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Soooooooooy Un stevedore I'm a smuggler baby But please don’t kill me.
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An exultant McNulty pulls up his car and bellows,"BEADIE RUSSELL!" only to realize he's interrupted an impromptu street concert by Beck 
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Finally, episodes 9 and 10 of season 5: - Final season rankings based on impressiveness: 4 > 2 > 3 > 1 > 5 - Final season rankings based on enjoyment: 3 > 4 > 2 > 1 > 5 - I'll be in Baltimore for a couple of days in May. I wonder if there are any show-related sights I should go track down. - I want to know how Junk Man got that pretty horse. - Marlo finally had his big emotional moment and it was real "nice meltdown, idiot" vibes. - "Postpartum depression, son." - No wonder Lester's voice is always slathered in honey like a prime Lando Calrissian; doing police work is his kink! Glad to know Shardene's still in his life, even after the other shoe dropped. He's just fine, baby. - Michael isn't a dumbass; he read Snoop like a book. Not Snoop's best bit of deception though, to be honest. - lol, good job spotting the Omar-sized hole in the Baltimore job market, Michael - Good for Bunny, he finally got a win. - The press plotline this story was such a flop. I appreciate the idea of what the show was trying to do by adding all of these other institutions to the mix beyond the simple law vs. street beginning, but I think they got progressively less compelling with each new institution. - Did not realize that Cheese was Randy's dad. Thanks for nothing, jackass. - "You got to see this! There's a serial killer, but he only be killing other serial killers." - It's actually shocking that Dukie survived. Prez is smart to cut ties here and that's how I would've handled it too, and the last scene is foreboding, but I haven't written Dukie off. - Prez is the rare case of someone looking worse with a beard. Aside from that, though, he's near the top of the list for the show in terms of his character development. What a journey. - I liked the little montage of city landscape shots as time passed midway through the finale. - Good brinkmanship on Lester's part to wring that much info out of Clay Davis with the threat of a federal suit that he already knows will never come. - Of course when Herc gets told that his info about the wiretap set Marlo free, his reaction was simple pleasure at getting an attaboy. No regrets at all. - "To be continued." - "The lie's so big, people can't live with it, I guess." - "This is the lie I can't live with." The other shoe has finally dropped on Daniels' background in the Eastern. - I wonder how many times Bubbles' sister did the basement routine with him leading up to the show's timeframe. This is the second time we've seen it, and given how long Bubs has been clean at this point, I have to imagine there were at least several more failed attempts before this to keep her this cautious still. And it makes his final scene all the more impactful, because we know he earned it. - "My name is Reginald." I've loved this show. It took a little bit of time to sink its teeth into me, but I can certainly see why it it's never let y'all go. It easily makes my top 10 all-time, and probably pretty high on that list. That said, I think the wheels were coming off the wagon this season, and I'm relieved it ended here. It kept The Wire's entire run somewhere between "good" and "phenomenal." I can't wait to start reading through the OP's episode summaries and listening to the show's podcast. I deliberately avoided looking up anything about the show while on this watch-through for fear of inadvertent spoilers, and I finally got to scratch my itch just now about where I've seen Avon (Creed!), Beadie (The Office!), and Carver + Dennis before (The Walking Dead!). Thank you all for reading along with these posts, sharing your insights/expertise, and kindly not spoiling a single thing. But first, one more thing, certain to be uncontroversial... THE OFFICIAL SURF ROCK POWER RANKINGS The Law 1.) Lester Freamon 2.) Cedric Daniels 3.) Bunk Moreland 4.) Dennis Mello 5.) Bunny Colvin 6.) Beadie Russell 7.) Prez 8.) Fitz 