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shadowkatHee. The Wire keeps getting better as it goes...and part of the reason is just about every story is written by David Simon. Never seen a head-writer with more control over his end product.
Yo, Bushy-Top. My new favorite nickname for McNulty. Otherwise known as McNuty. Or now..hee, Bushy-top. Bunny - you are definitely my new favorite character, with Ms. Keli Dagostino (not to be confused with the restaurant chain) a close second. McNulty - you have met your match.
Funniest scene?
Several of the inmates, Bunk is forced to interview.
Inmate one: "I don't know if that dink has the gun, or dinky dink does, or no, that dink he is dead, but maybe it is dunk, nah might be dinky dunk."
Inmate 2: sure it has to be one particular gun, because I can get you guns, all sorts of guns.
Inmate 3: I'm not telling you anything unless you can clear me of my murders.
Bunk: How many murders are we talking about?
Inmate holds up four fingers.
Bunk's expression? Classic.
Yes, I have a sick sense of humor, this we know. Some people find Liz Lemon tripping over herself on 30 Rock funny, I find the conversation related above hilarious. But I also find the line - "you just killed my fairy godmother funny as well."
I'm loving Bunny though - Stringer isn't sure what to make of Bunny, neither is Bodie for that matter. Bunny has decided to move all the drug dealers to Hamsterdam - a place with vacant buildings and no people. Only problem? No customers. So Carver and Herc go to the corners, arrest the dudes not moving to Hamsterdam, and bus their customers to Hamsterdam to buy dope. This leaves Bubbles partner Johnny confused. Wait, the cops picked me up, bused me over here and told me what dope to buy, watched me buy it and let me go? What's that about?
The only problem they are having is well Marlo, don't want to play. This annoys both Stringer and the cops. Carver and Herc try to push Marlo, Marlo pushes back, Carver realizes they are outnumbered (he doesn't know that Kima is above watching and has a call into Prez for potential back-up), and asks Herc to back-off. Bodie tells Stringer later about the cops herding them to Hamsterdam and letting them sell dope, and about the problem with Marlo, which Stringer already knows about.
Backing up a bit, we have a great scene with Bunny and the detail. Bunny has tried everywhere, but no one at headquarters has any info on the drug dealers, until he finds Daniels little runt unit - the detail or The Wire, and sure enough they have plenty of information. During all this in walks McNulty and Bunny embraces him, shocking all present, including yours truly, and calls him Bushy-top. Tells Daniels - that Bushytop is a trouble maker sure, and you got to keep him close, but he's good police, good police don't get better than old Bushy-top here. Tis true. McNulty is the classic noir hero - and I adore him.
Actually this episode is splattered with good moments. Kima and Bushytop in the car watching Marlo.
She's pulled his ass there. Knowing he wants Stringer as bad as she does. He's given up on Stringer.
Having learned that Stringer is the bank. After following him for weeks, he finally confronted the dude. And Stringer being Stringer tried to sell him a condo.
Lester: You got anything on Stringer yet? Your time is up.
McNulty: He tried to sell me a condo.
Lester: Told you he's gone legit and has real estate holdings.
McNulty: Yep. Now he's The Bank.
Prez: The bank?
And Lester explains that the bank can't be touched. There's nothing working police can do to tie any can onto his ass.
(Sigh, I'm like a mimic, I pick up the lingo or slang of any tv show, book or film I'm watching, also anyone I'm with. Hope it's not too annoying that half my journal posts sound like the lingo from the Wire at the moment. Doesn't help that some of this is similar to the slang and speech used in my workplace. Not a lot, but some. A co-worker used motherfucker last week.)
So Kima - phones McNulty and says meet me here. McNulty whines after a bit in her car training binoculars on Marlo...but sure enough Stringer pops up. Hee.
And yes, a brief Omar sighting, while Bunk keeps trying to solve the mystery of Tosha's death - even though Landsman keeps interferring and making him go back to the lost gun case. Omar is pulling his team together, they are still mourning Tosha. Makes you love that team - to date Omar's team and maybe the Detail are the only one's who get broken up over losing someone. Although Avon did get upset about D. (I still think Avon's going to be the one to kill Stringer - because of D'Angelo. McNulty was on to something...he just didn't know it.)
Meanwhile Tommy C is making everyone sweat over some kid who got hurt who was a corroborator but not
well protected. Is this Nick Sobotke...or someone else? This thread was a bit harder to follow.
Carcietti's partner makes Burrell and Rawls sweat a little over it. Rawls bites back and makes the new major of CID sweat over the missing gun. Seriously, these people worry about the wrong things and spend far too much time crunching numbers. Reminds me a lot of my workplace or the various ones I've been in.
Gotta go to bed. Sorry if I haven't responded to all comments. Love getting comments, just don't always know what to do with them or how to respond. Never have figured that one out. Also, don't always have the time. Often do it at lunch at work...and sometimes right when I get home or first thing in the morning. Also don't email notifications from LJ anymore regarding comments to my own posts - so I have to check the comments on lj directly. Also, I sometimes won't respond if I'm not sure what to say...I've gotten myself in trouble for saying the wrong thing at times.
