As I’ve been growing increasingly fond of The Wire, I’ve been reading more about it from a cultural and creative point of view. This is perilous as a lot of the material out there talks about season four, which I’m just getting to after ending season three with a non-stop four episode awesomefest. I make note of the things I come across and save them for future reading. For when I’m done with season four.
One of these things of note is this series of QAs with The Wire creator David Simon and some music guy. I briefly perused a couple of them trying not to come across spoiler material when I saw Simon’s commentary about leaked DVD screeners on the internet. It’s hard to read tone, but from the looks of it he doesn’t seem overly upset about it because, in effect, it helped provide buzz for the show. He was, however, mighty distressed about spoilers.
I’m most disappointed in the viewers with bootlegged copies who have consistently posted spoilers on websites and impaired the viewing experience of others. I find that to be selfish and not a little bit infantile — the sort of behavior that denotes someone who is unable to, say, sustain a sexual act for more than a few seconds, thereby proving themselves a huge disappointment to any and all partners. Yeah, I’d definitely say that any asshole, who, armed with a bootleg copy of a show, posts a clip of a major character being killed on YouTube or headlines a website posting with “XXname hereXX R.I.P.” has pretty much defined himself before the world as a hopeless, useless premature ejaculator.
There you have it. People that post spoilers are useless premature ejaculators
, like those that posted this Battlestar Galactica Season 3 blooper reel. SPLOILERS.
Though, to be honest, I kind of lost interest in BSG after “Exodus.” Or, more to the point, pretty much right after I started watching The Wire. I only have room for one TV show at a time in my life and right now, I’m committed.
No spoilers coming up… just pure masturbation over the show:
I think you’ve made the right choice.
I’ve bought every season released so far and will continue to do so. However, in my excitement, I watched the leaks. They weren’t all released at once. One of them even had 20 minutes missing at the end. I couldn’t resist watching all of the ones available, though.
So, I was spoiling myself, but you know what? The stories require so much more effort than most fare that skipping the missing episodes and then filling in the gaps later didn’t really hurt the experience too badly (for me, at least). It makes you question whether Memento is actually all that cleverly structured. Sometimes stories are used to explain systems, rather than just the interesting sets thrown up by a system. I think that’s the case in the wire (a dissection of the baltimore drug war) as well as memento (explaining how the protagonist is used, over and over - almost programmed) (okay, maybe I’m stretching it a bit ;)
I end up watching the seasons over and over anyhow, because I can’t get enough, and they’re endlessly giving up subtleties on repeat viewing.
And yeah, BSG has had a fair amount of filler (that Boxing match, and Bulldog’s return especially) since the mid-atmosphere launch scene. That’s got to be a peak. I do hope for a return to form.