Primetimer February 5, 2015 Share February 5, 2015 Our Marathon Diarist is finally getting into Season 2 of The Wire, but enough with the Frankenweenie, please. Read the story Link to comment
Kris117 February 6, 2015 Share February 6, 2015 That picture of Prez at the top looks as if he's adopted McNulty's "What the fuck did I do?" mantra. Link to comment
TudorQueen February 6, 2015 Share February 6, 2015 Thanks for your praise of McNulty's butt, which really is a thing of beauty - as noted in Ruth Wilson's Golden Globe acceptance speech for "The Affair" last month. Link to comment
vmayo February 6, 2015 Share February 6, 2015 Ziggy is the worst! I actually recall fast-forwarding his scenes. I'm not the biggest S2 fan. 1 Link to comment
DarkRaichu February 6, 2015 Share February 6, 2015 Ziggy is the worst! I actually recall fast-forwarding his scenes. I'm not the biggest S2 fan. I lol-ed at how quickly the bar patrons turned on him when his duck died due to (presumably) alcohol poisoning Link to comment
Kel Varnsen February 9, 2015 Share February 9, 2015 . (I could also talk about how short-sighted Stringer was to assume the cell phone market was saturated and to dump his wireless carrier stock, but who in 2003 expected the iPhone?) Even if no one suspected the iPhone, it seems kind of dumb not to realize that technology is always changing, and things people buy always need to be replaced. I mean look at things like computers or TVs. Even when people generally had them, they always needed new ones, and many always wanted another, a bigger or a better one. Then again this is just further evidence of the fact that Stringer is a dumbass playing at being smart. I mean he seemed to be taking basic community college economics, and yet anytime he would talk to the other guys in the Barksdale organization (guys who probably didn't finish high school) he was acting like he was Warren Buffet or something. Plus this was also the guy who thought it would be a good idea for Barksdale crew members to get anywhere near Orlando, after they knew he had gotten out of jail. Link to comment
uoflfan February 11, 2015 Share February 11, 2015 He may be a sociopath but Omar brings the funny with his courtroom testimony. The jury clearly loved them some Omar. Link to comment
Mindymoo February 11, 2015 Share February 11, 2015 I wouldn't say Omar is a sociopath. Omar has feelings, he has relationships and bonds with people that aren't just for selfish gain. He certainly feels fear, something that sociopaths don't, even if he is reckless and is a career criminal. But yes, Omar's courtroom testimony is amazing and hilarious. Especially when he is cross-examined. 1 Link to comment
Reishe February 17, 2015 Share February 17, 2015 I don't think Stringer is dumb--I think both he and Avon have to be smart to get as far as they did, and to run their organization, and we see the wheels turning, the steps they take to keep ahead of the cops and their competition. But he knows he's smart, and he's so sold on his plan of passing as a legitimate businessman that he falls into traps he shouldn't have; like getting suckered into handing Clay Davis wads of money on faith and getting nothing back. Levy flat-out tells him "Why didn't you come to me first? I would have told you it was a scam."In the end, I think Stringer is so used to being the smartest guy in the room in his own world that he fails to see what he lacks in wisdom and experience in the citizens' world. 1 Link to comment
Kel Varnsen February 17, 2015 Share February 17, 2015 In the end, I think Stringer is so used to being the smartest guy in the room in his own world that he fails to see what he lacks in wisdom and experience in the citizens' world. It is kind of a weird thing. Stringer at least thinks he is the smartest guys in the room, but he is surrounded by people with no education (the stuff like the Roberts Rules of Order and schooling the copy shop guys on elastic and inelastic products just seemed like showing off). You are right he doesn't have the experience in the citizens world to know that Davis was scamming him. At the same time he doesn't seem to have the experience in the drug world that Avon does. I still remember the scene in the bar where Avon looked almost disappointed that he didn't know they needed to stay as far away from Orlando as possible (it seemed like it would have been so obvious to Avon). Link to comment
Rinaldo February 17, 2015 Share February 17, 2015 The insight that Stringer thinks of himself as the smartest person in the room makes an interesting parallel to McNulty, who's often diagnosed the same way. Link to comment
Bryce Lynch February 26, 2015 Share February 26, 2015 I lol-ed at how quickly the bar patrons turned on him when his duck died due to (presumably) alcohol poisoning Nah, I think the serial killer murdered the duck. :-) Link to comment
Bryce Lynch February 26, 2015 Share February 26, 2015 I wouldn't say Omar is a sociopath. Omar has feelings, he has relationships and bonds with people that aren't just for selfish gain. He certainly feels fear, something that sociopaths don't, even if he is reckless and is a career criminal. But yes, Omar's courtroom testimony is amazing and hilarious. Especially when he is cross-examined. I agree. Omar was a criminal, but he only victimized other criminals, never used profanity and took his grandmother to church once a month. I think the jury believed him because he was so upfront and unfiltered about how he made his living. It was ironic that him buying the red outfit instead of a suit with the SAs voucher made him more, rather than less credible to the jury. It is funny that the only thing he lied about was witnessing the murder. Link to comment
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