uhhh obama much?
― s1ocki, Sunday, 14 December 2008 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
(jk)
every single supporting actor on the sopranos has released a book on HOW TO COOKA THE PASTA LIKE A MAFIA HITMAN
― soup kitchen electro (omar little), Sunday, 14 December 2008 19:37 (fifteen years ago) link
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).
― fwiw (rockapads), Sunday, 14 December 2008 19:42 (fifteen years ago) link
yes, i believe that was the point behind dom's comment. xp
― s1ocki, Sunday, 14 December 2008 19:43 (fifteen years ago) link
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!"
― the cream of some young guy (special guest stars mark bronson), Sunday, 14 December 2008 19:59 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Kramer vs Balearic (blueski), Sunday, 14 December 2008 20:03 (fifteen years ago) link
was that the inexplicable "tony's gambling problem" episode? xp
― s1ocki, Sunday, 14 December 2008 20:03 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― s1ocki, Sunday, 14 December 2008 20:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 15 December 2008 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow, a landslide... didn't expect the margin to be this big. But then again, I'm 1/16th Sopranos vote...
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 15 December 2008 00:03 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.morganleahrecords.com/wallpaper/other/fuck%20yeah%201600x1200.png
― J0rban Sarggest (some dude), Monday, 15 December 2008 00:07 (fifteen years ago) link
holy turnout
― kuntrie/hardrock-tributes (goole), Monday, 15 December 2008 00:10 (fifteen years ago) link
we did it jen, we stole his base
daaamn
― so i said let me HOOS the beats and steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 15 December 2008 00:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm calling for a
http://www.cartoonstock.com/lowres/pki0004l.jpg
― Go Go Padgett Binoculars (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 15 December 2008 00:17 (fifteen years ago) link
whaddayagonnado
― the cream of some young guy (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, 15 December 2008 00:38 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Kramer vs Balearic (blueski), Monday, 15 December 2008 00:48 (fifteen years ago) link
WOAH
― Matt DC, Monday, 15 December 2008 01:37 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― nabisco, Monday, 15 December 2008 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Let's pretend I deliberately omitted the word "tends" from that out of sheer Sopranos-hatred
― nabisco, Monday, 15 December 2008 20:03 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― s1ocki, Monday, 15 December 2008 20:04 (fifteen years ago) link
That's right, s1ocki, just sit there and let me CHALLOPS you
― nabisco, Monday, 15 December 2008 20:06 (fifteen years ago) link
well-assembled but ultimately pointless and awful and insanely overrated show
wasn't gonna say it (at least not unless it won), but yeah.
― Mankini Bay (some dude), Monday, 15 December 2008 20:08 (fifteen years ago) link
this shit is fucking ridiculous
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 15 December 2008 20:09 (fifteen years ago) link
You are all awful people.
― Go Go Padgett Binoculars (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 15 December 2008 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
― s1ocki
for some reason i misread his comment but it is a good point
― soup kitchen electro (omar little), Monday, 15 December 2008 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― nabisco, Monday, 15 December 2008 20:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Someone needs to try the ketchup with the relish.
― Go Go Padgett Binoculars (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 15 December 2008 20:23 (fifteen years ago) link
― Go Go Padgett Binoculars
lol
― craig sager (eman), Monday, 15 December 2008 20:57 (fifteen years ago) link
oh no an idiot on the internet has a stupid opinion: how vexing.
― special guest stars mark bronson, Monday, 15 December 2008 21:13 (fifteen years ago) link
really cannot believe the turnout here, or the margin.
― kuntrie/hardrock-tributes (goole), Monday, 15 December 2008 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Monday, 15 December 2008 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
nabisco's just flaunting his otm all-star status these days... careful dude, we can take that away just as fast
― s1ocki, Monday, 15 December 2008 21:17 (fifteen years ago) link
playing with fire: master and commander: oh how I enjoyed this movie
― caek, Monday, 15 December 2008 21:18 (fifteen years ago) link
more like tldr all-star status.
― special guest stars mark bronson, Monday, 15 December 2008 21:20 (fifteen years ago) link
take the high road dude
― s1ocki, Monday, 15 December 2008 21:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Ha, caek, I was just thinking about that thread: Sopranos and that movie are totally two things I will stubbornly/smugly go on forever refusing to believe can possibly be considered good.
^ We all need such things, it's just fundamentally healthy
― nabisco, Monday, 15 December 2008 21:28 (fifteen years ago) link
somebody's got a case of the mondays
― kuntrie/hardrock-tributes (goole), Monday, 15 December 2008 21:28 (fifteen years ago) link
To be fair, I think The Sopranos is for sure way better than Master & Commander (though I think that about a lot of things)
― nabisco, Monday, 15 December 2008 21:29 (fifteen years ago) link
http://cards.littleoak.com.au/196970_nabisco_footballers/nabisco.gif
― craig sager (eman), Monday, 15 December 2008 21:31 (fifteen years ago) link
"The More You Eat Cookies"
― nabisco, Monday, 15 December 2008 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link
on the cookies
― s1ocki, Monday, 15 December 2008 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I voted for the Wire, btw, but I haven't seen Sopranos, so you maybe want to discount that.
― caek, Monday, 15 December 2008 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link
nice, just 75 more to go
― s1ocki, Monday, 15 December 2008 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
i mean 85
if you give a nabs a cookie, he'll ask for some milk
― so i said let me HOOS the beats and steen (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 15 December 2008 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link
i've still only seen The Wire s01e01
― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Monday, 15 December 2008 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link
dont you mean The_Wire_s01e01.torrent
― ohhhh we pop champagne (deej), Tuesday, 16 December 2008 02:15 (fifteen years ago) link
hahahaha
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 05:48 (fifteen years ago) link