Board 8 > I just finished season 1 of The Wire. [spoilers]

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Wow.

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From: SBell0105 | #002
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and it only gets better from here! Well season 2 will be confusing at first.

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best part is that season one is the weakest!

...okay, admittedly that is a minority opinion on my part, but it's definitely fair to say that it gets even better.

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Good to hear. I'm probably going to be starting season 2 soonish. Maybe today. We'll see...I've been up all night.

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In retrospect

4>3>2>5=1

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vince is right about season two, though - it throws you in at the deep end character-wise even more than season one did. but bear with it for a few episodes and you'll start getting rewarded.

definitely the season that benefits most from a re-watch.

edit: whoa, vince's ranking is basically spot on (i'd go 5>1 but there's not much between them). which amazes me cos i've never seen anyone fully agree with my ranking before!

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Glad to hear these opinions, I watched the pilot some weeks ago and I was kind of disappointed, although I knew season 4 was considered the best. Will give it another shot after catching up with Breaking Bad!

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Oh watching the pilot is not enough. You really have to watch at least half a season of The Wire before you can decide if you like it or not, because it really just keeps throwing characters at you and you only start to comprehend what's going on in the first two seasons about halfway through!

edit: It's cause I'm AWESOME and you are AWESOME too giggs, except for the whole being a welsh ginger part

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I dearly wish my friends felt the same. They are quite mad to have not at all enjoyed the first season.

You're going to love Season 2.

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so good

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yeah it's really hard for me to get my friends into the wire and it sucks

one guy has watched one ep and didnt like it, though i tell him to continue. Another guy watched season 1 and thought it was okay but not more, I told him to continue, he's watched one ep of S2 so far. Another friend has all the eps on his comp but he hasnt watched a single one yet

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I just finished season 2 a couple of days ago. It was good but I thought season 1 was more satisfying in the end.

Funnily enough, as much as I'm loving this show the only characters I really like are Omar, D'Angelo...and that's about it.

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Yeah, got my friends to watch Season 1, but they were just bored that "nothing happened."

Maybe it didn't help that it was the first show we watched after all of Whedon.

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Mega Mana posted...
Yeah, got my friends to watch Season 1, but they were just bored that "nothing happened."

Maybe it didn't help that it was the first show we watched after all of Whedon.

A couple of my friends said that "not much happened" in Game of Thrones so I'm not even going to bother recommending The Wire.

Why do we all have such facepalm worthy friends?

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i've come to realise recently that "nothing happens" in most of my favourite media

if the characters and atmosphere are strong enough then fast-paced events are almost completely unnecessary

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A friend of mine since middle school recently watched the first six hours of BSG and told me it was "nothing but the same old space technobabble and I was lucky if I got to see an explosion every fifteen minutes. Otherwise, horribly uninteresting."

I concur with you.

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That was intended for Disc (yes, that's what I'm calling him today) but I agree with you too, Giggs.

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Mildly facepalm. They love Whedon =D.

Also, watching Game of Thrones now. Just finished episode five. It's crazy that they say nothing happens. It's just rather hard to understand how the puzzle fits together. But that's understandable when they've got twenty-plus regular characters over four different main locations with at least two new characters an episode.

Did you watch it with them or they with others? Perhaps it's not as well-viewed with a group.

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Did you watch it with them or they with others? Perhaps it's not as well-viewed with a group.

No, they live in a different city. Three of them watched it together. One of them loved it, the other two weren't really interested in learning who the characters were, but thought there wasn't enough action. Their favorite show is The Bachelorette.

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"Where the **** is Wallace, String?"

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Giggsalot posted...
if the characters and atmosphere are strong enough then fast-paced events are almost completely unnecessary

Right now, we're watching a show I shall not name out of emb- what the hell, am I saying? My Little Pony's the biggest hit on this board in years.

Right now, we're watching Vampire Diaries (in a trade for watching Breaking Bad after) and one of my gripes with it is the consistency of its characters. The pace is extremely fast. Huge plots build up over one episode, get linked to a dozen characters by the next episode, finish the episode after that, and is rarely mentioned again. People show up, do some big thing, then die just as quickly. It's utterly insane how things progress so rapidly. The characters are all well-acted and there are a few I greatly enjoy, but just how the situations come about and how the characters and plots happen... I don't know. There's a lack of consistency, or perhaps there's too much consistency and no growth.

There's currently an arc where I have no idea how they could explain just why it exists. It's utterly maddening how it works and it's not even midway into season 2 yet that they'd have something like it that's usually reserved for seasons 4 and 5 of lots of shows when they run out of ideas for making things bigger and grander. Most times, you could take any three or four consecutive episodes from this show and the plot points and twists could stretch out to an excellent 13 or even 22 episode run normally.

I enjoy it enough (though I slammed it pretty hard last night after what they both thought was a good episode), but it's whole core is "stuff happens," even if it doesn't make a lick of sense.

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^You just got me more interested in Vampire Diaries.

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Just started season 2. I see what you meant by new characters.

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