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think u guys are forgetting some things:

- MAYORAL BONER (WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF)
- TARGET PRACTICE
- MICHAEL

- clay davis' twice uttered shhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiit (especially the 1st time).

OTM

- what's up w/marlo losing his composure at a little kid?

That was odd at first but i thought it became apparent that he was just trying to get a rise out of Michael. When he makes that face, Marlo kinda laughs and lets him go on his way.

― señor citizen (eman), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

it was also that the whole point of the exercise was marlo building up his legend (avon did this shit like crazy) and some nobody punk kid calling bullshit on it. marlo and cutty both saw 'this kid's got something' (haha 'he's got the goods'). my fave moment was bugs and prez running into each other in the principal's office.

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

i'm wondering if michael doesn't have some sort of history with marlo's organization that marlo doesn't know about - he ovb doesn't have a problem w/the drug trade.

i don't think ignoring the situation would've made marlo look weak - everyone knows he's deadly already. if anything it was lame to show that he cared at all - seems like he has a lot to learn about wearing the crown.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

i'm really sorry about this dudes:

michael - john
namond - paul
dukie - george
randy - paul

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Um Ringo?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

uh, randy - ringo

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

the second paul is paul schaffer

― katie quirk (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

having said that i'm gonna watch the 3rd episode now.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

kid who stole the car - pete best

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

kid who stole the car - awesome

― señor citizen (eman), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

> 4.3 is up

LINK MOTHERFUCKER LINK!

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/466936/4651332/

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

I loved it, as always, but...

I did kinda feel like they leaned a little hard on the 'mirror' thing this week - Clay and Randy both saying "I don't care where the money is from as long as it's free" and Bubs and Cutty's boss both talking about doubling territory.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 03:20 (nineteen years ago)

(okay, one spoiler: you will see omar go out to buy cereal in his pajamas.)

-- PARTYMAN (wt...) (webmail), August 6th, 2006 8:05 AM. (dubplatestyle)

and I thought this was a joke

― señor citizen (eman), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

prez's reaction to the carving on the student's desk was priceless

― señor citizen (eman), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

4.2 was an EXCELLENT episode for all the reasons previously described and more. I love how both Cutty and Namond turned off politics on the television to do something else. I love that when Marlo was giving the candy to the kids there were a ton of political campaign posters in the background. Yeah guys, we get it. Parallelism. Gotcha.

It's so nice to see all the characters I missed in 4.1, finally weaving their way back into the plot.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 06:00 (nineteen years ago)

so very good, so dense, so tightly edited.
I can't imagine what someone who hasn't seen the first three seasons must think of this, tho'. There's no expository for the characters; there's just not time.

The look between Pryz and Bubbles slayed me.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 06:23 (nineteen years ago)

"Like lambs to the slaughter here. So, what did you do before you decided to teach?"

"I was a police, in the city."

"And why did you quit that."

"I was fired for killing a co-worker. Oh, and one time I beat a kid's eye out cause I was drunk and he sassed me."

Yeah, this isn't going to end well...

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

I can't imagine what someone who hasn't seen the first three seasons must think of this, tho'. There's no expository for the characters; there's just not time.
Never seen another episode, and I'm really enjoying that element. I wish TV shows would be more opaque sometimes.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

> 4.3 is up
LINK MOTHERFUCKER LINK!
-- 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (austin.swinbur...), September 20th, 2006.

http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/466936/4651332/
-- 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (austin.swinbur...), September 20th, 2006.

see you did it all by yr self!

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

If you build a man a fire, he's warm for the evening; but if you set a man on fire, he's warm for the rest of his life.

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

A club girl who took up years earlier with Wee-Bey, fathering his son and taking his name, Delonda soon found herself one of many in Wee-Bey's stable of molls. And it had been years since Bey had lived with anyone save for his tropical fish. But in the wake of his life imprisonment, she has shown her loyalty, visiting on weekends and bringing Namond to the visiting room to be schooled by his father. In return, Delonda's loyalty is rewarded with financial security that accrues from Wee-Beys standing in what is left of the Barksdale organization.

hbo.com has info not provided on the show (at least not yet). i was wondering if that basement aquarium that weebay took d'angelo to was in delonda house.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

of course it still could be...

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/81/248645153_7669d5e4a3_o.jpg

― señor citizen (eman), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

obviously this means two things:

and

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/9360/harblyp6.jpg

and also possib;y that I'm about to be banned from imageshack

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Thursday, 21 September 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

entrepreneurial randy so classic

girl getting cut was maybe the most painful scene yet, although it did allow an opening for dukie to show himself a bodhisattva roaming the animal realms. wonder if we'll discover the origins of the beef. the antagonism starts ordinarily enough then almost immediately escalates to assault w/a deadly weapon - they're telling us something here.

omar in it for the sport roffle

gotta think the other shoe's gonna drop with the suponas and give carcietti the election.

rawls acknowleging lester's brilliance was kinda tender.

marlo eyeing michael - creepy.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Monday, 25 September 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

if there is a shoe to drop it might be the discovery of all the bodies marlo's crew has stashed. It might be the reason to get lester and kima back on the major case unit.

