The Wire: The Rewatch... and all the pieces matter.

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WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

StashAugustine posted:

idk mcnulty indirectly causes a ton of awful poo poo but i don't really think bodie was his fault- dude honestly wanted out but through no real fault of anyone's got caught

McNulty picked Bodie up at jail, without Bodie knowing about it. That is directly why Bodie got shot.

# ¿ Jul 15, 2018 01:48

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 15:52

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

She plays/played the mom of the (drug dealer) main character in Snowfall, too.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2019 02:22

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

Jerusalem posted:

He showed up at cultural events that should have been a little outside his pay bracket to be comfortable with etc, but not enough to do more than raise a few eyebrows.

Huh? The only social events I remember were the ones they attended because his wife was running for council.

# ¿ May 9, 2020 02:57

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

General Battuta posted:

I think about this a lot, what is 'real power' in the Wire?

The ability to put six syllables into the word �poo poo�.

On a different note, here�s a question that I can�t google an answer to: anyone know how many times in the series Bodie said �poo poo is on�?

# ¿ Sep 3, 2020 03:46

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

Kosmo Gallion posted:

Like, ain't you supposed to be smart Stringer?

Stringer is an extreme fuckup. Just about everything he initiates ends up being a bad idea that turns out poorly.

Having Omar's boyfriend killed.
Trying to play Brother � Mousad?
Starting the co-op that he quickly loses power over.
Like you mentioned, playing at being a developer and losing a ton of money.
OK'ing a hit on Omar on a Sunday.
Killing D'Angelo.

He�s just a bad idea factory.

# ¿ Feb 12, 2022 20:44

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

pokeyman posted:

Stringer going along with the co-op was maybe the one thing he didn't gently caress up.

At the beginning, Stringer was pretty much calling the co-op shots. Later on, not so much.

He didn�t gently caress up the co-op, he just hosed it up for Stringer.

# ¿ Feb 12, 2022 23:05

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

He did know that. It was never determined whether or not he knew we're gonna look like some punk rear end bitches out there.

# ¿ Feb 12, 2022 23:42

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

Count Roland posted:

In the show it was a bit of a stretch. They set up a fake phone store... with what budget?

$20 and �hey Jim why don�t you go get some dinner on us and come back in an hour and we�ll forget about that thing last week�?

# ¿ Mar 19, 2022 21:52

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

My brain is chuckling at Police Commissioner Jay Landsman.

# ¿ Apr 28, 2022 00:08

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

They never told us who shot Snot, did they?

# ¿ Jun 24, 2022 00:18

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

Solkanar512 posted:

Does anyone have any thoughts on the significance of this, if any?

He/they realized they had a little value, but not enough to really matter. Later, when Burrell tells the mayor what�s going on, he hands over the stack and says as much.

# ¿ Aug 5, 2022 16:58

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

Jewmanji posted:

Peanut is in it too, keep an eye out

Look man, if you want guns, I can get you guns.

# ¿ Feb 12, 2023 03:03

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

Good old Spider. Also the same sage that explained sideways hats to Herc.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2023 20:54

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

Frank knew what was up. He also handled it poorly in retrospect.

But he at least tried to help other people. Ziggy deserves very little sympathy.

# ¿ May 8, 2023 16:38

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

Jerusalem posted:

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Also, to repeat one of my frequent criticisms of Carcetti.... at that point what does he care about grooming a competent young black successor to the role?

Because he realizes he can�t throw away a hundred thousand votes in his next election. Baltimore residents vote in state elections, too.

# ¿ May 13, 2023 14:36

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

He kept saying things about �your link to New York� and such, so I always assumed that he had some serious connections. Meaning those connections were scarier than Mouzon.

# ¿ May 16, 2023 03:14

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

Bird in a Blender posted:

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The newspaper story only really sucks because Templeton not only gets away with lying, he gets rewarded for it.

And it takes a lot of screen time and it�s mostly boring.

# ¿ Jun 5, 2023 04:16

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

Kosmo Gallion posted:

The funniest part of The Wire is when Poot is the man for an hour.

Bunk: Particular?

# ¿ Nov 1, 2023 23:08

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

deoju posted:

Baltimore politician gets taken out by "head shot."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/former-baltimore-state-s-attorney-marilyn-mosby-found-guilty-of-one-count-of-mortgage-fraud/ar-BB1hT1Qb

Reading the article, I�m not sure what she did wrong. Unless she expected her (ex?) husband to pay her back the $5000 she wired him, which was never mentioned.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2024 18:39

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

Probably not, since he was in the show.

Xiahou Dun posted:

Colvin�s dude with the giant mustache is the real cop that Jay Landsman is based on.

You probably know this, but to be clear, the actor who played Colvin's lieutenant is Jay Landsman. As in, that is his name.

# ¿ Feb 15, 2024 17:30

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

I think season 4 is very good, but for whatever reason I have no desire to rewatch it. I get an episode or two in, and lose interest.

# ¿ Feb 21, 2024 17:23

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

roomtone posted:

son of a bitch, he made the right call

By not holding Nokia until 2017.

# ¿ Feb 26, 2024 13:24

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

He would have doubled his money if he held them until 2006-2007 and then sold.

He just flat out failed, like he did with everything else.

WithoutTheFezOn fucked around with this message at 18:28 on Feb 26, 2024

# ¿ Feb 26, 2024 18:26

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

Omar stole a lot of drugs. Lots.

Being in his kind of work, the logistics of getting it all sold and turned into cash would be difficult, to say the least.

Taking 20% of its price to not have the hassle, and get rid of it all at once, is a reasonable solution.

# ¿ Feb 29, 2024 02:59

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

surf rock posted:

Yes, I understand that. I don't understand how Omar simultaneously divided up the shipment between the crew and is also selling the shipment back to Prop Joe.

It�s been a while since I watched it, but I assumed Prop Joe knew it was only most of the shipment he was buying.

# ¿ Feb 29, 2024 03:33

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

Soooooooooy
Un stevedore
I'm a smuggler baby
But please don�t kill me.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2024 18:03

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 15:52

WithoutTheFezOn: Aug 28, 2005; Oh no

Konstantin posted:

I don't know, Stringer's main mistakes were angering Brother Muzone and getting scammed by Clay Davis. Both of them were due to him having too big an ego, a slightly more humble Stringer wouldn't have made either mistake. His main idea of sacrificing street rep for money was working.

Having Omar's boyfriend killed how he did was a huge mistake. Doubly so because of �where's Wallace?�

Rep for money worked until it didn�t. He got kicked out as the head of the co-op.

FlamingLiberal posted:

My favorite thing is Stringer constantly trying to explain macroeconomics 101 stuff to his dealers and them just extremely confused

Parroting what he heard in class that day, mostly.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2024 15:06

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