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Does this make me a Bad Fan?
Confession #1:
I'm approximately 1 gazillion times more excited about Mama Mia! opening today than I am about The Dark Knight, despite the fact that I can see The Dark Knight at no less than 2 IMAX theaters within easy driving distance.
Confession #2:
It appears that I will buy anything David Simon does because, as it turns out, he's my favorite author (for television) ever. I own the book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, all 7 seasons plus television movie of Homicide: Life on the Street, the book The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, the HBO series The Corner, and the first 4 seasons of The Wire (with Season 5 on order for immediate shipping when it's available next month).
I am counting down to when Generation Kill will be available on DVD (I don't get HBO) so I can get my hands on it.
In short, you know how people will buy anything Joss Whedon does (even when it's total crap) and call him a genius for it (even though it's a case of the emperor walking around completely starkers)?
This is apparently how I treat productions involving David Simon, Ed Burns, and partners.
How can I put this...long before I let any of David Simon's stuff out of my hands, I will sell both my Angel and Buffy box sets.
The hell with that. I will burn my Angel and Buffy box sets before I give up any of David Simon's stuff.
(Seriously, those of you who kept looking for meaning in the "numbered shirts" of Buffy Season 6 that actually didn't have any meaning beyond, "We found a bunch of these for cheap in thrift shops?" Try The Wire, which actually has twice the meaning and twice the mythic elements of any Angel and Buffy episode without requiring you to fanwank. Best of all? The Wire actually has continuity that puts most book series to shame. No. I'm not kidding.)
I'm approximately 1 gazillion times more excited about Mama Mia! opening today than I am about The Dark Knight, despite the fact that I can see The Dark Knight at no less than 2 IMAX theaters within easy driving distance.
Confession #2:
It appears that I will buy anything David Simon does because, as it turns out, he's my favorite author (for television) ever. I own the book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, all 7 seasons plus television movie of Homicide: Life on the Street, the book The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, the HBO series The Corner, and the first 4 seasons of The Wire (with Season 5 on order for immediate shipping when it's available next month).
I am counting down to when Generation Kill will be available on DVD (I don't get HBO) so I can get my hands on it.
In short, you know how people will buy anything Joss Whedon does (even when it's total crap) and call him a genius for it (even though it's a case of the emperor walking around completely starkers)?
This is apparently how I treat productions involving David Simon, Ed Burns, and partners.
How can I put this...long before I let any of David Simon's stuff out of my hands, I will sell both my Angel and Buffy box sets.
The hell with that. I will burn my Angel and Buffy box sets before I give up any of David Simon's stuff.
(Seriously, those of you who kept looking for meaning in the "numbered shirts" of Buffy Season 6 that actually didn't have any meaning beyond, "We found a bunch of these for cheap in thrift shops?" Try The Wire, which actually has twice the meaning and twice the mythic elements of any Angel and Buffy episode without requiring you to fanwank. Best of all? The Wire actually has continuity that puts most book series to shame. No. I'm not kidding.)
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I think the show really hits its stride in Seasons 3, 4, and 5 is really the creative height of the series. Season 6 is still really good, but with a slight drop ("The Subway" shows up in this season and it's the equal of "Three Men and Adena"...be sure to watch the PBS documentary of it that's included on this disc.)
Season 7, while a definite drop in quality thanks to network interference, is still (I think) better than anything in the Law and Order oeuvre. I know that when I watched it first run I haaaaaaated it, but in recently re-watching the episodes it actually wasn't all that bad.
As for the H:Lots movie...skip it. Keep to the happy place where Season 7 leaves you. No, seriously. The good in the movie (some outstanding performances, a haunting and heart-breaking final 15 minutes) will never make up for the negatives you get by watching it. Ignore it. Pretend it doesn't exist.
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