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Gobbeldygook posted:https://twitter.com/AoDespair/status/971903844799180800 I almost want to do it in order to get Simon write an apology for killing Cheese's dog.
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Just Bodie, man. He deserved a happy ending.
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exmachina posted:Just Bodie, man. He deserved a happy ending. https://twitter.com/utlendingur/status/971988359198400516
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exmachina posted:Just Bodie, man. He deserved a happy ending. He got to chose his own death, that's more than the rest of the characters got.
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exmachina posted:Just Bodie, man. He deserved a happy ending. I genuinely cried. The actor who played him doesn't seem to have done much else. That's a shame.
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Mar 10, 2018 13:18
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If you wanted to be a huge rear end in a top hat you could make him apologize for killing off Ray Cole or Colonel Forster.
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Started another rewatch and I totally forgot bubbles has a son. I think he only mentions him once, offhand, in a conversation with Walon in season 1 and it's never brought up again, at least not that I can remember.
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Mar 10, 2018 20:28
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Where's Wallace, Simon? Where's Wallace?
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empty baggie posted:Where's Wallace, Simon? Where's Wallace? Becoming a giant movie star! 
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exmachina posted:Just Bodie, man. He deserved a happy ending. No, he deserved to be tried and convicted for murder. The fact that he tries to stop a psychopath doesn't make him a good person, and he never expresses regret for his crimes.
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Konstantin posted:No, he deserved to be tried and convicted for murder. The fact that he tries to stop a psychopath doesn't make him a good person, and he never expresses regret for his crimes. Deserve got nothing to do with it.
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empty baggie posted:Where's Wallace, Simon? Where's Wallace? https://twitter.com/idriselba/status/972042690975158272
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Konstantin posted:No, he deserved to be tried and convicted for murder. The fact that he tries to stop a psychopath doesn't make him a good person, and he never expresses regret for his crimes. Responses like these make me wonder if you understood anything at all about what the show was trying to teach you.
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banned from Starbucks posted:someone pick eastern european shipping container whore # 5 Nonono see those weren't people, those were corpses. In the show nobody is concerned with the trafficking of humans, they literally just say welp that's sure a lot of dead bodies, possible criminal involvement, wonder what do we charge that as, hmmmmm?
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Capntastic posted:A friend is watching for the first time and is realizing that McNulty might not be an effective officer of the law They’re doing better than me, it took me until my second watch to fully realize that mcnulty may not be the best-intentioned hero of the series In retrospect, it should have been obvious from the scene where they find Wallace’s body and all mcnulty has to say is something like “I guess we have to get stringer bell some other way now” while Daniels gives him his best “you piece of poo poo” glare
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We finished season 3 last night and it zapped his empathy glands until they were crispier than lake trout Season 4 will turn his whole brain into pit beef
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Capntastic posted:A friend is watching for the first time and is realizing that McNulty might not be an effective officer of the law How many out there can do what he does? Don Warden, Ed Burns, Gary Childs out in the county, John O'Neil and Steve Cleary over in Woodlawn, oh they bring it in, but there's not many.
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spog posted:How many out there can do what he does? (Looking over glasses lenses) Real police
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spog posted:How many out there can do what he does? This has probably been pointed out, but Don Worden and Gary Childs (and obviously Ed Burns) were actual Baltimore Homicide police. Worden was a major feature in Simons book Homicide, while Burns and Childs were mentioned but not featured as they were on detail and the opposite shift respectively. I was trying to find out, but I would guess John O'Niel and Steve Cleary were also real (real) police. Also it has definitely been said before, but both Simon's books Homicide and The Corner are fantastic and definitely worth a read.
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I just finished reading Homicide for the first time and it’s basically a season of The Wire (in every positive sense that comparison can convey). Absolutely go read it if you haven’t.
