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

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Those tits, those tits, those tits of Aimee…. My my my

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look at this googling trend i just found

I don't see Dee that way...

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Ziggy reminds me of Namond

I get the feeling Frank Sabotka is not a bad guy. Just goes along with what happens because that's the way things go there.

Almost the theme of the show. Things happen the way they happen. If not him it would be someone else.

Hot Shots:

Just a couple of thoughts, I like how we see the "bad guys" doing surveillance of their own. Omar and his boy casing a mark, only to find the 2 girls already casing the same guy (he must be very sloppy ).

Stringer and his boys tailing Tighlman. I also didn't realize it was Butchie. Seems to know and respect Avon, obviously they do not know his relationship with Omar? Also I love Stringer shorting phone stocks because is pit n@#$az have 2 phones.

So, Valcheck listens to Prezbo finally and learns good police work matters after all. He must have some serious juice if Burrell is that scared of him.

I noticed in season 1 i think its the first or second episode, when Dee goes to the BBQ and Avon takes him off to talk, that String is kinda making a pass at Donette. Can't blame him.

Interesting that Nick is clueless about technology, doesn't know digital cameras have no film, but Ziggy rattles off all the specs. But man, what a freaking idiot, taking that guys pick. Reminded me of Barzini having his guy break the camera at the wedding if the Godfather.

Frank takes care of a dock worker that wants to quit, Ziggy probably wasn't supposed to see that.

And Bunk and Freeman knocking Jimmy down a peg was classic and Nice moment with Jimmy and Daniels.

Hard Case

Sweetheart deal for Daniels, Burrell definitely scared. Gets everything he wants from Burrell but can't get Rawls to let him have Jimmy. Maybe sticking 14 Jane Doe's on Rawls wasn't such a good idea after all? frick it, yes it was

Avon is a cold muther fricka, kills 5 guys to set up the guard and get a lighter sentence. And the cops know it too (5 to get you 10 that's the muther fricker that spiked it" DA says can't prove it so we take the case we can, again a bureaucrat cares more about his career than doing what is right. And the warden sums it up "if you can't win the war on drugs in a prison where can you win it?" EXACTLY

Ziggy apparently never saw Goodfellas. What a fricking clown.

Kima gets a taste of the game again arresting the frat douche. Great dual dinner scene with her and Daniels breaking the bad news to the counts in their lives. Before that Daniels is watching a dog show on TV and the announcer is talking about obedience. Just not in those 2 anymore than it is in Jimmy

Aimee and her tits get a lot of well deserved praise ( love Nicky copping a quick feel) but I must mention again what a smoke show Jimmy's ex wife is, she is drink her bathwater hot.

And am I the only that finds Beddie kinda cute? Not hot, but in that girl you knew growing up that you always wanted to sleep with kinda way?

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I get the feeling Frank Sabotka is not a bad guy. Just goes along with what happens because that's the way things go there.

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That's how almost every corrupt official and bad guy sees himself, though. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

except clay davis

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I think he was a tough guy - on the outside. I mean, that work tends to draw tough, no nonsense guys. He also doesn't see himself as a bad guy. He's sees himself as "Robin Hood" at worst, and perhaps even truly a good guy.

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That's definitely true when you consider that he gives people money when they're in dire straits. Just gives them a buck and tells them to order a beer and a shot at the bar. That's pretty cool, but I don't get how that is really sustainable long term, especially with everyone getting fewer and fewer hours.

And we are assuming that Frank uses his illegal money stash (from his secret dock container side jobs) to support the struggling guys, right?

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Either way, I took his reaction as sincere. He goes into damage control, but he is not nearly as concerned about himself as he is about Ziggy and Nick or the work he has done for the union, the future of the docks, etc.

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I do agree with that. I thought it was sincere as well. Just was curious as to what could've made him sick to the point of vomiting. But I guess it was an amalgam of the things we've talked about, and it all is falling onto his doorstep. So the legality of it (especially with the cops now involved), the morality of it...everything.

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I swear I re-watched and paused that scene like 3 times today

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I stared at gifs on my phone for like 10 minutes the other day after watching that episode.

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Almost the theme of the show. Things happen the way they happen. If not him it would be someone else.

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In every season, things are done by people because "that's how they do"

It's a recurring quote in the series that I think is important and relevant.

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Exactly. It's definitely a recurring theme. It's one reason why Omar's "All in the game, yo" line resonates throughout the series. Because it is all in the game. Whether it's Wallace getting got by Bodie and Poot, or Omar robbing thugs, or people getting shot, or getting high, or cops drinking and being depressed, or two Polacks going at each other over a fricking church window....it's all in the game, and every single person/group has their different games that they play.

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Als I love Stringer shorting phone stocks because is put n@#$az have 2 phones.

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I love how annoying he gets with that shite. "N!gga, that's market saturation." And he acts like they're stupid for not knowing what that means when he just learned about it the night before.

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I noticed in season 1 i think its the first or second episode, when Dee goes to the BBQ and Avon takes him off to talk, that String is kinda making a pass at Donette. Can't blame him.

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I don't remember that, but it would make sense now. See if you can find that scene online (youtube usually has a TON of Wire scenes).

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Frank takes care of a dock worker that wants to quit, Ziggy probably wasn't supposed to see that.

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You think Zig doesn't know that his father takes care of people like that? I figure he's surely seen that happen before, not only because it's his dad (and people could tell him that it happens), but also because he's in that bar all the time too.

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Avon is a cold muther fricka, kills 5 guys to set up the guard and get a lighter sentence. And the cops know it too (5 to get you 10 that's the muther fricker that spiked it" DA says can't prove it so we take the case we can, again a bureaucrat cares more about his career than doing what is right. And the warden sums it up "if you can't win the war on drugs in a prison where can you win it?" EXACTLY

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The way that he and Levy played that whole angle is amazing. And Avon knows to sit there and let Levy do the talking, and only respond simply when provoked in that meeting. If only De'Angelo was as smart as that.

I forgot just how prevalent B&B are in S2. When I watched the series, I watched S1 then waited a while before S2. Then once I picked it back up it had been a long time since. I watched S3-S5 in a fairly short period of time, but S1 and S2 were long gone by then, and I didn't remember much outside of certain storylines. I just remembered that it was all about the docks. But that isn't really true...B&B are all over the place so far.

And SFP, I liked S2 the first time I saw it, just not as much as other seasons (I rank them 1, 4, 3, 2, 5).