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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: TL on February 17, 2008, 09:37:58 AM
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I did it! In less than two weeks, I caught up on the whole thing so far (having been given seasons 1-3 on DVD for X-mess), climaxing in either the most pathetic or most amazing Valentine's Day ever, on which I purchased season four pretty early in the morning, and finished it pretty early in the night, and sort of "denouement-ing" yesterday, as I took advantage of someone I know being gone for the weekend, to stay at their house and get busy on their Comcast OnDemand, to catch completely up on season five in a Friday to Saturday overnight.
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TL, you're a man after my own heart. It's plain to see you've earned your orange crate just like the rest of us.
I still haven't watched any of this season's Wires. I want to sit down and view them all in a marathon, a là you, but somehow whenever the right stretch of time looms before me I just haven't had the gumption for it. I'm planning on having a mild hangover on Thursday, however; maybe that'll be the big day.
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Watching an entire season in a single day is a pretty amazing feat.
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I salute you, TL.
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I would do that, but I like letting each episode sink in. Let them settle for a while in my mind before moving onto the next one. Still, that's a notable feat.
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I did it! In less than two weeks, I caught up on the whole thing so far (having been given seasons 1-3 on DVD for X-mess), climaxing in either the most pathetic or most amazing Valentine's Day ever, on which I purchased season four pretty early in the morning, and finished it pretty early in the night, and sort of "denouement-ing" yesterday, as I took advantage of someone I know being gone for the weekend, to stay at their house and get busy on their Comcast OnDemand, to catch completely up on season five in a Friday to Saturday overnight.
;D
???
:-\
:'(
;)
This confirms everything Fox News told me about the disgusting, hedonistic rock n' roll lifestyle. TL, you now rank right behind Bonzo (the drummer, not the monkey) and Gene Simmons.
Seriously, that is prodigious. I thought I was impressive watching 5 a week with the Wire reups on on-demand.
After tomorrow, just two more to go...
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This confirms everything Fox News told me about the disgusting, hedonistic rock n' roll lifestyle. TL, you now rank right behind Bonzo (the drummer, not the monkey) and Gene Simmons.
Trust me dude - it wasn't pretty, and I wouldn't recommend it to the young'uns.
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Watching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles last night, I was briefly violently disoriented when Bubbles turned up, playing a resistance fighter from the future. It felt very wrong.
(In case you're wondering, the reasoning I'm posting this here is that I figured watching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is something about which I should feel slightly ashamed.)
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Watching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles last night, I was briefly violently disoriented when Bubbles turned up, playing a resistance fighter from the future. It felt very wrong.
(In case you're wondering, the reasoning I'm posting this here is that I figured watching Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is something about which I should feel slightly ashamed.)
You stuck with the show longer then I did Sarah. But I'll tell you what is weird seeing Sen Clayton Davis hawking for Southwest Airlines.
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I did something like that except what I did was watch Season 1, then randomly catch the latest episode of Season 5 in a hotel room and then fill in the blanks in my mind:
McNulty is gonna get canned and hated on by everyone, or kill himself or something.
The lady-cop lady got ditched by her girlfriend but not before gettin in over her head with an in vitrio fertilization baby thing with her girlfriend (???) but lady cop lady is the one that gave birth, that's why she still gets visitation rights, even though lady cop lady's ex-girlfriend is the one with the money that's why the kid mainly stays with her (????????????).
Holy Smokes! Sinewy guy that runs everything divorced his fancy wife and is now with McNolte's booty-call D.A.! WTF
4 years later they finally busted that senator and then he got off by playing to the bleachers.
McNolte and mini-furniture guy became way-tight bros and think they're above the chain of command and now are toying with the entire city in order to crack theWire code on this text message thing, but by the time they figure it out, shit will be out of control and they'll have shit on them.
There's all this stuff about the Baltimore Sun that's just embarrassing and probably everyone wishes it would go away, am I right?
There's different kids now.
Someone hurt Omar's leg but he's still killing people and scaring them.
All caught up!!
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Season 4 is awesome-good and you should watch it. It has been my favorite season so far. (Haven't seen 5 yet)
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I did something like that except what I did was watch Season 1, then randomly catch the latest episode of Season 5 in a hotel room and then fill in the blanks in my mind:
McNulty is gonna get canned and hated on by everyone, or kill himself or something.
The lady-cop lady got ditched by her girlfriend but not before gettin in over her head with an in vitrio fertilization baby thing with her girlfriend (???) but lady cop lady is the one that gave birth, that's why she still gets visitation rights, even though lady cop lady's ex-girlfriend is the one with the money that's why the kid mainly stays with her (????????????).
Holy Smokes! Sinewy guy that runs everything divorced his fancy wife and is now with McNolte's booty-call D.A.! WTF
4 years later they finally busted that senator and then he got off by playing to the bleachers.
McNolte and mini-furniture guy became way-tight bros and think they're above the chain of command and now are toying with the entire city in order to crack theWire code on this text message thing, but by the time they figure it out, shit will be out of control and they'll have shit on them.
There's all this stuff about the Baltimore Sun that's just embarrassing and probably everyone wishes it would go away, am I right?
There's different kids now.
Someone hurt Omar's leg but he's still killing people and scaring them.
All caught up!!
Lady cop lady didn't give birth, the other one did. Oh, and they (sorta) legalized drugs for a while. And someone had a pet duck. Other than that, yeah, that about sums it up.
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Pet duck!? There was a guy who hung around MICA (Md. Inst. College of Art in Baltimore) that had a pet duck. Think he may have even been faculty. I think he was a ceramicist.
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Actually John J most of the stuff you talk about happens in season 3 which I'm re-watching.
Also it finally dawned on me where I've seen Prez before it was making me nuts. He was in Singles.
Also Omar got hurt this season
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As someone who watched it early on (when it wasn't written about that much), Ive kinda not had to deal with heightened expectations. What did you think?
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Lady cop lady didn't give birth, the other one did. Oh, and they (sorta) legalized drugs for a while. And someone had a pet duck. Other than that, yeah, that about sums it up.
This sums up the first 4 seasons in 4 minutes: http://www.spike.com/video/2932757/subchannel/viralvideo
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I think heightened expectations really came into play after the fourth season. Before that, it was still a relatively "what's that now?" thing. I was lucky enough to get in before it, but I can't say I wouldn't be turned off by the hype too at this stage.
TL, kudos for finding a way to make watching television a test of personal endurance. Did it enhance it to watch it as one complete narrative instead of as separate seasons? Did you feel a sense of structure to the show as a whole?