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I was under the impression that it was a copycat murder, not there being an actual serial killer, although it's been a while since I've watched this show. The best parts of the fifth season all involve us seeing what has become of characters like Bubbles, Johnny 50, Nick Sobotka, Randy Wagstaff, and the like. It's unfortunate, because they couldn't've made an entire season out of vignettes like these.
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God, that final scene with Bubbles makes me cry every single time. His entire arc this season was just wonderfully done, and is among the best things this show has done. Thank you, escape artist and Jerusalem, for making this thread.
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Gambrinus posted:Bloody awesome stuff, boys. Any chance of sticking them all up on a website somewhere? For real, this needs to be archived somewhere.
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According to Wikipedia, he did the penultimate episodes for each season, along with S2E8 and S3E4. So yes, it is fair to say that his episodes are among (if not) the bleakest in the entire show.
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Renzian posted:I think to get the full impact of the statement Cutty's arc makes about ex-cons place in society, one has to sort of read between the lines. The only way Cutty was able to get on his feet and escape the Game completely is because he had all this help and these friends in high places who were willing to help him get the permits and stuff needed to make his gym, and to navigate through the red tape. Now let's look at real life. 99% of ex-cons don't have that. 99% of ex-cons are seen as the scum of the earth by 'respectable' folk. So, Cutty had a way out, he had hope, but the vast majority of ex-cons in real life don't. In real life, Cutty probably would have either been forced to stay back in the Game or end up sleeping on benches just scraping by. Just imagine what would've happened if he didn't have Avon to lend him the money to start a gym...
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thathonkey posted:Yeah I honestly wish we could get a redo of S5 somehow sans the ridiculous fake serial killer plot I could tolerate the serial killer subplot, but the newsroom scenes were death. I would vastly prefer a season five where those were removed, instead.
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It sullied several characters for me also.
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gingerberger posted:Her, Snoop, Marlo, maybe Cheese come to mind. Now, now, Snoop was responsible for the scenes where she bought the nailgun, as well as her response to drive-by shootings. She can't have been completely irredeemable.
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I couldn't get into Deadwood. It seemed like a show that tried to go for a  dark and mature take on the Western, but failed to give us characters that were likeable in any way. Unlike series like The Wire, or Game of Thrones, nobody seemed like they were having any fun, or that they enjoyed anything. Instead, it was an endless parade of people being miserable, angry, and backstabby. What's more, I had heard a (possibly inaccurate?) spoiler that the reason Swearengen was so ruthless was because he had been raped as a child, which is the kind of thing you'd see in poorly-written fanfiction.Also the modern cursing came across as completely artificial.
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3Romeo posted:It took me a long time to get into Deadwood, but once I did, I was hooked. And I know it's heresy in this thread, but I think it's better than The Wire in many ways. Or, to put it better, I think it completes the story The Wire tells. Deadwood is about the way people coalesce around symbols and create society, while The Wire is about the decay of both those things. Both shows stand alone, but looking at relationships between them--the same way you might look at inter-textual relationships between novels--gives you a whole new perspective. Ah, ok. I didn't actually make it that far- I dropped it midway through the fifth episode- but the way you describe it makes it sound like there's a lot more going on than appeared on the surface. I also need to have words with the people who recommended it to me originally, to find out where exactly they got that interpretation of Swearengen-at-the-orphanage from. 
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escape artist, are you still around? The OP is missing a link to the recap of -30-.
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vuk83 posted:How is it that 16:9 and 4:3 is not the same. The ratios are the same. I dont get it. 1.777... and 1.333... are not the same number.
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