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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.
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.
I think the effect it has is if you rewatch the series. He goes from "hardass" to "closeted" pretty quickly; all of the baudy talk and what have you in the unit comes across as gross overcompensation. You'll ask yourself: "Shit, why didn't I figure this out before?"
But I wanted to just bring this question/answer to the board's attention, in case you don't make it down this far:
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.
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47029 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
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.
Joined: Tue September 24, 2013 5:56 pm Posts: 47029 Location: In the oatmeal aisle wearing a Shellac shirt
Higgs wrote:
2016 was a great year for TV for me. I watched for the first time the complete runs of both The Sopranos and The Wire.
So good.
I also did The Sopranos for the first time. Apart from being spoiled on the infamous last shot, I had no idea what was going on throughout the series. Fantastic television.
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.
I also think that even though it was binge watched for me, it felt like it gained from the empty space, and the time to breathe. Almost like there were parts of the investigation going on the whole time, from week to week that we DONT get to see.
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