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Originally Posted by Reaper16
You really should watch The Wire sometime.
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Klosterman makes some great points about how crazy Wire supremacists are and how Breaking Bad is unique in its brilliance.
Myself, I'm still sticking with Deadwood as the pinnacle because it's simultaneously wholly a creation of fiction and wholly true in it's message if not its factual details.
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/.../bad-decisions
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Originally Posted by Chuckie
There's never been a more obstinate fan base than that of The Wire; it's a secular cult that refuses to accept any argument that doesn't classify The Wire as the greatest artistic endeavor in television history. It's almost as if these people secretly believe this show actually happened, and that criticizing the storyline is like mocking an episode of Frontline. This was not a documentary about Baltimore: Wallace is not alive and playing high school football in Texas, Stringer Bell was not reincarnated as a Pennsylvania paper salesman, and you are not qualified to lecture on inner-city education because you own Season 4 on DVD. The citizens on that show were nonexistent composites, and the events you watched did not occur. As a society, we must learn to accept this.
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Originally Posted by Chuckie II
It's not just that watching White's transformation is interesting; what's interesting is that this transformation involves the fundamental core of who he supposedly is, and that this (wholly constructed) core is an extension of his own free will. The difference between White in the middle of Season 1 and White in the debut of Season 4 is not the product of his era or his upbringing or his social environment. It's a product of his own consciousness. He changed himself. At some point, he decided to become bad, and that's what matters.
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