Scots Taffer on 10/5/2009 at 23:29
Goddamn that was a rather depressing end to Season 2 of The Wire. :(
Muzman on 10/5/2009 at 23:47
Yeah. Best montage in the series though. Becomes even more bittersweet like that when you think that the thrust/setting of the show goes completely elsewhere, and for good reason. Series two is like farewell to the workers and America's industrial history.
Toxicfluff on 10/5/2009 at 23:55
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
Goddamn that was a rather depressing end to Season 2 of The Wire. :(
Yeah. I shared your initial feelings on series 2 -- it was a slow start even compared to series 1, and the stevedores didn't seem an interesting lot. By the end though, I enjoyed it even more than series one, and it's probably my second favourite series to 4 now. I dunno, I just found the mired desperation of the dock characters very moving, especially how it turns out for them all. Many of the street characters of series one and further are similarly entrapped, but they're further down the line. The dock guys still had some hopes, however empty, of making a (relatively) clean go of it.
Didn't have a problem with the greeks / russians et al. Seemed quite believable to me, given the setting.
Agree on your last point though. Well, it was more that it didn't have the kind of cumulative pacing of the first case. It was sort of like nothing nothing nothing tadaaaaa we're ON! That could possibly be how these things work in real life, I dunno. But as pacing on a TV show it did feel a little odd.
Muzman on 11/5/2009 at 00:13
The opening of 2 is how I point out to people that it's not your average cop show; the first few eps consist of the various law enforcement departments trying desperately to avoid dealing with a hospital pass of a case.
Interesting that most of the ratings here put season 2 pretty high. Most places I've seen it vies with 5 for last place. I dunno where I'd put it exactly but I reckon it's great. It made the tragedy style of the show really clear to me and how cleverly they do their characters.
That final shot of Frank's purposeful stride to his doom is totally unforgettable. There's that terrible sense that it just couldn't be any other way. He wouldn't walk into that any different, no matter what.
Scots Taffer on 11/5/2009 at 00:21
So am I right in thinking we never hear/see of The Greek et al again?
Toxicfluff on 11/5/2009 at 00:36
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
So am I right in thinking we never hear/see of The Greek et al again?
Dead WRONG!
But would you really want to know?
If the topic extends to documentaries, I'm currently piling through Adam Curtis' Century of the Self mini-series, linking the advent of psychology and psychoanalysis of various stripes and the subsequent changes in the conception of the self to the current political and cultural character of the West.
Hmm... some of the points are very cogent and well documented, especially on the marketing and PR side of things, but I always find Curtis is a bit too easy with his causal connections, sometimes on the back of what could just be coincidental developments.
Still, worth a watch. All of his stuff is very well made and chock full of great archive footage. As someone who's a bit skeptical of the pyscho- stuff, the story convent of nuns that were liberated into a diaspora of apostates and radical feminist lesbian nuns by psychoanalysis did turn my opinion around.
Sulphur on 16/5/2009 at 18:57
I'm currently in love with Darker Than Black. It's an anime, but if your tolerance levels allow it, you ought to watch it past the first episode (which is only long enough to set things up). The premise is quite intriguing, but the stories it wraps around that premise are beyond brilliant. The writing is spot on and never overly melodramatic, but it's almost always suffused with a dark melancholy, like the more poignant episodes in Cowboy Bebop.
Speaking of which, it also has a pretty good - if somewhat short and over-used - soundtrack composed by Yoko Kanno, which is bound to perk up some ears. I'd recommend any and all anime watchers out there to seek this out and give it a spin.
thefonz on 16/5/2009 at 21:17
Dollhouse confirmed for a second season!
Suck it Scots :ebil:
On a side note, totally obsessed with Chuck season 2 at the moment...
EvaUnit02 on 16/5/2009 at 21:49
source link or it didn't happen.
june gloom on 16/5/2009 at 22:41
Quote Posted by thefonz
Dollhouse confirmed for a second season!
deus mors est
