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The Wire comes to BBC2 (Spoiler free, please)

hektik said:
i watched it before they even filmed it.

i'm going to put a spoiler tag in now, because i don't think it's a spoiler, but I want to cover myself. it's related to latest epsiode on bbc 2, concerning a potential spot of a character in season 4:

was the girl who offered omar the ends on the syringe as he watched weebay and stinkum burn his van micheal's momma?
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I don't think so, but you definitely see 4 boys who look like the 4 boys in series four, in an episode in series 2 or 3.

I cant remember which one. I think series 2. McNulty needs to find Omar and puts his card in Omar's burnt out van. Four boys walk past, and they look like Michael, Randy, Namond and Dukie.

Watch out for it. It is very obvious once you see it.

It is the little things like that in The Wire that make it so good.
 
Dillinger4 said:
I don't think so, but you definitely see 4 boys who look like the 4 boys in series four, in an episode in series 2 or 3.

I cant remember which one. I think series 2. McNulty needs to find Omar and puts his card in Omar's burnt out van. Four boys walk past, and they look like Michael, Randy, Namond and Dukie.

Watch out for it. It is very obvious once you see it.

It is the little things like that in The Wire that make it so good.
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Omar's lookout is shorter and more round faced than Michael's mum.

That scene with the boys walking past the car ... at the time I was looking to see if they were Wallace's siblings. But do you really think they look like the S4 boys?

*scratches head*
 
Melinda said:
Omar's lookout is shorter and more round faced than Michael's mum.

That scene with the boys walking past the car ... at the time I was looking to see if they were Wallace's siblings. But do you really think they look like the S4 boys?

*scratches head*
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They are not the same actors. But there is a definite resesmblence there.

That happens all the time in The Wire.

I refer you to the final episode of series one where Herc is advising two new police about how police work is not just about busting heads.

They both resemble Herc and Carver, except opposite, somehow.

Another look-a-like: a court room scene in series one where Kima is getting Bubbles's friend Johnny out of court.

It pans across the line-up, and lingers for a split second on a look-a-like of McNulty.

There are loads of little in jokes like that when you know what to look out for. They are intentional.

:cool:
 
Melinda said:
Omar's lookout is shorter and more round faced than Michael's mum.

That scene with the boys walking past the car ... at the time I was looking to see if they were Wallace's siblings. But do you really think they look like the S4 boys?

*scratches head*
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nah, not his lookout. He is sitting across from his old house, where weebay and stinkum are going through it - they then burn his truck. Omar is looking out of the window with a little kid on his lap, while the kids mum is shooting up some heroin. she offers him some.

it just looks like micheal's mum - and the little kid could grow up to be Bug.


shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet: we should have a wire re-up, from the beginning. with spoilers so we can talk on this: noticing things that we missed first time around.
 
hektik said:
nah, not his lookout. He is sitting across from his old house, where weebay and stinkum are going through it - they then burn his truck. Omar is looking out of the window with a little kid on his lap, while the kids mum is shooting up some heroin. she offers him some.

it just looks like micheal's mum - and the little kid could grow up to be Bug.
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Omar's lookout is the woman who comes up to him, Brandon and the other guy (Bailey?) asking for 'endz on this.'
That's the woman we're both talking about right?

The first time we see her:



Inside her gaff as Omar watches WeeBey and Stinkum trash his old place and van. Her son sits on Omar's lap.



Michael's mother.


[/ me channelling London_calling ;)]

Different actresses. But it was a close spot hektik!
hektik said:
shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet: we should have a wire re-up, from the beginning. with spoilers so we can talk on this: noticing things that we missed first time around.
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Yes, its probably for the best. Start one up!
 
Dillinger4 said:
Four boys walk past, and they look like Michael, Randy, Namond and Dukie.
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Can't speak for that one but...
there's a bit from, I think, S3 where Bunk is at the scene of an Omar Vs Barksdale people shoot-out. He sees a wee boy pretending to be Omar (I think saying it was "his turn to be Omar", not sure) and making shooting gestures. That's the wee fella that shot and killed Our Hero in S5.
 
i'm staying at my mum's for the weekend. she's just said 'oh, that "wired" programme is on after newsnight. we can watch it if you want but you'll have to explain it to me'.

'okay mum, this is omar. hes a stone- cold sawn- off packing homothug. hes a bit batey at the moment because some drug dealers poked his gay lover's eyes out and then set fire to him a little bit. whats a re-up? oh well... ummmm.... i might go to bed now, actually.'
 
Once the Beeb get through the 1st series,theres going to be a 2 week break for the snooker before they show series 2 apparently.
 
However nothing beats
Rawls in the gay bar in Season 3. All of his insults take on way more meaning after that
 
Any other Brits find themselves adopting the lingo? Policemen and women are just Police now to me. Shit had become Sheeeeeet also.
 
so, i perservered with series 1 and have to say it was quite enjoyable (although i'm still slightly bemused by the level of afficionadary surrounding the programme) i'm currently downloading the 2nd series but am bored and have nothing to watch now, been searching for ages for a torrent or stream of season 2 ep 1, can anyone help me oot?

ta
 
Smurker said:
Any other Brits find themselves adopting the lingo? Policemen and women are just Police now to me. Shit had become Sheeeeeet also.
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I did for a while.

I also attempted make use of the gender neutral pronoun 'yo' but it just confused me and anyone I was talking to




The grammar news is that Dr. Elaine Stotko, from the School of Education at Johns Hopkins University, and her student, Margaret Troyer, have discovered that school children in Baltimore are using the slang word yo as a gender-neutral singular pronoun. Dr. Stotko was teaching a master’s class at Johns Hopkins, and it came out during a discussion that several of the high school and middle school English teachers had noticed their students using yo as a pronoun. Often the students would be talking to another student, would point at the third person they were referring to, and would say something like "Yo threw a thumbtack at me." This made teachers think they were using yo to mean "he or she" instead of yo as you would normally hear in phrases like "Yo momma."
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http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-yo-pronoun.aspx
 
Of course, there is also the guy from the control room at the docks, I forget his name, he has a long goatee beard. He's a homeless guy in S5. Fucking tragic shit right there.
 
gah, that was annoying. my own stupid fault, I thought you meant a spoiler for episode 5 of season 2, not season 2 and season 5. :rolleyes: (at myself)
 
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