Could not find much "Wire" commentary on the site,
Yeah, he watched it before he started doing the commentary. It's one of his favorite shows and he considers it a masterpiece.
Gavin, ask yourself this question. What are you more afraid of, a giant murderous demon or me?
Lilah ,'Destiny'
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
DavidS - Jan 11, 2012 6:42:37 am PST #8222 of 10459
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
askye - Jan 11, 2012 6:50:49 am PST #8223 of 10459
Thrive to spite them
erikaj - Jan 11, 2012 6:55:04 am PST #8224 of 10459
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, it would have been interesting to watch that evolve, but it's not like I haven't spent a lot of time hashing it over...probably for the best. Well, if I'm going to write that novel this year, it probably is. I don't get where he is coming from a lot of the time, anyway.(Which is probably me...I didn't mean to act as though I was calling him a dumbass or anything...just having things in common doesn't mean you're on the same page, though it can give me an opener from time to time.)
Frankenbuddha - Jan 11, 2012 6:59:35 am PST #8225 of 10459
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
He's coming up on a Dru-heavy set of episodes soon, so he'll have to pay attention. Isn't What's My Line right after Dark Ages?
DavidS - Jan 11, 2012 7:16:40 am PST #8226 of 10459
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Isn't What's My Line right after Dark Ages?
Yup.
Lee - Jan 11, 2012 8:04:20 am PST #8227 of 10459
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Askye, I assume that's from the most recent season of Luther, since I am behind on it and haven;t gotten there, which means it should be spoiler fonted.
askye - Jan 11, 2012 8:08:32 am PST #8228 of 10459
Thrive to spite them
Perkins, sorry it's stuff that I was kinda remembering from the first episode and also forgetting about the spoiler policy.
Sorry!
§ ita § - Jan 11, 2012 9:00:50 am PST #8229 of 10459
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I get that slightly naive emotion is his thing, but it seems really trivial in the realm of evil to be grossed out by disregard for consent issues, is my point. I'm not going rank pain, just to point that lots and lots of horrible things are to happen every week. It's the point of the show.
it doesn't mean that he doesn't enjoy it from a storytelling perspective. It's two totally different things.
What does it mean? That he's against rape and sexual assault?
DavidS - Jan 11, 2012 9:09:02 am PST #8230 of 10459
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
disregard for consent issues
FWIW, a lot of the discussion around "Seeing Red" on this board centered on the presentation of rape in the show. How for many people it plays as worse on screen than murder, and makes the character irredeemable. That in the real world murder, kidnapping, torture were all worse or equally bad crimes but that rape and sexual assault affected them differently within the context of a TV show or movie.
Typo Boy - Jan 11, 2012 10:19:27 am PST #8231 of 10459
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Rape and sexual assault are much more common crimes - than kidnapping, murder and torture. That may affect how we perceive them on screen. Also, in our culture excusing rape is much more common that excusing the other crimes mentioned (though this board is blessedly free of that particular social flaw) which may also affect how on-screen rape and assault is perceived.