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Trap Star posted:There's another bearded dock worker who appears as a homeless man under the bridge/by the tracks in season 5. I can't be bothered to go check up on his name but it was the overweight guy who gives the port cops the middle finger in the season 2 ending montage. Johnny 50
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Omar is one of the few competent shots on the show, so he might have wanted to get nice and close so that he can make sure the shots land somewhere where they will matter. Alternatively, he wanted to get nice and close to Avon so that he could savor it.
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Jul 29, 2013 11:11
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DarkCrawler posted:How many people there were who actually looked like they knew what they were doing? On the top of my head: 9/10 when someone shoots on the wire it's always TV or movie shooting styles where they don't bother using the sights and just jerk the trigger until their guns run dry, with predictable results. Chris, Omar, Wee-Bey, and Cutty use their sights and manage to hit what they aim for instead of 9 year old kids. And as for Omar's comments with his Colt Gold Cup as opposed to Mouzone's small and compact PPK firing 90 grain or so .380 acp, when Omar says that he can't miss, what he means is that as close as he is with the big .45 acp rounds throwing twice as much lead per bullet he won't need to hit anything vital to take Mouzone out of the fight. Despite them saying clip a couple times and the huge sparks thrown up when Ziggy shoots Glekas I loved how much detail they put into guns and gunplay in the wire. It made me smile to hear Omar tell one of his gang to put a couple pumpkin balls into his shotgun. Soupisgood fucked around with this message at 12:20 on Jul 30, 2013 |
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Jul 30, 2013 12:14
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Back in the day, before shotgun slugs were widely available people would take .75 cal musket balls and put them inside of shotgun shells to hunt larger game with. Now you can just buy slugs, but some people still call them pumpkin balls. I just liked that Omar would use such an old timey phrase.
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Jul 30, 2013 14:09
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cletepurcel posted:Getting into season 4 again, which I still think is among the most perfect seasons of TV I've ever seen. The four boys...gets me every time. There's a devastating little bit of foreshadowing in the first episode where Randy's piss balloon scheme goes awry (thanks to Namond's lack of street toughness) and Michael gets the worst beating from the Terrace boys. Namond says when running away he "hurt his ankle a bit" and Michael rather coldly replies "But you got away, though." The worst part is when Poot has to convince Bodie that Marlo was right to kill Little Kevin years after Bodie had to convince Poot that it was right to kill Wallace, especially considering that Poot had to fire the fatal shots.
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Aug 2, 2013 06:30
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the black husserl posted:I don't understand this. The show makes it explicit: Hamsterdam is allowing health and aid workers to treat addicts that they NEVER would have reached otherwise. Johnny would have died alone in a shooting gallery regardless of whether or not the free zone existed. At least in Hamsterdam he had the chance to get some help and didn't have to die in prison. In a non Hamsterdam world, Johnny would have kept getting into trouble and might have finally hit his bottom like bubbles did and come clean. Hamsterdam is purely reactionary, it enables heroin addicts to get heroin much more easily, allowing them to OD and get eaten by rats. Sure, in a few months it would have meant more of the needle exchange, counseling and aid for the addicts to actually reach them, but a lot of those people, like Johnny, weren't interested in getting out. Seeing the nightmarish hell that the free zones became would have probably scared a lot of people off heroin, but the people trapped inside would just be written off. We'd tell ourselves they chose that and give up on them. While the war on drugs is a farce, there are proponents of it who are acting out of compassion. The free zone solution is born of apathy, Bunny Colvin gave up on those addicts, letting the dealers suck the lives out of them out of sight and out of mind.
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Aug 5, 2013 05:13
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Ainsley McTree posted:I dunno, I got the sense that the mom was looking out for herself more than him. She wanted him selling drugs because the barksdale "thanks for keeping your mouth shut about all those murders, Bey" faucet was drying up and she didn't now where else to look. Wasn't it also implied that she had gambled away a lot of that money instead of saving it up, hence her pushing Namond so hard?
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Aug 21, 2013 20:01
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cletepurcel posted:Terrific work as always. One minor disagreement - I interpreted Cutty's reaction to Randy as less him being apathetic and more him feeling deep pity for the kid. He shakes his head a little as Randy cracks, knowing full well the consequences if word gets out that Randy snitched. Not to mention he might have known Randy from hanging around Michael at the gym. I always thought Cutty was king of giving him the go ahead to snitch, the shrug saying that it wasn't a big thing and that he should play straight with her rather then get himself in trouble, as opposed to Cutty who stood tall and did the 14 years rather then snitch. Cutty knows how things play out on the streets, but he'd rather see the kids at his gym on the straight and narrow instead of ending up like him.
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Jerusalem posted:The Corner (everybody read The Corner!) goes into this a bit, mentioning how the young crews are running the most basic set-up possible on a corner, while up by the towers the crews were able to "run deep" because of the larger potential labor force they had to work with. There is momentum to consider as well, a small crew that starts doing well gets attention by the bigger crews, who either absorb them into their own crew (ala Marlo and Bodie) or wipe them out... or run the risk of the crew becoming powerful enough to do the same thing to them (ala Marlo and Avon). While the corner goes into great detail about how young entrepreneurs could work on a split then use the proceeds to buy their own packages, that model seems at odds with larger organizations like you see on The Wire, where the supply is very centralized and only the right people are allowed to distribute the package at sub minimum wage. Freakonomics did a good job of showing how a large Chicago gang worked, and the street dealers were making maybe $100 a week while being in the most dangerous position. Between arrests and violence, the rate of low level workers getting incapacitated was drat near 100%. The guys in charge of the packages were only payed out about $10,000 a year and only a few members of the gang reached up to the lofty height of $50,000 a year, with the boss making about a quarter million. Baltimore had something special where anyone who was lucky or smart enough to dodge the police and the stick up boys while maintaining control of a corner could earn as much as he'd like.
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