'll have to go four weeks without before 8-10. |
That's some good New Yorkerin'.
I've looked at ISO hunt and bt junkie and allbt and no dice. I think I prefer it this way. For now. |
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PEIGUY
Joined: 28 Mar 2004
Location: Omokgyo
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:42 am Post subject: |
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| I'm dl'ing ep 4 from Mininova.. i have 5-7 and have refrained from watching them.. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 1:05 am Post subject: |
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| watched ep. 4 yesterday. This season so far is inferior to the other ones. First there was McNulty doing something rather dubious, Lester going along with it, then the end of episode 4.. It was just SO obvious what was coming. So obvious that it should have been avoided. Doesn't fit the character if you ask me. |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 1:27 am Post subject: |
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I love Dre...  |
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genezorm
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Location: Mokpo
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 2:41 am Post subject: |
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in case yll want them...you can find a pack with episodes 1-7 on mininova.org
episode 7 is the best in my opinion...mcnulty's character he does the phone is pretty funny |
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blurgalurgalurga
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:10 am Post subject: |
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I watched up to episode 7 a month ago, and I was getting so desperate to see the rest of them that I downloaded that stupid HBO special promoting the new season of 'Wire.' It was terrible! But I did get one bit of interesting info from it--did you guys know, the McNulty actor has a toff accent? No kidding, it turnsout he's really a brit. Cedric is too.
Why can't Americans put on UK accents convincingly, like they do vice versa? |
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