Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
Nah, she jumped the shark.
Yet another Wire thread/poll - your favourite series?
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Nah, she jumped the shark.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Season 5 spoiler
does this work
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
you have to put spoiler=something.
just spoiler on its own inside the tags doesn't work.
just spoiler on its own inside the tags doesn't work.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
not with you. can you put up an example, please?
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
take the spaces out of the brackets:
[ spoiler=long_calling ] like this [/spoiler]
[ spoiler=long_calling ] like this [/spoiler]
like this
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Cheers, maybe this works:
Season 5 spoiler below:
Season 5 spoiler below:
This is the theory. I don’t believe it exists anywhere else and so it could all be bollocks:
Season 5 is David Simon’s metaphorical exploration of the most significant event in US politics for 30 years. It explores the period from the State of Union ‘Axis of Evil’ speech in Jan 2002 through the development of the WMD bogus pretext to Colin Powell’s address to the UN detailing the ‘proof’, before moving on to the consequences of that great lie.
The first clues are in the opening scenes of season 5; Bunk and Norris are having a conversation in the Homicide office which concludes with Norris saying “American’s are stupid people, we believe pretty much everything we’re told” and, after the photocopier scene, Bunk says to the new recruit “The bigger the lie, the more they believe”.
Other notable clues are the incongruous mention of Cheney by name in about S5E3 (a side remark made by Gus Haynes while having a smoke with other journalists on the loading bay of the Baltimore Sun). A couple of others I can’t quite recall at the moment.
The parallel arcs of Simon’s plot and real political events begin the process of moving slowly closer after the introduction of the homeless Iraqi vet. Eventually, we see the full horror of the lie in the form of lost limbs and lost lives at the Walter Reed Memorial Hospital – the same hospital that was to create a real media storm when the treatment of Iraqi vets by the Bush Administration was heavily criticised: A complete gift of notable allegoric significance.
One of the aspects Simon explores is the way institutions respond, no one person or entity questions the validity of events; the institution they represent has a function to fulfil within the context of events. Also that events represent opportunities for people within those institutions. In the end, no one cares if the initial premise is valid or correct, the institution is validated by its response, and people seize their chance.
Another theme is how individuals are compromised and corrupted by events, or sometimes not.
In that light the position of Kima Greggs vs. McNulty can be seen differently.
There’s much more of course – it's David Simon – but that’s it for now.
Season 5 is David Simon’s metaphorical exploration of the most significant event in US politics for 30 years. It explores the period from the State of Union ‘Axis of Evil’ speech in Jan 2002 through the development of the WMD bogus pretext to Colin Powell’s address to the UN detailing the ‘proof’, before moving on to the consequences of that great lie.
The first clues are in the opening scenes of season 5; Bunk and Norris are having a conversation in the Homicide office which concludes with Norris saying “American’s are stupid people, we believe pretty much everything we’re told” and, after the photocopier scene, Bunk says to the new recruit “The bigger the lie, the more they believe”.
Other notable clues are the incongruous mention of Cheney by name in about S5E3 (a side remark made by Gus Haynes while having a smoke with other journalists on the loading bay of the Baltimore Sun). A couple of others I can’t quite recall at the moment.
The parallel arcs of Simon’s plot and real political events begin the process of moving slowly closer after the introduction of the homeless Iraqi vet. Eventually, we see the full horror of the lie in the form of lost limbs and lost lives at the Walter Reed Memorial Hospital – the same hospital that was to create a real media storm when the treatment of Iraqi vets by the Bush Administration was heavily criticised: A complete gift of notable allegoric significance.
One of the aspects Simon explores is the way institutions respond, no one person or entity questions the validity of events; the institution they represent has a function to fulfil within the context of events. Also that events represent opportunities for people within those institutions. In the end, no one cares if the initial premise is valid or correct, the institution is validated by its response, and people seize their chance.
Another theme is how individuals are compromised and corrupted by events, or sometimes not.
In that light the position of Kima Greggs vs. McNulty can be seen differently.
There’s much more of course – it's David Simon – but that’s it for now.
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