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Rabid Koala posted:Jesus. My wife and I spent the last month binging through The Shield. My wife hated The Wire (I loved it), but she was completely sucked into the world presented by The Shield. Simply amazing. The ending was pitch perfect: About Vic's fate: when the terms of employment conditions were being read - that he has to produce 'x' amount of reports, singles-spaces, 7-pages long or whatever, I exclaimed, "poo poo I didn't work that hard in college."
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Hitting Season 5 of a watch-through. Some people are great on commentary tracks. They've got interesting things to say and open your eyes about the creative process and the work the goes into bringing an idea from an initial half sentence to an entire episode. Shawn Ryan is one of these people. Michael Chiklis, however is not. While he has his moments, his tracks usually just end up being how great everyone involved with the Shield was. While this was probably true, it makes for a boring 40-odd minutes of audio.
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I always enjoyed watching the features that revolved around the writers rooms because I consider those people Gods.
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Every episode has a moment that makes me go "oh holy gently caress". And these "oh holy gently caress"s are all routinely at a caliber that is well above what most other shows can only pull off a few times a season.
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Jul 26, 2011 22:36
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Goddamn Family Meeting  I need something to pick me up now. That works pretty well.
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Ratatozsk posted:Goddamn Family Meeting That video lead me to another video that either happened in the series finale or drat near close to it. That video reminded me that I need to watch this show again. And gently caress the HD gods for not having it available on blu-ray. gently caress you Shawn Ryan for shooting on film "of insufficient quality to put out on Blu-ray."
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FateoMcSkippy posted:That video lead me to another video that either happened in the series finale or drat near close to it. This will just piss you off MORE.... http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=3343 posted:
So basically, spend more money and continue milking your cash cow. I'd rebuy the series on blu-ray in a heartbeat, quality be damned.
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I don't have the money to switch from DVD to blu-ray like we did with VHS. DVD looks pretty drat good to me so I don't really get why blue ray matters anyway. Plus whoever made it spelled it wrong. And it sounds like aliens would watch it. The Shield wasn't made to look pretty. I think if it was shot in a higher quality and had a crystal clear picture that it would lose something.
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Ratatozsk posted:Goddamn Family Meeting Watch Justified. It has Shane it it and he is actually super competent
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Wartime Consigliere posted:I don't have the money to switch from DVD to blu-ray like we did with VHS. DVD looks pretty drat good to me so I don't really get why blue ray matters anyway. Plus whoever made it spelled it wrong. And it sounds like aliens would watch it. Yeah, there was definitely some thought behind the visual medium of the show. I seem to remember there was an interview where they said that the show was framed in 4:3 (despite being shot in widescreen) to give a more documentary/gritty feel to the entire thing (and supposedly more claustrophobic). That got hosed up in the later seasons, though.
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Wartime Consigliere posted:The Shield wasn't made to look pretty. I think if it was shot in a higher quality and had a crystal clear picture that it would lose something.
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Jul 31, 2011 22:47
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Just finished season 1 again. I forgot how the ending was.
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I've been blazing through the seasons lately and just can't help but post that this show will make you lose all faith in humanity's ability to name its children. ANQUON's a good example.
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Aardark posted:Blu-ray doesn't automatically mean "crystal clear". You can still have intentionally grainy picture in higher quality. Did you read the post above yours? It's true that DVD is good enough for many people, though. Yeah I don't expect blu-ray to be a cure for all/any image issues. I'd just like the option of making sure my collection can survive a gradual format change.
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FateoMcSkippy posted:Just finished season 1 again. I forgot how I've lost my S1 DVD isn't the last episode where those fake 911 calls where made and the cops answering the call would be shot/lynched? I forgot how that was resolved
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TUS posted:I've lost my S1 DVD Finding a guy with a poo poo load of needles and using a pin on a guys skin.
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TUS posted:I've lost my S1 DVD Yeah, but that plot thread is resolved in the episode. The ending is basically (S1 finale) Vic coming home to an empty house and a message from Corinne, and all but has a heart attack in his kitchen.
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Woop woop. 5-0s comin. Posting as someone who just marathoned through the first three seasons for the first time I can say this show has done poo poo NO OTHER SHOW has touched. I've had at least 3  moments already.The one that got me hardest for some reason was Dutch killing the cat. As soon as the meowing started I knew where it was going but I kept thinking he'd back down. There really isn't too much separating him from the guys he brings down, is there? I've been trying hard to avoid spoilers and I don't think I remember any that I've heard over the years. I knew about Aceveda getting sexually assaulted due to an unfortunate google result but everything else has been a surprise and I'm glad. I'm probably going to check out of the thread until I'm done watching, but I just wanted to say that drat, this show has some real shockers. Reo fucked around with this message at 03:27 on Aug 7, 2011 |
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Reo posted:The one that got me hardest for some reason was Dutch killing the cat. As soon as the meowing started I knew where it was going but I kept thinking he'd back down. There really isn't too much separating him from the guys he brings down, is there? I haven't seen the show in a while, but the point of that scene was the exact opposite, I thought. The killer had been taunting him the entire episode about how it feels to kill something, which Dutch knew nothing about. What that was was a desperate attempt to understand these people, which he considers a integral part of his job, and something he was lacking.
