TheWireTheWire etc. Season 5

[Chris L]

No Wire trivia is too boring!!    The mortage fraud charge carrying 30 years that they talk about pinning on Clay Davis was one of the counts Ed Norris was indicted on in real life. 

[TremblingEagle]

this might explain a bit.

These hoppers get wilder every year.

The game got more fierce.

[KickTheBobo]

I've been thinking on this since the last episode (on-demand), and it's really starting to bother me: Marlo's Stoic Face



I mean, could this guy be the least emotive actor EVER?

and in that final scene, I mean PLEASE, he doesn't even BLINK.

More and more I am starting to subscribe to the Surreal Coda theory. Perhaps at the end of the season, during the final shootout, Marlo's back panel flips open exposing wires and batteries.

I still like the show though.

[dave from knoxville]

Have you started noticing handbills appearing in the backgrounds of shots in the office announcing an upcoming trick-skying contest at the precinct picnic?

[buffcoat]

All of Baltimore is in a snowglobe.

[Sarah]

All of Baltimore is in a snowglobe in a shower.

[Dorvid Barnas]

No Wire trivia is too boring!!    The mortage fraud charge carrying 30 years that they talk about pinning on Clay Davis was one of the counts Ed Norris was indicted on in real life. 

Wait, it's illegal to tell people that money given to you by your parents is money they loaned you?
My entire generation is making a break for Mexico.

EDIT:  Oh, that's only the case when applying for a mortgage.  Phew!  99% of my generation is off the hook.

[wwwes]

All of Baltimore is in a snowglobe.

Or maybe a model train set. Or maybe that the whole train symbolism signifies that the show takes place in the land of Make-Believe.

[jane]

I don't get The Wire. And by that, I don't mean I don't "get" The Wire, that I don't understand it, or its appeal, but that, not being an HBO subscriber, The Wire doesn't get into my home.

Having said that, I listened to an episode of Sound of Young America during which our pal Jesse spent 55 minutes slobbering all over two cast members from the show, one who plays a junkie called Bubbles, and the other who plays a cop with a short name (Bunk? Shad? Thor? Something like that.)

The thrust of the interview seemed to be that the show was so great because it made junkies likable, more three-dimensional, and it made drug-traders more sympathetic.

Ignoring the fact that I can't think of almost anything I would less like than to make drug-dealers more sympathetic,...

Aw, c'mon, Dave - One Love. I and I both know it's the only way.

[masterofsparks]

Wow. Cliffhanger ending to episode 5. What do they think this is, Lost?

[Jouster]

Yes, they do think that.  They think it is Lost.

[Chris L]

Wow. Cliffhanger ending to episode 5. What do they think this is, Lost?

Judging by that penultimate scene, I was going to guess Batman.

[masterofsparks]

Wow. Cliffhanger ending to episode 5. What do they think this is, Lost?

Judging by that penultimate scene, I was going to guess Batman.

I've heard the duster is the new cape.

[KickTheBobo]

just finished ep5 On Demand yesterday. Is it just me, or is anyone else just not feelin' it thus far from this season? Maybe I need to wait until the finale, and then revisit Season 5 as a whole, but right now (at the halfway point) it just feels kind of scattershot, almost like they put it together from outtakes and whatnot. the story just doesn't seem to be moving forward, and they just keep utilizing the same beats over and over (really, did we need ONE MORE scene of Bunk guilt-tripping Jimmy in the 'office'?).

re: Omar the Superhero: I know that he's pulled some crazy shit before, but it all still seemed to take place under the auspices of real-world physics. once you break that seal, you've moved into the realm of ACTION. Please, I hope to god the finale doesn't involve McNulty hanging from a rope attached to a helicopter piloted by Evil Clay Davis.

[masterofsparks]

just finished ep5 On Demand yesterday. Is it just me, or is anyone else just not feelin' it thus far from this season? Maybe I need to wait until the finale, and then revisit Season 5 as a whole, but right now (at the halfway point) it just feels kind of scattershot, almost like they put it together from outtakes and whatnot. the story just doesn't seem to be moving forward, and they just keep utilizing the same beats over and over (really, did we need ONE MORE scene of Bunk guilt-tripping Jimmy in the 'office'?).

re: Omar the Superhero: I know that he's pulled some crazy shit before, but it all still seemed to take place under the auspices of real-world physics. once you break that seal, you've moved into the realm of ACTION. Please, I hope to god the finale doesn't involve McNulty hanging from a rope attached to a helicopter piloted by Evil Clay Davis.

I wouldn't say I'm "not feeling it," but I am feeling ambivalent about parts of it. For one thing, the newspaper subplot hasn't really justified its presence yet. It seems to be moving at a much slower pace than the rest of the show, like it's on a 12 or 13-episode season pace while the rest is moving at a 10-episode pace.

I know what you mean about Omar. Because I don't know what happened yet, I don't want to necessarily form any conclusions, but I really hope they didn't pull any superhero/Hollywood stuff. However, based on what they've shown, I can't figure they did anything but that. Either he landed on the balcony below or he hit the ground and managed to disguise himself, neither of which is very likely to have happened. Landing on the balcony below is pretty unlikely, and the drop to the ground would either kill or gravely injure you.

Oh, Wire...