9.) Carver 10.) Santangelo 11.) Jay Landsman 12.) Sydnor 13.) Dozerman 14.) Kima Greggs 15.) Jimmy McNulty 16.) William Rawls 17.) Marimow 18.) Patrick Mahon 19.) Augustus Polk 20.) Valchek 21.) Herc 22.) Ervin Burrell 23.) Anthony Colicchio 24.) Eddie Walker (editor's note: I included one joke ranking in the above list, see if you can find it!) The Street 1.) Bubbles 2.) Omar Little 3.) Stringer Bell 4.) Prop Joe 5.) Avon Barksdale 6.) Snoop 7.) Bodie 8.) Butchie 9.) The Greek 10.) Dennis 11.) Michael 12.) Wee-Bey 13.) Shamrock 14.) Bernard 15.) Brother Mouzone 16.) Kimmy/Tosha 17.) Vondas 18.) Wallace 19.) Orlando 20.) Slim Charles 21.) Marlo Stanfield 22.) Renaldo 23.) Dee Barksdale 24.) Poot 25.) Old Face Andre 26.) Bird 27.) Chris Partlow 28.) Cheese 29.) Johnny Weeks 30.) Dante 31.) Kenard 32.) 33.) Hungry Man 34.) Spider 35.) White Mike 36.) Lamar 37.) Ziggy 38.) Bubbles' stalker The Actual Law 1.) Rhonda Pearlman 2.) Maurice Levy 3.) Billy Murphy 4.) Ilene Nathan 5.) Judge Phelan 6.) Rupert Bond 7.) Steven Demper The Dock 1.) Frank Sobotka 2.) Nobody else matters The Politicos 1.) Clay Davis 2.) Norman 3.) Clarence Royce 4.) Odell Watkins 5.) Theresa D'Agostino 6.) Tony Gray 7.) Tommy Carcetti 8.) Nerese Campbell 9.) Marla The Family & Friends 1.) Shardene 2.) Walon 3.) Dukie 4.) Bug 5.) Randy Wagstaff 6.) Beadie's kids 7.) Elena 8.) Sherrod 9.) Namond 10.) Jimmy's kids 11.) Brianna 12.) Donette 13.) Squeak 14.) Donut 15.) Raylene Lee 16.) De'Londa
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The serial killer plot line is entirely worth it for the scenes where Carcetti and the reporter find out about it
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Poor Donut ranking so low  I'm very glad you managed to avoid spoilers. The show certainly feels like it wrapped up while it was still strong, even if season 5 is the "weakest" and Simon clearly didn't have the distance or somebody pulling the leash on him to stop him turning the top press brass into caricatures. Watching Bubbles walk up those stairs man... 
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Jerusalem posted:Poor Donut ranking so low Donut is kind of entertaining, but that's a very personal one for me since my mom was murdered by someone driving a stolen car recklessly. Also, I only included characters I could remember off the dome (both their name and something about them), so I'm happy to explain any of my rankings.
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surf rock posted:(editor's note: I included one joke ranking in the above list, see if you can find it!) Snubbing Fuzzy Dunlop
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StashAugustine posted:The serial killer plot line is entirely worth it for the scenes where Carcetti and the reporter find out about it "You haven't started killing them yourself, McNulty, at least assure me of that"
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surf rock posted:Donut is kind of entertaining, but that's a very personal one for me since my mom was murdered by someone driving a stolen car recklessly. Ahh jeez, I'm sorry, yeah that's pretty understandable.
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The dude with the horse is an Arabber, someone who sells fruit from a horse-drawn cart. Baltimore is the only place that still has them in the US and they’re pretty fringe there. It’s just one of those weird, super local details The Wire drops in there and never explains because it’s the loving best.
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Re: Dukie’s ending, he is basically the new Bubbles like how Michael is the new Omar
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PostNouveau posted:Snubbing Fuzzy Dunlop
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The Law: 1. Donut 2. Jay Landsman The Street: 1. Donut The Docks: 1. Donut Politicians: 1. Donut 2. Shyieet School: 1. Donut News: 1. Donut
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Cranappleberry posted:The Law: 1. Poot, probably. e:1b. Landsman AtraMorS fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Mar 6, 2024 |
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MrMojok posted:SNOTBOOGIE Eww, let's not let that guy play.
