Gaz-L posted:

It's a rivalry, more than a truly adversarial relationship. Neither side can afford for the other to die, and they don't really want that anyway. Someone like McNulty needs to have that measuring stick there to show the world just how smart he is. And an Avon or Stringer needs a good cop on them to stop them getting sloppy.

Professor Funk posted:

I haven't really read this entire thread, so forgive me if this debate has been had, but is it really a stretch to say that this might be the greatest TV series of all time?

Professor Funk posted:

I just started watching Season 3 and would just like to say that the part at the beginning of the Episode (before the credits), where Bodie is ragging on Poot is probably one of the funniest things ever. He says "Nigga should they just put up a sign that says 'Here is where Malik Carr first got his dick wet?'". Had me rolling.

I really like Bodie, but he's also kind of the most depressing character on the show to me, other than maybe Bubbles, because of how utterly invested he is in "the game." Maybe something changes with him, though, since I'm only at the beginning of the first season, but his killing of Wallace pretty much makes him unredeemable.

Omne posted:

Just wait for season four, my friend.

WebDog posted:

Seeing we're in so far, I'll note my favourite scene with Omar had to be him shopping for cereal.

doctor thodt posted:

When The Wire began, I thought to myself: 'there's no way I'll ever be able to think of this kid as anyone other than Kenny Wangler.'

Now that The Wire is over, there's no way I'll be able to think of him as anyone other than Bodie.

Darko posted:

Watch Pootie Tang and then you can think of him as Dirty Dee's (Norman, Carcetti's aide), sidekick.

Professor Funk posted:

I just started watching Season 3 and would just like to say that the part at the beginning of the Episode (before the credits), where Bodie is ragging on Poot is probably one of the funniest things ever. He says "Nigga should they just put up a sign that says 'Here is where Malik Carr first got his dick wet?'". Had me rolling.

I really like Bodie, but he's also kind of the most depressing character on the show to me, other than maybe Bubbles, because of how utterly invested he is in "the game." Maybe something changes with him, though, since I'm only at the beginning of the third season, but his killing of Wallace pretty much makes him unredeemable.

WebDog posted:

Seeing we're in so far, I'll note my favourite scene with Omar had to be him shopping for cereal.

CaptainHollywood posted:

My friend is almost finished Season 3 (which I lent) and no whenever I see him we "quote" the series.

Me: "Hey do you think we have enough time to make it to the bar?"*
Him: "Mos' def."
Me: "No doubt no doubt."
Him: "Sheeeeeeeeit."

*this line can be anything

DarkCrawler posted:

Re-watching the show. I never realized how much stuff from the first episode alone comes back in the later episodes or seasons. For example, I somehow completely missed that Stringer Bell was in the courtroom in Ep. 1...just went past me, but the whole rivalry between him and McNulty starts from there.

Kinger posted:

You ain't got no honey nut?

DarkCrawler posted:

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But...that's the basis for the whole season. The detail gets started because McNulty sees Stringer there, intimidating the witness

DarkCrawler posted:

Professor Funk posted:

I'm only in Episode 3 of Season 3, and I'd like to say, one thing that I love about the beginning of every season is how confused you feel. In other TV shows, they're very careful to lay everything out so you understand everything, so even when an environment shifts the viewer isn't really confused. In The Wire, it seems like it's supposed to take the viewer 3-4 episodes to really begin to understand what's going on, because hey, that's how long it's taking the cops (and the dealers) too; they're confused as you are.

Dunno if anyone else felt like that.

Also, Major Taylor just got relieved.

Also I'm beginning to incorporate the phrase "oh, indeed" more and more into regular conversation.

SlipkPIe posted:

But...that's the basis for the whole season. The detail gets started because McNulty sees Stringer there, intimidating the witness

DarkCrawler posted:

Well, my confusion might have an explanation - first time, I watched it without subtitles.

I'm Finnish.

Toast Museum posted:

Did you watch the later seasons without subtitles too? How much of Snoop's dialogue could you follow?

Toast Museum posted:

Did you watch the later seasons without subtitles too? How much of Snoop's dialogue could you follow?

Gaz-L posted:

(And I'm not totally convinced that she didn't tone down her accent and enunciate more as the show progressed, so I can't even feel good about getting adjusted to it.)

Gaz-L posted:

What does bug me is how every single person in that interrogation room or a pair of handcuffs, immediately KNOWS Kima's gay. Not suspects, not guesses, they loving KNOW. HOW?! Seriously!

Gaz-L posted:

What does bug me is how every single person in that interrogation room or a pair of handcuffs, immediately KNOWS Kima's gay. Not suspects, not guesses, they loving KNOW. HOW?! Seriously!

Gaussian posted:

They're just trying to flex but with Kima they just happen to be right.

DarkCrawler posted:

qwertyman posted:

How many other female cops have you seen on the show?

DarkCrawler posted:

Watching S01E08, the scene where Stringer Bell is at the copy shop telling the dudes not to bring their corner bullshit into there and to the copy orders...he's such a tragic character, trying to whip up all the gang-bangers into an modern ruthless criminal enterprise without the dumb gang poo poo that gets the police on their way. He never succeeds in that.

qwertyman posted:

I love that he tries to get his guys to follow Roberts Rules of Order, and then gets pissy at the guy taking minutes "of a criminal loving enterprise."