The Wire
This was going (and still is going) on my lj, but I'm posting here bc idk if Rocio got my message and she wanted my thoughts on the show.
I finished watching The Wire. I wasn't expecting for the season to go by so fast! Only ten episodes!
I felt the stories were closed nicely. That everyone's plot was tied off the only way they could have been regarding actions characters took but the thing about this show is that it's so based in telling a story based with a foundation of truth and the idea that these people lived in the world that the endings are only the ending for <i>these</i> stories and these characters will have other stories to tell once the curtain closes. Honestly, I think the only characters that I felt settled with their endings were Lester, Weybay, Chris, and Avon. McNulty is just--I'm both grateful that he's stopped being a cop, even though I honestly do think it was he was best at as much at it hurt him being one and I waver on thinking on how he would adapt to civilian life. Part of me thinks that he could be fine. Season four showed that he functioned in the quieter life, but at the same time he was still a cop. A beat cop, but a cop. Now he's just... what? They called him Natural Murder Police and that's what he was and it made him a shitty person but he was fucking good cop. I like to think he gets calls from Bunk every once in a while about a murder and he helps but since the case isn't his, the job isn't his anymore, he can let go and go home and read the paper with Beadie and the kid. He can read and volunteer and hopefully live his life. And I know I'm wondering about him the most because while everyone was more or less given a little epilogue (bless the epilogue sometimes) he wasn't. His shot was looking out into the city and driving a homeless man (he had used before in an investigation) home. After that it's all a question.
And the thing is while the ending fits for everyone I want to see Kima and Bunk solving murders. I want to see what Sydnor's meet with the judge amounted too (McNulty's footsteps!). I want to see Lester as a lawyer and Rhonda as a judge and what happened to Michael, Randy and Dukie. I want them to be okay! I want to Dukie to meet Bubbles somehow and stop shooting up and find someone to take an interest in him and get better. It broke my heart how Prez knew that Dukie wasn't going to enrol in the GED program but he wanted to believe. But seriously I want Dukie to be okay and not get lost until some cop needs a C.I or is just lost. I want Randy to find another foster parent who takes him in. I wanted Michael to stay with Bug. Idk, I just want these kids to be okay! Namond being cared for and happy makes me wish it more for the others and I fee like D'Angelo in season one.
WHERE'S WALLACE, STRING? WHERE'S WALLACE? [Shit, I want the fricking AU where idk Dee gets out jail early and takes over a halfway house and lol ~adopts everyone.]
But I just want to talk about Omar Little for a second. I was spoiled and read he was going to die and god, <i>how much did I not want that to happen</i>. OMAR LITTLE IS A MASTERPIECE OF A CHARACTER. I CANNOT GET OVER IT. Because I knew the death was coming I wasn't shocked when it happened. HOW IT HAPPENED HOWEVER. Out of nowhere!!!! I was watching with my brother and I looked away for a second while he was in the Korean's shop and BANG! My head snapped back and I thought, 'THAT'S IT? THAT'S HOW OMAR LITTLE LEAVES THE WORLD? THAT CAN'T BE IT. REWIND, BRO, IT CAN'T BE IT.' but it was and I was just O________O This was Omar Little. This was best guy out there. And then we're watching the scene in the morgue and my brother is like, "they switched the bodies?" when you see the coroner look between him and this other dead body and I blink and blink until I get it. Omar Little was mislabelled. Whoever tagged his body bag just messed up out his name tag on the wrong body while working, because they weren't thinking about Omar Little. This was just another dead body to them. It's was Omar, Shotgun Wheeling, Street King. It was just another dead boy and I laughed and told my brother, "Nope, it's just showing how they messed up with the paperwork and labelling." And he went, "Oh." And yeah, for us Omar has been the best. Our shared favourite that's not Everyone Hate McNulty, Jimmy McNulty and they had mislabelled him. It was sad and just hits you in the gut. In the world they lived in this character you cared for was nobody to others. Just a name. [There's a meta post here about characters and how us in fandom feel about them compared to other people who don't think about them the same way we do. Or even how My Character Is Not Your Character. How I feel about Omar Little is not the way you would.]
Which is the end theme of the show: everything changes for those involved but within the grander scheme everything stays the same. These characters didn't change Baltimore. The cops didn't save Baltimore. They didn't clean up the streets or stop the drugs from being sold. The cops stopped <i>some</i>, but others crop up. The street characters didn't run giant cartels and corrupt a city. They lived the lives they always did. The dock workers still worked the docks. (It was actually nice seeing Nick for that hot second.) The reporters didn't change the city with their news. Baltimore stayed the same, for better or worse. It was the characters involved in this story that changed, for better or worse.
And fuck this is long. SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-IT. /best line in the whole show. Clay Davis, you are a hero2me.
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