Greyfox wrote: » I think the wire is in the top 5 tv shows ever made and 100 times better than the overratted sopranos. Game of thrones is the best written show in existence and has far more depth, complexity and epic scale than any other show. Breaking bad is the only show that can match GOT for surprises and complex characterisation. The wire is the most accurate and realistic show ever made, it will never be matched in accuracy and How true to life it is.. The wire though is only 8.5/10 in terms of exciting to watch, it doesn't have any holy F*** moments which GOT and bbad are famous for
Lilith Angry Grouch wrote: » People only compare The Wire and The Sopranos because they're both American crime shows and they're the first two big hitters of the Golden Age. The Sopranos is deeply focused on character, and the heritability of character. The Catholic faith and culture of most of the characters has a big effect on how the themes of guilt, death, redemption are presented. There are what, three or four episodes that are mostly dream sequences, a few other implications of life beyond ordinary reality, magical or divine. The focus on character and theme means that plot isn't as important really, there's certainly a repetitive thing of bringing in a big disruptive threat and then killing them almost out of nowhere, and I remember seeing a few plot-holes last watch. The Wire is focussed on place, procedure and "issues" rather than themes or character and is deeply committed to realism, iirc there's maybe one scene with non- diegetic music even, let alone a dream sequence. In The Sopranos, weak people make bad choices with bad consequences; in The Wire, even the strongest have very little power but the bad things happen anyway. They're all trapped from the first episode. Families, in the normal sense, barely exist in it. The two shows were germinated in their respective David's experience; one from years as a regional journalist in a city practically at civil war, the other from years in therapy after a monstrous mother. It's not to say the characters in The Wire or the plotting in The Sopranos was poor, far from it. But judging which one is "better" has always seemed odd to me. It's like which is objectively better, hats or skirts? Chocolate or strawberry? It's going to come down to preference and context like.
Bambi wrote: » When Phil complains to Tony that Fat Dom has disappeared and was last seen in Jersey "So was the Hindenberg, maybe ya wanna look into dat too!"
Hammer89 wrote: » Carmine Lupertazzi on therapy: "There's no stigmata over these things anymore." He wasn't in it a lot, but there's a lot of quotables.
Riddle101 wrote: » "A pint of blood costs more than a gallon of gold" Everyone in the room looked confused at that.
tinpib wrote: » Season 1 Episode 2. Christopher and Brenden were warned not to rob trucks on Junior's routes. In one of the first dark but hilarious scenes Brenden robs one anyway. A gun falls out of the lap of one of the robbers and hits the gorund and goes off. Everyone gets a huge shock but are seemingly fine and then the driver falls forward, dead. When Christopher is explaining it to Tony. Christopher: "And, uh the driver…you know…I dunno…he caught some friendly fire or something…”
Thargor wrote: » 16 page thread and nobody mentions this scene?
EagererBeaver wrote: » The entire transcript was posted.
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