Nearly every character in "The Wire" was super socially competent

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toggle: Nov 7, 2005

pr0p posted:

And every female hosed The Thing. WTF

guess who was a producer? lmao

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# ? Apr 26, 2024 07:59

Nelson Mandingo: Mar 27, 2005

Close the fuckin' door.

# ? Sep 6, 2015 07:10

mmmm: Jul 26, 2010; hey
you're one of them fancy lads, ain't ya?

Horniest Manticore posted:

creatively licensed?

oh, like taking creative license? if anything, it doesn't do enough of that since every loving character speaks in the same tiresome toughguy patter

yoou've got a point but the Wire is hardly the worst offender here. they had to compromise w. genre to get viewers beyond arthouse, just look at their current show about city politics lol

# ? Sep 6, 2015 08:11

house of the dad: Jul 4, 2005

stringer bell was a loving nerd

# ? Sep 6, 2015 08:13

Torquemada: Oct 21, 2010; Drei GlÃ¤ser

hemophilia posted:

The Wire was good, but not the best how ever or anything. The dialogue was fine mostly but some of the plotting wasn't real compelling like half of season 2 and the final season.

Great start in S1, S2 had stereotype European gangsters and that loving annoying Ziggy retard and his friend who couldn't act for poo poo. Massive step up in quality for S3 and S4, S5 was terrible sub CSI bullshit: faking a serial killer and the sperglord journalist inventing stuff left and right, while his co workers eyeroll and allow him to get away with it.

Best parts are better than anything else: but it didn't satisfy me the way The Shield did.

# ? Sep 6, 2015 10:54

Nefarious: Sep 26, 2000; by XyloJW

jesus christ shut up about the shield

the shield more like the poo poo

# ? Sep 6, 2015 11:07

Professor Shark: May 22, 2012

I was listening to an interview with Snoop, who really was a Baltimore gangster who slung rock and shot at people, and at the end of the interview she was like "Yeah thanks for havin' me- hey, don't edit this poo poo to make me look like I'm fuckin' crazy!" which was pretty cool because it was a live call in lol

# ? Sep 6, 2015 11:10

Robo Reagan: Feb 12, 2012; by Fluffdaddy

Zzulu posted:

why does this exist idgi

# ? Sep 6, 2015 11:21

Ork of Fiction: Jul 22, 2013

Nefarious posted:

jesus christ shut up about the shield

the shield more like the poo poo

Geez. Looks like someone's off his meds..

# ? Sep 6, 2015 11:24

Riot Bimbo: Dec 28, 2006

"The poo poo" is a term of endearment, if anyone else has English as a second language.

# ? Sep 6, 2015 11:52

ethanol: Jul 13, 2007

Nachoral poooloice

# ? Sep 6, 2015 12:29

thathonkey: Jul 17, 2012

Kevyn posted:

Nice dolphin nigga

# ? Sep 6, 2015 12:39

Lutha Mahtin: Oct 10, 2010; Your brokebrain sin is absolved...go and shitpost no more!

ethanol posted:

Nachoral poooloice

this is me after eating taco bell

# ? Sep 6, 2015 12:59

ElectricSheep: Jan 14, 2006; she had tiny Italian boobs.
Well that's my story.

pr0p posted:

Actually the dialog in the wire is pretty realistic. If it was written badly many of the scenes would drag the gently caress on. And nearly every character is broken. McNulty socially competent? lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lElf7D-An8

# ? Sep 6, 2015 13:07

raton: Jul 28, 2003; by FactsAreUseless

Nefarious posted:

jesus christ shut up about the shield

the shield more like the poo poo

bad wording but I agree also with bad wording

# ? Sep 6, 2015 13:14

mind the walrus: Sep 22, 2006

OP it's to illustrate the compensating measures people in a tough urban crime-ridden world have to use, plus portraying already poor, disenfranchised minorities without a compensating measure could easily feel like racist poverty tourism. Like even moreso than it already was.

# ? Sep 6, 2015 14:18

toggle: Nov 7, 2005

The shield is pretty imo

# ? Sep 6, 2015 14:34

Professor Shark: May 22, 2012

The Shield? That show been dead.

# ? Sep 6, 2015 15:55

FogHelmut: Dec 18, 2003

I like the two actors from Baltimore - that one mustache cop and the school lady. Goddamn that accent.

# ? Sep 6, 2015 16:00

SOME PIG: Aug 12, 2004; Hittin' Switches,
Twistin' wigs with
Phat Radical Mathematical type Scriptures

The OP is Dookie IM SORRY DuQuan. He constantly gets picked on for being a nerd, but he's good at computers and gets good grades. Next season he'll drop out of high school because he's too intimidated to go, then start shooting dope. He will soon be dead. RIP op.

Edit: ^ the mustache cop is Jay Landsman in real life. Why didn't he just play himself? Fat Jay Landsman is hilarious tho.

# ? Sep 6, 2015 16:03

Hobohemian: Sep 30, 2005; by XyloJW

Did anyone manage to finish Treme? How was that?

# ? Sep 6, 2015 16:07

Shifty gimbal: Dec 28, 2008; Hey you... I got something to tell ya; Biscuit Hider

I went thru the first season of this show and gave up on it because people were slurring out a made-up english that made every second spoken sentence unintelligible.

# ? Sep 6, 2015 16:13