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escape artist posted:I've always read that scene as the earliest indication that "Wallace is sharp, and could excel if he weren't born into such dire conditions." Wallace wasn't the only sharp kid in the high rises: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_btz3gs90-s
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Naylenas posted:"gently caress those West Coast niggas. In B-More, we aim to hit a nigga, y'heard?" Snoop was probably the only character who I needed subtitles to understand what the gently caress she was saying.
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Did you know that Bird was in Onyx? Holy hellballs, the things you miss. He also was in Moesha.
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HTJ posted:I'm watching Season 5 again and it drives home how much McNulty ('the smartest gently caress in the room') overrates his intelligence and/or commitment. His genius scheme wasn't going anywhere until he enlisted Lester and he was prepared to file bullshit reports on street work until Lester explained why that wouldn't work. But then again Bunk pretty much solved the case doing good honest po-lice work.
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Randomly Specific posted:He got the shooter, but that comes back to the dilemma the series presents from day one- it was at best a step above street level. No matter what, Bunk wasn't going to get more than Chris and Snoop at his level of investigation. But then again, all McNulty and Freamon managed to get was Chris.
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awesmoe posted:Bubbles Lester retires with his hot girlfriend and has more time to make doll furnitures (which makes more money than honest po-lice work anyway). Cedric becomes a lawyer and Rhonda becomes a judge, they seem to live happily together. Alhazred fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Apr 14, 2013 |
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gingerberger posted:Speaking of prop joe, god I hate cheese. I wish he'd get shot in the back of the head by kenard. No one likes Cheese: Prop Joe posted:I got motherfuckin' nephews and in-laws loving all my poo poo up all the time and it ain't like I can pop a cap in their rear end and not hear about it Thanksgivin' time. For real, I'm livin' life with some burdensome niggers.
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Skyl3lazer posted:That scene with Carver in the car after he leaves Randy at the group home "You gonna help me sergeant Carver?" 
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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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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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CBJSprague24 posted:About halfway through the finale of Season 2. It's amazing how the events in this season were set in motion at least in part because Stan Valchek was butthurt the Priest liked Frank Sobotka more in that moment. And McNulty placing the murders within his former precinct. The case is pretty much solved because of petty spite.
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Idris Elba has started rappin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huaE85-V8u4
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Orange Devil posted:Herc isn't even too stupid, he's just fundamentally lazy. He isn't that lazy either. He's willing to put in extra work to get the mayor re-elected because he thinks he will gain from it. He's just spectacular unfit to be a cop.
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Mr. Prokosch posted:Yeah, Avon would murder a man for testifying, Marlo would do it because he thought he might have given him a funny look. Avon would kill a man because he though he might have been given him a funny look and then tried to justify it.
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Aces High posted:aren't they still together at the conclusion of the show? Yeah, all in all Lester had a pretty good ending.
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Arguably Stringer Bell's biggest mistake was thinking that he could outsmart Clay Davis on his own.
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Arguably the only ones that comes out on top are the greeks (if they even are greeks), there's not a single time when the cops are close to shutting down or even interrupting their operations.
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General Battuta posted:Any character embedded in a power structure which will retaliate for their death. For example, you can't just go kill Clay Davis without massive blowback. Even the dealers are backed up by their organizations; if you get got, someone will take revenge. But that's not completely true. A lot of powerful people are killed with no blowback because people are pragmatic enough to realize that revenge is bad for business. If Clay Davis was killed people would talk a lot about how bad it was while being secretively relieved or starting to plot how they would take his place.
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Kosmo Gallion posted:Why is Marlo so feared? It's Chris that does all the hard work. They're like the opposite of Avon and Stringer, where Avon is the warrior and Stringer is corporate management. Chris is definitely feared. There's one conversation where it's revealed that people believe he has almost magical powers. They literally calls him the zombie master. People are so scared of him that just the sight of him makes people fear for their life. Alhazred fucked around with this message at 11:07 on Jul 15, 2021 |
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Orange Devil posted:My favorite Generation Kill fact is that critics found Fruity Rudy to be a completely unbelievable casting decision and characterization for a force recon marine. As a general rule the characters in a David Simon show are often less outlandish than the real life characters they're based on.
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werdnam posted:I do like how Bunk and a few other people try to gently nudge Jimmy to realize that he's treating Beadie the same way he treated his ex until he shuts them down. It's a nice touch to have his friends try to help him but also know that nagging him won't make a difference. Those friends are also doing their best to enable his worst tendencies. He was happy and functional as a beat cop until they dragged him into a murder case.
