The Wire, Season 4
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- johndiggity0
hbo may be after ratings, but the writers of the wire are trying to tell a story that is seldom portrayed on television.
- ********0
if they were purely after the ratings, they would have canceled the show long ago; this is a project of love
- mpfree0
Overdramatized.
Just think it isn't realistic. Dialog, a little extra-poetic, and the "superhero gangsta" characters don't seem real to me.
y_y
- PonyBoy0
i see where you're comin' from, mpfree...
... after-all... it is... 'just a show'.
nothing more.
you can call it a labor of love etc... but it has a rather LARGE following which means great ratings...
... which means hbo WOULD NOT put this on the air if it wasn't making money...
Yes - it's Drama... just done well.
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I agree w/the poetic dialog too... but it's cool... cuz it's delivered so you can't even understand it half the time. :)
Does anyone understand WTF Snoop is saying when he/she says it?
Is that girl?!!
WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME?!
- mpfree0
I shouldn't point fingers though.
I guess you can look at it as a fictional drama. Hey, if that's your cup of tea, it no more ridiculous than Star Trek, etc.
- grunttt0
snoop is a girl. i can understand most of what she's saying... most.
she's one of my favorite characters. she is scary as hell.
- PonyBoy0
k... i was 88.2% sure she was a girl...
... and yeah... SCARY...
... no conscience on her....
... Chris opened up a bit last week after beating down Michael's father.... so you saw something outside of his sociopath side...
... shows pretty 'hard' in my opin.
- kingjulien0
You could say there's poetic dialogue in any form of entertainment. That doesn't mean The Wire isn't a brilliant show, with probably the best writing of any television series, ever.
I also don't think it glamorizes anything. Some idiot might romanticize something in their own head - hell, there are wankers who wanted to be mobsters after seeing Good Fellas - but it's not the program's responsibility to moralize. Their only obligation is to tell compelling stories, and get at the larger truths, which this show does better than anything out there.
As a sidenote, if I here one more story about JazX's ghetto upbringing I'm going to puke. Come spend a week in East Oakland talking that gibberish and see what happens to your scrawny white ass.
- mpfree0
come bring it fucknutz.
ahhh the double-digit psuedo usernames keep their NT presence in check
- johndiggity0
oh shit it is on!
- PonyBoy0
so... if you're white... you can't grow up in a rough neighborhood?
is it just an urban myth that white people never have it bad?
.... back to the thread topic:
HERC..... WHAT A F-UP!!!!!
- mpfree0
pftttt...
Comparing ghettos is like comparing terminal cancer. It's bad no matter what type you got.
Speaking of cancers, that's what these place are to society.
:P
- kingjulien0
Of course you can grow up in a tough neighborhood. But after 8 Mile douchebags like JazX bring it up in every conversation, as a medal of honor, and then use it as justification to drop N-bombs and various other racist terms whenever they feel like it.
It's bullshit.
- mpfree0
hahhah I don't bring it up in any threads except types like these, juicebox.
do you mean Nigger?
- grunttt0
i love the ignore feature.
- kingjulien0
I love how this jackass can create 10 usernames on this site, spend all day talking shit under alternative aliases, create fictional stories about doing his patriotic duty by becoming a sniper in the army, invent girlfriends (in both the former Communist block as well as the jungle), and then criticize a show for not being "realistic."
- kingjulien0
do you mean Nigger?
mpfree
(Nov 27 06, 10:42)It must feel so safe and comforting to hide behind a keyboard and monitor.
If you were really from the hood you'd get drop-kicked the minute you even contemplated using that word.
- mpfree0
10 usernames? lol, I think it was about four actually and that was in 4 years. Fictional stories..? isn't that what you do for a fucking living?
hahahha ROFL you all take this shit way to seriously and literally in fact. who said there are NT Rules fucknut? well, haha that people actually follow.
I'm not JazX, I'm mpfree bitch!
Touchy, touchy are we? Have a family friend writing for the show do we?
- kingjulien0
I'm not trying to enforce any rules, cockwound. I'm just calling you out for the little bitch that you are.
- PonyBoy0
hahaha@cockwound!!!
I love filthy compound words.