I'm halfway through season five of The Wire, but yeah. One of the things that I find interesting is the way the (SPOILER) Clay Davis stuff is playing out, because I think it's pretty clear that Davis is just the most extreme form of the central problem, and not exactly a guy who invented political corruption
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I think it's pretty clear that Davis is just the most extreme form of the central problem, and not exactly a guy who invented political corruption.
Yes! I liked the Davis thing a lot too. I don't even...possibly this is my own cynicism showing, but whatever...I didn't feel like he was even particularly extreme? He just has the brassest set of balls, and so he is more openly and personally involved than one would usually expect.
It's interesting that the only person on BSG who actually seems to really like politics is Zarek. Well, actually, Lee kind of seems to like it, too, and I get the impression Felix would have liked it under different circumstances.Felix! You're right, too, he would've been a world-class policy wonk
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OMG THE ENDING TO SEASON SIX FOR DON. I am really excited about what the next season entails for him. I kind of agree that Don will probably never become a "good person," but I think that in a lot of ways that is not really the point? I mean, one thing that I think is really important is that in an imperfect world, where options for actually being a decent person are actually sometimes not always all that clear, finding a way to find peace with yourself and not to put other people down is *itself* a worthwhile goal, and I think Don is making real progress on that.Great point. I loved the end of S6 for Don, after being disappointed by S5. I'm way more sympathetic to Don than I oughta be! I think he needed the shake-up of being way too honest in his pitch to Hershey and getting booted out SC 2.0 to make a change. IMO, Don's whole process of breaking out poverty and abuse and the Korean War demanded artifice, coldness, a lack of fidelity to family. mendaciousness and ambition on steroids. If Don was a little more honest, a little more
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YES, exactly! Don is a creature of his own inner aptitudes, and that is precisely the problem for everyone around him. And yet...I really felt for him by the end of S6, because for once he was the one spiraling.
Yay feelings! I want to respond more but I'm pretty tired, and might not get back to it. But I really like all this. MM is a show I love but haven't rewatched enough to form the strong set of opinions and meta-y thoughts that I have about other things, but somehow the end of s6 really made things click into place emotionally. I really love the shark analogy a lot
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I think Don especially really closely associates rest of any kind with death, hence the fact that he can usually only get rest by pushing himself past his limit, drugging himself with alcohol or pushing himself past the limit of physical exertion with sex and impossibly long hoursAbsolutely. One of my favorite Don speeches and frankly, TV speeches every- "You're born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts. But I never forget. I'm living like there's no tomorrow, because there isn't one
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Yes! I liked the Davis thing a lot too. I don't even...possibly this is my own cynicism showing, but whatever...I didn't feel like he was even particularly extreme? He just has the brassest set of balls, and so he is more openly and personally involved than one would usually expect.
It's interesting that the only person on BSG who actually seems to really like politics is Zarek. Well, actually, Lee kind of seems to like it, too, and I get the impression Felix would have liked it under different circumstances.Felix! You're right, too, he would've been a world-class policy wonk ( ... )
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