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HootTheOwl posted:I had forgotten that this was also Simon. It was a good show with the exception of the ending. First, the fascists end up being Right All Along because the Jews did have a secret plot to kill Limburgh. And more topically: It works as they thought it would. They remove Lindburgh and everything goes back to normal and FDR wins. Despite all his protests to the contrary the last episode is 100% What Libs Thought Would Happen in 2020. It was the brits who set up the assassination of Lindbergh. The show also ends with agents burning ballot boxes so it's up in the air weather or not everything goes back to normal
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V-Men posted:
Even BoB has some nuances. Spiers for example guns down unarmed soldiers and the show shows what a shitshow the period right after the war was ( one of the characters says that he keeps losing men even though it's peace).
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notthegoatseguy posted:I was working in a hospital in 2006 and we all had to be trained on how to use a typewriter because certain medical records were still transcribed using them. Hospitals still uses floppy discs and fax machines in Norway.
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Season 4 really is the most heartbreaking season of the show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ClTuBXqQ24
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Eason the Fifth posted:Lmao true cheese move I just marvel at how truly unlikable Cheese is. The show has so many characters that are so villainous and psychopathic and yet Cheese stands out.
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christmas boots posted:It's also the evolutionary pressure of the systems that shape these people, I think. You could probably find something similar at the docks, in the schools, at city hall etc. Each subsequent generation needs to be a little more ruthless, a little more cutthroat... dare I say a little more capitalist than the one before them or they die out. Especially as wealth and power get more concentrated and there's just less space for competition in general. I don't buy that Marlo was more ruthless than Barksdale, remember that these were the guys that casually threw out a dead woman after a party. Marlo is maybe just more honest about it, he doesn't try to delude himself that he follows some sort of code.
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BiggerBoat posted:I think he is. Avon's crew kills children, employs child soldiers, kills every one that might go to the cops and treats women like literal garbage. Wee-Bey is every bit as sociopathic and ruthless as Chris and Snoop. Avon is a bit smarter than Marlo but they're basically the same.
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Cacator posted:Marlo doesn't trigger instant hatred and revulsion whenever he's onscreen. Not even after Devonne? ShowTime posted:The Greek then. He runs the entire drug trade, making money off everyone, barely takes care of anyone. Even "Boris" has to rely on Barksdale in prison. He transports and trades women, weapon, drugs, whatever. When one of his main boys dies, all he does is take out whatever info and witnesses were involved.
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pokeyman posted:Namond's mom for sure. Everyone else has either some redeeming value or is too abstractly villainous to make me angry.
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pokeyman posted:Cheese is hilarious so I file him under "redeeming value". I file him under "cadaverous motherfucker".
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Orange Devil posted:It's certainly interesting isn't it? Dude must be swimming in money but look at his life. You're only seeing what he chooses to show others.
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algebra testes posted:https://twitter.com/edsbs/status/1650886265640714242?t=Eag9dMSpCR81yHixKrSpiQ&s=19
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Remember that Omar had to be toned down because the guy he was based on really was so over the top that it would seem even less realistic on the show. Kosmo Gallion posted:Brother Mouzone is the most badass character in a TV show that also has Omar, Wee Bey and Chris. 
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Tony Phillips posted:The first time my wife and I tried to watch The Wire we got through the first episode and just weren't up for it. I had read way too much about the show to give up on it, but we were just so drat confused about what was going on and who was who. I think it's an accepted rule that the Wire only clicks with the majority of viewers after the "gently caress" scene.
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Kosmo Gallion posted:My favourite reaction is when Herc tells Valchek about the Mayor. Valchek's laughter about the prime piece of info Herc has. Like he wishes he had something like that himself but he's too old to bother with that so decides to give this young guy some free advice. It's almost heartwarming. The best thing about it is that Herc is unable to capitalize on that info because Royce is too incompetent to win the election.
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Cheese is awfully high on the list for a cadaverous motherfucker.
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Ithle01 posted:Cheese getting what he deserves is one of my favorite moments in the last episode and why Slim Charles should be ranked higher. It hets better because Method Man had noticed that when other character died, people on the internet wrote about how tragic their death was and so on. So he decided to check what people wrote after Cheese died and it was all just "he got what he deserved."
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