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They could've pulled out another 3 seasons
They could've pulled out another 3 seasons
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yes
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Only watched season 4, and 5.
The Wire.
The Wire.
thousandaire
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yeah and dookie the new bubbles
Sydnor the new mcnulty
Sydnor the new mcnulty
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yes
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still mad about that!
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Originally Posted by Executive76
still mad about that!
Dookie>Naymond...Nay became the lamest dude on the show.
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and the cycle continues... greatly written work.
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I was listening to radio late one night last week and David Simon (the creator) was talking about how season 4-5 was intended as a prequel without being anactual prequel. To show the vicious cycle. And how guys like Omar, Avon, Stringer came to be. Just kids from the hood. Vicious cycle.
mexicansoul
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They could've...but I think it would've been too forced, plus each season looked at a different aspect of the city and they didn't really have anything else they felt warranted an entire season
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RIP Snoop
But I can't even look at Michael the same now that he's on 90210
But I can't even look at Michael the same now that he's on 90210
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anyone catch that michael cameo in season 1? dude was mad little
mexicansoul
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Originally Posted by CHiCHiLOVES5s
But I can't even look at Michael the same now that he's on 90210
shows his acting ability. He can't be "typecasted" we saw him lose his innocence on the WIRE and he did it flawlessly and convincingly.
I hate that he's on 90210 but he's one of the few young actors that can run hollywood if he wanted to.
thousandaire
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that wasn't him
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You can't look at the Wire as a television show you have to view it as a novel. The serious made it's point and if they had kept going it would havejust been repetitive and they didn't have anything fresh to bring in for a new focus.
The whole point of showing Michael as the next Omar is to show that everything is cyclical. One of these kids dies and the next day there is someone newstanding in his spot.
The whole point of showing Michael as the next Omar is to show that everything is cyclical. One of these kids dies and the next day there is someone newstanding in his spot.
mexicansoul
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you missed the whole point. Yes, it was about a cycle but a cycle of the characters in the show. Six degrees of separation type masterpiece that the Wire puton.
AGAIN, THE SHOW WAS CANCELED, NOT BROUGHT TO A CLOSE.
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ahh, so naymond was on the stringer bell tip?
best written show ever. if this was on primetime, it would have done big numbers and probably lasted for 7+ seasons.
but it still ended in a great way.
thousandaire
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No it wasn't, Simon could have done another season focusing on Immigration but decided not too
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Nah, Naymond ain't on that Stringer Bell tip. If anything they setup Marlo to be the next String, showing how the suits/businessmen got to Stringer. ButMarlo wasn't having none of that ##@*.
Primetime? Like network TV? The Wire wasn't built to be on network television.
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[h2]'The Wire' Finale's Montage: A Shot-by-Shot Commentary[/h2] [h4]3/10/08 at 8:15 AM[/h4] [h5]Comment 31Comment 31Comments [/h5]
Courtesy of HBO
Every season of The Wire ends the same way: While a resonant song plays on the soundtrack, we're treated to a montage that lays out thefates of the characters we've grown to love and hate over the past few months. Season five's final montage was scored with the Blind Boys ofAlabama's version of "Way Down in the Hole" from season one and was densely packed with images, scenes, jokes, heartbreaks, and surprises. Sincethe montage serves as David Simon and Ed Burns's final statement on their characters and themes, we thought it deserved a closer look. A muchcloser look.
See something we missed? Let us know in the comments!
All images courtesy of the screener HBO sent us. Let's hope they like this post.
By the hands on the left are the familiar names of Bodie and Lex. Poor Bodie died too long ago even to be mentioned in season five, but we imaginehe's up in heaven, spitting through his front teeth. As for Lex, Randy probably spits on his name every time he walks by that mural.
Looks like Lester ponied up for some Lasik surgery for Shardene, who doesn't have to be a stripper in ugly glasses no more.
