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Yeah, I am afraid to view it even though I'm two episodes ahead of the broadcasts!

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 13 October 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

10 and 12 are totally watchable. i mean, not very good quality, but watchable. 13 on the other hand has a very noticeable audio sync problem.

having seen everything, i'm still thinking season 2 is the best, but they all are very unique in amazing ways. this one ... just ... ugh. it's hard to think about.

― lemin (lemin), Friday, 13 October 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

2 >>> 4 >>> 1 >>> 3

!!!!

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Friday, 13 October 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

2 = 3 > 1

Not ready to judge 4 yet.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 13 October 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

That's just personal preference, like. I mean, they're like chapters of a novel. A really fucking good novel. That is on telly.

I love this show.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Friday, 13 October 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

I was just looking at the cast page on the hbo site and was blown away by how many characters they have listed, but also how many characters that I know and love who didn't make the website cut. This show has got to have the most regular cast members of any show in history. Am I wrong?

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 13 October 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

Also, the actress who plays Snoop has the same name as her character, which leads me to believe that she isn't acting.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Saturday, 14 October 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

I saw an interview with Felicia Pearson (it's on the HBO video podcast page), she said she got lucked up at fourteen (for something unnamed) and only got out at 20.

― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 14 October 2006 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

2 >>> 4 >>> 1 >>> 3

!!!!

-- Suedey (mincingspoo...), October 13th, 2006 7:24 PM. (John Cei Douglas)

wtf hell no. 3 + 4 are like some kind of television coup

― am0n (am0n), Saturday, 14 October 2006 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, but so were 1 + 2. If 2 had delved deeper into the union (like 4 with schools), it might have been inconceivably good, like 'best 12 hours of television ever' good.

― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 14 October 2006 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

The emphasis on the school system in this season makes it a frontrunner for my favorite season yet, mostly because I think it is unbelievably ballsy television and well executed at the same time.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Saturday, 14 October 2006 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hbo.com/music/index.html

Bubbles makes a mix tape 4u!

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Saturday, 21 October 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

It sucks that this thread is now way way ahead of the broadcasts.

-- Scott CE (sceldre...), October 13th, 2006 11:13 AM. (Scott CE)

lol @ technology

― am0n (am0n), Saturday, 21 October 2006 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

Dookie's mix tape >>>> Bubbbles's.

― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 21 October 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

has anyone else had trouble this week getting the next episode (44) On Demand early? for some reason my menu still won't go past 43. I mean, it's coming on tomorrow night so I shouldn't bitch, but I like to stay a little ahead.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Saturday, 21 October 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

speaking of which, I don't think there's anything better this season than Dookie's progression from silent outcast to functioning member of the group with computer skillz.

― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 21 October 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - i heard that hbo took the week off, as in no episode last sunday, so it might have affected the on demand as well

― am0n (am0n), Saturday, 21 October 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

or maybe its this sunday they're not showing an episode. i forget

― am0n (am0n), Saturday, 21 October 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

IN THE NEXT EPISODE DOOKIE GETS KILLED

― bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 22 October 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

j/k

― bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 22 October 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

I can't believe that Snoop's baby is half cylon! And since Carcetti is the dad, you know what that means...

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 22 October 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

PREZBO + OMAR HOTT SEXXX EP 12

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 22 October 2006 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

Griggs isn't gay; she's one of The Others. Fish Biscuits for everybody!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 22 October 2006 05:41 (nineteen years ago)

can anybody tell me what is the story with pigeons in this show/baltimore?? i r being confused

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Sunday, 22 October 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

I just finished the season. Y'know, in early episodes I thought they were repeating themselves a bit too much what with Fuzzy Dunlop redux, Kima doing the first season "kitchen duet" solo in an alley and Bunny being all rogue again. But now...now I think it's eclipsed even season 2 in my heart. I nearly burst into tears about 30 times in that last 80 minutes. Even for fucking Landsman. LANDSMAN!

