All right, new season! Which means new theme song. I like the old version better.

You'd think that, this being the season premiere of a show I have been watching, I would know what the fuck is going on half the time. But you'd be wrong.

Did they think the first season was too black or something? All these white dudes are confusing me! Is this season all about the shipyards? Are there smugglers? Is this The Hardy Boys and the Wire ?

Hell, I don't even know what's going on with the people I DO know. What was all that shit Bodie was doing with mileage and taking the car apart and whatnot? I got the part where their supplier hadn't supplied them with their goods, but did they think it was in his car? And Bodie had the keys to the car. And there were a couple guys following them that I think are the guys Stringer had on them.

I'm also confused about the upcoming case. I thought the drug case was over. And I thought Wee-Bey confessed to Gant's murder even though they knew it was bullshit. How are they going to convict Bird, then? What evidence are they looking for?

I can't even tell who's who in the shipyards and what's going on with the cargo full of dead girls. Hello, Amy Ryan!

Stringer is counting to make sure they really GO to Philly, instead of just saying so. Cause dealers will, on occasion, say their stashes got taken by Narco and then move to the other side of town, which might as well be the moon, sell it and keep the cash. But they would be dead if String found out about it, so, gutsy and enterprenuerial as it might seem, you get like, one shot at that one.

But Bodie was checking some red car. They went in a white van. Were they checking up on someone else?

I think so, but I don't remember all the details all that perfectly anymore. Which reminds me of the time I sent out a resume with "detail-oriented" misspelled on it. I'd be on the fuckin' boat for sure.ETA: Maybe he thought someone stole from the package and put it in their wheel-wells. I seem to recall that coming up once or twice. Dag, the stuff I remember well is too spoily to talk about! Corwood will have my ass if I wreck the HMFQ, and not in the fun way where he'd have to burn the evidence, either.

It's really fucking sad. He was a good kid. He's not even real, but I'm sure there are Wallaces all over the place.

Oh yeah there are. I was upset at Wallace's death. My best friend who is an ER doc at Hopkins was absolutely devastated by it because, yes, she sees boys (and some girls) like him every day. She actually had to stop watching the show completely after the first ep or so of season 4. It was just too close to home for her.

The red car was from the Barksdale's wholesaler in New York. The plan is: they go to Philly, get the red car, take it to the safehouse, get the dope out, take it back to B'more, and everything's hunky dory. But the shit wasn't there.

The question is, of course, why would anyone ever wanna leave Baltimore if Philly stations sound like that?

The red car was from the Barksdale's wholesaler in New York. The plan is: they go to Philly, get the red car, take it to the safehouse, get the dope out, take it back to B'more, and everything's hunky dory. But the shit wasn't there.

Ah, I see.

The second episode was a little less confusing. But I'm so sad that D'Angelo is using!

And McNulty is a grade A asshole. But kind of awesome. A murder mystery on a boat!

He's a special kind of asshole. Foamy, too. Complete bad news, but I'd let him waste my weekend if he wanted to(and there's a good guy in there WAY down deep. Plenty of women have lost their minds and good credit trying to form the search party to find him, though.) Ha, Corwood, though I personally *enjoy* some PHC(See Stuff White People like) but I also have Midwestern relatives. To Bodie it's the Martian weather report.

This season is sort of all over the place. There are a bunch of things going on, but they're not as obviously intricately connected as before. You've got Omar's Adventures in Thievery, the War of the Stained-Glass Windows, the Imminent Return of the Surveillance-Story Paradigm, the Barksdale Crew in: Life After Sentencing, Murder x 14, and Whatever the Frakking Hell Those White Boys Are Doing.

Stringer's getting with D's girl! That shit is cold. He's going to have to talk more macroeconomics to get me to like him again.

Avon sure knows how to keep a kid off drugs. Damn.