| |
|
*years pass....*
So, hey! Season 4 = best season yet? Surprised at the lack of discussion on here about now, after the DVD set just came out and all. I'm midway thru a second watch of this, and totally impressed by the kids playing Michael and Namond - especially Michael, who starts off like he's near enough the youngest, softest boy in the group, and then slowly turns into something else. I know it's well foreshadowed, but still, it's a gradual transformation, and I think it's played really well.
Also, no love for the Carcetti actor? C'mon, he's perfect for the part - he's so very nearly really good-looking, you can see how he'd look good in a campaign photo, all airbrushed and stuff, but it still always seems like he's shown as being shorter than anyone else in any room he's ever in, plus he just can't help but looking and sounding a bit weasel-y and whiny.
..So nice to come here and finally read a years-old barbethread and find myself agreeing with things that have been written-- what's really hitting me now is that sense of time moving on that's already been mentioned in this thread and others; I love how all the stuff we got with Carv's character in S3 has kept on going forward- so, f'rexample, now he actually knows all the corner kids by name, and so on - such a change from the start of S3 where he's chasing down alleys with all the other cops. Also, there have been these gradual shifts in Carv's character since S1, and all that really does bounce off of Herc's really fucking deep-set lack of ability - I mean, there's one specific point I'm thinking of where Carv just looks at Herc with a kinda frustrated/horrified 'what the fuck?' look on his face, and it's weird to think they were ever, y'know, almost a sort of comic relief cop-buddies double-act. Also, yes, the change in McNulty, which makes sense the way he explains it and plays it; and also, the placing of the election day smack-bang right in the middle of the season seems to tie into this same theme, too-- how the election isn't the big climatic event it *could* be portrayed as, but is just one part of an ongoing neverending etc etc process of change, maaaan.
I mean, dunno if I'm making sense with this, but I just think with S4 of the Wire, it actually feels like real time has passed in Baltimore. And yeah, I know that the show has run with this sort of theme before, and I see that everyone else who's been talking about the wire on barbelith seems to have long-since noticed it, too-- but I think it's just hitting me how weird this feels, though, to have these characters, and where they live, grow and age on me like this. |
|
|