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Sticko posted:This has probably been pointed out, but Don Worden and Gary Childs (and obviously Ed Burns) were actual Baltimore Homicide police. Worden was a major feature in Simons book Homicide, while Burns and Childs were mentioned but not featured as they were on detail and the opposite shift respectively. I was trying to find out, but I would guess John O'Niel and Steve Cleary were also real (real) police. Also it has definitely been said before, but both Simon's books Homicide and The Corner are fantastic and definitely worth a read. Worden has a blink and you'll miss it cameo in The Wire, he's the detective who says "type quieter rear end in a top hat" just before Bunk comes in on early relief in an episode of Season 5 iirc
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pokeyman posted:I just finished reading Homicide for the first time and it’s basically a season of The Wire (in every positive sense that comparison can convey). Absolutely go read it if you haven’t. Yeah, I love that book. I think The Corner is even better but it's very subjective, they're quite different books. Ainsley McTree posted:My rewatch is up toward the end of Season 1...I don't like Bodie right now It really is to the credit of the show that this action which would make them hated villains in any other show doesn't actually poison the characters for the rest of the seasons that follow.
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It’s such a great scene, and I hate it for being so good. The way bodie’s gun keeps shaking, the last little bit of innocence leaking out of his soul. Well, joke’s on him in the end I guess, it’s Wallace’s career who took off
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Larry gilliard accosting idris elba screaming where's his career
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One thing I just noticed for the first time. In S01E10 The Cost D chases after Shardene after she breaks up with him. He angrily kicks something off screen. The camera pans down to a stool rolling down the street. poo poo rolls downhill.
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On season 5 in my rewatch, and I'm really noticing the camera work. It feels different from the previous seasons, and I gotta say I really like it. It feels more colorful, and they seem to have tried a lot of different things with blocking and filming conversations in ways other than shot-reverse shot. Definitely enjoying it even more than previous watches.
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That brief return in the final episode of the silly in-universe camera shots from the first episode of season 1 still cracks me up.
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Did the thread ever talk about Nicko's pi tattoo on his neck? It looks pretty fresh in one of the later episodes of season 2 and it’s prominent in some of the last shots of the season finale. No idea what the significance is but it can’t be a coincidence that he’s becoming buddies with "the "Greeks"" and gets a Greek letter tat?
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Finishing up season 3 on I think my third rewatch, I'd forgotten Stringer dies in s3, it's been a couple years since I last watched the Wire and for some reason I thought he got got in s4. I think there's an interesting parallel between the characters of Stringer and McNulty. They're both smart and competent but sabotage themselves through their own self-righteousness. The big difference is that McNulty knows he's a fuckup and doesn't care that he's burning bridges with coworkers and the bosses, while Stringer has a blind spot and thinks his actions can't possibly come back to hurt him. Stringer considers himself a businessman, he's above the street. It's just business. He's way past that gangsta wild poo poo. Except... he's not, and that's ultimately his downfall. He orders the abduction and torture of Omar's boy Brandon in s1 that sets Omar against Bell and the Barksdale crew. He lies to Omar about Brother Mouzone being Brandon's torturer, which sets Omar against Mouzone and ultimately turns Mouzone against Stringer. Stringer orders the murder of D'Angelo which pushes Avon to betray String. Stringer thinks he's above it all because he has other people do his dirty work for him, but his instinct is always toward violence. A great example is how he wants Slim Charles to assassinate Clay Davis after Clay plays Stringer for a quarter mil in cash. McNulty thinks he's real po-lice, Stringer thinks he's a real businessman. Except McNulty fully realizes and even embraces how much of a fuckup he is, while Stringer imagines himself to be above it all.
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I just finished All the Pieces Matter, that oral history of the show. If you crazy enough about the show to still be posting on a dead gay comedy forum 10 years after it ended you should really read it. Tons of interesting insights and anecdotes.
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Ainsley McTree posted:It’s such a great scene, and I hate it for being so good. When he was 19, JD Williams played a 16 year old Kenny Wangler in OZ. When he was 24 he played a 16 year old Bodie in The Wire. If you were being charitable you would say that he already had a career before The Wire but all he really had was that role on Oz. It was a pretty big role though.
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