^^ more than likely in that range. I watched seasons 1-4 on DVD and the finale episodes were usually around an hour fifteen, mostly because of the 5 to 10 minute season ending montages they always do

3/3/2008 1:11:51 PM

i'm just glad Snoop got plugged. I've been waiting for that for seasons now

3/3/2008 1:34:16 PM

I really like Chris...I hate Snoop - I'm glad she got got. Tree, we don't have to wait 13 days, do we?

3/3/2008 2:00:41 PM

no, the finale is this sunday

not 13 days from now

[Edited on March 3, 2008 at 2:09 PM. Reason : according to HBO anyways]

and it will be an hour and a half according to the HBO website

[Edited on March 3, 2008 at 2:09 PM. Reason : .]

3/3/2008 2:09:18 PM

Quote :

"Tree, we don't have to wait 13 days, do we?"

whoops its only 6 days

i got the 13 day number cause us ondemand folks dont get to watch it before it premieres, so its roughly 13 days from when episode 9 was first available on demand last week

3/3/2008 4:37:32 PM

i don't know if this has been mentioned before, but have any of you'll seen Marlo's lawyer in that Arby's commercial. It was pretty funny/surprising to seem him.

3/3/2008 7:04:12 PM

Last ep is supposed to be 95 minutes long

3/3/2008 7:53:09 PM

^^yeah Levy

was flippin around yesterday and dude who plays Randy was doing his Super Sweet 16 or whatever...apparently he's some rapper down with Jermaine Dupri

3/3/2008 8:27:45 PM

michael is part of the new roc a wear campaign

most of you wont subscribe to XXL to see it though

so i bring it to you

3/3/2008 8:28:26 PM

pretty pissed that i couldn't watch the final episode last night

3/3/2008 9:37:07 PM

thats that 13 days im talkin about

3/3/2008 11:48:52 PM

^yeah instead hbo has a filler of clay davis saying "sheeeeeeit" over and over again

pretty funny

3/4/2008 7:53:30 PM

http://www.newsobserver.com/987/story/982505.html

haha

3/5/2008 8:57:51 AM

old bay old bay old bay old bay

is basically baltimore food

everything, liquid or solid

old bay

3/5/2008 9:47:24 AM

Episode 10 torrent is up.

So sad this is the last new episode of The Wire that I will ever watch.

3/5/2008 4:42:51 PM

word to isohunt

SPOILER ALERT OF EPISODE 10 SUMMARY(NOT REALLY)

RAWLS DIGS UP OMAR'S CORPSE TO HAVE SEX WITH IT; MCNULTY DRINKS SOME ALCOHOL; CLAY DAVIS SAYS 'SHEEEEEEEEIT'; MARLO HAS A COLD LOOK IN HIS EYES

3/5/2008 4:44:32 PM

ugh, it's going at 1.2 K/s

wtf

3/5/2008 4:50:30 PM

i've got torrent ports blocked here at work

i'll set it to download when i get home

by the time i'm back from teh bobcats game maybe it'll be done!

btw http://www.surfthechannel.com/show/television/The_Wire.html

they have every episode from season 4 and season 5 (except for the finale), and you can watch them streaming

3/5/2008 4:59:16 PM

^^Im getting 170k

3/5/2008 5:00:30 PM

i'm getting about 14k/s

3/5/2008 6:04:17 PM

Meh, thought the finale was ok. They did a good job of wrapping things up, but it seemed a little forced and rushed. I think they could have done a lot better job on the last episode of such a great series.

3/5/2008 8:43:29 PM

you just spoiled EVERYTHING for gunzz!!!11








currently @ 65.8%

3/5/2008 9:20:43 PM

37%

but i'm now getting 50k/s

ps: spoiler (even though i havent seen the last episode):

brother mouzzone comes back and smokes crack with deangelo barksdales' corpse...zombie wallace comes back and smokes a joint with dookie, then they go to marlo's to kill him...but marlo is prepared, so they just end up playing madden all day

3/5/2008 10:04:32 PM

cheeze tosses rawls' salad while omar's boyfriend watches!

