The Sopranos Vs. The Wire

although she reminded me a bit more of some kid of large green insect (grasshopper, praying mantis) than a chicken, and was admittedly pretty fly.

she had impressive breasts considering the rest of her build. Nicky Sobotka's girlfriend was more normally proportioned.

lol

i'm guessing i'm at the same place watching the series as shakey. midway through season 3, about ep 5 to be exact. am also enjoying how mcnulty's turning into an even bigger asshole.

season 3's been pretty great right from the 1st ep. definitely brought me in more than s 2, which took prob 4 or 5 episodes to get rolling

colvin and cutty are two of the best characters in the series imo

hamsterdam plot is obv unrealistic, but i think it's been written well so far and has been really interesting watching it unfold

i employed lessons from the hamsterdam plot at work a couple weeks ago.

work at a baskin robbins, eh?

how is lester not yet listed as a "wtf, you don't find this guy likable" character?

Lester is Morgan Freeman role for TV.

Charming when he's drunk though.

Lester is one of my faves.

never been able to sit through more than 10 mins of the sopranos.

Then I hope you didn't vote in this poll!

(I did notice a lot of people commenting that they hadn't seen one of the two choices - hope they didn't vote.)

Then I hope you didn't vote in this poll!

uh, this poll happened 8 months ago.

interesting factoid about cutty on the show, he's actually based on "cutty" the ilx poster

yea lester's really likeable xp. tho he was kind of a boring character in season 2 imo. season 1 gave u his transition from apparent hump to real police, plus all his smoothness w/ shardene was awesome!

season 2 he was just boring veteran, always on the ball wrt investigations but in a kind of uninteresting way

lester's better in season 3 tho. i liked his standoff with mcnulty 'motherfucker....you ain't work the skin of my knuckles junior' 'and i'm surprised at you girl, daniels raised you from a pup'

pretty sure the scene where bunk tries to set fire to his trousers is based on an incident at a london fap in the early ilx days.

i thought cutty the ilx poster was based on the guy on the wire?

no.

other wire factoid: fan favorite omar is actually based on a composite of ilx posters Ømår Littel (Jordan) and he said...all things passantino the night" (omar little)

at least 7 of us would smash chicken lady: WIRE BABEZ POLL

i'd bgawk it

^^^A+

GOTTA GET PAID, GOTTA GET PAID
(because she's a mercenary political consultant)

(sorry)

surely at least seven people here would smash just about anyone considered attractive enough to do a conventional TV nude scene

surely at least seven people here would smash just about anyone considered attractive enough to do a conventional TV nude scene

i <3 her but really, nicky sobotka's gf was the 1 true choice

any characters in the wire based on johnforkstofu?

Interesting story: I am the basis for Snoop.

fyi snoop is giving anthony bourdain a tour of baltimore on some upcoming episode of his show

^^

The show:

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=102493007402&ref=mf

the deacon was obviously based on Jaymc

The deacon is actually played by a former Balitimore drug kingpin.

I wish this thread would be locked and people would move to the other wire thread because the last thing I want to read is yet more people comparing the wire and the sopranos. They're not in direct competetion for fucks sake.

And I've said it before and I'll say it again regarding how realistic it is: just because it bases itself on an element of gritty realism doesn't mean it must subscribe to this perspective, because if your looking for out of the world realism your not going to get it, and that's not an inherently bad thing.

The deacon is the 'real Avon Barksdale'.

(nabisco is making a funny, guys)

jaymc is avon barksdale?!

^^ yeah, he's the guy that was the target of the intensive investigation Ed Burns did as a BPD officer that was part of the basis for the show.

the deacon, not jaymc.

jaymc's Baltimore.xls is legendary

I think Avon is actually like a composite of a bunch of (I recall the number 5) guys, but yeah, sarahel is correct.

i guess i'm right around where mark cl & shakey are... just finished s3 e8(?) a couple of nights back. i've actually enjoyed McNulty this season; his self-doubt vis-a-vis the short-lived chicken lady romance was handled well. nice counterbalance to the all swagger all the time.

I actually like McNulty when he's being an asshole.

also v. curious about Marlo's weird little clique (chris?, snoop etc).

heh, that gets, shall we say DEVELOPED somewhat.

The Wire 116
The Sopranos 30

aw/rmde

ya a lot of ilx is pretty wrong tho

white people getting the short end of the stick again, welcome to america

well, im glad you favour 'the wire' on its intrinsic merits rather than the skin colour of some of its cast members

this is THE most RMDE poll result ever on ILX, if just because of sheer numbers. it is bonkers.