I finished S4 a long time ago and had been waiting for Hollywood Video to get S5; lo and behold I saw it on the shelf this week. I'm three episodes in and so far so good.
S1 and S2 started kinda slow imo, at least with the first couple episodes. I thought the first episode of S5 was one of the better first episodes in the series.
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-the newspaper stuff isn't bad so far. I had heard it was a problem but so far I'm liking it. Gus is cool, although has anyone noticed he's like the ideal champion avatar of his craft, something the show seems to do a lot (Freamon for detectives, Bunny for head of police, Carcetti (initially) for politics, maybe Omar for gangsters). The Templeton shit seems like it could hit the fan in a major way
-Omar :bow
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I forgot why Marlo wants him so bad. Yea he stole from him but jeez, what's the point in bringing Omar back to the city. Should be entertaining though.
-The complete destruction of McNulty it seems. I was glad to see him settle down/gtfo in S4. But now he has another crusade to fight that will leave him in a worse position than before. S1=nobody cares about Stringer/Avon, imma take it into my own hands. S2=nobody cares about dead hookers, imma take it into my own loins. S5=nobody cares about dead black people, imma take it into my own hands
-More Bunk plz :lol
I know! But dude, S5 wasn't at Hollywood Video :punch
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:lol :bow Omar jumping out the fucking window. I thought he was done for sure. But yea, it's kinda obvious he doesn't want to live anymore and is gonna go down with a fight.
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Prop Joe :usa
I figured he'd survive, despite having so little protection. Marlo is one cold motherfucker. To me he's like a mixture of Avon and Bell. But with all these business ventures I can't help but think he's about to go down, hard. There are a few domino chain reactions here. Templeton/McNulty going down for their bullshit, and maybe Marlo going down as the feds begin to investigate the Greeks (thanks to the leak evidence they found in Joe's place).
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Omar :'( :'( :'(
Snoop :'(
Shit, Omar saw Kenard come into the store, just didn't pay attention to him because he's a damn kid. It didn't even register in his mind. :usacry
Damn, Michael. I teared up when DeQuan was reminding him of the urine water balloons, and Michael couldn't remember the event; what an amazing scene. Hell that entire episode was great.
Good to see Templeton's bullshit finally coming home to roost. Same with McNulty, who I am truly tired of.
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He swaps Omar's tags because Omar had been mis-tagged as someone else. It was supposed to demonstrate that this black morgue dude, who probably lived in the bad part of town, still knew who Omar was. It was a fitting elegy- That Omar's legend extended beyond the ghetto, that he was genuinely a kind of folk hero for a lot of people, even in unexpected places. I think the Morgue dude even kind of laughs as if to say, "Didn't these idiots know who Omar was?"