yeah, exactly
― Hurting 2, Saturday, 10 November 2007 02:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I had to pick Omar, mostly because he's just magic to watch. i agree with the 'superhero' comments though, and i always play down how much i like him when i discuss this show with friends.
seasons 3 and 4 made me like Bunny the best, so he's my second choice. i also love any scene with Clay Davis in it.
Mouzone was like the worst thing about The Wire. it was more like the Sopranos than The Wire whenever he was on screen (much love to the sopranos, but i don't want sopranos in my wire any more than i want ketchup on my pancakes). i guess the same could be said for omar, though.
― rockapads, Saturday, 10 November 2007 02:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, Clay Davis is great too. Such a classic weasel. I especially love the scenes with him and Stringer, and the way he says "String"
― Hurting 2, Saturday, 10 November 2007 02:39 (sixteen years ago) link
guyz bubbles connects it all
ok maybe not all, but he sure knows a lotta people!
― tehresa, Saturday, 10 November 2007 02:41 (sixteen years ago) link
i think what i like about bodie is that he embodies the fatalism of the show. (which the season 4 kids do too, obviously.) he's not a boss, not a cop, didn't really seek anything out, just did what there was to do. his moral compass, such as it is, is stuck on a sort of useless loyalty to people and a place that have never really done shit for him. he's not dumb, not smart enough for it to do him any good, and his sense of possibility is inevitably limited by his circumstances. to the extent he's aware of that, he accepts it as just the way things are. and he's right, because that's the way things are.
― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 10 November 2007 05:32 (sixteen years ago) link
McNulty's definitely my favorite because he's a sad-sack loser, but never abandons his morals when trying to topple the Baltimore drug trade. Of course, he doesn't give a flying fuck about morals in a any other situation.
Bunk is great too, but I've long been disappointed that his character doesn't play a bigger role in the show. He was much more prominent at the beginning of Season One, but began to fade after that.
Herc is pretty great for comic relief, and Stringer is just pure evil menace. Avon is nice because he can be evil and loveable at the same time.
― Moodles, Saturday, 10 November 2007 05:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Very well put tipsy.
I actually wound up voting for D'Angelo. He feels trapped and resentful but is only semi-aware of the extent to which he feels it. The same thing that has given him as much power as he has -- his family connection -- has also kept him from achieving more because it's made him soft; he didn't have to fight to get where he is and he'll always be the baby. The fact that he takes so long to get dressed is a great character detail - he has a veneer of pride but a core of insecurity and indecisiveness.
He has slow-witted moments, but there are plenty of scenes that betray his intelligence - he's smart, just not sharp.
Also I find the fancy restaurant scene heartbreaking (in part because it's exactly how I feel in expensive restaurants). "Do you think they know?"
― Hurting 2, Saturday, 10 November 2007 05:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I always like Daniels the most for some reason. Came close the voting for D'Angelo too--love the Great Gatsby scene.
― aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, Saturday, 10 November 2007 08:22 (sixteen years ago) link
i loved d'angelo. after his demise, you want namond to break free from the game sooo badly. i think that's why i also loved wallace so much. but damn, i still can't vote! this is way too hard!
― tehresa, Saturday, 10 November 2007 08:27 (sixteen years ago) link
He was much more prominent at the beginning of Season One, but began to fade after that.
He does go after Omar in Season 3. I think he's a pretty crucial measuring stick to gauge how McNulty's self-centeredness is ruining everyone else's lives. And this (badly paraphrased) exchange changed my life:
McNulty: Bunk, you know what they call guys who spend so much time thinking about their clothes? Bunk: Yeah, adults.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Saturday, 10 November 2007 10:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Bunk's and Omar's paths crossing in S4=great. Their "Junior Bonner" tribute scene at the train tracks=magnificent.
― Oilyrags, Saturday, 10 November 2007 11:06 (sixteen years ago) link
IN ORDER OF PREFERENCE
Stringer Bell Omar Bunk Bodie Wee-Bey (the man cared about his fish and i feel that) Cutty (heinous omission) Snoop Proposition Joe Lester Freamon Avon Barksdale Wallace (seriously people wtf) Jay Landsman Herc Slim Charles Frank Sobotka Rawls D'Angelo Bubbles Marlo 'Clay' Davis Pryzbylewski Chris Partlow Kima Greggs Daniels McNulty Ellis Carver Rhonda Pearlman Tom Carcetti Maj. Valchek Burrell Det. Leander Sydnor "Poot" Bunny Royce 'Beadie' Russell The Greek Nick Sobotka 'Ziggy' Sobotka
― strongohulkington, Saturday, 10 November 2007 11:54 (sixteen years ago) link
GUYS! Bernard's girlfriend from season 3. She was GOLD in EVERY SCENE SHE WAS IN!
i totally wanted to fast forward every time she was on screen. i didn't do it, cause i knew i'd miss something crucial, but i really wanted to.
