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kaworu posted:I don't have a problem with the character, so much as the actor and the way the character was portrayed. I think a character like McNulty was totally essential from the beginning; I've just come to realize that I don't much like the McNulty that we got, and watching season 4 and realizing how I don't even notice missing him really makes me realize that. While it would've been a different show if they'd cast him like they originally wanted to, it's a crying shame we don't at least have test footage of John C. Reilly as McNulty.
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comes along bort posted:While it would've been a different show if they'd cast him like they originally wanted to, it's a crying shame we don't at least have test footage of John C. Reilly as McNulty. Wait... What?
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Party Plane Jones posted:One thing you can notice in the HD version is the details on stuff that you wouldn't see in the original broadcast. Like how the prop money appears to have Levy's head on it. One thing I can't believe I never noticed before was a David Simon cameo in season 2. When the FBI and Valcheck arrest Frank and walk him out in front of all the reporters David Simon is one of the guys hounding him with questions. I'd seen this episode probably 10 times in SD and never spotted him before.
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RichardDunn posted:Wait... What? That's not entirely correct. Ray Winstone was their first choice but his accent was even worse than Dominic West's. They went after Reilly, but he turned them down because he didn't want to commit to a tv show.
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Just finished S2 HD rewatch. God drat, the first time around I remember not liking the whole dock worker thing as much as the rest, but wow poo poo, that season is really really good. Marlos first appearance, too! I love this show way too much.
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I know bunny turns up, but I thought Marlo was Ep 1 S3?
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comes along bort posted:That's not entirely correct. Ray Winstone was their first choice but his accent was even worse than Dominic West's. They went after Reilly, but he turned them down because he didn't want to commit to a tv show. bloody hell, can you imagine Ray Winstone doing the "epic bender, smashing his car then banging the waitress" scene?
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Stuff I've noticed rewatching season three: I distinctly remember McNulty saying to D'Angelo's mother, "I kinda liked your son - all things considered, he wasn't a bad guy." It stuck with me because that pretty much sums up how the viewer probably feels about him too. This time around, I noticed he says - almost verbatim - the same line to both D'Angelo's girlfriend and, four episodes later, his mother. It's a self-scripted line as part of his "reasonable homicide detective" front. Trainspotting - I've heard way more background train noises in this season, notably right after Stringer tells Avon his killed D'Angelo and they fight, when Mouzone approaches Omar in the alley, and the wires of a train are visible passing by the window after Stringer is shot. (Which makes you wonder why the hell he thought anyone would buy a condo when the living room faces out onto a train track.) Stringer calls the Western District and shortly afterwards Colvin gives McNulty a slip of paper with the address of Avon's safehouse, refusing to name the source. Later in the episode Stringer meets Colvin in the graveyard and again gives him a slip of paper, the dialogue indicating that it's just the same information. Why do this twice? Prez's fortune cookie right before he shoots another cop: "A new friend will make himself known to you." 
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I'm on my fifth rewatch, two HD episodes in so far and god drat, the show is so loving great and it looks gorgeous now. Last time I watched the show was probably back in 2010 or so, it weirdly kinda feels like reuniting with some friends after not having seen them in a long time. I've got the same poo poo-eating grin on my face as McNulty does after D'Angelo gets taken away from the interrogation room by Levy. e: Zat posted:I happened to come by a Swedish show recently in which Snoop Pearson shows them around some of The Wire's shooting locations and talks about stuff. I believe it was shot sometime in 2014. It's worth a watch. Thanks for posting this, very interesting Angryhead fucked around with this message at 13:29 on Jan 19, 2015 |
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Jan 19, 2015 12:06
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freebooter posted:Stringer calls the Western District and shortly afterwards Colvin gives McNulty a slip of paper with the address of Avon's safehouse, refusing to name the source. Later in the episode Stringer meets Colvin in the graveyard and again gives him a slip of paper, the dialogue indicating that it's just the same information. Why do this twice? I think you might just have your chronology mixed up here, because there is only *one* slip of yellow paper with Avon's safehouse in it. McNulty figures it out when he sees the Western District number pop up *twice* on the wire - the first time when Bell contacts Bunny to give him information so Colvin knows he's a confirmed C.I. and not somebody loving with him, and the second time to set up the meet at the graveyard where Bell gives Colvin the safehouse info. It's only after that when Colvin and McNulty meet up at the Western District (the place with the beer cans alllll over the roof) and Colvin hands off the slip of paper - "the last bit of real police work in a long career" - which as I recall actually ends the episode in question, since it's when we finally get that great shot of the roof of the Western Districts with its thousands of beer cans. One episode really bleeds into the next when you're doing a rewatch like this, though. kaworu fucked around with this message at 13:21 on Jan 19, 2015 |
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Watching the show with my parents was an experience. Season 5 and my dad is saying poo poo like: "Wait, so is this guy Omar or Marlo?" "Who's Jay?" "Who's Chris?" "Snoop was a girl this whole time?" Latent racism or early onset senility? I don't want to know.