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Jerusalem posted:Eww, let's not let that guy play. You gots too, man. Poot and slim charles ranked awfully low there
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Slim's "problem" is that he's a sentimental motherfucker (thank God)ilmucche posted:You gots too, man. Why?
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this America man
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Where are we ranking Jay Landsman’s endless stack of porno mags
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Cheese is awfully high on the list for a cadaverous motherfucker.
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Alhazred posted:Cheese is awfully high on the list for a cadaverous motherfucker. Cheese getting what he deserves is one of my favorite moments in the last episode and why Slim Charles should be ranked higher. Also, Poot is looking a little too low on that list.
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ilmucche posted:Poot is kind of a weird character. The scene of him in foot locker makes it seem like nothing that happened or he did affected him at all. It was just part of growing up and completely normal to him. Totally consistent for Poot though, because he was the hardest gangster on the street. Remember when Brandon got tortured in season one and put on display as a message to Omar? Seeing that body traumatised Wallace so badly it eventually led to his own death. But Poot was there in that reveal scene of the body, hanging out a window laughing his rear end off at McNulty getting spooked by the dog. That death and body didn't leave a single mark on Poot, even though he was there when Brandon was captured. Poot never gave a drat about anything, there are hundreds of examples of how centered he was.
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Ithle01 posted:Cheese getting what he deserves is one of my favorite moments in the last episode and why Slim Charles should be ranked higher. "Sentimental motherfucker cost us money!"
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bucketybuck posted:Poot never gave a drat about anything, there are hundreds of examples of how centered he was. and yet his tragic flaw was that he was too ignorant to have the motherfuckin floor
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PostNouveau posted:Snubbing Fuzzy Dunlop  Fuzzy Dunlop was a CI from the street, not part of the law.Actual answer: putting Sydnor (and Diet Sydnor: Dozerman) dead-center in the law rankings. Perfectly lukewarm, that's Sydnor. Xiahou Dun posted:The dude with the horse is an Arabber, someone who sells fruit from a horse-drawn cart. Baltimore is the only place that still has them in the US and they’re pretty fringe there. It’s just one of those weird, super local details The Wire drops in there and never explains because it’s the loving best. That's awesome. FlamingLiberal posted:Re: Dukie’s ending, he is basically the new Bubbles like how Michael is the new Omar ...but that means there is still hope for him Ithle01 posted:Cheese getting what he deserves is one of my favorite moments in the last episode and why Slim Charles should be ranked higher. Cheese's death was hilarious. I missed that Slim Charles did it. People here are so wild for Poot; I thought there would be something this season to justify it but I guess it's just a meme. What I remember about Poot: awful name, wore lovely polo shirts, pushed Bodie over the edge to kill Wallace, sucked at running the pit, fled Bodie's death on the corner, worked at Footlocker. Terrible.
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surf rock posted:People here are so wild for Poot; I thought there would be something this season to justify it but I guess it's just a meme. What I remember about Poot: awful name, wore lovely polo shirts, pushed Bodie over the edge to kill Wallace, sucked at running the pit, fled Bodie's death on the corner, worked at Footlocker. Terrible. Wallace's ticket was punched and they were the ones tasked to do it. They didn't really have a say in the matter. The only other option Bodie and Poot would have had would be to straight up abandon their lives and leave Baltimore, which is apparently an impossible task even for people who are otherwise doomed (Old Face Andre, Wallace)
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probably been mentioned before but Isiah Whitlock Jr. owns the catchphrase shyieet and does it in basically any film or show he's in. Did it in blackkklansman. He's even got a website selling merch.
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bucketybuck posted:Totally consistent for Poot though, because he was the hardest gangster on the street. Yeah poot just rolled with all of it. "Do the chair know we're gonna look like some punk rear end bitches out there?"
