Radiation: Geek, annoyed
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Perhaps the reporter that spent a year with the Baltimore Police provided a lot more on the criminals etc?
I haven't seen every episode yet, but Homicide: Life on the Street seems very cop-centric (as I imagine "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets" was as well).
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Yes, but does Rock of Love Bus have Wendell Pierce in it?
I don't know about anyone else, but you think Brett Michaels' excremental taste in women might be a sign of repressed homosexuality? If nothing else, Brett taking a ride on the Cock of Love shortbus would be a whole new bag of crazy...
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I haven't seen every episode yet, but Homicide: Life on the Street seems very cop-centric (as I imagine "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets" was as well).
Is that any good Graeme? I read a review which said it was at least as good as the Wire, but the reasoning in the review looked stretched to me.
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The early series are quite good, but it's more notable for the aesthetic aspects than anything else, and in that respect it's dated somewhat. It's not remotely as good as The Wire, but you can certainly look at it as a stepping stone.
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Is that any good Graeme?
Entirely watchable, though as Gio says there's some things about the production that have dated. But I guess you could say that about anything that's been around for more than five minutes.
One way to put it is that Homicide at its best stretches the boundaries of the police procedural, while The Wire breaks the format into little bits, sets it on fire then pees on the ashes. Both work for me. :)
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I'd be interested to hear what people think of it after they've seen it
OK, since you asked:
I enjoyed it, but was able to use it as a companion piece to the book, which I read a month or so beforehand. The book and the miniseries complement each other quite well (the book fleshes out a lot of detail that the miniseries has trouble fitting in).
I'm also something of an armchair warrior, so do a lot of reading about military history, culture and so on. which I think helps when viewing the interactions of a military culture which, to most of us, can come across as entirely alien and quite offputting. For example, the slurs and put-downs that the soldiers use on each other are explained in the book as part of the unit and military culture, and are, to a certain extent, expressions of affection and care for the recipient. That does not necessarily come across well on the screen without the viewer already knowing the necessary context.
In short, Generation Kill falls slightly short as a stand-alone piece, but works well if you're into that sort of thing and can slot it in as one piece of the jigsaw
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I'm not sure if that has to do with the original source material as compared to the TV shows
David Simon had a pretty good idea of what was going on on 'the other side' when he was writing The Wire. He spent a year hanging around and talking to the residents of an inner-city Baltimore neighbourhood when he was writing 'The Corner'.
The one criticism I'd level at 'The Wire' is: that having read David Simon's 'Homicide (published 1991) and 'The Corner' (published 1997), some of the stuff in 'The Wire' does rely too heavily on it's source material, and shows it's age a little.
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