The Sopranos Vs. The Wire

lol waht? link?

Sopranos, because it's the series I've actually seen some of. (I plan to watch The Wire, just haven't gotten to it yet.)

voted wire although im alright with sopranos - i cant believe everyone didnt point this out above but maybe after they read him say the shit about italian accents they just tl;dr'd the rest of his post but wtf @ matt p saying that the godfather's i & ii and goodfellas are "boring"

or "zzz" or whatever it was he said

Goodfellas is like the most watchable and entertaining 2 1/2 hour movie ever. I can't fathom someone being bored by it.

Next major ILx poll should be scenes from Goodfellas.

Wire character poll been done?

Race for second maybe?

"shit tonne" ftw

Omar Little vs Paulie Walnuts poll

And I'm trying to find the article about how The Sopranos led to these NJ mob arrests, but "sopranos arrests" just brings up details of how seemingly every Sopranos actor except Peter Bogdaonich has been to prison since the show ended.

i think we have determined that the sopranos = way more "drama nerd" than the wire.

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, November 15, 2008 8:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hahaha true tho wire is i guess way more "message board nerd"

I took drama in college but like The Wire more.

You're excommunicated from the drama nerd club 4 LIFE. You can't reapply for re-entry until you've seen Angels in America four more times.

Who doesn't think "drama nerd" when they watch Tony Sirico or Steve Schrippa?

One thing in The Wire's favour is that at least none of the cast have gone on to release books entitled something like "HOW TO BE A BLACK MAN"

how is that in its favour??

i think we have determined that the sopranos = way more "drama nerd" than the wire.

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, November 15, 2008 8:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hahaha true tho wire is i guess way more "message board nerd" stuff white people like

― s1ocki, Sunday, November 16, 2008 3:19 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

whiney how is that not true of the sopranos?

man that site was stupid

black ppl love the wire

yah but white people like it too dont you see??

black people hate the wire, its true. the re-runs on bet were totally random

the sopranos takes a soap opera premise and makes it 'tough'
the wire takes a cop show premise and makes made it operatic

wire ftw

other stuff white people like:

I mean, i def agree with that to an extent re the pieces he uses: R&B Autotuners, hipster-house squelches, Lil Wayne and Young Jeezy, Blue Man Group thwaps, even some Animal Collective style noises in the bridges.

But when he puts it all together it's uniquely Kanye. That's why it's great!

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, November 13, 2008 1:11 PM (3 days ago)

Stuff Whine People Like

White people like talking about Stuff White People Like.

i was just makin a joke about how some 20-something whiteys i have met are like OMG WIRE YES OMAR IS THE MAN!!!1 because it's their version of saying "I'm cool with black ppl"

the sopranos has a version too, which is older men working words like "gabbagool" and "mannagge" into everyday conversation.

I'm not talking about any of you, so you can quit pissing your pants now.

too late already pissed my pants when i was afraid other white people might like the same thing as me

The 20-something whiteys from the hilarious 'Williamsburg' neighborhood

There is a kind of suburban, middle class voyeurism thing about the Wire though. "Now I understand what the ghetto is all about."

Watching TV is voyeuristic? Who knew?!

Hey, I'm just trying to throw whiney a bone.

You people are fucking weird sometimes.

"you people" = fans of the wire?

The Wire FTW, of course. The Sopranos always felt very dumbed-down to me whenever it got outside of its comfort zone of a bunch of assholes hanging out shooting the shit. I was always thinking "have the writers ever actually talked to a real therapist/liberal college kid/gay person?" That, and it got repetitive after a while with the "who's gonna be the rat/get whacked this season?"

The Wire always challenged the audience to keep up, and had a great way of making profound shit coming out of an asshole's mouth feel real.

the sopranos has a version too, which is older men working words like "gabbagool" and "mannagge" into everyday conversation.

I'm not talking about any of you, so you can quit pissing your pants now.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, November 16, 2008 4:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

it's capicola and mangia u fucken savage

dickens vs. shakespeare?

it does feel a bit apples and oranges to compare something that strikes me as almost a Dreiser like naturalism (people are what they/product of environment) a more distanced ant-farm realism. What's interesting about the sopranos more than anything to me is the almost shocking contempt the show has for its characters. At least that bubbles up from time to time, like genre shame or something.

i was just makin a joke about how some 20-something whiteys i have met are like OMG WIRE YES OMAR IS THE MAN!!!1 because it's their version of saying "I'm cool with black ppl"

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, November 16, 2008 3:54 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

or maybe hes just a really badass character

maybe it's really their way of saying "I'm cool with gay ppl."

"who are black and badass."

"and carry double barrel shotguns, and have a chip on their shoulder, and a notion of honor and integrity at odds with the corrupt world."

OMG WIRE YES OMAR IS THE MAN!!!1

What's interesting about the sopranos more than anything to me is the almost shocking contempt the show has for its characters.

this is what bothers me about the Sopranos!

I did not vote for the sopranos because I am not cool with italian ppl

http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2008/1028/page2_g_hendricks2_400.jpg

Who is this, apart from my future girlfriend?

somebody get this man an invite to 77 already

maybe it's really their way of saying "I'm cool with gay ppl."

― Super Cub, Monday, 17 November 2008 00:52 (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"who are black and badass."

― Super Cub, Monday, 17 November 2008 00:52 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"and carry double barrel shotguns, and have a chip on their shoulder, and a notion of honor and integrity at odds with the corrupt world."

― Super Cub, Monday, 17 November 2008 00:55 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

OMG WIRE YES OMAR IS THE MAN!!!1

― _/(o_o)/¯ (deej), Monday, 17 November 2008 01:00 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

DUDE IMAGINE OMAR IN A HOAGIE WITH BACON

AND CHEESE