re: The Wire: Was there a more needless "power move" than Marlo killing ***spoiler***

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Im with you. Prop Joe is easily the death I was the most upset with.

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Bodie for me. I legit told the tv frick you and went to bed. Now given it was like 4am.

Like Marlo said he would always be up in the mix.

The young blood had to get rid of the old blood. It’s symbolism. Nothing stays in power there. There’s always new players coming up…the game is always the game. The police may change something one day, but they face the same problem the next day. It’s a never ending battle. That’s the whole point of the show.

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The Greeks didn't give a damn about street rep. Hell they didn't want it. But that was the very thing Marlo craved above all. They should've tipped Joe off about it and let him decide what to do.

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The Greeks sold Joe out after Cheese sold Joe out. Cheese probably didn't know about the Brother Mouzone play against Omar and I don't remember if he knew Joe put Omar on the card game (as a favor to assure Omar he wasn't in with Stringer on the Mouzone hit, a lie of course), but he definitely knew Joe told Omar about the re-up which Omar turned into stealing the entire shipment.

Once Marlo had Cheese in his pocket he made a better "proposition" to the Greeks and it was just business from that point. Cheese essentially put a hit on his uncle and the Greeks were ok with it. Absolutely brilliant storytelling since most of that was never shown on screen.