The Wire-Season 5

[jmood88]

Re: The Wire-Season 5

Episode 10:

Spoiler

It looks like everything has come right back to the beginning. There's a new McNulty(Signor), new Stringer(Marlo, new Omar(Michael), and a new Bubs(Duke). Everybody just replaces the people who left or died.

[Cebby]

Re: The Wire-Season 5

Due to my teachers deciding that next week is a great time for midterms (including 2 on Monday), I'm downloading the finale now.

Hopefully the quality is good.

Episode 10:

Spoiler

The episode followed every episode; too many stories to tie up in far too short of a time. The first hour was solid dealing with the paper and police aspect, but the last 30 minutes felt like a clip show.

I didn't really like the whole Marlo, Sidnor, Michael, and Dukie=Stringer, McNulty, Omar, and Bubbles. Not that I don't appreciate the point, but the way they showed it COMPLETELY changed the show from complete subtle and "figure it out yourself" to "OMG, he looks like Omar and is saying the words of McNulty". Dukie's last scene was good because of that. They managed to portray him as a drug addict without reshooting a previous scene.

I thought the montage could have been a bit better. I would have liked them to go through each opening and show all of the characters from each. I thought leaving out Avon, Cutty, Niko, and Randy was a bit silly. It was a solid finale, but it certainly wasn't great.

[DC]

Re: The Wire-Season 5

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[Ridgeberg]

Re: The Wire-Season 5

Bill Simmons has a new podcast up entirely dedicated to The Wire. His guest is Jason Whitlock from the Kansas City Star.

FYI for anyone interested.

[jmood88]

Re: The Wire-Season 5

I'm sure Jason will complain about all the characters while Simmons will just bring up Boston over and over again. I'll pass on that.

[trobinson97]

Re: The Wire-Season 5

Bill Simmons has a new podcast up entirely dedicated to The Wire. His guest is Jason Whitlock from the Kansas City Star.

FYI for anyone interested.

Ummm where?

[BigTigLSU]

Re: The Wire-Season 5

Due to my teachers deciding that next week is a great time for midterms (including 2 on Monday), I'm downloading the finale now.

Hopefully the quality is good.

Episode 10:

Spoiler

The episode followed every episode; too many stories to tie up in far too short of a time. The first hour was solid dealing with the paper and police aspect, but the last 30 minutes felt like a clip show.

I didn't really like the whole Marlo, Sidnor, Michael, and Dukie=Stringer, McNulty, Omar, and Bubbles. Not that I don't appreciate the point, but the way they showed it COMPLETELY changed the show from complete subtle and "figure it out yourself" to "OMG, he looks like Omar and is saying the words of McNulty". Dukie's last scene was good because of that. They managed to portray him as a drug addict without reshooting a previous scene.

I thought the montage could have been a bit better. I would have liked them to go through each opening and show all of the characters from each. I thought leaving out Avon, Cutty, Niko, and Randy was a bit silly. It was a solid finale, but it certainly wasn't great.

Spoiler

I think they addressed those people in early episodes though Avon is gone away for a long time but they showed how now he runs the prison... they showed Randy at that group home and how he completely changed into another person his innocence was gone. Cutty is still helping out the kids he aint apart of the game so he has no real reason to be shown other than when he helped out Dookie.

[Ridgeberg]

Re: The Wire-Season 5

Ummm where?

ESPN.com, where all of Bill Simmons podcasts are.
I think you can get them on iTunes as well now.

[trobinson97]

Re: The Wire-Season 5

ESPN.com, where all of Bill Simmons podcasts are.
I think you can get them on iTunes as well now.

Thanks, got it. They had a nice discussion, interrupted briefly for a quick 69 and continued. I could listen to a discussion about this show all day though. They brought up a lot of interesting points that never crossed my mind, and one in particular that if it happens in season 10, will break my heart.

[Cebby]

Re: The Wire-Season 5

Spoiler

I think they addressed those people in early episodes though Avon is gone away for a long time but they showed how now he runs the prison... they showed Randy at that group home and how he completely changed into another person his innocence was gone. Cutty is still helping out the kids he aint apart of the game so he has no real reason to be shown other than when he helped out Dookie.

Spoiler

I understand that they were shown, but I still think it would have been nice to see them in the montage, especially considering the extent back they went.

[BigTigLSU]

Re: The Wire-Season 5

Spoiler

I understand that they were shown, but I still think it would have been nice to see them in the montage, especially considering the extent back they went.

Spoiler

Oh I see what you are saying you talking specifically about the montage at the end

[ODogg]

Re: The Wire-Season 5

You guys know how they are remaking everything in Lego format? Wouldn't it be awesome if someone did the season finale for The Wire in Lego Format for youtube?

[Herbsinator]

Re: The Wire-Season 5

Spoiler

Did it ever come out what Daniels actually did back in the day? I know it came up in season 1, but did they ever go into details?

[JayBee74]

Re: The Wire-Season 5

Not looking at your spoiler Herb. Am I to assume you have info on the series finale?

[Cebby]

Re: The Wire-Season 5

Not looking at your spoiler Herb. Am I to assume you have info on the series finale?

Yes. It's kind of from the finale. That said, it wouldn't remotely "ruin the series" if you saw it.