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By: “Go with your people.” « Got that New Package!

“Go with your people.” « Got that New Package! — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:58:26 +0000

[...] with your people.” A few days back Ray commented: Wallace, D’Angelo, Bodie…whenever one of these kids figures out “we just like them little [...]

By: raynola

raynola — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:27:52 +0000

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Six Flags happens in which episode?

Alexxx, you twat, did you just drop an unflagged spoiler in our comments?

In my universe there are more than 7 episodes left and I want to fucking keep it that way til Sunday night. We got to have a code. Otherwise we’ll have media critics and other pond scum who have already seen half the season dropping spoilers up through episode 7. I go out of my way to avoid shit like that, I don’t need it dropped in my own back yard.

By: alexxx

alexxx — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:19:54 +0000

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strangely the sweetest of them all, wallace, never seemed to have that epiphany. he was more than willing to jump back into the life.

it isn’t michael i worry about, it is dukie and or bug. if the six flags trip hadn’t already been tarnished by monk i would have been sure it was their swan song. you aren’t allowed to be happy for prolonged amounts of time on the wire.

templeton worries me as a character. he just plain sucks. he is like ziggy, without the tragic backdrop. i think with the extra two or three episodes they should have gotten he might have had more time to develop and not seem like such a one dimensional douchebag. on the other hand, there are still seven episodes left to obliterate my unfavorable (as a person and as a character) opinion of him.

By: raynola

raynola — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:46:07 +0000

Wallace, D’Angelo, Bodie…whenever one of these kids figures out “we just like them little bitches on the chessboard”, they’re near the end of their life. I wonder if a pawn feels that way right when he gets set up diagonally from his opponent pawn as bait, just so a bishop who moves faster will have an easier shot at the king.

Michael won’t survive the season. I can feel it the way I can feel that Bubbles is going to stay clean.

By: michaela

michaela — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:51:12 +0000

I know what you mean, Ashley. Last season, I worried intensely about those kids between episodes. I even had a couple of dreams about them. I’ve had that experience before with novels — that sense of lifting my head up and being somewhat startled that the characters I’ve come to know so intimately won’t actually be coming over for dinner. And, even worse, that the people around me haven’t met them and can’t help me hash out what’s become of them. Richard Russo’s Empire Falls struck me that way (luckily I live in Maine, where it’s practically required reading).

Anyway, the point of all this deadline-avoiding rambling is that I’ve never experienced this kind of full-body (or at least full-brain) immersion with TV before. Much as I hate to ponder this series coming to its conclusion, I’m really looking forward to going back to Season 1 and starting all over again.

@Virgotex: Complicit is absolutely the right word — for Bunk and for us. You nailed it.

By: ashleymorris

ashleymorris — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:35:38 +0000

As I’ve mentioned before at my blog and Nancy’s, The Wire has affected me like I’ve never been affected. You mention the “visceral reaction” you had when McNutty was messing up the crime scene.

When I saw Wallace get shot, I had to run to the bathroom and puke.

Never has any TV or movie ever prompted any kind of reaction like that in me. When McNutty was messing up the crime scene, I felt kind of disgusted with him, like Bunk was, but I can’t say that I was disappointed — I mean, his whole five season life has been about “They don’t get to win, we get to win”. And by any means necessary, evidently.

By: virgotex

virgotex — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:22:53 +0000

Yeah, we understood him,michaela, and we also understood Bunk almost puking because of what he was seeing his beloved partner do, and also maybe a flash of guilt at allowing him to slide as far as he had. We know in our hearts that almost all these cops are decent people with good hearts that would probably give up their lives to save their buddies or a taxpayer, but we’ve also seen them lie for each other to spouses, cover up evidence of sloppy work, and also look the other way at the drinking and whoring.

We all understood, we were all horrified, and we all felt complicit.

Thanks for the Lippman background, NN. Great post.

By: michaela

michaela — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:49:48 +0000

One of the things that I think makes The Wire so incredible is how personally we take the established characters’ actions. I mean, Templeton just pisses me off because so far he doesn’t have any redeeming characteristics — he’s just a slimy, brown-nosing striver. But McNulty — when he started messing with the crime scene,it evoked a visceral reaction from the crowd in my living room. We were disappointed, disgusted… and yet totally understood why he’d do that. It’s an amazing place to get to with a fictional character.