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favourite foreshadowing
the discussion with Sweeney in the Diner
hot tub credits
the whole "my name" thing
something I've only just realised re Mike taking the rap
changes from the novel
James Franco near top billing
Ferris' crew shooting the breeze.....
Did Michael Corleone read The Art Of War?
if they'd only done one series
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they've reprised it on Saturday Night Live a few times, and I think that's enough. A little 10 - 15 minute segment every few years. Topical, witty, and without overkill - and because they're just on the couch doing the show, there's no need to see their lives outside the studio, acting like teenagers, like one poster's already said.
The Kanye West one was especially good.
accurate accents weren't considered important to this movie - Mike Myers basically does his Shrek voice when he's supposed to be a leprechaun
ha ha ha ha
Swedes would have been neutral, surely?
doesn't dance along to Summer Nights and doesn't dance the drinks over to Tommy's table
could have done with a spoiler alert ahead of the o/p! Short answer - Yes, she does, but it doesn't matter.
Long answer - As her science teacher said, there's always going to be jerks, that doesn't change after high school, and you can either waste your time and your physical and mental energy trying to get revenge or trying to prove them wrong or trying to "beat" them, or you can focus on what you want to do with your life.
Nice case in point that in the end, the a-hole principal is still the principal and will continue to lord it over said science teacher. It makes a refreshing change that they played it this way - I was expecting some cliched scene near the end in which the science teacher gets one over on the principal or finally stands up to him, or better still there'd be some big reveal that the principal was having an affair with Whitney (which would make sense as he seemed to worship her and do everything she commanded) and so is fired and arrested, and the science teacher takes over. It would go against the message he gave earlier though.
And kudos to the writers for an ending in which the bullies "win".
Also gotta love the irony that Jodi and Mindy were "winning" for so long and then got greedy for more and that's when it fell apart and Whitney capitalised. There's a lesson there too.
I also think it would have been better if she'd died in season one, not to troll or because I "hate" her character, but because it would make the shooting, the effect it has on McNulty and also the stakes at the end of season one so much more serious.
It's not very well handled in season 2, the way she breaks her promise to her partner and goes back to the action of major crimes first chance she gets (although it's nowhere near as ridiculous as Daniels going back when he's on his way out with a law degree after being buried in evidence control).
While she had her moments up until the end of season 3, I think a lot of her story arc after that, especially her moving to homicide, would have been better served on Sydnor, especially since it's implied that he becomes the new McNulty by the end of it.
That said, one of my favourite lines in the entire show is when she's in hospital after surviving the shooting and Bunk's pressuring her to lie that she got a good look at both shooters, saying that it'll play a lot easier in court.
"Sometimes, things just gotta play hard"
I've just watched it with this theory in mind -
To answer your points, they could have put the piles of stones or those stick objects there themselves while Heather was asleep.
The walking south all day - IWasn't that also the same day Mike was a bit too gleeful when he admitted he threw the map away? Leaving her with no tangible way of knowing how to get back to the car/main road and so relying on them and their wits - a further addition to the o/p theory. If it was that same day, then I'm not sure at what point Heather seized sole control of the compass. Josh may have deliberately led them north for a while before she took over, or him and Mike could have picked arguments and wandered off in different directionsenough to disorientate her. Plus it's not 100% if it was the same log.
Only thing that I can't explain are the fairly distant noises at night when all 3 of them are shown to be in the tent. And the noises are picked up on camera so it's not as if they're only in Heather's imagination, egged on by Mike and Josh claiming to hear them.
Damn
I don't think Tony's age is ever specified. Maybe he was only 10 years or so older than Gina. Even 15 years is reasonably possible. So he could be in his early to mid 30s. Sure, he may look older, but that's caused by hard time in Cuba, eating octopus 3 times a day
I thought Andy only came into it in Season 3? When Jim goes to Stamford (Karen and the all too brief Toby also only appear then)?
Can't remember if the whole anger management thing happened in 3 or 4 - probably was 3, which means a lot happened to him during that season.
Sorry if this is a petty sounding response - it might just be a typo in the o/p
i've wondered about this too. All the evidence and testimonies wouldn't matter - Wee Bey's confessed to it and is happy to do the time for it, so the bosses wouldn't care, so it wouldn't even get as far as going to trial.
You saw in Season 4 the flak that Bunk got for "unsolving" the murder in Andre's store. Why would this be any different
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