The Sopranos Vs. The Wire

other stuff white people like:

I mean, i def agree with that to an extent re the pieces he uses: R&B Autotuners, hipster-house squelches, Lil Wayne and Young Jeezy, Blue Man Group thwaps, even some Animal Collective style noises in the bridges.

But when he puts it all together it's uniquely Kanye. That's why it's great!

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, November 13, 2008 1:11 PM (3 days ago)

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i was just makin a joke about how some 20-something whiteys i have met are like OMG WIRE YES OMAR IS THE MAN!!!1 because it's their version of saying "I'm cool with black ppl"

the sopranos has a version too, which is older men working words like "gabbagool" and "mannagge" into everyday conversation.

I'm not talking about any of you, so you can quit pissing your pants now.

too late already pissed my pants when i was afraid other white people might like the same thing as me

The 20-something whiteys from the hilarious 'Williamsburg' neighborhood

There is a kind of suburban, middle class voyeurism thing about the Wire though. "Now I understand what the ghetto is all about."

Watching TV is voyeuristic? Who knew?!

Hey, I'm just trying to throw whiney a bone.

You people are fucking weird sometimes.

"you people" = fans of the wire?

The Wire FTW, of course. The Sopranos always felt very dumbed-down to me whenever it got outside of its comfort zone of a bunch of assholes hanging out shooting the shit. I was always thinking "have the writers ever actually talked to a real therapist/liberal college kid/gay person?" That, and it got repetitive after a while with the "who's gonna be the rat/get whacked this season?"

The Wire always challenged the audience to keep up, and had a great way of making profound shit coming out of an asshole's mouth feel real.

the sopranos has a version too, which is older men working words like "gabbagool" and "mannagge" into everyday conversation.

I'm not talking about any of you, so you can quit pissing your pants now.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, November 16, 2008 4:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

it's capicola and mangia u fucken savage

dickens vs. shakespeare?

it does feel a bit apples and oranges to compare something that strikes me as almost a Dreiser like naturalism (people are what they/product of environment) a more distanced ant-farm realism. What's interesting about the sopranos more than anything to me is the almost shocking contempt the show has for its characters. At least that bubbles up from time to time, like genre shame or something.

i was just makin a joke about how some 20-something whiteys i have met are like OMG WIRE YES OMAR IS THE MAN!!!1 because it's their version of saying "I'm cool with black ppl"

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, November 16, 2008 3:54 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

or maybe hes just a really badass character

maybe it's really their way of saying "I'm cool with gay ppl."

"who are black and badass."

"and carry double barrel shotguns, and have a chip on their shoulder, and a notion of honor and integrity at odds with the corrupt world."

OMG WIRE YES OMAR IS THE MAN!!!1

What's interesting about the sopranos more than anything to me is the almost shocking contempt the show has for its characters.

this is what bothers me about the Sopranos!

I did not vote for the sopranos because I am not cool with italian ppl

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Who is this, apart from my future girlfriend?

somebody get this man an invite to 77 already

maybe it's really their way of saying "I'm cool with gay ppl."

― Super Cub, Monday, 17 November 2008 00:52 (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"who are black and badass."

― Super Cub, Monday, 17 November 2008 00:52 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"and carry double barrel shotguns, and have a chip on their shoulder, and a notion of honor and integrity at odds with the corrupt world."

― Super Cub, Monday, 17 November 2008 00:55 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

OMG WIRE YES OMAR IS THE MAN!!!1

― _/(o_o)/¯ (deej), Monday, 17 November 2008 01:00 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

DUDE IMAGINE OMAR IN A HOAGIE WITH BACON

AND CHEESE

AND MORE BACON ON THE ORIGINAL BACON

xxxp, Don't tell me she's Curtis.

BARBECUE SAUCE CHICKEN RIBS

i bet thats what xtina h. eats every DAY

I wonder what omar thinks about prop 8.

and tipping

and funny bottle openers

Omar Little won't be on dis ting 2008/09

^^^ caption to that christina hendricks photo??

omar has no interest in whites and titties

^that was an omar quote BTW

...

Your father, God rest his soul, had balls the size of an Irish broad's ass.

I did not vote for the sopranos because I am not cool with italian ppl

― TOMBOT, Sunday, November 16, 2008 8:01 PM

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the Wire by a mile, fuck jersey and fuck guidos. it's all about the polacks and the blacks.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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sopranos because i am fucking sick to death of wire stans.

i guess there's something i like more about the sopranos' storytelling, it was more ambitious, more theatrical in a way, than the wire, which was very good at being straight-up layered journalistic narrative but was maybe too unwavering in its tone, or something. and ya, i thought the plain-jane look it had, the unobtrusive cinematography, had something going for it, but i want more sometimes.

― s1ocki, Saturday, November 15, 2008 5:07 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^ yeah. 'the wire', which i love, basically keeps a continuous pace right the way through. it was stronger on narrative, but didn't reach beyond that as often as one might have liked. i'm probably brooding on s05 still, but i admire the lack of thesis in 'the sopranos'. DS's fatalism is going to date real fast.

what everyone who picked the wire said.

One thing in The Wire's favour is that at least none of the cast have gone on to release books entitled something like "HOW TO BE A BLACK MAN"

― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Sunday, November 16, 2008 7:53 AM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark

HOW TO ROBS DRUG DEALERS by OMAR

that is so NOT in its favour haha

re-watching the sopranos has confirmed to me how very right i am