Favorite characters?

Mine by far is Omar...because while he is ghetto as hell, the show parallels his moves to the "upper class" - not to mention he is a badass

where are ya'll seeing the future episodes? dl'ing them?

11/22/2006 1:48:33 AM

hbo puts them on demand one week early

11/22/2006 2:05:32 AM

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"the show parallels his moves to the "upper class" "

what does that even mean?


omar is the calm in the middle of the storm, throughout the show. he is, albeit a homosexual gangster, the voice of principle and ultimate truth, and it's all the more appropriate that he would adorn this role as well as simultaniously representing everything people THINK is wrong with society (vigilantism, homosexuality, etc.). omar is the code of the street, and everyone else in the show is ultimately held up to his standard

11/22/2006 9:08:47 AM

nothin beats season 1 where he cleared the streets whistling and walking around with a shotgun

like a hood urban legend....or would that be an urban urban legend?

11/22/2006 12:08:59 PM

you best roll out omar, we up in here with a mac-10!


oh i thinks not terrell, i thinks not

11/22/2006 12:11:46 PM

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"nothin beats season 1 where he cleared the streets whistling and walking around with a shotgun"

that was bad assery at its finest

11/22/2006 12:20:39 PM

i just started watching this season so I know ive missed alot but is Omar gay?

11/22/2006 2:16:36 PM

the show parallels omar's (and others) actions to those of the upper class

for example, in an earlier season where omar was on the stand and he noted the similarity between him robbing drug dealers and the lawyer representing them...both making money off the drug trade

11/22/2006 2:35:42 PM

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"i just started watching this season so I know ive missed alot but is Omar gay? "

yea, he is the gay gangsta that will fuck you up without thinking
Omar is by far my favorite character besides Bubbles

speaking of Bubbles, i saw a guy that looked like him at The Dirty last weekend

11/22/2006 3:20:02 PM

Bubbles bout to turn into residue

11/22/2006 3:54:05 PM

you may not have ever noticed, but omar never uses profanity.

11/22/2006 6:41:30 PM

and is a God fearing man

as corny as it sounds


he might be my favorite character ever on TV

well him and the barksdales

[Edited on November 22, 2006 at 11:21 PM. Reason : .]

11/22/2006 11:21:10 PM

favorite characters: 1. Bodie 2.Omar 3.Avon Barksdale

11/24/2006 11:55:41 AM

great ep

damn shame its only 2 more left

11/26/2006 10:59:24 PM

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"the show parallels omar's (and others) actions to those of the upper class for example, in an earlier season where omar was on the stand and he noted the similarity between him robbing drug dealers and the lawyer representing them...both making money off the drug trade "

that is by far THE laziest way of looking at this show I've ever heard...

11/27/2006 8:56:33 AM

Check out this interview with Ed Burns on NPR:

http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&prgDate=22-Nov-06

11/27/2006 11:45:43 AM

^that was awesome

he sounds like bunny's watch commander, the older white guy (forester??)

11/27/2006 2:03:40 PM

^^^
how so? its one reason why i like his character...

11/28/2006 2:13:35 PM

man y'all watch this sundays yet?

i can't believe mcnulty got his wig split ...usually they dont kill off the main characters so abruptly with no warning
























hahaha i kid i kid

11/29/2006 10:26:13 AM

Namond is a huge bitch

11/29/2006 10:34:23 AM

****SPOILER ALERT*****

















yeah when the opening scene came on i was thinking there's no way....chris is going to take up for michael, they've got to be fuckign around....those have to be airsoft or something....i was mostly clued in because you never saw chris and snoop move like that...covering eachother. they just walk up and BLAO to the wafflepiece and then drag em to the vacants.....and then the paint started flying.

11/29/2006 10:38:05 AM

OH WOW YOU WERE SO SMART FOR FIGURING THAT ONE OUT

11/29/2006 12:17:00 PM

eat a dick rwoddy

it was obviously filmed that way to make you wonder if not for a split second atleast

you're going to tell me that the end of the previous show when marlo tells chris about mike sticking up for him that you didn't even consider it? if that's the case you're fucking braindead, b

11/29/2006 12:21:13 PM

ill give you a split second, no longer though

11/29/2006 12:23:35 PM

I cant believe the season finale...Omar proposes marriage to Carcetti and the mayor accepts? Wow

11/29/2006 12:42:41 PM

^ you left out the part where omar agrees to fund the baltimore schools with drug money from stick ups

11/29/2006 1:18:30 PM

Butch becomes superintendent of schools!!!!!

because they're fucked already, why not have a blind guy running them tooooooo

11/29/2006 1:41:15 PM

this just in marlo stanfeild opens a charity home called the randy wagstaff home for burnt up foster moms. in turn the mayor nominates them both for the "least blackest names ever" award.

