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It's a great bit for sure. I'm just saying, it's like ep 1 he says he doesn't want to go to the boat, then a couple eps later Freamon gives him the advice about where not to go. One additional thing I actually noticed this time around is that Landsman pleads McNulty's case in front of Rawls, and yet it's Landsman who also ultimately (presumably) reveals to Rawls that McNulty doesn't want to go to the boat. Landsman helps McNulty out to the extent he can, sticking his neck out as far as it will extend without getting under the blade, but at some point there's nothing more he can do and he has to give McNulty up.

tbf I think it was my wife who, the second Freamon started talking about that, was like "The boat. He said he didn't want to go to the boat."

whew as long as we properly credit first discovery, that's the important thing

Yeah, it's revealed in season two that it was Landsman who told Rawls about the boat-stuff, iirc.

Also Landsman is the one who asks him where he doesn't want to go. And he presumably knows exactly what he's doing when he asks, even while simultaneously wanting to stick up for McNulty to an extent -- good police but trouble, and it's all about which way the cost/benefit scale tips.

Does that happen in #1? I was looking for it actually cause yeah it was one of my favorite callback jokes but I don't remember catching it on last view.

Yeah it's in the first ep, when McNulty first stirs up the shitstorm.

just re-watched most of season 3. theresa d'agostino has to be the least likeable character in the entire series, apart from maybe that white journalist (templeton?) in s5. she's so awful, i cringe every time she's on the screen

always ziggy

I like D'Agostino.

it's funny, it's been several years since i watched this show and many of the plot lines and even the characters are blurring for me, but one thing i will always remember is how much i fucking hated ziggy

i'm 2 eps into s3 (2nd time through)

had completely forgotten how terrible ziggy was

i forgot about ziggy

s2 is kind of a blur to me, i don't remember as well as the others

also i feel bored whenever carcetti is on the screen. can't remember if that changed in s4 when he becomes mayor

De'Londa Brice (Namond's mom) gotta be the worst

i put this on the "your terrible ideas" thread already but:

i want to photoshop frank sobotka on the cover of the new swans album:

http://i.imgur.com/Ildk6Gg.png http://i.imgur.com/eAuwKwn.jpg

lol

ziggy and that fuckin duck.
and burning money.
frank and ziggy got the son/father they deserved imo

At least Nicky got out and grew a mustache.

also rewatching s3 i forgot how funny it is when snoop's bragging about shooting stringer, "pullin money out of his pockets and shit cryin like a lil baby"

dont forget ziggy's penis

never forget

I know it's the odd duck (har har) of the bunch, but I have a real soft spot for S2. The dock workers were a lovable group of characters, even that fuck up Ziggy. Kind of wished they figured more into the plot later on, but maybe it's for the best they didn't.

I mean, there's kind of an air in S3 of bringing back all the characters and plots people loved in S1 and burying any reference to the dock workers as if the whole season were a horrible mistake. A shame, really.

oh yeah i like S2 a lot but its prob my least fave

We see the dock workers later, though. Nicky heckling Carcetti, and Johnny Fifty in the homeless encampment in season 5.

I thought for sure Nicky was going to figure back into the story sometime later but it never really happened

we do see them, but they don't really figure into the plot in a significant way

I saw season 2 first so it's kinda my favourite.

De'Londa Brice (Namond's mom) gotta be the worst

this x1000000

how abt the cop who goes on a triple date w/ herc and carver then gets shot doing a hand-to-hand the next day

D'Angelo's mom was pretty bad

Dozerman? xp

Brianna Barksdale >>>>> De'Londa Brice

d'angelo's mom did some fucked up things but i ultimately found her to be sympathetic especially in season 3

theresa d'agostino is just insufferably arrogant

i mean, so are many of the characters on this show but she is just awful. other smug assholes are fun to watch, e.g. rawls

i love the docks season unreservedly. Fucking great stuff.

ziggy is good

most of the dock workers' lives are kind of ruined after s2 tho—but you do see the greeks again in 4 and 5, no?

The reason why most of the dock-stuff didn't feature that largely into the overall plot is that it took place at the docks... Most of the series is the story of the inner city, and the docks were just too far away. The pieces that did fit, like Beadie Russel and the smuggling operation, did feature pretty significantly.

wish there was a season 6 that focused on the hispanic/latino community, that would've been rad

another cool thing about season two is that it illuminates a culture that's a little more obscure than the means streets/inner city schools/a newspaper

Season 2 has Omar in court therefore it is the greatest of them all

hard to argue with that

that's a little more obscure

blue collar white guys? not that obscure. but i guess if you mean stevedores then yea

wish there was a season 6 that focused on the hispanic/latino community, that would've been rad

― marcos, Wednesday, June 11, 2014 11:20 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That was Simon's wish, but he felt like they didn't know enough about it to make it happen in time.

s7 all about a doping scandal in the ravens locker room

s8 is about beef between the As & Orioles, ripped from Today's Headlines