The Wire - Greatest TV show of the decade

Green Gecko wrote:I didn't even realise that this is what everyone was talking about on at about 2 in the morning. I just assumed it was some trashy US show until was 10 minutes into the first episode I flicked to and yeah it's pretty good. Triple bill.

Fargo wrote:

WHAT THE HELL, WHY DID THEY KILL OFF OMAR LIKE THAT I WAS EXPECTING A ******* GREAT BIG SHOOT OUT BETWEEN HIM CHRIS AND SNOOP, I DID NT SEE THAT COMING AT ALL

Poncho wrote:Regarding Fargo's spoiler post:

I thought Omar's death was perfectly done. How cliché would it have been to have him go out in a blaze of glory? Or for him to get his redemption on Marlow? That is the game; as Omar said, it's get or get got. And how apt that it should be that it was that little kid who finished him off. The same kid we saw in the past pretending to actually be Omar on the street. He looked up to him like he was some kind of super hero. The same little kid that disappointedly said "that's Omar?" later on in season 5 when Omar came and threatened the corner boys (including Michael who he never identified from the apartment shoot-out). Omar had deteriorated and ended up becoming a shadow of his former self - even disregarding his own rules and pointing a gun at children. Great sense of foreboding when I saw it again a few days ago on TV.

It ties in with how strawberry floating brilliantly this show is shot and handled. It's almost like a documentary. The camera just 'sits' there and watches and observes. It's not there to capture some big firework display. If someone get shots then there you go. All in the game, yo.

OnlyShallow wrote:

Poncho wrote:Regarding Fargo's spoiler post:

I thought Omar's death was perfectly done. How cliché would it have been to have him go out in a blaze of glory? Or for him to get his redemption on Marlow? That is the game; as Omar said, it's get or get got. And how apt that it should be that it was that little kid who finished him off. The same kid we saw in the past pretending to actually be Omar on the street. He looked up to him like he was some kind of super hero. The same little kid that disappointedly said "that's Omar?" later on in season 5 when Omar came and threatened the corner boys (including Michael who he never identified from the apartment shoot-out). Omar had deteriorated and ended up becoming a shadow of his former self - even disregarding his own rules and pointing a gun at children. Great sense of foreboding when I saw it again a few days ago on TV.

It ties in with how ******* brilliantly this show is shot and handled. It's almost like a documentary. The camera just 'sits' there and watches and observes. It's not there to capture some big firework display. If someone get shots then there you go. All in the game, yo.

Gotta say I agree with you totally. When I first saw it I was but then I thought about it and

it was the best way to do it. The very way Omar lived his life meant there could be no happy ending for him. However if they had written it so that he had some grandstand shoot out with Chris and Snoop it would have spoiled it, it would have been too perfect and that is not what the writers want to show with The Wire. The casual way it happened was more believable and more of a jaw dropper than any set piece shoot out could have hoped to achieve.

It also makes you think that The Game is the epitome of the American Dream. No matter who you are, if you are ruthless enough and seize your chance you can do anything. Just watch your back when you get to the top.

Poncho wrote:Regarding Fargo's spoiler post:

I thought Omar's death was perfectly done. How cliché would it have been to have him go out in a blaze of glory? Or for him to get his redemption on Marlow? That is the game; as Omar said, it's get or get got. And how apt that it should be that it was that little kid who finished him off. The same kid we saw in the past pretending to actually be Omar on the street. He looked up to him like he was some kind of super hero. The same little kid that disappointedly said "that's Omar?" later on in season 5 when Omar came and threatened the corner boys (including Michael who he never identified from the apartment shoot-out). Omar had deteriorated and ended up becoming a shadow of his former self - even disregarding his own rules and pointing a gun at children. Great sense of foreboding when I saw it again a few days ago on TV.

It ties in with how ******* brilliantly this show is shot and handled. It's almost like a documentary. The camera just 'sits' there and watches and observes. It's not there to capture some big firework display. If someone get shots then there you go. All in the game, yo.

Memento Mori wrote:

Green Gecko wrote:I didn't even realise that this is what everyone was talking about on at about 2 in the morning. I just assumed it was some trashy US show until was 10 minutes into the first episode I flicked to and yeah it's pretty good. Triple bill.

You're not watching season 5 on BBC2 are you?