The Sopranos Vs. The Wire

omar has no interest in whites and titties

^that was an omar quote BTW

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Your father, God rest his soul, had balls the size of an Irish broad's ass.

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

― TOMBOT, Sunday, November 16, 2008 8:01 PM

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the Wire by a mile, fuck jersey and fuck guidos. it's all about the polacks and the blacks.

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sopranos because i am fucking sick to death of wire stans.

i guess there's something i like more about the sopranos' storytelling, it was more ambitious, more theatrical in a way, than the wire, which was very good at being straight-up layered journalistic narrative but was maybe too unwavering in its tone, or something. and ya, i thought the plain-jane look it had, the unobtrusive cinematography, had something going for it, but i want more sometimes.

― s1ocki, Saturday, November 15, 2008 5:07 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^ yeah. 'the wire', which i love, basically keeps a continuous pace right the way through. it was stronger on narrative, but didn't reach beyond that as often as one might have liked. i'm probably brooding on s05 still, but i admire the lack of thesis in 'the sopranos'. DS's fatalism is going to date real fast.

what everyone who picked the wire said.

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"

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Sunday, November 16, 2008 7:53 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark

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that is so NOT in its favour haha

re-watching the sopranos has confirmed to me how very right i am

DS's fatalism is going to date real fast.

― Just Johnson (special guest stars mark bronson), Sunday, December 14, 2008 1:03 AM (17 hours ago) Bookmark

You think we're entering a new era of faith in social institutions?

uhhh obama much?

(jk)

every single supporting actor on the sopranos has released a book on HOW TO COOKA THE PASTA LIKE A MAFIA HITMAN

I voted for The Wire, but if it was a contest between "greatest TV shows of all time" I would have been tempted to vote Sopranos. Sopranos was a great TV show; the Wire seems like a... video-book or something. Sopranos had a lot of filler episodes like TV does. In retrospect the show seems kind of sloppy and unfocused past the first two seasons - lots of loose ends never got tied off, kind of like in most TV shows, and for that matter real life. The Sopranos is a better show to watch one episode every week or two while The Wire is the book you can't put down.

I own a few seasons of each and that is exactly how I re-watch them: With the Sopranos, I can just pop in a great favorite episode every once in a while; with The Wire, I start at Ep1 and keep watching it until the season is done (usually taking me about a week).

yes, i believe that was the point behind dom's comment. xp

not really recalling 'filler' eps of 'the sopranos'.

it wasn't trying to do a tight, 19th-century-novel, everything-connects narrative.

the only ep i can remember not liking was the one where mike figgis was all like, "I know, let's use handheld cameras!"

not really recalling 'filler' eps of 'the sopranos'.

last two seasons had loads - or it was just more like two thirds of an episode on many occasions was aimless and achingly obscure. obv there were great ones too - i really enjoyed the last half of the final season.

was that the inexplicable "tony's gambling problem" episode? xp

to be fair, there was stuff i never really liked on the sopranos--anything having to do with the entertainment industry or christopher's movie or that shit. but it hardly dinged the show as a whole.

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Wow, a landslide... didn't expect the margin to be this big. But then again, I'm 1/16th Sopranos vote...

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holy turnout

we did it jen, we stole his base

daaamn

I'm calling for a

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whaddayagonnado

anything having to do with the entertainment industry or christopher's movie or that shit

ben kingsley episode was lols but i guess it was sort of ill-fitting

WOAH

As someone who to feel that The Sopranos is a well-assembled but ultimately pointless and awful and insanely overrated show, I would like to applaud fifty-eight seventy-thirds of you for your judgment.

Let's pretend I deliberately omitted the word "tends" from that out of sheer Sopranos-hatred

i cant really judge anyone for voting for the wire, it's a great show and horses for courses, but man is nabisco ever off tm right here.

That's right, s1ocki, just sit there and let me CHALLOPS you

well-assembled but ultimately pointless and awful and insanely overrated show

wasn't gonna say it (at least not unless it won), but yeah.

this shit is fucking ridiculous

You are all awful people.

yes, i believe that was the point behind dom's comment. xp

― s1ocki

for some reason i misread his comment but it is a good point

I don't ask anyone to agree with me that The Sopranos was alarmingly dumb/awful, I just kinda want to wave that opinion in people's faces to make them vexed and indignant. It's like contrarianism, except there's no shred of pretending involved.

Someone needs to try the ketchup with the relish.

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lol

oh no an idiot on the internet has a stupid opinion: how vexing.

really cannot believe the turnout here, or the margin.

I could never get into The Sopranos. I watched the first five episodes and then just never bothered to go back. It didn't seem bad, I just didn't connect with it.

nabisco's just flaunting his otm all-star status these days... careful dude, we can take that away just as fast