Just Finished The Wire

Stringer also gave up Barksdale

 

Avon was the man. Marlo was part of the new breed. Dude was cold blooded, but he had this old school calm and discipline about him that was pretty cool. Loved Stringer. His rise and fall was swift yet fascinating. Ironic how in the end Marlo had everything String could ever want and ended up walking away. It shows the contrast in motivation. String came in the game for money, Marlo came in for respect and power. Avon and Marlo are a lot more similar than people think.

 

i finished the wire in early may. best wasted time ever

 

first off, really didn't like season 5. never felt good about that "serial killer" angle they were running with. just seemed too out there and didn't engage me as much as the others so season 5 was clearly my least favorite. season 4 i thought was the best

as for your new shows, you really haven't seen AD yet? damn. and i have just started catching episodes of parks every now and then and that show is hilarious. gonna dl some more when i get a chance

 

the show had to have a marlo though. avon was weak and someone had to be the next guy. the only thing i didnt like about it was how marlo went from a few profitable corners to punking out all the other bosses who were organized, it just didnt seem likely

 

didn't bowtie go to avon and explain the shit that went down while avon was on the inside (stringer going against avon, the whole co-op thing) and avon gave up stringer?

 

there wasnt so much an explanation as a realization on avon's part and dropping a hint to bowtie

 

Definitely do this, best comedy on tv right now. Also I didn't like Marlo at all compared to Avon and String, I felt like I grew as stringer and avon did and marlo just kinda got thrown in our laps

 

yeah i agree with you but i liked marlo i just didnt like how they progressed his power so fast. chris was one bad mother fucker though

 

agreed....I also thought the finale was pretty lame

 

shoulda left it at 4--the end of season 4 would've been the perfect ending.

 

Marlo was so much better than Avon in the long run that it wasn't even close for me. Marlo was so cold-blooded about everything, he just made Avon look like a huge bitch. Liked Stringer alot as well, of course Omar was the best though. Omar>Marlo>Bunk>Stringer>Prop Joe>McNulty>Bodie as far as my fave characters.

 

Bodie getting got was harder for me than Omar tbqh.

 

Marlo didn't have a code. I don't think Avon ever bitched out on something because he was afraid, but he respected the game and the people.

I don't value Marlo's ability to just knock off whoever for whatever. Thats why I loved Omar so much. He followed a strict moral code, and wouldn't break it, dude didn't even curse. Avon had that too. Gave his actions a little more substance in my mind. As opposed to Marlo who just ran around and did whatever.

Omar>String>Bodie>Joe>Jay

 

Same here. I hated Bodie in the beginning but towards the end I liked him and his death got me worse than anyone on the show.

Michael K. Williams who played Omar said he cried watching Bodie's death on The Wire during a Sept. 18, 2008 interview.

 

Avon >>>>> Marlo

Like others have said, Avon set himself apart by having a code. He had reasons for his actions. Take Cutty for instance. Cutty said he wanted out. Not only does Avon shake his hand and let him walk away, but also gave him the $ to open up a boxing gym to improve the community. If Cutty had tried that with Marlo, he'd have gotten 2 shots to the head and locked up in a vacant.

 

yep, Avon had no idea that Stringer had snitched on him. he was more concerned about losing his connect to NY (which is what Brother tells him will happen if he doesn't give up Stringer).

in the end, Stringer and Avon had weaknesses that lead to there downfalls and the downfalls of each other.

and people thinking that Avon/Stringer wouldn't just off just about anybody are forgetting the security lady, the working man (kill a witness after a trial and he's a tax-payer...cold-blooded, even if he did snitch), Wallace, and D. they may have had a code, but it wasn't like they didn't do some messed up stuff too (I count them as one person because up until season 2, they pretty much were, with only the minor disagreement of what to do with Omar in which Avon finally came around to Stringer's line of thinking).

 

I have been watching all the seasons for the first time over the summer. Just made it to Season 5 (I'm about 3 episodes deep). I can already tell that Season 5 is really going to disappoint me. Not liking the way the story is shaping up at all.

Season 4 was incredible though. Loved every second.

 

I'll 3rd that. I also didn't like Bodie when I first started watching the show but somehow he grew on me. I was pissed when that went down.

 

Season 5 isn't as good on 1st viewing, but on a 2nd or 3rd time through it kind of grew on me.

 

yep, one of the best scenes in the entire show. really showed (along with the street corner scene) who he was.

 

Same here, except Wallace getting it was the toughest thing for me to watch in the whole series.

 

Marlo is a bitch.


Prop Joe is in the middle of a war with Omar and knows Marlo is up to something fishy and he doesn't have any muscle or backup at his house? highly unlikely that's the case