i fuckin love marlo
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Monday, 17 January 2011 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Marlo is kinda terrifying to me.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 17 January 2011 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
As a written character I find his place in the story really interesting and great, but to watch, he leaves me begging for humor or sadness or happiness or anything. His flatness is really something else.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 17 January 2011 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i might hear "you want it to be one way, but it's the other way" quoted more than any other line on this show and i think it's because after the barksdale/marlo contrast it hits people as being about entropy vs. order. like not necessarily in those terms, but: you want things to trend naturally towards complexity and justice and harmony, but they don't; they rot.
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 17 January 2011 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Norman gets some great lines - "It does have a certain charm to it. They manufactured an issue to get paid. We manufactured an issue to get you elected Governor. Everybody's gettin' what they need behind some make believe."
"Don't get the crime rate down, ain't no governor neither....Just a weak-ass mayor of a broke-ass city."
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Monday, 17 January 2011 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah Norman is the shit
― Alex Da Dad (some dude), Monday, 17 January 2011 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i actually really liked Chris.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 17 January 2011 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
sometimes real life is like this & dudes on the corner say some profound shit abt life― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, January 17, 2011 1:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, January 17, 2011 1:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I didn't know "The Corner" was a tv show and I thought deej was just casually droppin some Chi-town street knowledge
― domo genesis p-orridge (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 17 January 2011 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Marlo easily in my top 5
― gr8080, Monday, 17 January 2011 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Chris was really interesting.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 17 January 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
― domo genesis p-orridge (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, January 17, 2011 12:55 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
it wasnt about the show.
― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, 17 January 2011 19:12 (thirteen years ago) link
& im not claiming 'street knowledge' but hey whiney try not to ruin this thread please
wanna explain "o rly" for me
― Alex Da Dad (some dude), Monday, 17 January 2011 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i just mean that sure maybe its delivered in a *more dramatic way* but if u read the book the anecdote as told is completely believable & there's nothing 'out of character' for someone to have thought of just bcuz they happen to be poor & black imo
i mean huge portions of rap music are based around similar ideas & saying otherwise seems borderline condescending to me
― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, 17 January 2011 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
― Alex Da Dad (some dude), Monday, January 17, 2011 1:16 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
if you were talking to a guy who knew someone who was just shot & he said something vaguely poetic about it, i guess some dude is probably the kind of dude who would roll his eyes so never mind me
― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, 17 January 2011 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
if this starts to turn into another one of *those fights* the 3 of us are known for im probably gonna bow out tho
― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, 17 January 2011 19:21 (thirteen years ago) link
if you were talking to a guy who knew someone who was just shot
now can i ruin this thread?
― domo genesis p-orridge (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 17 January 2011 19:22 (thirteen years ago) link
were talking about a specific anecdote, dude, where this occurs
― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, 17 January 2011 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
hold on, let me remove my bookmark first..
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 17 January 2011 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
based on a real life event
wait a guy that just got shot!? talk about loading the question.
haha xp
― Alex Da Dad (some dude), Monday, 17 January 2011 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
some dude are we not talking about the snot boogie story at the beginning of the 1st episode??
― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, 17 January 2011 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
"thin line 'tween heaven and here" is something Bubbles says about 3 episodes later in a completely unrelated scene
― Alex Da Dad (some dude), Monday, 17 January 2011 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
oh i was thinking its what dude said about snot boogie
my confusion -- ok, well, coming from a junkie living in a shitty neighborhood i think the point still stands?
― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, 17 January 2011 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
like, if the dude bubbles is based on said that to me i dont think id roll my eyes but maybe u are a different kind of dude
― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, 17 January 2011 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_leftkrHJkw1qf8yek.gif
― am0n, Monday, 17 January 2011 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
*damn* eyes
― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, 17 January 2011 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
every thread now, guys?
― u aint messin w/ my dengue (gr8080), Thursday, December 16, 2010 7:35 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark
― gr8080, Monday, 17 January 2011 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
hi gr80 were discussing the wire
― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, 17 January 2011 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah we're at least still on topic...FOR NOW
― Alex Da Dad (some dude), Monday, 17 January 2011 19:32 (thirteen years ago) link
im not even sure were beefing abt anything at the moment
― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, 17 January 2011 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
ok just making sure you guys stay in line
― gr8080, Monday, 17 January 2011 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i like Chris.
― got electrolytes (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 17 January 2011 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
This scene is the besthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycWx9ni6dZE
― Number None, Monday, 17 January 2011 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Aw, I like Namond's mom as a character - granted she is also a horrible person
― sarahel, Monday, 17 January 2011 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
She isn't likeable, but I like watching her - I feel the same way about Rawls - they take such joy in being assholes
― sarahel, Monday, 17 January 2011 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
i think "thin line 'tween heaven and here" was said by bubbles several SEASONS later, actually
and i agree with some dude that it's one of the times i actually agree is an overwritten line
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Monday, 17 January 2011 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
seriously? im really confused about whats 'overwritten' about it -- feels totally believable & like the kind of thing u can totally imagine someone saying -- pretty sure junkies have said similar profundities to me while begging for change iirc -- seems like pretty natural kind of thing from anyone who may have spent time being raised in the church
― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, 17 January 2011 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
(& who lives in the slums)
― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, 17 January 2011 21:45 (thirteen years ago) link
my top 5 chars (at this exact moment):
vondasomarbubblesmcnultyand i have a soft spot for bodie
― Princess TamTam, Monday, 17 January 2011 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link
it's not that i couldn't imagine anyone saying it, just seemed forced from bubs in that particular scene
you've seen the show, right?
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Monday, 17 January 2011 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah bodie is up there for me too
you're all forgetting Stringer Bell
― horseshoe, Monday, 17 January 2011 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
tgheres only room for 5!!!!!!!!!!!!
maybe i'd bump omar off for string, he gets enough love anyway
― Princess TamTam, Monday, 17 January 2011 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Bodie is the goods, but I can't get him into my 5
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 17 January 2011 21:58 (thirteen years ago) link
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Monday, January 17, 2011 3:50 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
kev i was responding to
if a real life street dude said "thin line 'tween heaven and here" i'd roll my eyes at him too― Alex Da Dad (some dude), Monday, January 17, 2011 12:20 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Alex Da Dad (some dude), Monday, January 17, 2011 12:20 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, 17 January 2011 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
idg how you guys are still talking about that line, lol
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 17 January 2011 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah - deej pretty otm here - there are scenes and exchanges that might feel heavy-handed, but to argue that street dudes and drug dealers couldn't possibly articulate such pithy truths _is_ definitely condescending and patronizing.
― sarahel, Monday, 17 January 2011 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
and if i had to pick a Top 5 favorite characters:
BunkBunny ColvinKimmyBrianna BarksdaleNorman
― sarahel, Monday, 17 January 2011 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Bunny's been a semi-regular on Burn Notice as a bad guy, everytime I see him I miss Bunny so much lol
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 17 January 2011 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link