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I just stumbled across this thread and happen to be rewatching the show, what season/episode are we up to? e: vvvvvvvvv Cool thanks, I skimmed the OP and noticed that it said things would probably go at the rate of 2 eps per week, then saw it was from december and just figured it was out of date. Good to know. POLICE CAR AUCTION fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Feb 18, 2013 |
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Rewatching season three: holy poo poo, Rawls pops up at that gay bar near the end of the season for nearly a second. I'd heard about it but didn't notice until now.
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Feb 26, 2013 04:03
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I'm onto season three of my rewatch. I'm noticing a lot more small details on my second time through, and seeing a fair amount of callbacks to Simon's book, Homicide. Detective Worden, for instance, gets mentioned in passing a few times during the first season. And that scene at the start of the first episode--"this America man, you got to let him play"--it's so cool knowing that that actually happened. Blew my mind when I learned Bubbles, Omar, Landsman, and McNulty are all based on real people, too. One thing I'm wondering after wrapping up season two: do we ever find out what happens to Valchek's beloved surveillance van? When he tells the FBI guys about the prints he pulled off the polaroids they exchange kind of a "what the gently caress" look and I got the impression that they sort of blow him off. I wonder whether Sobotka wanted it tied up in shipping limbo for eternity or if he was just loving around and planned on having it eventually return to Baltimore. Given how much rancor exists between Valchek and the dockworkers (Sobotka especially; Valchek took all the poo poo that went on between them very personally), I'd figure he wanted it tied up forever. That whole thing with the polaroids and slapping a bumper sticker on at every new dock cracked my poo poo up pretty bad. That and Valchek getting pissed off enough to pull prints and contact the FBI about it. He gets so goddamn mad.
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Mar 4, 2013 20:12
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Scenes with Rawls being a caustic rear end in a top hat have become among my favorites after recently rewatching season 3. Goddamn, those Comsat sessions were just incredible. Nice foreshadowing of those in your latest writeup, Jerusalem.
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Mar 10, 2013 02:04
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One thing I hadn't put together until reading that article was the "assholes in suspenders" bit. So there's that.
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Mar 17, 2013 17:49
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Christ, I thought people were kidding when they said this show would ruin other TV for you. I was watching The Walking Dead recently and found myself rolling my eyes at how heavy-handed the storytelling was in one episode. Thanks a lot, David Simon 
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Apr 2, 2013 18:24
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Recently started reading The Corner (really good so far, by the way) and in a passage about old-school dealers and their soldiers, Dennis Wise gets namedropped. Guess Cutty is based on a real person, like so many other characters on the show?
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May 8, 2013 17:53
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Any word on the bluray rerelease? Google doesn't say poo poo and amazon has it on sale for $86. Been holding off a rewatch since the dvd video quality sucks so badly.
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Jun 19, 2015 06:11
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Got the remastered bluray version from amazon today and it looks loving GREAT, goddamn. The one thing I hated about this show was the dvd video quality and aspect ratio. Looks fantastic in 1080p widescreen.
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Jun 25, 2015 01:50
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