The Wire - does it ever get going?

[Rich_W]

Justin Cyder said:

One of my favourite lines: Why'd anyone want to leave Baltimore is all I'm sayin'.

Very telling line for that character.

Omar?

[Justin Cyder]

Not Omar this time. A bit lower down the food chain.

[BrotherMouzone]

Rich_W said:

My turn

Easy one
"I lit his ass up"

Harder one
"He set off the smoke alarm. Twice"

I failed. Thought the first one was Snoop.

at the second quote.

[BrotherMouzone]

Justin Cyder said:

One of my favourite lines: Why'd anyone want to leave Baltimore is all I'm sayin'.

Very telling line for that character.

IIRC it's someone from Barksdale's crew. Bodie? Season 3?

[Justin Cyder]

Yeah it's Bodie, when he gets sent on a pick up which turns out to be a test & he can't find his favourite radio station. In that one line, you're shown how small his horizons really are, just another superlative moment in The Wire.

[BrotherMouzone]

Justin Cyder said:

Yeah it's Bodie, when he gets sent on a pick up which turns out to be a test & he can't find his favourite radio station. In that one line, you're shown how small his horizons really are, just another superlative moment in The Wire.

I remember that scene.

[Not Ideal]

Saw Domninic West on the tube at Green Park last week.

True story.

[FiF]

Not Ideal said:

Saw Domninic West on the tube at Green Park last week.

True story.

Hope it wasn't a strike day else the tube would never have got going.



Ok the door is over that way, just need my coat. Taxi!

[BrotherMouzone]

Heads up to all Amy Ryan fans, 'Gone Baby Gone' on BBC2 tonight at 2240.

Apprantly it's a good film (94% at Rotten Tomatoes) and Amy Ryan was great in it so I'll have to watch it.

[GALLARDOGUY]

A few Wire characters in this.

It's a great film.

Affleck has become a brilliant director to be fair to him.

[Stuck In A Lift]

Just started to re-watch season 5. Do you think Mcnulty is a hero for what he does (trying to avoid a spoiler), or completely insane?

[TheRealFingers99]

Stuck In A Lift said:

Just started to re-watch season 5. Do you think Mcnulty is a hero for what he does (trying to avoid a spoiler), or completely insane?

He is the ultimate completely insane hero!

[Rich_W]

Insane.

While "he does not get to win, we get to win" No Police. Even one as dedicated as Jimmy. Would go to that length. They'd go about it a different way to get the result they wanted. The whole thing was too flawed, they'd...

use another case that had a stronger tie to the Marlo angle. Whether that was a high profile murder or corruption case. Not just make a run of the mil death into the serial killer angle.

"Chewing on a homeless guy"

Saying that, the way the journo in the case makes it all up is strangly premonition given the way our own "news" organisations work these days

[entropy]

Stuck In A Lift said:

Just started to re-watch season 5. Do you think Mcnulty is a hero for what he does (trying to avoid a spoiler), or completely insane?

He's an Everyman character like in Breaking Bad. You sympathise as morals become blurred to achieve a greater good.

[ajprice]

http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/2/6096833/hbo-the-w...

Never seen this series, so I didn't realise it was in 4:3 SD. It's being remastered in 16:9 HD from the original Panavision film. This article's comments are talking about it being deliberately meant for 4:3 SD to give it the atmosphere and feel that it had.

As someone who's never watched it or even seen a clip of it, does the aspect and resolution of it make the series, so widescreen HD would be a bad thing?!?!

[Justin Cyder]

It's in no way about the filming. The saga is the whole of The Wire.

[tobinen]

Just finished watching the lot. Very late to this as I was looking for something after Breaking Bad. Simply a superb series. How/why I hadn't watched this soooner I don't know. Why weren't there more series?

[Halb]

Everything comes to an end?

HBO don't go beyond a certain amount of series.
Though that may be being stretched as time goes on.

[Beati Dogu]

I think they struggled with viewing figures and if it wasn't for a small but vociferous fan base, it very likely would have been cancelled long before the 5th season.

[Halb]

I recall reading that they had awful figures in the beginning. If it had been on any other channel in the USA, it would have been stanned before the end of the first series.
But it being HBO, and liked as a project it was allowed to eke on.