I think I actually ended up voting for D, though the Gatsby scene seemed really heavy-handed to me.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 10 November 2007 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^^^^+1 on the Gatsby scene
― Hurting 2, Saturday, 10 November 2007 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link
The chess scene too, honestly.
But I love the "Ey mista nugget" speech.
Ziggy is the greatest fuckup character ever.
― caek, Saturday, 10 November 2007 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link
exactly
― Oilyrags, Saturday, 10 November 2007 18:56 (sixteen years ago) link
damn I'd forgotten Bodie died.
― stet, Saturday, 10 November 2007 22:10 (sixteen years ago) link
i figured this would be a toss-up between bodie and wee-bey but only strongo has even mentioned wee-bey!!? weird
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 11 November 2007 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
he's not in it that much tho.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 11 November 2007 14:40 (sixteen years ago) link
no deacon, also no credibility
― czn, Sunday, 11 November 2007 14:54 (sixteen years ago) link
wee-bey is pretty awesome.
― tehresa, Sunday, 11 November 2007 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't know if he comes back in 4, but I've always felt like Lester Freamon was a poorly utilized character. He's great in S1 but then becomes a caricature of himself.
― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 02:37 (sixteen years ago) link
while omitting Brother M was a mistake-i never really took to him. he seemed out of place to me too. unnatural in a way,when set against everyone else in the wire.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 06:06 (sixteen years ago) link
nah he was ok because of his sidekick, you know, the guy who was always rolling his eyes like "there he goes again"
I also think there was much sad irony in what happened to d because on some level string and d were a lot alike.
ziggy was a great character but reminds me of people from college so it's hard to watch him without moderate to intense degree of embarrassment!
― daria-g, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 06:34 (sixteen years ago) link
But String is more calculating and more willing to do what he has to do in spite of any distaste for the ugly side of the game.
― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 06:48 (sixteen years ago) link
The first scene Ziggy is in, where he gets his willy out in the bar, is so otm for one of my college friends. I do not understand the Ziggy hate.
The scene where Brother M is ragging on his sidekick for getting the wrong magazines (something about The Nation or Atlantic Weekly?) is presumably supposed to be funny, but I didn't like it and it sums up what everyone is saying about him not really belonging in the show.
― caek, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 09:55 (sixteen years ago) link
lester does come back fairly strong in s04, but when the carcetti story starts there's that much less space for the cops anyway.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 09:57 (sixteen years ago) link
brother mouzone is one incongruous mufuuuur… and that is what is GREAT about him
― czn, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 11:16 (sixteen years ago) link
First thought was Stringer, but chances are he'll get enough to win this anyway. So Frank Sabotka for me. I'm a sucker for that 'tragic flawed hero' thing.
― Phil Will, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 11:58 (sixteen years ago) link
i still can not decide!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 12:19 (sixteen years ago) link
no one else going for bunk at all??? FOR SHAME!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Bunk is best when he's trying to set his pants on fire
― kenan, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
or vomiting.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
or peeing on a train track.
― caek, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
bunk vote from me
― t0dd swiss, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link
this is hard
― sleep, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I voted Bunk.
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 16:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I love Bunk, even more so after realizing it was him in When the Levees Broke.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link
(had to vote for Omar though, couldn't help it)
― Jordan, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
good to see all the love for bodie i gotta vote avon though
― sleep, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 17:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Tweedy impertinence, y'all.
― Leee, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Omar was my gut reaction, though I'm coming round to realize that my heart might actually be with Snoop. Dukie is a close third, and I'm sorry to see that he and his classmates were not among the options.
― Pillbox, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
huh
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 00:12 (sixteen years ago) link
'bout right.
― caek, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 00:14 (sixteen years ago) link
wee-bey, Pryzbylewski, prop joe all robbed
― max, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 00:26 (sixteen years ago) link
prop joe not that great.
― caek, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 00:30 (sixteen years ago) link
For a (so far) medium to minor character, he's pretty great.
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 00:46 (sixteen years ago) link