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 22 October 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

I really hate that the season leaked on the internet cos now I have absolutely no one to talk about the show with without fear of getting spoilers.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Sunday, 22 October 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

so let's talk about the pigeons instead!!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Sunday, 22 October 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

the only thing i could find was this, a free excerpt from an article in the baltimore sun, oct. 18, 1998, by carl schoettler -

Pondering the great homing pigeon panic
Is it microwaves? Cell phones? Pigeon lovers' minds are racing over just what might be causing their formerly unerring birds to fly the coop.
The Hamilton racing pigeon flyers have lost plenty of pigeons this year. But they're not alone. The whole country began hearing about roaming homing pigeons a few weeks back, when Philadelphia area clubs suffered the sensational and mysterious loss of some 1,600 of 2,200 racing pigeons launched in Virginia and western Pennsylvania.
[John] Butler's big rumble theory is no more far-fetched than most of the theories as to why the pigeons' usually precise homing systems are going awry. Butler, a retired printer who's been racing pigeons since he was a boy, thinks the birds may be telling us something, their erratic behavior a kind of early warning system.
Sleek racing pigeons should not be confused with the scruffy "rats with wings" that beg for food in the street. These are elegant, intelligent, highly trained and conditioned, and sometimes quite expensive birds. Not long ago a Taiwanese syndicate paid $1 million for a single male bird, according to Tom Erskine, a Hamilton club flyer who is chief copy editor for the nationally prestigious Racing Pigeon Digest. The million-dollar pigeon won't be racing anymore, but he'll get a $5,000 stud fee each time he mates.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Sunday, 22 October 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

NEW BREED PIGEON SUPPLY

415 NORTH PACA ST
21201 BALTIMORE
MD UNITED STATES

Phone. 001 (410) 962-0330
Fax 001 (508) 992-9398

― am0n (am0n), Sunday, 22 October 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

i finished the season too and kinda find the whole Dookie getting hired by CompUSA a bit corny

― am0n (am0n), Sunday, 22 October 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

Yabbut Carver getting Randy work as a croupier in Atlantic City was genius.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 22 October 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

i found the bubbles cleans up and opens 50,000 sq ft "Bubble's Depo" story-line a bit implausible, if inspiring.

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Sunday, 22 October 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

OK guys but i'm serious about the pigeons.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Sunday, 22 October 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

i always want to stop into new breed pigeon supply on my lunch break

― bo janglin (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 22 October 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

SCHPOILARZ!

Who did that version of "Walk on Gilded Splinters"? I was thinking maybe Steve Earle since he was hanging around for the finale, but don't find it at Allmusic. The likeliest candidate I see there is Duane Allman, does anyone know if that's correct?

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 22 October 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

haha the fake spoilers are freaking me out so much that I think I just decided not to read this thread for the next 2 months

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Sunday, 22 October 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

Fake spoilers?

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Sunday, 22 October 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

things I've learned today: Bunny's second-in-command was Tom Pellegrini, one of the cops Simon followed for Homicide. That's almost as cool as the Deacon being a former drug kingpin.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

not Pellegrini, Jay Landsman, the detective-sergeant

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Why are the kids trying to catch pigeons in the beginning? Why does Marlow keep pigeons?

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

Are you serious?

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

(psst 'Marlo')

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

YES I'M SERIOUS OK MAYBE I NODDED OFF DURING ONE OR TWO EPISODES

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

it's a hobby people do it all over

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

And some pigeons are valuable to those who keep and breed them - pure-white, I guess? Or those descended from homing pigeons.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

Marlo keeps pigeons because that is the only way to communicate with Ghost Dog.

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

i almost said that

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

me three

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Sergeant Jay Landsman Played By Delaney Williams

Lieutenant Dennis Mello Played By Jay Landsman

is this what yr takling abt milo

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah. Landsman #2 is the detective-sarge you meet in the opening pages of Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets.

ps don't buy the mass-market paperback of Homicide, the printing runs too close to the binding (like a lot of mass-markets). I'm going to shell out $15 for the new trade paperback tonight.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

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