3/5/2008 10:14:35 PM

i feel so at peace with the entire series and its overarching themes now that i watched the finale

everything "wrapped up" so to speak, but as is the general theme of the show dictates,










SPOILER
















nothing changes, the institutions roll on over the individual and in the end, as beadie said in S5E8 or 9

none of it matters...and you're lucky if your friends show up to your funeral, let alone all those people you cared about and who you thought cared about you...















end

3/6/2008 12:25:39 PM

This finale was great, I'll be a pussy and not discuss the details until sunday.

My roommate and I do have an idea.

Agent 0, what are your thoughts on a Wire tribute shirt?

McNulty&
Bunk&
Lester&
Kima&
Carver

Marlo&
Chris&
Snoop&
Monk&
Michael

Avon&
Stringer&
Wee-Bey&
D'Angelo&
Bodie




P.P.S. Barksdale Forever. NEVER FORGET THE TOWERS!

[Edited on March 6, 2008 at 2:53 PM. Reason : .]

3/6/2008 2:52:41 PM

i'd rock the fuck out of a barksdale shirt

i've never been able to like omar or marlo or anybody in the series as much as i like Avon

3/6/2008 3:00:16 PM

Thats why I saved the Barksdale edition for last


BODYMORE STAND UP


Agent 0 make the shirts please, I could pick it up the next time I'm in DC in about a week

3/6/2008 3:06:52 PM

my brother and i have debated doing shirts like that since about season 2 i think...

the problem is, you just cant come up with a sincere, true starting 5 that makes sense or doesnt just include one just to have 5 dudes when one of them doesnt belong

i can see where you make arguments for all 3 groups you listed, but i just feel weird about a couple of them and to me, atleast, it would be like caving just to make a shirt. it'd be cool i guess, black with white text is what i immediately envision,

but like with the stanfield crew, michael doesnt really belong in the end...with the barksdale crew, bodie doesnt really belong, maybe bird or d'angelo's mother or something, but thats weak

and then with the cops....yeah that's a starting lineup i guess, but i dunno, shit just aint as cool when its the cops vs. the street dudes

just my two cents

3/6/2008 4:32:43 PM

gotta have Slim Charles in the Barksdale crew...maybe Shamrock

3/6/2008 4:37:04 PM

i thought the finale was weak

SPOILER ALERT

























the most unbelievable part of it was Templeton getting a Pulitzer... i mean, it couldn't have been anymore obvious that he was lying. no way he would have made it that far without getting called out.

i mean, i know he got called out by Gus.. but no way the main editor dude (who also plays the husband of the crazy bitch Mel in Flight of the Conchords) would have let that shit slide in real life
























SPOILER OVER

[Edited on March 6, 2008 at 5:22 PM. Reason : .]

3/6/2008 5:19:54 PM

^I agree with your assessment, I do not feel however that one thing made the finale weak.


Agent 0, I say we roll with the barksdale crew shirts. White on black is what I envision as well. Bodie I feel is a part of the barksdale crew, proving his loyalty not only by offing Wallace (R.I.P. It's me right here, yo), but also by his final inability to reconcile Marlo's practices. Bodie is a Barksdale head (also remember him learning from String how to act like more of a businessman? WAIT YOUR TURN TO SPEAK! LOLOLOL)

So I say, Barksdale starting five are a GO

3/6/2008 5:59:19 PM

They'd be expensive, you're looking at about 8 bucks a shirt plus a $35 screen fee, with a min order of 12. So, about $135 total divided by how many people want them.

