I’ll say this: The Wire is one of the few times you’ll watch TV and not feel like the people making TV think you’re a fucking idiot.
Patton is a God.
The blogger. Not the general.
Buffy: How was school today? Dawn: The usual. A big square building filled with boredom and despair.
Buffy: Just how I remember it.
'The Killer In Me'
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[NAFDA] A thread for the discussion of all original programming on HBO, Showtime, Starz and other premium channels.
This is NOT a general TV discussion thread.
Gus - Sep 08, 2006 12:10:37 pm PDT #127 of 7329
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Hayden - Sep 08, 2006 12:19:18 pm PDT #128 of 7329
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
One of my friends got HBO's On Demand to work last night and has promised to bring me a tape of Ep 1 on Saturday. My general demeanor is not unlike a 6-yr-old on Xmas Eve.
Also, I enjoyed David's link in the Movies thread and love that Patton Oswalt is not just championing the show, but has a picture of himself with Robert Wisdom.
erikaj - Sep 08, 2006 12:20:11 pm PDT #129 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!
He speaks true. And he met Bunny Colvin, uh, Robert Wisdom, who has the coolest last name in the world. But it's dumb to ask people to have it on without watching, even as a joke. (But maybe my mad, though platonic, Colvin love will allow that to pass unremarked. For a while, on another board, I had "Colvin '08" as a tag.) Huh. "Irregular curves". could be just as easily applied to my dry spell as to my posting, Gus.
Gus - Sep 08, 2006 12:24:24 pm PDT #130 of 7329
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Just tried HBO On Demand. It doesn't like me.
That is okay. I can wait for Sunday, because I am all full of moral fiber and personal restraint and patience and such.
Why? Why doesn't HBO On Demand like me? I am a good person!
Hayden - Sep 08, 2006 12:26:04 pm PDT #131 of 7329
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Apparently, individual cable companies get to decide what goes on HBO On Demand. It's your cable company giving you no love.
Gus - Sep 08, 2006 12:30:32 pm PDT #132 of 7329
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Hmm. I'm on DirectTV, which has fewer cables ...
It is a plot perpetuated by Aussies in power. I knew it! Frackin' Aussies!
erikaj - Sep 08, 2006 12:34:15 pm PDT #133 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!
I could never get it to work because I'm so yo-tech. Besides I'm feeling all McCluhany and communal experience-like about the shit right now. Do you feel me?
Gus - Sep 08, 2006 12:38:34 pm PDT #134 of 7329
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Besides I'm feeling all McCluhan-y and communal experience-like about the shit right now.
Sure. Give me some more about about how you is too young for the discussion. It is becoming a torrent.
erikaj - Sep 08, 2006 12:47:09 pm PDT #135 of 7329
Always Anti-fascist!
Ok, so I studied media in college. And I'm not especially young anymore, just know more what to do if I wanted to kill somebody than bring him home because Steven Bochco warped me while Brooke Shields and Princess Diana warped my friends, okay? But you know, thanks anyway.
Gus - Sep 08, 2006 12:59:59 pm PDT #136 of 7329
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Math, where all the variables are named after tabloid headliners. I can do this.
BTW, for the on-lookers, you do not have to be as weird as erikaj or me to get into The Wire. You need only be as weird as Kristen, which is only middlin'-weird.