The Wire

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How is it that there is not a thread here yet for this show? I just watched the first four seasons, and was just utterly blown away at how great it was. The final season starts in a few days, but as someone over in the lounge has pointed out, it's already available on On Demand.

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1. My favorite show.

Saw the first episode of the new season recently and will watch the second episode tonight. :hi:

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2. Spoiler alert!

OK, now I've seen 3 episodes of this season, and I'm liking it. At first the McNulty thing was a little bit odd, but now that Freamon is onboard, I feel MUCH better! This is going to really put Bunk in a tight little spot! Jimmeh! Jimmmmm-eeeeeh!

What, really, nobody is watching??? How can this be??

OK, what about Homicide: Life on the Street -- ? I've started watching reruns of that, just to keep the withdrawal at bay. It works in a pinch, but there's no Omar there.

I was waiting to see Omar run into Marlow -- but what are the chances they are on the same island? Hmmm, now that I think of it, they could be, since Prop Joe is sorta playin' both sides of this game....

Anyway, great episode!! Don't want it to end!

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3. Episode 55 - spoiler alert

OMG! McNulty and Freamon are really heading over the edge. And the newspaper guy makes a phony call to himself about the "serial killer" and McNulty then tells him that he also got a similar call! LOL, c'mon this is hysterical! I can't wait to see who confronts who first, they are both in serious jeopardy.

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4. I watched the latest episode available on demand - spoiler

I'm in total shock. I loved Omar. I knew in my heart that it was going to happen to him someday but I had hoped that he would make it through the final episode.

I did like Beadie's talk with McNulty at the end. What she said applied to Omar too and it made his death all the more poignant for me.

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5. spoiler too

When I saw Omar walk up to those dealers on the corner in broad daylight, I knew his number was up. I've been expecting it, of course, but he was my favorite mope. I thought he was going to get it when he banged on that stash house door, I was sure a bullet was going to come out of there.

But by a shorty, at the Korean market??? No, no, Omar.

Well, at least he went very quick, and from behind. Chris and Snoop would have made him suffer.

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6. Spoiler continued

It was inevitable that Omar wouldn't live very long. His lifestyle in Baltimore didn't have much of a future. That's why I was so glad that he had moved away. I know he wasn't a nice guy but damn it I liked him.

That wasn't just any shorty, it was Kennard the one that tried to rip Michael off last season and he was the one who said, "that's Omar?" the other week when Omar snuck up on the corner when Michael was trying to make sure that Omar didn't recognize his face.

The thing that got me was that Omar heard Kennard come in. Remember he looked over briefly and then he shifted his focused back on the clerk. All he saw was little kid walking in, he didn't see the kid as a threat. After years on the streets, Omar let his guard down and it cost him.

You're right. Chris and Snoop would have made him suffer. If they could have, they would have taken him back to Marlo and tortured him like the Barksdale gang made Brandon suffer. I think that's what got Omar to come back. He remembered the way the Barksdale gang tortured Brandon and knew that the Stansfield crew had done the same thing to Butchie.

Omar may have been a ruthless gangbanger but he had a code: no gratuitous deaths and no torturing. He could have made Avon suffer but he didn't.

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7. I heard that the cast was pushing for a prequel (a full length movie)

Here's an article that mentions it.

So Wendell Pierce, the love able, cigar-chomping, drunkard murder detective "William "Bunk" Moreland has apparently pitched "The Wire" show creator David Simon a feature-length prequel idea that would revolve around the Barksdale family and how they rose to power.

We read this a couple days ago, in what we believe was the L.A. Times, but can't find the piece (anyone?), but regardless found the same information on PageSix.com. "We're trying to convince HBO and David to do a movie of 'The Wire,' " Pierce said at a recent red carpet event for the New York premiere of the fifth and final season. "We've acquired financing from people who are interested in filming a prequel to . Now we're going through a writer's strike so everything is kind of dormant, but we hope to get back in their and pitch the movie to HBO."

HBO if you're listening, pleeeeeease do this. Wire-heads can't get enough. The Pagesix piece doesn't have any mention of the Barksdale empire angle, but the aforementioned article we can't find definitely does. Anyone find the article we're talking about, please send?
http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2008/01/wire-prequel-movie-bunk-pitches-to-hbo.html

fwiw, thinking back on the trilogy of prequels available on demand this season, I'm a little worried about Jimmy and Bunk. Prop Joe had a prequel and he's gone. Omar had a prequel and he's gone. The third prequel featured Jimmy and Bunk.