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Watching the show with my parents was an experience. Season 5 and my dad is saying poo poo like: I don't know that I'd call it racism but there is definitely something like face-blindness that happens with white people who spend decades upon decades immersed in media that only ever features other white people. They have a hard time adjusting to a show where the whole cast is black and you are expected to distinguish between them.
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Basebf555 posted:I don't know that I'd call it racism but there is definitely something like face-blindness that happens with white people who spend decades upon decades immersed in media that only ever features other white people. They have a hard time adjusting to a show where the whole cast is black and you are expected to distinguish between them. Simon makes the same point in, I think Homicide, that when the Korean shops were robbed by white guys, the Koreans had a massive problem telling white guys apart
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kaworu posted:I think you might just have your chronology mixed up here, because there is only *one* slip of yellow paper with Avon's safehouse in it. McNulty figures it out when he sees the Western District number pop up *twice* on the wire - the first time when Bell contacts Bunny to give him information so Colvin knows he's a confirmed C.I. and not somebody loving with him, and the second time to set up the meet at the graveyard where Bell gives Colvin the safehouse info. It's only after that when Colvin and McNulty meet up at the Western District (the place with the beer cans alllll over the roof) and Colvin hands off the slip of paper - "the last bit of real police work in a long career" - which as I recall actually ends the episode in question, since it's when we finally get that great shot of the roof of the Western Districts with its thousands of beer cans. Maybe I'll have to check again, but I'm 95% sure it's all in order - Stringer calls Western, then Colvin gives McNulty the address, then Stringer gives Colvin the address again at the graveyard. On a completely different note, I never noticed before that Bunk says he was only a few years above Omar at high school. Omar says he's 28 in season two. There is no loving way that Bunk is in his early 30s. Although, interestingly, the actor who plays Omar really is only a few years younger than the actor who plays Bunk - he was born in 1966 or something. He looks good. I don't know why they didn't just make Omar a 38-year-old.
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So are they actually planning to release the HD versions on Blu Ray? I really really hope that standalone HBO service comes to the UK. I know Sky wont let that happen but please god.
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freebooter posted:Maybe I'll have to check again, but I'm 95% sure it's all in order - Stringer calls Western, then Colvin gives McNulty the address, then Stringer gives Colvin the address again at the graveyard. They probably made him 28 because living to 38 with his job would be drat near impossible.
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Steve2911 posted:So are they actually planning to release the HD versions on Blu Ray? The Blu-Rays are supposed to come out sometime in July.
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perpetulance posted:They probably made him 28 because living to 38 with his job would be drat near impossible. The coroner puts him at 34 in S5. And you never know, you know that rough looking dude that works muscle for Butchy? That's the "real" Omar. Andrews, I think his name was, unfortunately dead of natural causes now. A long prison stint got him out of the stick up game and he spent the rest of his life trying to make positive changes in cities stricken with the drug trade.
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Red Crown posted:The coroner puts him at 34 in S5. And you never know, you know that rough looking dude that works muscle for Butchy? That's the "real" Omar. Andrews, I think his name was, unfortunately dead of natural causes now. A long prison stint got him out of the stick up game and he spent the rest of his life trying to make positive changes in cities stricken with the drug trade. It would've been nice to see Omar get that ending. 
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Red Crown posted:The coroner puts him at 34 in S5. And you never know, you know that rough looking dude that works muscle for Butchy? That's the "real" Omar. Andrews, I think his name was, unfortunately dead of natural causes now. A long prison stint got him out of the stick up game and he spent the rest of his life trying to make positive changes in cities stricken with the drug trade. He was actually blind right? Is that how he became blind or was it age?
