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Anybody watch for a second time

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  • #52
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Just started back into it. I'd almost forgotten how much I love this show.

    I'll watch 1 season, maybe 2. Take a break for the ending of breaking bad and get back into in a couple of months


  • #53
    Barnavave
    Registered Users Posts: 191 ✭✭Barnavave


    Here we go again, Season 1, Episode 1 on demand. Poor old Snot Boogie, didn't even get to say a word.


  • #54
    sixpack's little hat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 819 ✭✭✭sixpack's little hat




    This America man


  • #55
    Dandelion6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭Dandelion6


    sixpack's little hat wrote: »

    This America man

    Interesting trivia: this actually happened in real life. It's mentioned in the Homicide book.


  • #56
    GerB40
    Registered Users Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭GerB40


    Dandelion6 wrote: »
    Interesting trivia: this actually happened in real life. It's mentioned in the Homicide book.

    I heard the whole first season was based on that book. Do you know if it's worth reading?


  • #57
    shamrock55
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,210 ✭✭✭shamrock55


    I have the box set about a year now and i still havent watched it


  • #58
    GerB40
    Registered Users Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭GerB40


    shamrock55 wrote: »
    I have the box set about a year now and i still havent watched it

    You're missing out, it's life changing.. Well it probably won't change your life but it's very, very good.


  • #59
    Dandelion6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,405 ✭✭✭Dandelion6


    GerB40 wrote: »
    I heard the whole first season was based on that book. Do you know if it's worth reading?

    Oh yes, definitely!


  • #60
    zl1whqvjs75cdy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,042 ✭✭✭zl1whqvjs75cdy


    Watched the whole thing 5 times now. I've moved house a lot in the last couple of years and I always try and get new housemates into the series. They've all loved it.


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  • #61
    GerB40
    Registered Users Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭GerB40


    Dandelion6 wrote: »
    Oh yes, definitely!

    Right, Homicide is on the Christmas list this year.. Thanks. (If someone read that post out of context I'd seem like a proper psychopath :):) )


  • #62
    mass_debater
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,072 ✭✭✭mass_debater


    I'm using the release in widescreen HD as an excuse to revisit and am half way through season 1. It's much better the second time, so much relevant stuff you miss on the first watch as you're trying to keep up


  • #63
    Barnavave
    Registered Users Posts: 191 ✭✭Barnavave


    Started season 1 AGAIN last night, not sure how many times I've watched it but it's been at least a year.


  • #64
    Right Turn Clyde
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Right Turn Clyde


    I'm currently on my second viewing via the Sky HD boxsets. I was expecting the purist in me to rise to the surface and reject the widescreen transfer, but I actually quite like it. It looks great on my new Samsung. However, I have a real love for the 4:3 ratio in older TV shows and films, so come the end I suspect my favourite version will still be the original.

    So what have I found on second viewing?

    First up, Stringer is a bit of a monster. I think his charisma won me over previously, but now I'm truly seeing him for what he is. Power and greed.

    Second, Frank Sabotka wasn't all that innocent. Fair enough, he wasn't after financial gain, but he turned a blind eye in order to selfishly pursue his own ideology. He got more than what he deserved, but he certainly deserved to be on the end of something.

    Third, McNulty is a total dick. I quite liked his cheeky-chappie routine the first time around, but he's just a mess of a man and a terrible father. I actually dislike him now. Plus, there's nothing worse than a Yank that think he's Irish.

    Fourth. Levy. The scum-sucking lawyer and now, somewhat surprisingly, my new role-model. Since my first viewing of The Wire I've bagged myself a law degree. I was undecided about trying to enter the profession, but I'm starting to feel inspired. Thanks, Maury.


  • #65
    Mardy Bum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    Right Turn Clyde wrote: »
    I'm currently on my second viewing via the Sky HD boxsets. I was expecting the purist in me to rise to the surface and reject the widescreen transfer, but I actually quite like it. It looks great on my new Samsung. However, I have a real love for the 4:3 ratio in older TV shows and films, so come the end I suspect my favourite version will still be the original.

    So what have I found on second viewing?

    First up, Stringer is a bit of a monster. I think his charisma won me over previously, but now I'm truly seeing him for what he is. Power and greed.

    Second, Frank Sabotka wasn't all that innocent. Fair enough, he wasn't after financial gain, but he turned a blind eye in order to selfishly pursue his own ideology. He got more than what he deserved, but he certainly deserved to be on the end of something.

    Third, McNulty is a total dick. I quite liked his cheeky-chappie routine the first time around, but he's just a mess of a man and a terrible father. I actually dislike him now. Plus, there's nothing worse than a Yank that think he's Irish.

    Fourth. Levy. The scum-sucking lawyer and now, somewhat surprisingly, my new role-model. Since my first viewing of The Wire I've bagged myself a law degree. I was undecided about trying to enter the profession, but I'm starting to feel inspired. Thanks, Maury.

    Stringer is business man in the wrong business.

    Frank was too invested in the docks and let his life fall down around him. He was a tragic hero in the Oedpus variety.

    McNulty is another Oedipus and his redemption comes at the end.

    Levy is the only man who leaves the show having gained from it and lost nothing. A true parasite.


  • #66
    Right Turn Clyde
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Right Turn Clyde


    Mardy Bum wrote: »
    Frank was too invested in the docks and let his life fall down around him. He was a tragic hero in the Oedpus variety.

    McNulty is another Oedipus and his redemption comes at the end.

    Nah, not Oedipal. There's tragedy there, but they're too complicit in their own misfortune and downfall for a valid comparison. Perhaps there's a more appropriate comparison in the Greek Tragedy, but I'm only familiar with Sophocles.


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  • #67
    Mardy Bum
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,674 ✭✭✭Mardy Bum


    Right Turn Clyde wrote: »
    Nah, not Oedipal. There's tragedy there, but they're too complicit in their own misfortune and downfall for a valid comparison. Perhaps there's a more appropriate comparison in the Greek Tragedy, but I'm only familiar with Sophocles.

    You have just defined a tragic hero. Hubris and hamertia are two fundamental ingredients. Oedipus was complicit. He was the man who decided to cure the city (Like Jimmy and Baltimore and Frank and the docks) but in the end it destroyed him (like Jimmy until the end/ Frank is killed". He was big headed and didn't listen to his wife/mother or Tiresias when he was warned. The same way Jimmy didn't listen to anyone and ended up splitting with his wife and literally out at sea in one season exiled like Oedipus was exiled by the citizens. The same way Frank is indited and forced out before his death.

    David Simon references it quite a bit and cheekily includes the line "This is Baltimore gentleman the gods will not save you". Like Oedipus the gods cursed him/the city.


  • #68
    Right Turn Clyde
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Right Turn Clyde


    Mardy Bum wrote: »
    You have just defined a tragic hero. Hubris and hamertia are two fundamental ingredients. Oedipus was complicit. He was the man who decided to cure the city (Like Jimmy and Baltimore and Frank and the docks) but in the end it destroyed him (like Jimmy until the end/ Frank is killed". He was big headed and didn't listen to his wife/mother or Tiresias when he was warned. The same way Jimmy didn't listen to anyone and ended up splitting with his wife and literally out at sea in one season exiled like Oedipus was exiled by the citizens. The same way Frank is indited and forced out before his death.

    David Simon references it quite a bit and cheekily includes the line "This is Baltimore gentleman the gods will not save you". Like Oedipus the gods cursed him/the city.

    I had a feeling you were going to come back and rip me asunder. That's a very astute analysis.


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