The Wire comes to BBC2 (Spoiler free, please)

[sojourner]

will be watching episode 5 while eating tea in a bit, but as we all know, you can't stop at just the one. Now I've got the dvds I'm worried I'll have finished the lot in 2 weeks time

I can't watch it while I'm eating. I'm too torn and miss bits

I'm just rewatching S4 before watching S5 (that the lovely belboid is sending to me )

and then I'll probably cave and buy S5 anyway if previous experience is anything to go by

 

[Orang Utan]

C'mon now, let's be nice and not put spoilers at all, eh? We're going to ruin someone's day eventually.

HOW?

 

[sojourner]

HOW?

are you being McNulty there?

 

[Orang Utan]

If something's put in spoiler tags, surely it's ok?

 

[sojourner]

If something's put in spoiler tags, surely it's ok?

Yeh, you're right

But seeing them there, and I'm speaking as a person who has yet to see S5 and will literally die if I see any spoilers but is also incurably fucking nosey, the temptation to look at them is a killer

I asked about a spoiler, and people wound me up. Cunts, lot of them. I should probably add some smilies, just to show I am actually being flippant

 

[Threshers_Flail]

Spoilers don't bother me. Ruined it for myself by searching The Wire into youtube and getting results from series I haven't seen yet, silly billy.

 

[Jon-of-arc]

Yeh, you're right

But seeing them there, and I'm speaking as a person who has yet to see S5 and will literally die if I see any spoilers but is also incurably fucking nosey, the temptation to look at them is a killer

I asked about a spoiler, and people wound me up. Cunts, lot of them. I should probably add some smilies, just to show I am actually being flippant

Spoiler: Series 5

it isn't nearly as good as any of the other series - but is still better than pretty much every other TV show on

 

[London_Calling]

S1 E5

Two explicit mentions of 'the bug' in this hour and, i believe, one implicit - everyone happy with the idea Avon Barksdale's father has the bug (as suggested by the lesion on the side of his face) ?

 

[Orang Utan]

His father? I don't remember his dad being in it

 

[London_Calling]

D'you remember the visit D'Angelo and Avon make to a hospital - they visit (as Avon says) D'Angelo's "uncle" who is unconscious. I don't recall anything explicit being said but the tenderness, etc . . .

 

[Crispy]

if he's D's uncle, then he's Avon's brother.

 

[SpookyFrank]

if he's D's uncle, then he's Avon's brother.

Your uncle's dad tends to be your grandad

 

[Crispy]

I can't remember the exact relationship Avon says. Whatever. Old man. Death bed. Mighty can fall etc. etc.

 

[Orang Utan]

Your uncle's dad tends to be your grandad

maybe he's D's great uncle

 

[London_Calling]

I'm glad we sorted that out!

 

[Vintage Paw]

As predicted I'm racing ahead. Still on S1 though.

Fucking great stuff.

 

[kained&able]

Isn't the bug HIV?

whats that got to do with a lesion or a coma?

There is a mntion of avons daddy(i think) in the wire

Spoiler: don't read this unless you've watched till season 2

When D gets arrested he tells Bunk his grandad was Butch Stamford and the name was obviously some legendery underground figure.

dave

 

[maomao]

Isn't the bug HIV?

whats that got to do with a lesion or a coma?


dave

Skin lesions are a very common symptom of full-blown AIDS.

 

[kained&able]

coma really isn't though. is it?

dave

 

[Grandma Death]

I've lent the Wire off a mate and I've just finished watching episode 5 of series 1. I was expecting to be really sucked in by this point but that moment hasn't arrived. It's good-but thus far I don't think it's amazing.

 

[Vintage Paw]

It does just keep getting better in S1.

 

[danny la rouge]

It's started then, has it? I just noticed it's on tonight. At silly o'clock until even sillier o'clock.

 

[DotCommunist]

poor show on the scheduling, yeah

 

[maomao]

It's started then, has it? I just noticed it's on tonight. At silly o'clock until even sillier o'clock.

I'll lend you the DVDs if you drop them off at my mum's house (you're in Edinburgh right?) when you're finished.

 

[hektik]

coma really isn't though. is it?

dave

he isn't in a coma though is he? He was just sleeping/passed out. Wasn't attached to any machines.

On another tangent@ when Lester goes to the gym to pump the owner for information: was that a young micheal standing outside? It sure looked like him!

 

[danny la rouge]

I'll lend you the DVDs if you drop them off at my mum's house (you're in Edinburgh right?) when you're finished.

I'm in Stirling.

It was a kind offer, though. Say hi to your mum for me.

 

[danny la rouge]

It doesn't even appear to be on iPlayer. Clearly I'm not supposed to watch this.

 

[maomao]

I'm in Stirling.

It was a kind offer, though. Say hi to your mum for me.

Yeah, I'll tell her 'Danny La Rouge' from the internet says hi. You don't think she worries about me enough already? She wants to borrow the DVDs after it's been on telly cause she keeps falling asleep halfway through so it seemed like a good idea.

 

[danny la rouge]

Yeah, I'll tell her 'Danny La Rouge' from the internet says hi. You don't think she worries about me enough already?

 

[Threshers_Flail]

Anyone want to lend me season 5? Ill pay for postage and would only have it for a week, you have my typed word.