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Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
it should be a show where he's a bodyguard and nothing happens day in and day out, guarding some politician or celebrity

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Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
Bunk gonna Bunk

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
apparently he's super cool in real life

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
i liek to think that Jay Landsman (not the real one, who also has a role in The Wire), murder po-lice and Butt Frenzy enthusiast, is the deputy ops or commissioner or w/e in We Own This City

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
what about Frank Sobotka? This WHOLE THING is about Frank Sobotka

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
if I ever have a body man, I'm going to insult him for not getting my Harper's even though I didn't tell him to get one

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
the guy playing ziggy is really good and absolutely annihilated the role that the writers were going for. also in generation kill and his one off in burn notice

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
james ransone. nothing against pablo schreiber, but he was just outclassed

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009

algebra testes posted:

Wonder how Frank feels about non union Toyota plants.

he blames Ronald "Union Buster" Reagan

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
Donut easily gonna be the most successful kid from that year at Edward J. Tilghman Middle School

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
Donut is is going to be a character in Fast 11, wherein he steals Dominic Toretto's new car which is so fast that it can fly. He takes it on a joy ride before returning it with a full tank.

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
spoiler: Omar gets Mouzone his Harper's

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
you can try to run a dignified business but eventually someone who is willing to do what you won't to get ahead will push you out. You can try to make it about honor and respect but eventually someone who is all about the game will come along and beat you at it.

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
Rawls is an absolutely brilliantly written character and John Doman kills it. You may think he's just gonna be an archetypal rear end in a top hat in charge and then he ends up with a massive amount of depth.

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009

Aces High posted:

it probably doesn't look good that the local gym owner sleeps with every woman that gives him a casserole.

the game is the game

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
the kids' faces in the scene where dennis apologizes. Some of them are like okay, whatever. Some don't buy it. Some are like "wait, what?!"

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
I could turn those textbooks around for an easy profit

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
he bought all the porn mags and hot dogs in a corner store. We all deal with grief+trauma in our own way.

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009

Orange Devil posted:

This is incorrect.

we fight on that lie

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009

PostNouveau posted:

It's loving wild that the Sun has a Johannesburg bureau to shutter.

reporting on Roland, the Headless Thompson Gunner. duh

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009

AtraMorS posted:

Been waiting to post this, but it's one of the most fun little "all the pieces matter" moments.

The first time see Kenard (the kid who shoots Omar) is after the gun battle where one of the women accomplices gets shot in the head. The detectives are investigating, and Bunk sees a group of kids playing Dealers and Robbers and sort of re-enacting the gunfight. Kenard is playing Omar. Bunk even brings it up to Omar, how kids are looking at him as some kind of hero and how he should feel ashamed of himself.

Omar is ashamed@that. Bunk rules

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
Poot is a shoe salesman. That got a young woman pregnant. Now he's Married...

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
GW Bush voice: Pootie Poot

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
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

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
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.

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
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.

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009

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.

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.

turns out the kid with the highest chance of success was the one from a better-off family. Except Donut. He will be president.

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
oh everything in ny seems bad if you only focus on the pimps and the CHUDs

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
feeling statuesque rn. Not very buxom tho

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009

Rev. Bleech_ posted:

All of these lists and ranking, and no one has done a combined list of the fattest asses and the best pussies.

pussi

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
Carver has a great arc. He starts out being about thumping skulls and then slowly starts to realize that the system isn't about justice and promotion favors people who play the game and don't care. He sees Bunny's experiment and is one of the few cops trying to make it work because at least someone is trying something new, if incredibly flawed. The reason he tries to foster Randy isn't because he wants Randy or to foster any kid (which can only lead to problems) but because he's trying to help someone who did the right thing, that the system betrayed.

The school admin threatening Randy's foster position to get him to snitch is downright administrative evil.

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
I know it's may seem petty in light of the events of yesterday but I just can't get it out of my head. Frasier. You're telling me a balding white dude from Seattle gets to smash that much? And he wasn't slaying hood rats, neither.

They throw mad gold statues at the Crane brothers but The Wire only won twice.

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
correction: wire was nominated, never won

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009

Jerusalem posted:

Avon saying he doesn't want to waste any time with having his name/picture up as a "Diamond Club" sponsor or whatever it was, only for the reveal the next season that Cutty put up a big rear end photo of him in the gym anyway :3:

it's because Avon knows that's how he got IDed by the cops the first time. :ninja:

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
It was a thread today.

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
Marlo and Anton Chigurh just hanging out, doing bro stuff.

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
writing and cadence+delivery v good

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
Stringer's biggest mistake is that he wasn't as smart as he thought he was. He was dumb as hell and arrogant because he was a bit more educated than the rabble he saw beneath him. Problem is, that convincing people to do violence for you works. And keeping people good at violence happy and out of prison is what helps keep you on top.

Prop Joe had muscle but Cheese betrayed him lol.

Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009
It works for drug cartels. It works for drug companies. The gang companies go to for enforcement just happen to be big enough that they make the rules.

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Cranappleberry
Jan 27, 2009

StashAugustine posted:

"He thought he was the smartest guy in the room- and he'll, he probably was."

yeah. Stringer and mcnulty are a good if obvious parallel. The point is hit home for the audience with mcnulty seeing stringer's apartment for the first time after stringer's death with "who the hell was I chasing?" Medium-sized fish in a relatively small pond. Mcnulty's myopic focus on Stringer as some genius villain adversary is silly and indirectly helps lead to the rise of Marlo.

Avon wasn't the numbers guy but he was right about what works on the street far more often than Stringer was. As soon as the towers came down their gang was behind on territory and the only way to get back up was taking corners, which means they need armed bodies to occupy those corners which means they need honor. Stringer lucked out that he was friends with this guy.

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