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I just watched the first season of the shield in 3 nights. I had never gotten around to watching it when it was on for some goddamn reason or another but goddamn it's great. Great characters, great arc, great progression, basically perfect. If you haven't seen it then you really should, it's frigging amazing, even my wife loves it and she hates TV shows that star ugly men. So now an observation with spoiler tags as not to screw things up for those that like me haven't seen it yet: drat, every loving illegal or corner-cutting thing he does fucks things up and demands that he does something EVEN WORSE to save his rear end.. So post endorsements tell me if this show remains awesome or if it sags in the middle or whatever. Let's get people watching this poo poo if they haven't already.
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The Walrus posted:this is the series, basically
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Mar 25, 2009 21:11
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No spoilers INCLUDES THE FIRST EPISODE. Reed Diamond was the best character in the first two seasons - agree or disagree?
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slotbadger posted:I tried the first two episodes pretty much the day after finishing with The Wire, and was a little unimpressed. It seemed a little over the top, a little bit too cheesy to be able to take itself that seriously... That being said it's no Sopranos. Nothing is. And BSG is pretty great if you come in (as I did) with low expectations.
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Mar 26, 2009 13:41
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Halfway through season 2. Started slow, but when it got going drat. It was nice to see Shane doing something competent, I was beginning to wonder how the gently caress he got as far as he did.
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Mar 29, 2009 20:31
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Bump because I'm in season 4 now. Except for a lul at the beginning of season 2 it's been terrific. BUT they changed from film to video with this season, and the direction seems to be a lot more conventional. Anybody else notice this?
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Apr 29, 2009 16:45
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Pigma_Micron posted:They didn't go from film to video, they went from 35mm in season 1 to 16mm in every subsequent season....
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Apr 30, 2009 03:27
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Now only 20 minutes into season 5 and Holy poo poo it keeps getting better. To continue the film/video notes that interest nobody but me, I looked back at the start of 4. The first one was mostly video, but some film, and they cut in occasional video segments in the next few episodes but they were graded to look like film. There's also a video segment at the start of S5e1 when vic talks to the oval office ci that's jarring, it wasn't even graded to match the rest of the footage.
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May 12, 2009 22:48
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Pigma_Micron posted:I actually went back to check it out and I honestly don't see it. The only thing I can think of is that you're mistaking them going into 30fps for when there are monitors in the scene for video. Just watch that one scene in s5e1, it's glaringly different. There's also one scene in s4e1 where there's an obvious auto white balance adjustment; that's what drove me down this obsessional rathole.
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May 13, 2009 18:58
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Smorgasbord posted:Stoked for Walton Goggins, he deserves a ton of awards for his work on The Shield.
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Jun 5, 2009 16:39
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drat, I started this thread 5 months ago, and now I finished the show, just now. Wow. What an ending for everybody. As has been mentioned before, the ending was perfect for everyone. Nobody in this thread has mentioned how amazing Mara was at the end. And the use of X and Concrete Blonde, to me 2 of the ultimate LA bands, was beyond perfection. Remulak fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Aug 24, 2009 |
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The Commish in on Netflix on demand. If you want to see a good example of what actors do it's phenomenal watching how he does the Commish relative to Vic.
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Wartime Consigliere posted:And man, I really hated Claudette throughout the whole series.
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Borh posted:I don't think the gif qualifies as a spoiler, so here you go:
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Wartime Consigliere posted:Shawn Ryan combines The Shield and The Unit to bring us corrupt soldiers teaching an Iraqi army tactics and strategy.
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May 19, 2011 14:16
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Fans of Walt Goggins should know that Predators is worth wading through just to catch a him jumping on a Predator and stabbing it with a prison shiv yelling "die you alien human being". This was the unexpected fun movie moment of the year for me.
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Jun 20, 2011 18:34
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Junkenstein posted:Terriers and Justified should be the Shield followups really. Sons of Anarchy as well I guess, although it's really hard to recommend that nowadays.
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Well half an hour gone to Google and I can't find that season one gif of Vic running THROUGH the fence that would show how awesome season one can be.
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MrBling posted:this?
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Remulak fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Mar 25, 2013 |
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Conquistador posted:Did they change something production wise between s3 and s4? The camera seems...different. I can't find it but someplace on the archives you can find a meltdown I had when they cut in DV scene into an ep near the end of season 3. I'm really sensitive to stuff like that, most people don't mind it.
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