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Basically the Sopranos is more episodic, it has the longterm arcs but there's still that feeling of checking in on our characters every week for some self-contained stories. Whereas Breaking Bad is more of a continuous thing.
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To me it comes down to BB and The Shield being more "actiony" than Sopranos etc. Although certainly a show like BB straddles the line.
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Apr 24, 2016 15:56
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You're good. Fuckin' walnuts don't lie as good as you.
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May 12, 2016 14:57
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Leave the loving cheese there, all right? I love fuckin' cheese at my feet! I stick motherfuckin' provolone in my socks at night, so they smell like your sister's crotch in the morning. Alright? Now leave the loving cocksucking cheese where it is!
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May 13, 2016 05:20
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Tao Jones posted:Leave the loving cheese there, all right? I love fuckin' cheese at my feet! I stick motherfuckin' provolone in my socks at night, so they smell like your sister's crotch in the morning. Alright? Now leave the loving cocksucking cheese where it is! Motherfucking goddamn orange peel beef!
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May 13, 2016 07:59
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Hey Cheese gently caress Get me some food.
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May 19, 2016 02:06
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Hey dudes who haven't watched The Shield, go do it, it's worth it. It loses a lot of "one of the greatest shows ever" credibility with me for its lovely soundtrack and lovely opening theme song, which is so 2002 it's laughable. But definitely up there among other legendary shows. I'd put it on par with shows like Justified or Dexter (seasons 1-4). Season 5 blew me away with Forest Whitaker's guest spot. His character was the personification of "Don't try to fight your enemy on their level, they'll drag you down and then beat you with experience". His arc is amazing. I agree someone should find and resurrect the Shield thread. It's also the one show on the list of greatest shows that I've only watched once. I think I need to watch it again. Hell, I've already seen the first 3 seasons of Game of Thrones 3 times (I rewatch it every time a new season comes out) this show definitely deserves a second watch. Except it's no longer free on Amazon Prime. God dammit. Sorry for continuing the derail.
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May 19, 2016 12:56
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I watched the first few seasons but I found the heist story line tedious. I should try to get back into it.
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May 19, 2016 15:22
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Did you warble, my little wren?
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May 19, 2016 15:36
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President Franklin's my best friend, and he's in THERE.
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May 19, 2016 19:28
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I'd put the Shield on a level above Justified by a lot actually. The supporting cast of the Shield blows Justified's out of the water. I mean besides Raylan and Crowder, there's really not much character development to go around. Also, the villains on Justified are almost laughable at times, example that guy who's from that CBS sitcom threatening to kill Raylan's family. On the other side, Forest Whitaker's character was terrifying, and he was supposed to be representing the good side. Edit: It's been a while since I've seen it but I forgot about Mags and Neal McDonough's character. They were pretty good.
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May 19, 2016 19:52
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LloydDobler posted:Season 5 blew me away with Forest Whitaker's guest spot. His character was the personification of "Don't try to fight your enemy on their level, they'll drag you down and then beat you with experience". His arc is amazing. "IT TASTES LIKE PISS TO ME!" - watching him spiral out of control was loving amazing. Also something I loved about the Shield that I don't think was particularly planned but ended up working so well was how there is one main cast member who essentially is just.... there. For a long time he's just the guy who makes up the numbers, a vital member of the cast but essentially without any real sense of individual character. Then in the last season for a variety of reasons the spotlight falls on him and you (and Vic especially) realize just what an incredible asset he is and it makes you wonder what could have been if he'd been given a chance to step up to the plate earlier.
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May 19, 2016 23:27
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Ronald loving Gardocki
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May 19, 2016 23:30
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Chromatic posted:Ronald loving Gardocki "So who was the girl?" "I don't know, I picked her up at a bar." "....you only just met her and she was coming back to your place for the night?" "I'll teach you sometime  "
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May 19, 2016 23:32
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The Shield is one of the only shows that's managed to shock me - I'm thinking of the episode where Benito Martinez's character has a very bad day, in particular.
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May 20, 2016 01:58
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There were definitely at least two or three things that happened in The Shield that just shocked me in how far they were willing to go. Still to this day I'm not sure any other show has pushed it that far.