Yo, Bushy-Top. My new favorite nickname for McNulty. Otherwise known as McNuty. Or now..hee, Bushy-top. Bunny - you are definitely my new favorite character, with Ms. Keli Dagostino (not to be confused with the restaurant chain) a close second. McNulty - you have met your match.
Funniest scene?
Several of the inmates, Bunk is forced to interview.
Inmate one: "I don't know if that dink has the gun, or dinky dink does, or no, that dink he is dead, but maybe it is dunk, nah might be dinky dunk."
Inmate 2: sure it has to be one particular gun, because I can get you guns, all sorts of guns.
Inmate 3: I'm not telling you anything unless you can clear me of my murders.
Bunk: How many murders are we talking about?
Inmate holds up four fingers.
Bunk's expression? Classic.
Yes, I have a sick sense of humor, this we know. Some people find Liz Lemon tripping over herself on 30 Rock funny, I find the conversation related above hilarious. But I also find the line - "you just killed my fairy godmother funny as well."
I'm loving Bunny though - Stringer isn't sure what to make of Bunny, neither is Bodie for that matter. Bunny has decided to move all the drug dealers to Hamsterdam - a place with vacant buildings and no people. Only problem? No customers. So Carver and Herc go to the corners, arrest the dudes not moving to Hamsterdam, and bus their customers to Hamsterdam to buy dope. This leaves Bubbles partner Johnny confused. Wait, the cops picked me up, bused me over here and told me what dope to buy, watched me buy it and let me go? What's that about?
The only problem they are having is well Marlo, don't want to play. This annoys both Stringer and the cops. Carver and Herc try to push Marlo, Marlo pushes back, Carver realizes they are outnumbered (he doesn't know that Kima is above watching and has a call into Prez for potential back-up), and asks Herc to back-off. Bodie tells Stringer later about the cops herding them to Hamsterdam and letting them sell dope, and about the problem with Marlo, which Stringer already knows about.
Backing up a bit, we have a great scene with Bunny and the detail. Bunny has tried everywhere, but no one at headquarters has any info on the drug dealers, until he finds Daniels little runt unit - the detail or The Wire, and sure enough they have plenty of information. During all this in walks McNulty and Bunny embraces him, shocking all present, including yours truly, and calls him Bushy-top. Tells Daniels - that Bushytop is a trouble maker sure, and you got to keep him close, but he's good police, good police don't get better than old Bushy-top here. Tis true. McNulty is the classic noir hero - and I adore him.
Actually this episode is splattered with good moments. Kima and Bushytop in the car watching Marlo.
She's pulled his ass there. Knowing he wants Stringer as bad as she does. He's given up on Stringer.
Having learned that Stringer is the bank. After following him for weeks, he finally confronted the dude. And Stringer being Stringer tried to sell him a condo.
Lester: You got anything on Stringer yet? Your time is up.
McNulty: He tried to sell me a condo.
Lester: Told you he's gone legit and has real estate holdings.
McNulty: Yep. Now he's The Bank.
Prez: The bank?
And Lester explains that the bank can't be touched. There's nothing working police can do to tie any can onto his ass.
(Sigh, I'm like a mimic, I pick up the lingo or slang of any tv show, book or film I'm watching, also anyone I'm with. Hope it's not too annoying that half my journal posts sound like the lingo from the Wire at the moment. Doesn't help that some of this is similar to the slang and speech used in my workplace. Not a lot, but some. A co-worker used motherfucker last week.)
So Kima - phones McNulty and says meet me here. McNulty whines after a bit in her car training binoculars on Marlo...but sure enough Stringer pops up. Hee.
And yes, a brief Omar sighting, while Bunk keeps trying to solve the mystery of Tosha's death - even though Landsman keeps interferring and making him go back to the lost gun case. Omar is pulling his team together, they are still mourning Tosha. Makes you love that team - to date Omar's team and maybe the Detail are the only one's who get broken up over losing someone. Although Avon did get upset about D. (I still think Avon's going to be the one to kill Stringer - because of D'Angelo. McNulty was on to something...he just didn't know it.)
Meanwhile Tommy C is making everyone sweat over some kid who got hurt who was a corroborator but not
well protected. Is this Nick Sobotke...or someone else? This thread was a bit harder to follow.
Carcietti's partner makes Burrell and Rawls sweat a little over it. Rawls bites back and makes the new major of CID sweat over the missing gun. Seriously, these people worry about the wrong things and spend far too much time crunching numbers. Reminds me a lot of my workplace or the various ones I've been in.
Gotta go to bed. Sorry if I haven't responded to all comments. Love getting comments, just don't always know what to do with them or how to respond. Never have figured that one out. Also, don't always have the time. Often do it at lunch at work...and sometimes right when I get home or first thing in the morning. Also don't email notifications from LJ anymore regarding comments to my own posts - so I have to check the comments on lj directly. Also, I sometimes won't respond if I'm not sure what to say...I've gotten myself in trouble for saying the wrong thing at times.
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Date: 2011-07-14 10:14 am (UTC)And you've met Marlo now, have you? Nasty piece of work, Marlo.