Here's big dumb Herc at the bar, alternately saving and screwing his pals from the BPD. Of course he's still good buddies with
Designed especially to piss off journalists, this shot of Scott Templeton winning the Pulitzer made us laugh out loud. That he's accepting the award ratherthan Klebanow and Whiting suggests that, in the end, the paper entered his stories in Local Reporting rather than Public Service. Thank God for small favors.
The coffee at that place must be amazing. Somewhere in the world right now, the Greek is taking an ominous phone call.
Now that Carcetti's in Annapolis, he can forget about Baltimore like everyone else. His wife will turn into a resentful Laura Bush clone, and he will havean affair with the Chelsea Clinton-esque woman on the left.
Gus is put out to pasture to contemplate the proper usage of "evacuate," and Mike Fletcher gets a bump thanks to his profile of Bubbles. Gus will become the crustiest,crankiest editor to ever occupy the copy-editor slot.
Mayor Nerese Campbell should be admired for her ability to appoint do-nothings to lead the city of Baltimore with her. Find that van yet, Commissioner Valchek?We can still hear you cackling.
Oh, Dukie. We're really, really sorry.
Perhaps the happiest ending of all comes for flawed but classy Ronnie Pearlman, who gets a judgeship! "My first case up, and I have to recusemyself," she says to newly-minted public defender Cedric Daniels.
Here, Wee-Bey and Chris discuss the prison's upcoming production of South Pacific.
Nice hat, Rawls! Your new job as head of the Maryland State Police gives you every reason in the world to troll truck-stop bathrooms.
This truly heartwarming moment, in which Bubs finally gets let upstairs to eat with his sister, is intercut with…
…Baltimore's littlest killer, Kenard, getting arrested by Crutchfield for Omar's murder. The saddest part is when the cop pushes his head down as hegets in the squad car, even though Kenard's way too short to ever hit his head on anything. We bet he never got that reward money.
A reenactment of a favorite shot from all five seasons' opening credits - but one that, as far as we know, never actually appeared in an episode proper,until now. (Update: Thanks commenters! It's in season one.) Unlike in the credits, we get a moment from the kids' point of view, too.That kid's got an arm on him; maybe the O's should sign him up.
The damp office where Daniels's detail was based in season one. This is how it looked just before Prez turned out the lights.
The public-housing low-rise apartments where much of season one was set. Looks like they finally got a new couch, though.
Baltimore's waterfront, complete with a Port Police car tooling through just as Beadie's did at the opening of season two.
What will McNulty do in his forced retirement? We don't see him buying a boat, unlike some ex-cops; after all, as he ruefully admitted in the series'first episode, diesel fumes make him seasick.
A suited man grabs a paper while a homeless guy digs through the trash. This is the kind of easy juxtaposition The Wire sometimes indulged in, to itsdetriment. Also, such is the show's devotion to a bygone era of journalism that, if you look more closely, you'll see the guy in the suit is actuallygrabbing a free real-estate weekly. In what world would that guy not just go to Craigslist?
Chess players: a reminder of D'Angelo Barksdale's chess lesson delivered to poor, ill-fated Wallace and Bodie way back in season one.
A foursome of images represent the show's devotion, over five long seasons, to cops sitting in cars or on rooftops staring at people for hours on end. Lastweek's scene of a tick-bitten cop stripping off his shirts in frustration was the peak moment of this particular theme.
The montage ends with a series of Baltimore citizens going about their day: parents with kids, junkies buying drugs, young men on bikes, city employees,whites, blacks, smiles, frowns. If you needed one last reminder that the true star of this show was not McNulty, or Omar, or even David Simon, but the city ofBaltimore, then here you go.
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This has been bothering me for a minute Cheese last name was Wagstaff the same as Randy so were they blood in some type of way.
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i could see that. I didnt like how there was no backstory to marlo, dude just literally showed up.
of course it aint built for network TV, but if it coulda reached an audience like that, it would have been
and did anyone else hate the way daniels walked? dude was mad stiff for some reason. creeped me out every time they showed him.
mexicansoul
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Naymond was suppose to be like his pops, Wee Bay, but it wasn't in him. You can say Kennard was gonna be any # of characters on the show. hecould have been the next avon? Next chris?