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May 20, 2016 02:01
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Hell, I think it's in the first episode(?) where Vic sits down in front of that pedophile suspect and offers to pimp out his daughter, and then glares at the guy all,"What's the matter, my daughter not good enough for ya?  "Wasn't the girl who played his daughter actually his real life daughter too?
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May 20, 2016 02:19
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Tao Jones posted:The Shield is one of the only shows that's managed to shock me - I'm thinking of the episode where Benito Martinez's character has a very bad day, in particular. They made you.......................... suck?
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May 20, 2016 02:19
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Jerusalem posted:Wasn't the girl who played his daughter actually his real life daughter too? Yeah, and Vic's wife was played by the wife of show creator Shawn Ryan. Which must must be why they were cast because holy poo poo can they not act! Bringing the conversation back to the Sopranos, I can't really think of a prominent performance that fell through. On rewatches I'm even warming up to Robert Iler's take on AJ.
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May 20, 2016 11:02
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This goes under 'attention to detail'- one thing you notice over time is the amount of direct visual cues to the audience. At the end of Whoever Did This, Tony is wearing a Bada Bing! shirt- but it's wrinkled so we can only make out the word 'Bad'- as in, Tony is the (anti)hero of our story, and we love him not in spite of but because he visits violence on others for us. We need to be reminded that Tony is BAD for killing Ralph. In Eloise, when AJ asks Tony to move out to the home theatre thing or whatever- the name of that structure escapes me- he's eating Guiltless peanut butter straight from the jar, an indication of Tony's feelings during the whole ordeal. He views the negative situation with Carmella as an inconvenience rather than the consequences of something he should feel guilty over. These are kind of well-duh things on the surface but they take planning and staging to do correctly without you noticing them initally, the amount of effort that goes into filming everything is sublime.
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May 21, 2016 22:14
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The gently caress's that got to do with cold medicine?
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May 23, 2016 21:37
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oh! Wolfgang Fuckface!
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May 24, 2016 03:54
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Tanenbaum. Right. But on your application to Columbia, you didn't check Jewish did you?
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Tao Jones posted:Tanenbaum. Right. But on your application to Columbia, you didn't check Jewish did you? Jamal Ginsberg, the Hasidic Homeboy.
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May 24, 2016 04:30
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Hey, Count Chocula, how are ya?
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May 24, 2016 10:38
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Hey, Count Chocula, how are ya?
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May 24, 2016 14:02
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Hey Artie, how's your rash?!
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May 24, 2016 16:58
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Oooh, nine out of ten dentists surveyed!
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"He killed 16 czechoslovakians. He was an interior decorator!" "His house looked like poo poo."
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May 24, 2016 20:39
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SHE WAS ABUSIVE TO DA STAAAAAAAFF
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May 25, 2016 04:34
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You got a fuckin' problem besides those pants?!
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May 25, 2016 11:14
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It's like an ad for a weight loss center. Before...and way before.
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May 28, 2016 03:36
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"You hear what I said, Ton? They're like an ad for a weight loss center." "Before and after."
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May 28, 2016 15:05
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In the end, gently caress Santa Claus.
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May 28, 2016 19:20
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so I watched University last night and looked up the girl that played Tracee because I don't recall seeing her in anything else. Turns out that was her first gig and now she's a yoga guru. http://www.arielkileyyoga.com/ Also according to wikipedia, lots of people cancelled HBO because of this episode. To me, the rape in Employee of the Month was more disturbing.
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May 28, 2016 21:54
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Bonzo posted:so I watched University last night and looked up the girl that played Tracee because I don't recall seeing her in anything else. Turns out that was her first gig and now she's a yoga guru. Counterpoint - she was a hoo-ah
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May 29, 2016 05:49
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Think on this Burger Boy. Anthony is a oval office hair away from owning all of northern Jersey, and I am that oval office hair.
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May 30, 2016 05:09
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That writer, with the bullfights? Blew his own fuckin' head off.
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Jun 2, 2016 03:55
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That guy in Hollywood too. Don something. Producer of The Simpsons.
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Yeah well whatever happened there - that was hosed up
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