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Date: 2011-07-14 12:16 pm (UTC)Actually, I shouldn't complain - I've done the same thing to people with Game of Thrones...you know what is coming and can see how it's set up and it's very hard not to spoil the person who hasn't gotten there yet.
And you've met Marlo now, have you? Nasty piece of work, Marlo.
Oh yes. Scary dude. The man knows no fear and is a bit on the sadistic side. He scared Carver. Not Herc, but definitely Carver and Bodie.
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Date: 2011-07-15 10:30 am (UTC)I think we're all just jealous. We'd like to be watching it for the first time again.
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Date: 2011-07-14 08:44 pm (UTC)Now a few things collected through several previous posts of yours : (Hope you won't mind me going back)
There're no heroes in the Wire, but there're three or four people who could certainly be called that way; humble, everyday heroes. Colvin is one of them.
Omar and the western: I didn't catch all the references to western, but there's one scene I didn't miss that clearly reference Sergio Leone's works. It made me laugh. But at the same time I asked myself if it wasn't also a wy to point at a culture rooted in violence and its consequences on society and persons.
About the play on number and statistic that permeates the police institution, I really marvel at the accuracy of the Wire analysis. Last week in France there was a political uproar, the governement violently attacking(against the tradition) a report from the Court of Counts (an institution charged in France to control the use of public money)that criticized the results of the politic of public security since 2002 and doubted the governemental statistics (for example it said the rising in solved cases was mostly due to arrests of drug users... rings a bell, no?).One has to say that President Sarkozy has made of public security and fight against delinquence a corner stone of his politic. He also is the one who, if not introduced in French Police, at least greatly emphasized what we call "the culture of results"(which is just what the Wire describes).
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Date: 2011-07-14 10:39 pm (UTC)Have a lovely holiday. I've got two four day weekends coming up where I'll be computer-less. But that's about it until possibly Dec. Unless I can build up time.
There're no heroes in the Wire, but there're three or four people who could certainly be called that way; humble, everyday heroes. Colvin is one of them.
I guess it all depends on how people define hero? At the moment,
I consider Bunny Colvin, Jimmy McNulty, and Lester Freamon heroes...
and possibly Cedric Daniels and Shakima Greggs for vastly different reasons. (I'm not a fan of "noble" or classical greek hero definition...more a fan of well the Jean Val Jean of Les Miserables hero trope or the existential/post-modern hero...)
Omar is definitely an anti-hero.
but there's one scene I didn't miss that clearly reference Sergio Leone's works. It made me laugh.
Was the scene in S3? And was it the episode in which they attempt to
take the drug dealer house and Tosha gets shot in the street fight?
With the slow-motion bullets and movement? That's the one that hit me as Sergio Leone and David Simon states in the commentary was a reference to Sergio Leone and Sam Pekinpah (The Wild Bunch) - apparently all these guys had the same film professors I did. In the 1980s - film studies courses in universities all referenced Peckinpah's Wild Bunch and Leone's westerns. Now, I think they are studying Spielberg and Scorsese. Back then, we were studying Coppola (The Godfather, the Conversation) and Peckingpah.
But at the same time I asked myself if it wasn't also a wy to point at a culture rooted in violence and its consequences on society and persons.
Oh definitely is. Simon certainly admits to it. The world is a violent place and our culture is rooted in violence. There's a scene that reflects this in Dennis Lehan's episode - where Bunk is investigating the aftermath of the Omar shootout, and Tosha's murder. In the background he hears kids playing, they are eerily recreating the shoot-out but with cops and drug dealers, and they fight over who gets to be the cool drug dealer or hitman. Bunk winces. The message is clear - we live in a world that celebrates violence...and it has consequences.
Our schools now have metal detectors, they didn't when I was in school. Parents no longer feel safe letting their children walk 2-4 blocks home from school. Halloween is celebrated in auditoriums, parents no longer feel safe letting their kids go door-to-door.
Every where we look there are guards and security. Just this week when I commuted to work - there were armed National Reserve soliders with guns at each entrance to the train. Not every day.
Just that one day. But I've seen it so many times the last few years, that I shrug it off as if it were nothing.
Last week in France there was a political uproar, the governement violently attacking(against the tradition) a report from the Court of Counts (an institution charged in France to control the use of public money)that criticized the results of the politic of public security since 2002 and doubted the governemental statistics......
This is interesting. I forget other countries around the world have similar issues. In the US - people sometimes make the assumption that the grass is greener across the deep blue sea. It's not of course, because human beings are well human beings where-ever they may live. Just different.
And of course statistics and numbers are easy to manipulate. I remember a mathematician at work who was taking a statistics course inform me that numbers were easy to manipulate to provide whatever result you wished. There's even software programs that aid you in data manipulation. This blew one of the people on my flist's mind - surely you are joking, they said. No, unfortunately, I'm not.
People can be quite creative with numbers and The Wire shows it to great effect. It really shows it in episode 3 - the Dennis Lehane episode with the David Simon Commentary. But it is an on-going theme with Bill Rawls - who is all about the numbers.