― wwweb (jbweb), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 05:15 (nineteen years ago)

what is up with kricjek (sp?) not running with the blowjob thing??? he doesn't exactly seem like the honorable type - i mean yeah, it would bury herc permanently but what the fuck does k. care?? odd

this is best season so far by a long shot says me (altho/and the actual "wire" part of the show feels vestigial/outgrown/underloved whereas it was the whole game before; i guess i'm saying it would be nice to see a little more policework but that may come - and i also may be stubbornly clinging to a mode the show's moved on from)

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

Is Ep4 up anywhere?

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

Well, obviously a major part of this season will be the fruits of the labor on the wiretap, especially the political records. But given the events of episode 3, the way it manifests will be very different than in previous seasons.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

oh wait a minute i get it - he HAS run with the blowjob thing, off-camera - it was him on the phone, derrrrr - (nice shot of the mayor's crotch as line 1 lights up)

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

On the phone with Carcetti you mean? That wasn't about the blowjob, it was about the dead witness - Sarge tipped him off after talking to the detective.

The Slate reviewer (Weisberg?) has a bizarro article on the show talking about difficult the slang is to penetrate - he apparently took three or four episodes to come to terms with "yo" and "feel me."

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

"There is also the challenge of following the localized black dialect that the program tries to represent as faithfully as it does its other details. In the Baltimore ghetto, yo is both a salutation and the third-person singular pronoun; "feel me," means "listen to what I'm telling you"; and the ubiquitous use of bitch has mostly replaced the N-word."

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

the classroom scenes are pretty gripping. i used to be neutral on prez but he's really great this time around

where is ep. 4444?$$??$??$#

marlo eyeing michael - creepy.

heh there's a couple shots of cutty grinning and staring at michael throwing punches that were kinda creepy, esp. when a chick is trying to talk to him

― am0n (am0n), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

I found an mp4 of Ep 4 on mininova, but it was completely useless. In quicktime it was literally a screen full of static, and it wouldn't play in wmp or divx at all.

I want my AVI!

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

vlc?

milo hm OK, i guess i wasn't paying attention

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

plays in vlc kinda - i had to restart it a couple times

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 28 September 2006 00:30 (nineteen years ago)

The Slate reviewer (Weisberg?) has a bizarro article on the show talking about difficult the slang is to penetrate - he apparently took three or four episodes to come to terms with "yo" and "feel me."

in his defense, Baltimore is the only place I've ever been where "yo" is used as a pronoun, it's not really the normal usage. I didn't think "feel me" was so much of a Bmore thing, though (although "carry it" definitely is). I kinda wish The Wire would go all out with the local slang, down the hill, half-n-half, chicken boxes, get your life, ayyurp, etc.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Thursday, 28 September 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

i particularly like "yoette"

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 28 September 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

DUDES PLEASE STOP POSTING NON-WORKSAFE PICS OF MAYORS GETTING KNOBS GOBBLED ON THREADS ABOUT TV SHOWS

― antexit (antexit), Thursday, 28 September 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

lol i took the pic down

also *pssst*

― am0n (am0n), Thursday, 28 September 2006 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

I am teh sorry. I will take teh pic down, too.

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Friday, 29 September 2006 00:22 (nineteen years ago)

Quicktime doesn't like that MP4, but it seems to work OK in VLC.

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 29 September 2006 00:30 (nineteen years ago)

This thread (and it's demonoid side tracks) are A+++

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 29 September 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

milo there's a note at that link:

Rename the mp4 extension to avi fixes the issues that this torrent has. it will get a little pixelated at the 2 bad spots but it will play though

― am0n (am0n), Friday, 29 September 2006 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

haha, I r 2 lazy to read

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 29 September 2006 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

oh man, best one yet

― am0n (am0n), Friday, 29 September 2006 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

I kinda wish The Wire would go all out with the local slang, down the hill, half-n-half, chicken boxes, get your life, ayyurp, etc.

-- Alex in Baltimore (shipley.a...), September 27th, 2006 9:32 PM. (Alex in Baltimore)

i think snoop does an ayyurp in ep4

― am0n (am0n), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

ok i just saw an episode of this finally and maybe it grows on you but i was pretty taken aback by the sort of dippy romanticism it seemed to be dripping with -- way more than most network cop dramas even. hbo shows in generally tend to be sappy and just oozing from the pores with signifiers of "meaning."

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

Haven't seen the new season yet, but just noticed that Dennis Lehane and Richard Price have both written episodes.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

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