Bluemoon's Official Top 100 TV Shows

[meltonblue]

You are not the only person ive heard say that.

Which is what i think BCS does better than BB, and why i like it more and had it higher on my list.

Thats interesting, I haven’t seen BCS because I’d given up on the BB universe. I did like the character a lot though so I’ll give it a watch through.

 

[Dirty Harry]

I could say the same about literally every single tv show. They ALL get more hype than they deserve.








Apart from Grand Designs, obviously.

I often think there's a large element of expectation when something comes highly recommended mate, interesting that many I've watched 'blind' or weren't that highly recommended, have gone on to be fantastic shows, fair comment about Grand Designs though ;-).

 

[Out on blue 6]

See, that is what i found to be the weaker side of it. The storylines. It revolved around a formula a bit.

Took me a while to get into S1. Because it revolved around the strength of characters more than the strength of the story, which built slowly but was almost secondary, and it took time to get to know the characters.

S2 then was almost the identical formula, but with white immigrant factions as opposed to baltimore street gangs.

S3 then went back to the more familiar characters (which in fairness were kept in it through s2) but the greeks/poles were never to be heard of again.

S4 introduced a whole new generation, JUST when you were getting into some of the routine, so it actually threw.
me off a fair bit.

S5 became more about the inner police and electoral departments.


The strength of it for me was definately the characters (and the cast who pilled them off who don't always get that credit), rather than the storyline, is my point.

Series 1 Drugs and gangs
Series 2 Jobs and the decline of the Seaport System
Series 3 Government and Bureaucracy
Series 4 The School system
Series 5 Print media decline of which David Simon had first hand experience of.
Each series always had the gangs,police and political strands of course

 

[Coatigan]

Thats interesting, I haven’t seen BCS because I’d given up on the BB universe. I did like the character a lot though so I’ll give it a watch through.

Have a go. You don't need to know how BB ends, or indeed anything about it, to enjoy it. Obviously you do know that world, and that will help, but it is very much capable of standing on its own two feet as a series. I actually wish i hadnt seen BB so i could have watchet BCS for its own merit, and built the world up much more gradually.


Which is why i think those that have seen neither (looking at you Rob) have the unique opportunity to watch it in reverse.

 

[Coatigan]

Series 1 Drugs and gangs
Series 2 Jobs and the decline of the Seaport System
Series 3 Government and Bureaucracy
Series 4 The School system
Series 5 Print media decline of which David Simon had first hand experience of.
Each series always had the gangs,police and political strands of course

Very true. Definately multiple layers in it.

 

[Coatigan]

Ffs, completely forgot the CL draw was on, waffling on about formulas layers characters and arcs on here.

Right, i'm aff to see who we got next.

 

[RobMCFC]

Dortmund - that'll do.

Probably means we'll be playing in our second home, Budapest.

 

[meltonblue]

Ffs, completely forgot the CL draw was on, waffling on about formulas layers characters and arcs on here.

Right, i'm aff to see who we got next.

Ha, me too!

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

5th ?!?!?

Expected 4th, would have been my 1st by a distance.

So expecting
4th GOT
3rd OFAH
2nd Sopranos
1st BB

Yeh, expecting the same order. Was a straight toss up between Breaking Bad and The Wire for no.1 for me, GOT having wrecked its own legacy with that abomination of a final episode.
The Wire was incredible television and Omar Little was probably my favourite ever character from any series

 

[Daz_Blue]

Dortmund - that'll do.

Probably means we'll be playing in our second home, Budapest.

Was that a TV show from the 70s ?