Also, lol @ clay Davis on the new southwest commercial

3/6/2008 8:15:56 PM

Assigned seating? SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT


Put in the order Agent 0, I can easily round up that many

3/6/2008 8:20:47 PM

Omar&
Elton John&
Freddie Mercury&
Clay Aiken&
Richard Simmons

3/6/2008 8:28:22 PM

Haha^

Out of town right now but let me see what I can come up with.^^

3/6/2008 9:12:41 PM

EPISODE 10 DISCUSSION
















I just expected a much better series finale from one of the best shows ever... i thought the whole Michael is the new Omar, Duke is the new Bubbs, Sydnor is the new McNulty (kind of) etc etc was kind of too obvious... nothing in the finale was particularly moving, or exceptionally satistisfying.. oh well, still a great show






















END

3/6/2008 11:28:49 PM

fucking faggots who uploaded the finale stretched the video and encoded it as widescreen. how fucking dumb can you get.

3/6/2008 11:55:14 PM

my copy was ok but it had a text overlay the whole time

SPOILERS IN WHITE



i thought it was a dope episode...wish they wouldve shown clay davis or avon but oh well...i also like how at the end of the episode they show the shots of the car from the sides like they've done throughout the shows and on some of the show and in some of the season 3 promos...also with the montage of all the views...the calm before the storm if you will, its apparent that baltimore truly is the main character...good to see bubs making progress and getting to eat upstairs...great show

3/7/2008 1:37:25 AM

im pissed they didnt come back on Cutty and his storyline




and i thought the omar/Michael parallel and snydor/mcnulty thing was forced as well

3/7/2008 8:04:43 AM

SPOILER IN WHITE

another thing i liked is how Marlo didn't try to go all Stringer Bell...well he tried for like an hour and was then like fuck that, I'm gonna go out and take over a corner, I'll always be in the streets

3/7/2008 11:03:47 AM

motherfucka, you ain't that good

3/8/2008 1:16:40 AM

^^^Who is Snydor again?

3/8/2008 2:52:58 AM

^ I think they mean Sydnor who was the light skinned african working on the wire tap with lester and mcnulty.


I would buy a shirt of the 5 gang membas from barksdale crew. would like to see a preview first of course

Also you can stream this from http://www.surfthechannel.com/info/television/The_Wire/61938/S5E10.html?aid=0&part=1

[Edited on March 8, 2008 at 8:47 AM. Reason : ]

3/8/2008 8:45:53 AM

yeah that surfthechannel.com site is pretty dope

it has a whole lot more streaming shows than just The Wire

3/8/2008 11:31:40 AM

It does have a certain charm to it. They manufactured an issue to get paid. We manufactured an issue to get you elected governor. Everybody's gettin' what they need behind some make-believe."

-- Norman Wilson


Personally I loved the finale. I do wish they would have had a shot of Avon on the series finale but they did a good job of putting closure to most of the characters.

3/9/2008 9:51:03 PM

Quote :

"another thing i liked is how Marlo didn't try to go all Stringer Bell...well he tried for like an hour and was then like fuck that, I'm gonna go out and take over a corner, I'll always be in the streets"

that might have been my favorite part of tonight, i always liked the way marlo was played and to have him end by just standing on a corner with that "marlo stance" (rod straight, fists slightly in front of the body, oozing confidence), that was nice for me.

i don't mind that they left some strings loose, life doesnt always end with a tied-up package.

the only regret i have is that its over. that ep just left me wanting more, i'm goona miss the show.

3/9/2008 10:16:34 PM

I didnt like that Freemon and McNulty were so forgiving of Kima

3/10/2008 5:35:52 AM

I was a little disappointed with the way Marlo's story tied up but I was discussing it with Restricted and the way he saw it was that Marlo returned to the street only to find out that he really was a nobody.


and the fact that cheese got it, i was happy about that.

3/10/2008 6:56:24 AM

Marlo has millions of dollars. He will be ok. I wanted them to have a scene where Marlo pops up as the new guy in DC or something, but that would have too idealic for me.

Im kinda pissed at the show. However, Im not sure whether I am pissed that the show is over, or pissed that I believed it to be a weak season comparatively. Probably a mixture of both.

It was cool to see Weebay again. I wonder who has the record for move bodies claimed.

And you know Freemans old ass cant handle that ex-stripper Chardine.

3/10/2008 4:32:11 PM