The Wire S3

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So I finished The Wire: S3...

I loved it. Totally loved it. Probably my favourite season after S4. I've gotta go back and rewatch S1. I must be really dumb and slow on the uptake not to get hooked on this show sooner. I remember I was really struggling to latch onto certain characters and story threads. But I think I get it now. To love The Wire you just have to invest in one thing: Baltimore.

RIP Stringer Bell. I gotta say I'm surprised that Stringer's death is the one that Wire fans seem the most grieved and devastated over. Well, I get it and I don't get it. Stringer IS a brilliant Machiavellian Shakesperian type character and Idris Elba gives the performance of the season. No denying it. I loved watching Stringer. But there are more sympathetic characters than Stringer, yeah? Like every other major Wire character that has died was more sympathetic than Stringer, I think. In S3 alone felt sadder over poor dumb Johnny Weeks dying than I did over Stringer getting his. I was compelled by Stringer's business sensibility and his ruthless ambition. But I also wanted to see him get his comeuppance for having D'Angelo and Wallace murdered to protect his own ass and having Brandon tortured to death just to spite Omar. Personally, I think it's a big shame to lose the actor and the character, BUT the Avon/Stringer story was played out to the max. I think the writers resolved it brilliantly with the two kingpins taking each other down.

"We ain't gotta dream no more." = Epic line. Poetry in one sentence. Fucking Shakespeare. 

Omar Little and Brother Mouzone = My OTP of Doom. That scene with them in the alleyway was outstanding. They were such a great pairing. They could give me nightmares though. I think I'd rather meet Chris and Snoop in a dark alley than those two.

*sniff* Oh Prez!! My poor blundering luckless white boy. *sigh*

Gotta say I support Bunny and Hamsterdam. It wasn't a perfect solution but I think the idea served a greater good. Not just for the police, but for the ordinary folk who want drug crime away from their neighbourhoods. It gave both dealers and junkies some liberty and dignity. It even gave groups interested in AIDs prevention, drug rehab, etc, a place to fight for their causes. If only everyone in the system had the gumption that Bunny does. Ooh, I loved how Bunny echoed Stringer's last words when he was getting fired "Get on with it, Mother-F..." 

I'm still more interested in the street, than the cops and politicians, but I did love McNulty and Kima's interactions in S3. They make a really great team. And McNulty, Kima and Bubbles could be my OT3. There are still some major characters I feel indifferent too; Daniels, Ronnie and Carcetti all have me itching for the fash forward button. And I hate Marlo. I don't even enjoy him as a villain. I just hate the guy and his cold sadistic evillness. He makes Avon and Stringer seem like the cuddly mass murdering drug lords.

Hehe. I loved Bodie's "contrapment". I just love how every season Bodie gets caught by the cops, but always finds a way to get out of trouble. He's like the Baltimore version of Brer Rabbit. I always like to think his nickname is short for Bodacious.

Anyway, great season. Loved the final music montage. Best one yet!
 

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