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God Hole posted:Wallace's ticket was punched and they were the ones tasked to do it. They didn't really have a say in the matter. The only other option Bodie and Poot would have had would be to straight up abandon their lives and leave Baltimore, which is apparently an impossible task even for people who are otherwise doomed (Old Face Andre, Wallace) Yeah I never really read that scene as Poot being the one to push Bodie into doing it; Bodie wanted to be a soldier and killing Wallace was his big test, I think it would have gone the same either way.
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funny thing is if bodie had joined up w/marlo he would have ended up way higher up in the org and better-paid than w/avon and stringer. Marlo recognizes and cultivates talent. That's good management.
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Ainsley McTree posted:Yeah I never really read that scene as Poot being the one to push Bodie into doing it; Bodie wanted to be a soldier and killing Wallace was his big test, I think it would have gone the same either way. Poot didn't even have to be there, and he didn't have to shoot Wallace, it was Bodie that Stringer gave the job to. Bodie had already shot Wallace, there was no need for Poot to take the gun from Bodie and put a few more rounds into him. So Poot wasn't pushing Bodie to do the job, but since it had to be done he decided to stand by Bodie and share the blame.
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Wallace's death is the least of my criticisms in that list, but rewatching the scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hor_gOBU_GU - Poot initially covers for Wallace before this, and he's slowplaying things at the start as Bodie pushes to do the job; this is the most sympathetic Poot ever gets IMO - Bodie pulls the gun, but his hand is already shaking. Wallace pleads for his life and Bodie really starts hesitating. Poot yells "DO IT GODDAMMIT" and Bodie fires. - Wallace is alive and audibly suffering so Poot fires a couple more rounds. That part feels more like a mercy kill to me. My point is just that Bodie seemed like he was losing steam up until Poot yelled at him to go through with it.
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Like I clearly felt that Dukie’s ending was not a good place for him. Maybe he makes it off the street, but we saw other addicts throughout the series that didn’t. At least with Michael it was pretty clear he was going to end up in some kind of position of violence, but Dukie had the best chance to get off the streets with the help from Prez and still got dragged down. Randy is the most tragic because a lot of what happens to him is completely out of his hands, and all indication is that he is just going to end up bouncing in and out of the system most of his life.
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bucketybuck posted:Poot didn't even have to be there, and he didn't have to shoot Wallace, it was Bodie that Stringer gave the job to. Poot realised his friend that he spent hours on the phone with was suffering and going to die so he took the gun from Bodie and put him out of his misery. Poot didn't have to do that but the alternative was watching Wallace slowly bleed out over who knows how long or leave and Wallace still suffers like hell, and maybe doesn't even die
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FlamingLiberal posted:Like I clearly felt that Dukie’s ending was not a good place for him. Maybe he makes it off the street, but we saw other addicts throughout the series that didn’t. Yeah it's tempting to say "Dukie is the new bubbles" and I certainly did that too, but....there are more addicts than bubbles and most of them didn't get heroic journeys with satisfying endings, if we're being realistic (about a fictional character), his outlook is not good
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ilmucche posted:Poot realised his friend that he spent hours on the phone with was suffering and going to die so he took the gun from Bodie and put him out of his misery. Even Poot shouting for Bodie to shoot him felt like Poot realizing it was cruel to draw it out and it had to end with Wallace dead.
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surf rock posted:Donut is kind of entertaining, but that's a very personal one for me since my mom was murdered by someone driving a stolen car recklessly. Xiahou Dun posted:The dude with the horse is an Arabber, someone who sells fruit from a horse-drawn cart. Baltimore is the only place that still has them in the US and they’re pretty fringe there. It’s just one of those weird, super local details The Wire drops in there and never explains because it’s the loving best. BTW - I started doing a rewatch of Homicide. Anyone down to do that? the DVD was recently re-released, so those it's not on streaming services, it is finally available for purchase. There's also other ways to get it. I have HBO Max too so theoretically I could do those Deadwood writeups soon...
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