TheWireTheWire etc. Season 5

[Chris L]

Ep 58 SPOILERS continued

I don't think this is much of a spoiler - but Omar is supposed to be 47 years old?

Huh.  That is weird.  The card said 1960, but his prequel took place in 1985, and he was about 12 in that.

I assume that was another mix up w/ the middle aged white guy.  Alma the reporter ID'd him as a "34 year old male."

[buffcoat]

That makes some sense - but the white guy looked OLDER than 47?

WHAT IS IT TRYING TO TELL US?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[B_Buster]

Relax, buffcoat. I don't think Simon's trying to tell us anything. I think it's just another one of his little gimmicks that doesn't really add up to much, but gets the fanatics yappin.

[Chris L]

Relax, buffcoat. I don't think Simon's trying to tell us anything. I think it's just another one his little gimmicks that doesn't really add up to much, but gets the fanatics yappin.

Wrong David (oooh, I did it again).

[John Junk]

for you eggheads, here's some discussion: David Simon and the Audacity of Despair

Make sure you find David Simon's response in the comments section.  Mike, you'll be pleased to note he quotes Camus in there!

For a second I read that as "he quotes Comus in there!" and I was like "No way!  Comus!?"

[bruce]

There is one little Omar fact you guys are forgetting. Omar went to the same school as Bunk who was a few years ahead of him.

[Jouster]

How is that relevant?

[TremblingEagle]

How is that relevant?

adds more layers to Bunks....reflection on the state of things?

[bruce]

How is that relevant?

It was more about that Omar is not the age people were discussing is all

[dvdv]

58 Spoilers









Finest episode of the season by far.  Omar's "Spiderman" moment made the way he was killed seem even more pathetic. 


Somehow, it managed to make the unusually broad choices (Omar's superpowes, McNulty's utterly insane scheme) make more sense in retrospect.  I have a bad feeling about how this whole thing is going to end.

[buffcoat]

And then, immediately after it ends, you have to go read "The Final, Suppressed Scene from 'The Wire'" on Slate.  I'm waiting until the final episode airs, but I've already seen the first line from it.

[bruce]

Well someone posted the spoiler on Youtube and its a jaw dropper to see it happen. Since it feels so anticlimatic to a character who was nothing but over the top. But what did I expect this person to go riding out into the sunset guns ablazing.

[Jouster]

And then, immediately after it ends, you have to go read "The Final, Suppressed Scene from 'The Wire'" on Slate.  I'm waiting until the final episode airs, but I've already seen the first line from it.

Go ahead and read it.  It's not a real scene, it was written as a "thank you" to the crew.

[KickTheBobo]

58 had some great scenes (Omar getting got, the meeting with the FBI, Gus finally getting Templeton, Lester & Senator Davis).

I still do not get the morgue tag thing. what is this, LOST?

I still do not understand how they are going to use their evidence against Marlo, given that it is an illegal wiretap. Is it that they are going to claim "we were looking for the Serial Killer, and we just happened to overhear this major drug deal go down".

[Dorvid Barnas]

I still do not understand how they are going to use their evidence against Marlo, given that it is an illegal wiretap.

After they use the illegal wire tap to make the bust, they'd claim that all the intelligience was given to them by a C.I.
That's why Sydnor told the investigating cops they didn't have to worry about appearing in court and why Lester kicked Rhonda out of his office.