The Wire comes to BBC2 (Spoiler free, please)

[Dillinger4]

It's a line from the episode on last night (Wednesday).

I thought so.

I wont edit then.

 

[spanglechick]

It's a line from the episode on last night (Wednesday).

no worries.

pivotal, poignant line, though.

 

[Dillinger4]

I have been waiting to do that line for ages.

Where wallace at?

 

[London_Calling]

Wallace took the $500 finder fee and Poot didn’t. We can see that Wallace is the de facto father of the feral kids as Poot defers to him on domestic matters and Wallace provides the food. I suppose it’s natural he tells Wallace about Omar’s boyfriend.

As for the feral kids themselves and why they're like that, stick with it.


Elsewhere, didn’t Avon look fine in his getting arrested attire: “Look at those Delta Force motherfuckers . . . ”

 

[Dillinger4]

Wallace took the $500 finder fee and Poot didn’t. We can see that Wallace is the de facto father of the feral kids as Poot defers to him on domestic matters and Wallace provides the food. I suppose it’s natural he tells Wallace about Omar’s boyfriend.

As for the feral kids themselves and why they're like that, stick with it.


Elsewhere, didn’t Avon look fine in his getting arrested attire: “Look at those Delta Force motherfuckers . . . ”

I love the look of confusion on Stringers face as he realizes he is not getting cuffed.

That is one thing they hadn't counted on.

 

[Gingerman]

"You'd rather work in shit then let the world let you see work a shovel" - Daniels

 

[Gromit]

Great episode last night.

I know people said this series was great but i honestly didn't believe it was as great as it truly is.

 

[BlackArab]

i'm feeling a bit tearful just thinking about it. but that's because i am a massive GIRL.

Not because you're a girl, I've seen it twice before and turned off because I knew it was coming and the lump in my throat. You should worry if the scene doesn't affect you.

 

[Gingerman]

Great episode last night.

I know people said this series was great but i honestly didn't believe it was as great as it truly is.

Gripping is'nt it,last ep tonight for 2 weeks,poor Wallace you knew he'd come to a sticky end,the guy that plays Stringer,was'nt he in crap Channel 5 soap Family Affairs? big step up for him.

 

[BlackArab]

I have been waiting to do that line for ages.

Where wallace at?

The line that got me hooked the first time round.

 

[Gingerman]

Who else thinks Levy the lawyer is the biggest scumbag in the series so far? comes across as a right slimeball even though he has'nt had much screen time.

 

[London_Calling]

I suspect only a Jew (David Simon) could get away with writing that character.

 

[Belushi]

Gripping is'nt it,last ep tonight for 2 weeks,

Yeah bloody snooker. Cant wait to see the seocnd season again, unlike most Wire fans its my favourite.

 

[Gingerman]

Yeah bloody snooker. Cant wait to see the seocnd season again, unlike most Wire fans its my favourite.

Kinda glad in a way,gives me a bit of breathing space,wish the Beeb would schedule it properly say twice a week or summit like that.

 

[Melinda]

Could you watch it twice a week and be satisfied though?

Its interesting because most people watched it in marathon sessions. Which admittedly can be quite overwhelming.

 

[kained&able]

I gad completely forgotten the dude who plays Bird was in Moesha!


dave

 

[kyser_soze]

Who else thinks Levy the lawyer is the biggest scumbag in the series so far? comes across as a right slimeball even though he has'nt had much screen time.

No more or less a morally bankrupt character than anyone else - I think with Levy you see someone who is smart enough to play the game up to their level of ability and no higher...

 

[Dillinger4]

Yeah bloody snooker. Cant wait to see the seocnd season again, unlike most Wire fans its my favourite.

Series 2 is the best.

Anybody who disagrees simply doesn't understand it.

 

[kained&able]

season 2 the docks??

If so thats the lamest series other then the odd funny moment from ziggy and that method man pops up in it.


dave

 

[Dillinger4]

season 2 the docks??

If so thats the lamest series other then the odd funny moment from ziggy and that method man pops up in it.


dave

*invokes daves law*

Now I know that I am right.

 

[trabuquera]

*dissents from Dave's law*

Spoiler: kinda of maybe a spoiler

While I realised (on a second view-through, after having watched ss 3 and 4) that series 2 was vastly vastly better than I'd thought it was at the time, and that Frank Sobotka is a figure of tragic genius and it's all about the Wire's most deeply-held themes of power and hubris bla bla bla...

I *still* say S2 is the weakest of the five.
(waves tauntingly at the stevedores and runs away.)


(oh and I also say: maybe it's just proof he's a Great Actor, but while in S2 of the Wire I just though Ziggy was an annoying tosser, when I caught sight of James Ransone again in Generation Kill I found him ...er ... oddly alluring.)

 

[Crispy]

Careful now, remember the title of the thread...

 

[Dillinger4]

.....

You are wrong.

Sorry.

 

[kained&able]

dillenger is the coolest bestest person in the entire world & will not spontaniously combust in the next minute.

i beluve daves law only applies in the music forum when jefe cant be arsed to argue with me about something.


dave

 

[Belushi]

I think I like 2 so much because its the one I identify with most, I grew up around men like Frank Sobotka.

 

[ChrisFilter]

*invokes daves law*

Now I know that I am right.

Dave's law had forgotten about that.

It's true though. Series 2 is the best.

 

[Dillinger4]

Dave's law had forgotten about that.

It's true though. Series 2 is the best.

 

[sojourner]

I realised (on a second view-through, after having watched ss 3 and 4) that series 2 was vastly vastly better than I'd thought it was at the time, and that Frank Sobotka is a figure of tragic genius and it's all about the Wire's most deeply-held themse of power and hubris bla bla bla...

Yep, same for me.

I'm loving this thread - having only watched S1-4 last year, and rewatched them this year, it's great reading new viewers opinions

 

[Dillinger4]

On your third view you will realize that it is unquestionably the best series.

If not your third view, then your fourth. And so on, until you realize the truth.

 

[Santino]

What is Dave's Law?