NY ilxors: This Saturday is your chance to bust a (paintball) cap in Marlo Stanfield's ass - also: Omar, Snoop, Kima & more!
― 5 x 15-second shits, max fart (Pillbox), Wednesday, 9 June 2010 18:45 (thirteen years ago) link
rescreened (/morbs)
I can't let this stand. "Rescreened" is (/Alfred).
― jaymc, Wednesday, 9 June 2010 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe it's just me, but once in a while String sounds almost Cockney.
― Daleks in NYC (Leee), Thursday, 10 June 2010 03:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Best written show on television among worst closed-captioned on DVD? Small sampling from Season 4:
"Couldn't smoke out who was pulling the strings." as"Wouldn't smoke. Guy was pulling the strings."
"I debriefed""I had to brief"
"was gutted for political reasons""we'll cut it for political reasons"
"Fuck the Bunk""Fuck that bunk"
etc.
At least they don't do the West Wing thing of editing all sentences for brevity, but come on.
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 18 June 2010 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
What did Charlie Brooker make of Season 5?
― The referee was perfect (Chris), Monday, 23 August 2010 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
ha i love that the ilx wire thread got so nerdy we are criticizing the closed-captioning
i'm about to watch the finale. feel like i am going for one last visit before pulling the plug on a beloved family member or something
*gulp*
― welcome back ma$ed god (samosa gibreel), Saturday, 9 October 2010 03:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Peace be with you.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 9 October 2010 03:50 (thirteen years ago) link
your hair look good, samosa
― bitchmaid (sic), Saturday, 9 October 2010 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i watched New Jack City on the plane home from NYC a couple days ago, and there are a few exchanges that are almost identical to bits of dialog in The Wire
― sarahel, Saturday, 9 October 2010 08:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I've been watching The Wire on the 101 Network on DirecTv. I never caught it on HBO and never saw the dvds.
It just hit me that that the actor who played Wallace also plays Vince Howard on Friday Night Lights. The episode where he came back to the low rises after leaving his grandmom in the sticks was really a punch in the gut.
― I love cinema. My favorite movies are Citizen Kane and the Boondock Saints (KMS), Saturday, 9 October 2010 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4132/5219462887_b504fd89a4.jpg
― gr8080 of missing ILX (gr8080), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
http://mightygodking.com/images/ac-wire.jpg
miss u this show
― caek, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
think I'm getting all this DVD's for xmas!
― erin brokovich (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 04:27 (thirteen years ago) link
caek that grid is cool!
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 04:29 (thirteen years ago) link
"you want it to be one way. but its the other way" is prob my favorite line from the whole series.
― u aint messin w/ my dengue (gr8080), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 05:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Now I want to go back and watch them all again...again
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 05:17 (thirteen years ago) link
"you want it to be one way. but its the other way" is prob my favorite line from the whole series.― u aint messin w/ my dengue (gr8080), Tuesday, December 14, 2010 11:00 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark
― u aint messin w/ my dengue (gr8080), Tuesday, December 14, 2010 11:00 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark
― kanellos (gbx), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 05:51 (thirteen years ago) link
it is also a line of deep and abiding truth
― kanellos (gbx), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 05:52 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah that's a hot line - i wish i never watched this show so i could watch it again for the first time
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 15 December 2010 06:00 (thirteen years ago) link
always thought it was the weakest of catchphrase lines, tbh
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 06:05 (thirteen years ago) link
how is avon neutral and string evil??
― j., Wednesday, 15 December 2010 06:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Avon has nowhere near the long-range vision and laser focus that String had. Avon just wanted to be the big fish in the pond. String wanted to be the emperor fish of ALL the ponds.
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 06:14 (thirteen years ago) link
chaotic neutral is a hard one to pick out for The Wire
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 06:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I see someone online picked Ziggy, I like that choice
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 06:19 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah but wasn't string trying to go legit at the end? i.e. it wasn't about the evilness of the enterprise but the money
― dayo, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 06:20 (thirteen years ago) link
No but I felt like String was going to keep being String just in a different world: like even when he's going legit, he's going to try to be the corporate bazillionaire and take over the empire. You know? He just had that way about him.
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 06:30 (thirteen years ago) link
― dayo, Wednesday, December 15, 2010 1:20 AM (12 minutes ago)
money is the root of ~all evil~
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 15 December 2010 06:33 (thirteen years ago) link
What kev said
― Square-Panted Sponge Robert (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 07:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't know what these categories even mean, is this some nerd thing?
― sarahel, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 07:47 (thirteen years ago) link
D&D
― ears are wounds, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 08:15 (thirteen years ago) link
i think wire morality is more complex than that of D&D
― once more Jagger faps the hivemind (symsymsym), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 08:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Avon definitely follows a code -- much more so than Stringer
― sarahel, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 09:32 (thirteen years ago) link
second season: Daniels tells Rawls he'll take on the case of 14 dead bodies in a ship container provided "you give me what I need with no arguments and no bulllshit"
*would have loved to say this to one of my old employers
― hubertus bigend (m coleman), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 10:35 (thirteen years ago) link
love that chart
― I spilled, saucer-eyed, into the Tonetta fanclub underground. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
ok I feel less bad about not getting it now
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 15 December 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
http://lc.fdots.com/cc/lc/c8/c845ebf7cff92c726789d411608fdb96.jpg
― omar little, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, the choice seems counter-intuitive to me but on reflection it really works - Avon has a moral code (however much we disagree with it) whereas Stringer has an amoral respect for the system.
The best example of this to me was Stringer authorising the hit on Omar on a Sunday.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 15 December 2010 23:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I want to argue that String isn't amoral -- definitely NOT immoral -- because he abides by capitalism and Mr. Morals himself Adam Smith, and that he didn't actively violate the Sunday truce so much as waved off Shamrock (or whichever lackey was bugging him) because he had better things to do... which yeah, speaks to his amoral nature.
― penis with a man hanging from it (Leee), Thursday, 16 December 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
what about what avon and brianna did to d'angelo?
― j., Thursday, 16 December 2010 09:52 (thirteen years ago) link
It was Stringer's decision to ultimately "take care" of D'Angelo. Wasn't it Stringer's decision to the same for Wallace even if Avon signed off on that one.
― shaking my hamster (KMS), Thursday, 16 December 2010 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
SPOILERS btw! ^
i think j is referring to getting D to take those years but i could be wrong
― k3vin k., Thursday, 16 December 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Taking the years is part of the accepted moral code though. Bumping off in prison, less so.
Stringer's respect for capitalism is based on what he believes it can do for him (which is hardly unusual tbf).
― Tim F, Thursday, 16 December 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I might consider putting Bunny or Lester at chaotic good and McNulty at chaotic neutral.
― Fetchboy, Thursday, 16 December 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i think it is to this show's great credit that no one questions clay davis as neutral evil
― straight old fashioned, virgin (another al3x), Thursday, 16 December 2010 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
miss u string ;_;
― horseshoe, Thursday, 16 December 2010 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
First, Stringer's adherence to market forces is no less a moral code than the rules that Avon (and Omar) play by. Second, people getting murdered in prison is a taboo? Really?
― penis with a man hanging from it (Leee), Thursday, 16 December 2010 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
killing your best friend's nephews taboo in any culture.
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 16 December 2010 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
without the friend's permission, most def.
― sarahel, Thursday, 16 December 2010 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
yah killing him even tho he was abiding by the code was def breakin the code
― *plop*ism rules (deej), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link