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Reo posted:Woop woop. 5-0s comin. Posting as someone who just marathoned through the first three seasons for the first time I can say this show has done poo poo NO OTHER SHOW has touched. I've had at least 3 There are two scenes in the seasons ahead of you which will spoil the gently caress out of the series if they aren't surprises when they hit you, so it's a wise choice you're making. Do whatever you can to avoid them. Aceveda's moment isn't even a blip on the radar compared to these.
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Saw the first season like a year ago and liked it, got back into it while my friend and I were looking for something to binge during the summer. I'm now about halfway through season 3 and holy poo poo this is one of the most amazing shows. My favorite thing by far is how much Chiklis can have Mackey express his emotions just moving the inside of his mouth while the rest of his face looks stone cold.(probably worded that poorly)
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After re-watching the show up to the end of S5, I can't help but observe that this show has just the most remarkable cast of despicable characters ever written, it's just amazing, and not just the 'bad guys'. Aceveda's horrible shrew of a wife whose reaction to a certain event is just unfathomable, Julien's retarded religiosity and self-loathing homosexuality that he takes out on everyone else, Tina's and Billings' incompetence. Pretty egregious stuff. The first two on that list are probably the most loathsome, though.
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OmegaZultan posted:Saw the first season like a year ago and liked it, got back into it while my friend and I were looking for something to binge during the summer. I'm now about halfway through season 3 and holy poo poo this is one of the most amazing shows. My favorite thing by far is how much Chiklis can have Mackey express his emotions just moving the inside of his mouth while the rest of his face looks stone cold.(probably worded that poorly) Just wait. Chiklis is amazing at expressing emotions with just his face, no dialogue, and he gets to flex those muscles big time over the course of the series (especially a couple scenes at the end).
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Finished season 3, loving amazing stuff. Feel kinda bad for Wyms tho.
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Just finished a complete re-watch of the series. I'd forgotten just how great this show is. Easily in the top 5 of all time. Just gotta figure out which show it bumps off the list.
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Season 4 down. Wow, Glenn Close, just wow.
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I don't understand the Kavanaugh hate. I loved his character and he was what made Season 5 so great to me. I fully sided with him even when he set up Vic, because Vic deserved to go down, and I loved how he was turning dark to do it HE'S PISSING IN YOUR FACE!! CAN YOU TASTE IT?
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I hated him cause I was rooting for Vic the entire time.
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He was tarred as a monster pretty early on and it was hard for him to shake it off, but he was a monster only because he was going after an even bigger monster, one that managed to get the better of him. Rewatching the series, it's a lot easier to take his side when you know what Vic is really like (up to then you get a pretty good idea, but it gets much worse)
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CortezFantastic posted:HE'S PISSING IN YOUR FACE!! CAN YOU TASTE IT? I don't think it tastes like hot buttah.
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Yeah Kavanaugh was my boy.
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If Kavanaugh was out for any other member of the Strike Team (even Ronnie), I would have been on his side. But Lem had always been my favorite ST member so I didn't want him to go away
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I've avoided this thread. I just finished season 5 and I had to post... Im just so mad. Lem was my favorite ST member. He seemed so happy with the sandwich he was given by Shane and just had the natural nice guy tone. When he dropped that grenade, and was still slowly dying when Shane started apologizing... I cried. I can't believe it but I actually cried. Wow And Kavanaugh is a real prick. Claudette said it best in that IAD is not welcome and intimidating, that's the nature of the beast, but the way he goes about his business is over the top and incredibly off putting. I don't think you're supposed to like him. If he was such a straight and narrow guy he wouldn't have tried to have Antwan murder whatever strike team members would have been in jail Plus he attacked dutch. You don't do that.
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Kavanaugh was a goddamned bastard. It's just great writing and acting to make the good guy bad and the bad guy good so effectively.
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In the middle of season 4 of my rewatch. Glenn Close is amazing. Anthony "Animal Semen" Anderson plays a great bad guy. I can't wait until Kavanaugh shows up. rear end-Invader's story line is getting annoying though. I forgot how much his interaction with the Barn after season 3 makes me 
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Initially, I thought Glenn Close was some sort of stunt casting but liked her character. The scene that had me going HOLY loving JESUS was when she
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Just finished season 6. Not sure I liked 6 as much as I liked 5 but it was okay. It's starting to get a little far fetched IMO. PS gently caress Billings oh my godddd gently caress Billings
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Crazy685 posted:Just finished season 6. Not sure I liked 6 as much as I liked 5 but it was okay. It's starting to get a little far fetched IMO. Season 6 is really just the set up for 7. I think they were originally just supposed to be one season (or was it 5 & 6?), which is why it feels a little anticlimactic.
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rejutka posted:Initially, I thought Glenn Close was some sort of stunt casting but liked her character. The scene that had me going HOLY loving JESUS was when she Oh God I forgot all about that, she went to work on him as mercilessly and savagely as anything I've ever seen.
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