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Red Crown posted:The coroner puts him at 34 in S5. And you never know, you know that rough looking dude that works muscle for Butchy? That's the "real" Omar. Andrews, I think his name was, unfortunately dead of natural causes now. A long prison stint got him out of the stick up game and he spent the rest of his life trying to make positive changes in cities stricken with the drug trade. My one of those was casting the real Bmore drug kingpin as that preacher that gets Cutty the space for his gym.
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And the real jay landsman working for fake jay landsman.
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Which reminds me, I knew Ed Norris the homicide detective was played by Ed Norris the ex-BPD commish, but I didn't know he was actually still the sitting commissioner when they filmed Season 1. That rules.
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Bleh Maestro posted:He was actually blind right? Is that how he became blind or was it age? Don't know - not Butch, Butch's muscle. You first see him when he gears Omar up for a shivvin' in jail.He's killed when Omar raids the 5th floor apartment. Kevyn posted:Which reminds me, I knew Ed Norris the homicide detective was played by Ed Norris the ex-BPD commish, but I didn't know he was actually still the sitting commissioner when they filmed Season 1. That rules. Art imitates life or??? quote:In December 2003, Norris was indicted on three charges by U.S. Attorney Thomas DiBiagio. Two of the counts charged Norris had made illegal personal expenditures of over $20,000 to pay for expensive gifts, personal expenses, and extramarital affairs with at least six women from the Baltimore Police Department’s supplemental account.[2] The third count alleged that he had lied on a mortgage application, stating that approximately $9,000 he received from his father was a gift, when it was actually a loan. From the Wikipedia. I had no idea.
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Skeesix posted:My one of those was casting the real Bmore drug kingpin as that preacher that gets Cutty the space for his gym. Wait, what?
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Phenotype posted:Wait, what? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Williams_%28actor%29
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Red Crown posted:The coroner puts him at 34 in S5. And you never know, you know that rough looking dude that works muscle for Butchy? That's the "real" Omar. Andrews, I think his name was, unfortunately dead of natural causes now. A long prison stint got him out of the stick up game and he spent the rest of his life trying to make positive changes in cities stricken with the drug trade. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Andrews is the guy you're talking about.
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Jay Landsman looks disgusting in HD. Those burgers. That sushi.
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Red Crown posted:Don't know - not Butch, Butch's muscle. You first see him when he gears Omar up for a shivvin' in jail.He's killed when Omar raids the 5th floor apartment. Party Plane Jones posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Andrews is the guy you're talking about. Oh Derp I misread as Butchy
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LordPants posted:I know bunny turns up, but I thought Marlo was Ep 1 S3? Ohh yeah, I couldn't help myself and watched the first episode of S3 already and probably just didn't register that Season 2 was over when I saw it. Or something. Philthy fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Jan 20, 2015 |
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freebooter posted:Maybe I'll have to check again, but I'm 95% sure it's all in order - Stringer calls Western, then Colvin gives McNulty the address, then Stringer gives Colvin the address again at the graveyard. OK, my mistake, I hadn't rewatched the very final episode yet. There are two slips of paper but they have two different Avon addresses: 1. Stringer calls the Western and informs them of something we don't see onscreen, but we can guess from later in the episode when Colvin gives McNulty a slip of paper at his desk in the Western. It's a Barksdale address which is registered in his name - probably the penthouse. 2. Later in that episode, Stringer meets Colvin at the graveyard and gives him the address of Avon's weapon-filled safehouse. In the final episode, Colvin passes this to McNulty. This meeting occurs in a park.
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Mu Zeta posted:Jay Landsman looks disgusting in HD. Those burgers. That sushi. It takes effort to cultivate that kind of body. You should show some respect!
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What about that end of the season with Daniel's finely chiseled rear end?
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LordPants posted:What about that end of the season with Daniel's finely chiseled rear end? 
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Gargamel Gibson posted:Watching the show with my parents was an experience. Season 5 and my dad is saying poo poo like:
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Aye Doc posted:I thought landsman's rear end looked pretty decent in hd Speak again, oh toothless one.
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Toph Bei Fong posted:"You should go out and spend some of the money on something you can touch: a new car, a new coat. It's why we get up in the morning, right?" From 2 pages back, but this is quietly one of the most heartbreaking lines in season 2. The Greek knows what Frank will never realize: that no amount of smuggling can ever allow him to outspend the developers and save the union. In Canada, they only aired the HD remaster on Bravo for a bit. I couldn't stand the commercial breaks and I'm not sure if they're still airing it. But all the talk somehow has me doing what has to be like a 12th rewatch, about to start Season 2.
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