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Generation Kill (new series from the Wire writers)

That was some of the finest tv I have ever seen, superb.

You can read Evan Wright's Rolling Stone articles that were the basis for the book which followed Here
 
I've had to abandon Generation Kill for the time being, not because it isn't good (because it is), but because my copy of Homicide by David Simon turned up. I couldn't concentrate on GK as I kept thinking about what I was going to be reading next. Sad, I know.
 
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I have now downloaded all the episodes so I can watch them back-to-back. Patience, my friends, is the key.
 
Just watched the last episode. Excellent end to an excellent series - as good a piece of TV as The Wire was.
 
STFC said:
I've had to abandon Generation Kill for the time being, not because it isn't good (because it is), but because my copy of Homicide by David Simon turned up. I couldn't concentrate on GK as I kept thinking about what I was going to be reading next. Sad, I know.
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is Homicide good?

i've not got round to buying that yet.
 
Generation Kill

Being a long time fan of The Wire this was something I had to have a look at. I ended up watching most of it in one sitting!

Extremely watchable & suprisingly balanced considering the subject matter. I think it starts on tv this weekend but I'd suggest watching it several episodes at a time.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0995832/
 
Did anyone else see this tonight?

It was pretty wire-esque. A lot of immediatly impenetrable dialogue but given full concentration it paid dividends. Looking forward to the next one because at the end of the first episode, with so little actually happening, you felt that kind of angst to get into the action. Which I suppose is the point.
 
Diamond said:
Did anyone else see this tonight?

It was pretty wire-esque. A lot of immediatly impenetrable dialogue but given full concentration it paid dividends. Looking forward to the next one because at the end of the first episode, with so little actually happening, you felt that kind of angst to get into the action. Which I suppose is the point.
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this cracked me up, both with GK and the wire. people all 'oh I dun get it' off you fuck to BB then dimlow. (unworthy, and entirely cuntish thought from me)

Wasn't impenetrable to me in both cases, my love of hip hop and my love of military slang meant I was understanding it all immediately. Plus I have the science fictioners faith that 'what I don't get straight away will come clear later' and it always did in both cases.
 
Come on, I refuse to believe that you really got all of that shit right off or even, on reflection, later. If you did, you're a better man than me. Some of that dialogue was almost unlistenable, let alone understandable.
 
Diamond said:
Come on, I refuse to believe that you really got all of that shit right off or even, on reflection, later. If you did, you're a better man than me. Some of that dialogue was almost unlistenable, let alone understandable.
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no it wasn't, it was just standard jargonese and the miltary love of acronymical slang. Nothing overtly complex about it. The only things I was confused over where wether stuff like 'rip fuel' was actual sanctioned speed or some commercial speed analouge
 
Downloaded this because of 'The Wire' connection and I've just seen episode 5. I'm struggling to work out the military phrases and acronyms but I'm enjoying it so far. I'd never have watched a cop drama before the Wire and now I'm hooked this too.
 
Fair enough, clearly my ear's not sharp enough.

As to the ripfuel conundrum, does it really matter?

The bottom line is that it does what it says on the tin, no matter which constellation of stimulants that it employs. Caffeine or speed? They get you to the same place in relevant quantities.
 
Diamond said:
Fair enough, clearly my ear's not sharp enough.

As to the ripfuel conundrum, does it really matter?

The bottom line is that it does what it says on the tin, no matter which constellation of stimulants that it employs. Caffeine or speed? They get you to the same place in relevant quantities.
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it doesn't really matter but it's the sort of niggling detail I obsess over, cause I'm a bit of a sadact in that way. Like when I spent an hour trying to justify how sound waves from a TIE Fighter could transmit in a vacuum, propagating through the exhaust gasses
 
DotCommunist said:
it doesn't really matter but it's the sort of niggling detail I obsess over, cause I'm a bit of a sadact in that way. Like when I spent an hour trying to justify how sound waves from a TIE Fighter could transmit in a vacuum, propagating through the exhaust gasses
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Class.
 
Diamond said:
Come on, I refuse to believe that you really got all of that shit right off or even, on reflection, later. If you did, you're a better man than me. Some of that dialogue was almost unlistenable, let alone understandable.
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There was still some stuff I didn't twig to until the 4th or 5th ep, still a great show.

Re-viewed it over the weekend as it goes, better than I remembered.
 
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