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The Wire was written by people with intimate first-hand experience and they worked really hard to make it as accurate as possible. Of course the characters are
by Devilboy 16y ago
The Wire was written by people with intimate first-hand experience and they worked really hard to make it as accurate as possible. Of course the characters are fictional but the world they inhabit is real.
- WalterBright 16y agoSo, there was an amsterdam experiment in Baltimore? A cop inventing a serial killer? No? It belongs in a literature class, not a sociology class. It's like learning physics by watching Star Trek. Yes, The Wire was a great TV show. I enjoyed watching it. But let's not pretend it is a documentary.
- Devilboy 16y agoWho said it was a documentary?
- michaelbuckbee 16y agoI see it more like the show is a focal point of for the broader discussion that's happening in the class. Also, there is actually a "Physics of Star Trek" book (with a forward by Stephen Hawking) that's pretty good.
- WalterBright 16y agoDoes the book confirm that the way to learn about physics is to study Star Trek's warp drive, transporter, subspace communications, telepathy, food replicator, telekinesis, parallel universes, force fields, gravity generator, dylithium crystals, time travel, vulcan death grip, etc., all based on no known scientific principles?