re: OFFICIAL "The Wire" M/TV Board rewatch thread (current discussion starts ~p. 53)

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Yeah, but then he's fricking all of the gangster kids' mommas, and that may not end well

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yeah, he's better off with the nurse, plus she can get that whole take of/rescue him bit Cutty

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That's sort of how I took his decision to do that, but that's what feels so out of place, because we've always seen Michael, for the most part, be a pretty good/level-headed kid.

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Yeah, forced is really the best way to put it. There should have been something more obvious to push him over. That why i thought, maybe he gets beat up by the cops or something. Its like that needed a kid to be the next generation ______ and went with Mike.

Dukie's fate, is sadly the most predictable and easy to see one.

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Not only are both of his parents together, but his dad is well respected on the street and provided a hell of a living, and his mom spoiled him with material things all his life. most street kids would kill for that.

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i thought of that, he's the best off of the 4 by far, materially anyway, with Randy next, but having a dad in prison for life for multiple murders and a mom that wants her son to be a gangster isn't just messed up from our perspective But it is better than Dukie or Michael. But ,just like Ziggy, who's not bad off, he just doesn't fit the family biz. Plus his mom is a huge count. And Bodie saw right through her fat arse.

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And the main reason Namond gets his is because he was disruptive in class and got put in with Bunny's program.

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and looking back on it, that felt a little forced too. Albert and Zenobia have some deep problems. Namond was just fronting, trying to get kicked out of class to go to the corner because that's what his mom wanted.

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But one thing I love about the show is that it's real-to-life. So in real life, it's not always the kids that deserve it that get the chance. Sometimes shitty people have good things happen to them

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for sure.