'Out Of Gas'
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From what I've gathered, the seasons seem to be very discrete stories. Is the overall continuity more characterwise than plotwise?
Not really. Each season has a theme and some sort of resolution (the 2nd season more than others) but stuff happens in the 1st season that has repurcussions all the way to the end of the series.
Stringer Bell! Learning macroeconomics! Ahahaha.
That's one of my all time favorite things in the Wire!
Oh, indeed.
Each season has a theme and some sort of resolution (the 2nd season more than others) but stuff happens in the 1st season that has repurcussions all the way to the end of the series.
Oh, good. That's what I like to hear.
That's one of my all time favorite things in the Wire!
And McNulty's all, WTF?
Oh, and speaking of favorite things: that scene with Wallace and the kid trying to do a math problem said so many things. So sad and interesting.
"You don't have the fucking floor." Sometimes they have to make arrests that are...fairly symbolic so that it looks like investigations are working('dope on the damn table"
Holy fuck, Omar is one crazy motherfucker. I initially thought he might actually care somewhat about the ongoing investigation, but apparently not so much. His personal vendetta trumps everything.
I don't know whether I buy one of the Pit boys dropping Avon's name right in front of two fucking cops, but I guess he wasn't thinking. Also, he probably doesn't know that the cops know who Avon is since this whole plot started with "Who the fuck is Avon Barksdale?" They must assume the police don't know who the head of operations is. Still, geez. Some discretion!
Cat, I'd like you to meet Mouse.
he probably doesn't know that the cops know who Avon is since this whole plot started with "Who the fuck is Avon Barksdale?"
Avon's pretty much the center of the Pit boys' world. It's unthinkable to them that someone wouldn't know who Avon is.
So it's more the opposite line of reasoning: they assume the cops know who he is already.
Avon is like...Bill Gates to those guys.
The thing is, if Avon is trying to keep himself hidden, you'd think he would mention to his crew that his being kingpin is not public knowledge (off the streets, that is). I mean, this goes all the way back to the pilot: why the hell didn't the police know who he was and that he was the head of the drug trade until then?