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"Namond is a huge bitch"

his mom is a pretty huge bitch too.

[Edited on November 29, 2006 at 3:00 PM. Reason : she had bodie shook though lol]

11/29/2006 2:59:02 PM

i love the whole old school/new era angle with cutty storyline, and the culmination on the corner confronting michael...damn the game left his ass behind

11/29/2006 3:59:55 PM

huh? who the fuck is cutty anyhow. i thought she was dr houses bosslady.

and the game hasnt been on the show all season. method man was.

11/29/2006 4:13:43 PM

cutty is the boxing coach man

your shit is weak

at least check imdb before saying some shit like that

11/29/2006 4:16:15 PM

jesus you though all that was serious huh.

11/29/2006 4:17:48 PM

it reminded me of that world series of dice skit

where the announcer is like "ohhh he went below the waist so it's only attempted murder! smart move!"

hahahaha but then i was like, damn, cutty got got yo

he always makes the most unintentionally hilarious faces when he's close to the camera...anyone else ever notice that?

like, the scene when he is about to shoot fruit and he doesnt, and then he gives the gun back to avon and is like *bug eyed* "I CAINT DO IT YO"

his face was hysterical looking

same as when he walked up to mike on the corner

[Edited on November 29, 2006 at 4:19 PM. Reason : .]

11/29/2006 4:18:45 PM

ah damn if i had read your last sentence i would have known

haha gg my b

11/29/2006 4:19:55 PM

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"like, the scene when he is about to shoot fruit and he doesnt"

good thing fruit gets dealt with anyway

omg spoiler for people who havent seen ANY of this season

11/29/2006 4:39:28 PM

if anyone is interested


good wire blog

by the same guy that writes freedarko

http://heavenandhere.wordpress.com/

12/1/2006 10:49:05 AM

is fruit who lex popped

12/1/2006 2:32:11 PM

yeah (i think)

fruit got shot comin out tha club with lex's girl

dude was shook on the pussy



fruit was the dude that cutty couldnt shoot....remember he fell on his ass in the alley and the cutty had to go back to avon all funny ass face lookin' and be like "IT AINT IN ME" with his eyes all big and shit

[Edited on December 1, 2006 at 3:23 PM. Reason : .]

12/1/2006 3:21:17 PM

it was funny when lex dropped fruit though...because right after he did it he was like "Sup Keisha" or whoever, as if he hadnt just shot some dude in the head within 2 feet of her

12/1/2006 5:00:18 PM

hahah yeah

12/1/2006 5:05:22 PM

Just saw the finale. A whole lotta changes coming for season 5

12/2/2006 7:20:57 PM

download? I personally cannot wait until midnight monday

12/2/2006 10:26:54 PM

Saw the last 2 episodes on dvd, not sure how this guy got it though.

12/2/2006 10:36:06 PM

go to any big tv torrent site. i would wait though if i were you

12/3/2006 12:46:26 PM

good ass beginning

12/3/2006 10:05:24 PM

governor ehrlich made a cameo in the last episode.

12/4/2006 9:09:51 AM

I missed that where was he?

12/4/2006 4:45:19 PM

well, i didnt mean the "last" episode...i meant the last episode they aired....so i guess the 2nd to last episode (#49).

when carcetti and wilson are about to leave the state house because theyre sick of waiting for the governor, hes the guard that says "the governor just called down, he will see you now" right before they walk out the door.

12/5/2006 8:33:09 AM

http://www.slate.com/id/2154694

fantastic piece from Slate, interviewing David Simon

you should all do yourselves the service of reading it in its entirety

12/6/2006 11:34:23 AM

ive said it before, but ill say it again. the "real life" detail they put in the this show is amazing...and actually mirrors baltimore.

baltimore has gone through all the major events of this season...from a white mayor winning and his conflicts with a republican governor, the black female city council president (who incedently just took over baltimore when that same white mayor (o'malley) won the governor race...another situation brought up in the wire) to the drug scene, to the major problems with the schools, the gentrification of the city and its effect on local blue collar workers (from season two). hell, even the bumper stickers they have hanging up in the police hqs is whats all over the city.

the attention to detail is outstanding.

[Edited on December 6, 2006 at 12:24 PM. Reason : f]

12/6/2006 12:24:38 PM