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lisah - Mar 10, 2008 4:56:38 am PDT #1449 of 7329
Punishingly Intricate

aww, thanks Corwood!

You know I didn't realize until I read it in the paper last week that the cop bar is actually a little punk rock bar where we've played a million times. [link]

I'm still so overwhelmed by last night's love letter to my fucked up city.


Hayden - Mar 10, 2008 6:55:41 am PDT #1450 of 7329
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

I think those Baltimore scenes were my favorites, although according to a number of critics online today, I am apparently a sucker for something called "fan service," which, in their view, seems to involve any sort of satisfactory resolution to a storyline. Based on the wikipedia definition, I can buy it for Michael's resolution, but anyone else's? Nah.


Tom Scola - Mar 10, 2008 7:04:48 am PDT #1451 of 7329
hwæt

You don't watch much anime, do you? In that world fanservice has a whole different meaning.


lisah - Mar 10, 2008 7:14:03 am PDT #1452 of 7329
Punishingly Intricate

I am apparently a sucker for something called "fan service," which, in their view, seems to involve any sort of satisfactory resolution to a storyline

Fuck 'em. Maybe it was a little pat but all the resolutions made sense to me. Especially Michael's.


-t - Mar 10, 2008 7:15:28 am PDT #1453 of 7329
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

the cop bar is actually a little punk rock bar where we've played a million times.

Neat!

I'm a little surprised, but what choked me up the most was the pictures of people we didn't know, just ordinary Baltimoreans going about their business,

The thing about those storyline resolutions - they aren't endings, they're just what happens next, and they're the natural things to happen next. No unbelievable plot twist had to come out of nowhere to make a point or give someone a happy ending or whatever.


lisah - Mar 10, 2008 7:17:32 am PDT #1454 of 7329
Punishingly Intricate

I'm a little surprised, but what choked me up the most was the pictures of people we didn't know, just ordinary Baltimoreans going about their business

oh me too. I loved that so much.

Also, the David Simon cameo!


Hayden - Mar 10, 2008 7:18:21 am PDT #1455 of 7329
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

You don't watch much anime, do you?

Unless it's from Studio Ghibli, my default attitude is avoid.


Hayden - Mar 10, 2008 7:19:26 am PDT #1456 of 7329
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

I dug the David Simon cameo, too.


le nubian - Mar 10, 2008 7:22:37 am PDT #1457 of 7329
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

what did people want? a blood bath? I thought the ending wrapped up just enough for me to feel satisfied. Most of the characters I "cared" about, I kind of know what happens in the next year or two. We got the obligatory cycle of life stuff.

I'm satisfied. I wasn't one who hated the "Sopranos" finale, but I liked "The Wire's" better.


Hayden - Mar 10, 2008 7:29:56 am PDT #1458 of 7329
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

I didn't like Michael's final scene. I could buy that kind of change in his life, but the echoes of the guy he was emulating (I'm being purposefully vague here) were a little too broad. I am ambivalent about McNulty's scene with Templeton, too.

But those are minor complaints at best.