The Wire comes to BBC2 (Spoiler free, please)

[Jenerys]

Been watching The Corner lately and it's odd seeing a lot of the Wire actors as junkies and street types - Lester is a scabby old junkie, as is Norman. Sydnor's a street kid, Cedric's wife's a skanky addict etc etc

Innit

 

[sojourner]

he'd been sticking up all and sundry for years - loads of people wanted him out of the way - easy prey for an opportunistic corner boy wanting to make a name for himself

Sorry, I was taking it personally

I thought you meant that YOU thought he had it coming. See what you mean now

And London Calling - damn right re gay superheroes.

I wanted to hunt down Kenard and strangle the little shit

 

[sojourner]

Been watching The Corner lately and it's odd seeing a lot of the Wire actors as junkies and street types - Lester is a scabby old junkie, as is Norman. Sydnor's a street kid, Cedric's wife's a skanky addict etc etc

Not a patch on the Wire but worth seeing, btw

Yeh, I had real problems with Lester's character, but got used to it

Really fucking grim though, the Corner

 

[Orang Utan]

Sorry, I was taking it personally

I thought you meant that YOU thought he had it coming. See what you mean now

well that's true too

 

[sojourner]

well that's true too

How could you not love Omar?

 

[Orang Utan]

How could you not love Omar?

i do but he's still a bad man

 

[subversplat]

I couldn't wait for Omar to get got since he did that bullshit scene in his dressing gown (s4e1) and everybody ran away scared. Stupid.

 

[Jenerys]

I couldn't wait for Omar to get got since he did that bullshit scene in his dressing gown (s4e1) and everybody ran away scared. Stupid.

That scene is bean flicking / chain yanking fodder for some of us all right

 

[sojourner]

i do but he's still a bad man

But that's why he's good

I couldn't wait for Omar to get got since he did that bullshit scene in his dressing gown (s4e1) and everybody ran away scared. Stupid.

Well yeh, it was a bullshit scene, but still funny at the time

 

[subversplat]

The game ain't no joking matter, yo.

 

[hektik]

I'd agree that in pursuit of Marlo he broke his own rules to the game .

yeah, should have said broke his own rules rather than his code. Much like McNulty and Freamon are breaking the rules on their side.

 

[hektik]

I don't think the greeks had any loyalty to Prop tbf.

Seems to be strictly business.

i think that vondas had loyalty to the prop joe, the same as he had for nicky in series 2. He likes people that he knows, stability. he all but turned marlo away. it was the greek himself who overruled vondas. and just because they said that they would deal with marlo if something happened to joe, it doesn't mean that they expected him to do it, or to do it quite so quickly.

it's one of those things that make the wire so great though - no explanations, so you read it how you read it.

oh, but found this while searching:

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.c...s-think-of-the-wire-part-five/?pagemode=print

Flavor waved him off and kept talking. “A coin is when you play both sides because you have to. That Greek dude made a deal with somebody — someone higher up. Usually, it would be the feds. The foreign people, immigrants — like the Greeks, Latins, Jamaicans, Chinese — they don’t have nobody around here who can protect them. No one in the police, you dig? So they need to give the feds somebody fresh, somebody like Marlo. That gets them, what you call, immunity. They can’t be caught because they gave up a big fish.”

 

[starfish]

the grief of losing his father figure in a very ugly way

I was always under the impression Buchie was his uncle. Not that an Uncle cant be a father figure.

 

[Gromit]

Something like that. Although they had already been told they couldn't take the case federal, Davis wouldn't have known this so Freamon was using that as his stick.

I think he is trying to bluff him into making some sort of mistake or just wanting to make him sweat with needless worry just because he deserves to.

 

[London_Calling]

2 hours remaining then it's all gone - tonight and tomorrow, not the time to go missing.

 

[Gingerman]

2 hours remaining then it's all gone - tonight and tomorrow, not the time to go missing.

2 and a half hours actually,90 min job tomorrow night.

 

[London_Calling]

Of course!

11.20pm - 00.50am

 

[The Octagon]

Michael's a fucking dude

Heartbreaking scenes afterwards though (first leaving Bug and then dropping Dukie off at the junkyard / stables?). Nice call back to the first time we meet the boys too (piss balloons), a lot's changed

And McNulty's shit is royally fucked, Daniels and Pearlman look like they might add him to the serial killer's body count

 

[gnoriac]

Is series 5 to be the last ever? If they make a series 6 it's gonna take a whole new cast, just about everyone's been killed off / arrested / in the shit with 1 episode to go.

 

[Crispy]

It's all over, no more series

 

[8den]

Is series 5 to be the last ever? If they make a series 6 it's gonna take a whole new cast, just about everyone's been killed off / arrested / in the shit with 1 episode to go.

Done and dusted. Check out the series creators other shows "Generation Kill" about Marines in Iraq at the start of the invasion. And the forthcoming Treme, about Jazzz musicians in post Katerina New Orelans.

 

[ddraig]

so last episode ever tonight?

 

[DotCommunist]

Then you can go onto the excellent David Simon penned Generation Kill which is the best Iraq 2 drama I've seen.

 

[SpookyFrank]

The scene with Michael, Bug and Dukie in the car

That seems to be the only chance anyone gets for redemption in the wire, the chance to still feel human emotions despite it all and despite the fact that those emotions are almost invariably bad. The same is true for Bubbles, for whom a mind unclouded by drugs is just a mind opened up to grief and shame.

 

[maomao]

Is series 5 to be the last ever? If they make a series 6 it's gonna take a whole new cast, just about everyone's been killed off / arrested / in the shit with 1 episode to go.

Wasn't that a deliberate move to make sure that HBO couldn't go and do a series 6 without the original writing team?

 

[SpookyFrank]

And the forthcoming Treme, about Jazzz musicians in post Katerina New Orelans.

That sounds like it might be in some considerable danger of being very good

 

[SpookyFrank]

Wasn't that a deliberate move to make sure that HBO couldn't go and do a series 6 without the original writing team?

I don't think HBO even wanted to comission series 5 tbh, the ratings were never all that great. That's why this series was cropped to 10 episodes instead of the usual 13 IIRC.

 

[Gromit]

I'm refusing to let go off this show and am commissioningg series 6 as of now. We can make it ourselves urbs on the streets of Brixtonmall.

I'll play McNaulty

What parts do you guys want?

 

[Crispy]

No part in your plan if you can't spell the lead character's name right

 

[SpookyFrank]

I'm refusing to let go off this show and am commissioningg series 6 as of now. We can make it ourselves urbs on the streets of Brixtonmall.

I'll play McNulty

What parts do you guys want?

I'll be Clay Davis