<![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @Sigerson: I saw it more like a drug habit he can't kick. All he has to do is retire from the street and he is free, but retirement will prove impossible. He LOVES the game, and being hard is the only thing that matters. So more desperate than nostalgic. But yeah, Stanley is unbelievable in her dauntless quest to always. miss. the. fucking. point.

Conbon

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @timbnyc44: I agree. Wasn't Marlo testing his old g-thing muscles a little bit there? He challenged them, disarmed them and ran them off and then laughed about the little scratch on his arm. His final expression was a twinge of nostalgic satisfaction.

Sigerson

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @dutchtwista: That's reasonable. I'm in complete agreement on A Thousand Corners being excellent.

H&H is part of a greater universe of heavy handed grad schooly (but tongue in cheek!) writing that I'm a fan of (see freedarko). That said, Tim Goodman's blog is also great source for Wire reading.

dustym

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> Alessandra Stanley totally misunderstood the scene with Marlow fighting with some corner boys. Her column read like a transcript of the show, and a poorly done one, at that.

it takes a lot to laugh

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @dustym: meh. Heaven and Here is cool but it's um a bit heavy on the post-structuralist cult stud shit for my taste. A Thousand Corners ([athousandcorners.blogspot.com]) gets the job done much less grad schoolishly.

dutchtwista

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @Hez: if that ends up being true, you have no soul.

lesbiansayswhat

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @moff: shady pines moff, shady pines. brilliant shows.

lesbiansayswhat

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> Well, I was waiting to watch the entire show on DVD and was studiously avoiding this post because I didn't want any spoilers... but because I follow comments from half the people posting in this thread, I guess I won't get too attached to whoever the hell Omar is.

Hez

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @Richard & Conbon: Omar is DEAD?!?!!!?

@Richard: I think I took the day off from Gawker when Deathly Hallows came out, not just because I was reading the book, and not just because I was going to Siren Fest, and not just because I was actually at Siren Fest reading the book, but also because I only mostly trusted Balk's innate goodness.

@Conbon: Like Superman.

@Conbon & Richard: My brother and I used to use that Golden Girls line, "Shady Acres, ma, Shady Acres," on my mom and dad, but that was before we came up with Dead Man's Curve Ice Cream, which is where they always have to get us ice cream from, ever since they went over their estate documents with us.

I'm going to bed now. I have had a sublime day.

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @Richard: Or (to correct the reference) on 60 Minutes.

Richard

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> Does this mean we can officially begin the beautification of America by hydrogen-carpet-bombing B-More?

drugman

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @Conbon: You should go with that crooked one you heard about on the news.

Richard

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @Richard: My dad told me about Omar's death. He knew I hadn't seen the episode yet. I will remember this when it is time to choose his nursing home.

Conbon

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @Conbon: You have no idea.

Richard

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> Drunk Richard is mean.

Conbon

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @moff: Though to be fair (and drunken ramblingy) Alex Balk, everyone's personal fucking hero, once threatened to read the last chapter of Harry Potter aloud in the office when he got an advance copy. I ran out of the office with my hands over my ears, so upset. He didn't, of course, end up reading it. Because he is a good man. But that was a preemptive spoiler. After the fact, it's just called... well, facts.

(I had a friend buy HP at a Duane Reade in Chinatown that was selling the book illegally on Thursday. I read the whole thing in a day and a half, before the book was technically available. The lesson in all of this is that I have a severe problem. And if some insider from Lost ever ruins anything for me, I will gut them like a fucking fish.)

Richard

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @Triborough: Wasn't it great to see Belzer in the second to last episode?

Richard

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @moff: You what the thing about spoilers is? There's no such thing. Either watch the show with everyone else, or tough titty for you. I found out about Omar from the internet and I was bummed, but it was my fault for not watching on time. The world cannot wait. Otherwise we're just a John Mayer song.

Richard

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> Of the Baltimore set shows, Homicide Life on the Street was the best. Although the best line of that series was uttered by Richard Belzer in the pilot, "Don't you ever again lie to me like I'm Montel Williams. I am not Montel Williams. I am not Montel Williams!" If memory serves they did a couple of jump cuts with it.

Triborough

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @Richard: Fair enough.

@moff: Good things comments don't appear on this site, eh? Am I right? Heh.

Conbon

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> Gawker, when you make this a post where the comments are visible on the front page, you end up with possible spoilers on the front page.

Moff

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> Stanley Error Report: She claims that McNulty turned himself in, which is of course wrong. One of the other detectives ratted him and Lester out to Daniels.

I demand a correction.

Sigerson

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @dustym: Thanks for that. Although, kinda wished I'd discovered it sooner.

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> Heaven and Here is, was and always will be the single best source of Wire-related writing.

dustym

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @Conbon: Agree to disagree on that one.

Richard

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @VirusWithShoes: Blargh. Fixing.

@ohkay: She is stating a difference between the two, but she calls it "another intelligent show" like The Wire, basically. Those two shows should never be compared in their "intelligence" level.

Richard

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @Conbon: You. Bite. Your. Tongue.

PimpMyCouch

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @Richard: Wanna hear something you aren't allowed to say on the internet?

My So-Called Life is mind-numbingly boring. For real.

Conbon

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @Richard: Sorry to flag this, but your NYT link points to the Bitchymore Sun blog.

I'm walking a fine-line between nit-pickery and servicey, I know. I'm blaming Quarterlife and some sort of residual intellectual concussion.

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> Isn't Stanley actually saying it isn't like "Numb3rs"?

ohkay

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> Ha! The Baltimore Sun blog is prettyfuckinbitchy.

Also, where are all the other commenters? This was televisual history. Thoughts, please.

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @Conbon: I'm watching all the internet shows before TV discovers them.

I wish I was dead.

Richard

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @Conbon: You did strike me as pretty energy-efficient. I was going to mail you and ask for your energy rating, but I'm of the opinion that some questions are best left unsaid, with the answers simply inferred. Or transmitted via untapped psychic powers.

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @Richard: Oh, yeah - that one works. Thanks, Richard.

Still get a lump in my throat when I see Bubs sit down with his sister. Mind you - I'm such an emotional mess at the best of times, all of you couldn't help but love me.

See?

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @VirusWithShoes: I make sure to write about everything ever so I can feel righteously indignant when other people write about it and misinterpret everything so badly. Sanctimony is time-consuming!

Conbon

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @Conbon: Ha! I say that about so much these days. Thought it was just me, my ego, or some electronic nostalgia trip to back in the days when I was the only guy I knew who spoke about "the internet" or "email".

I'll probably write about it one day, probably a year after you write about it a whole lot better. If you haven't done so already. You fuck.

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> i was awestruck this a.m. when i found all the montages online.

MenaceIISobriety

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @VirusWithShoes: I really miss the days when the Internet didn't know about this show. So, last year.

Conbon

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> Spitzer just couldn't let Baltimore have one day in "The Sun"
All in the game.

Un Chien Andalou

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @Conbon: Agreed. Bit of a puzzle, that one.

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> Karen Valby on EW.com pretty much echoes my feelings. I'll miss this a lot.

VirusWithShoes

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> "Step by Step"? Like the New Kids?

PimpMyCouch

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> Someone should tell Sheila that NYMag didn't watch every single minute of The Wire if they think those questions are unanswered.

Conbon

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> Good Night, Baltimore, and good luck with that case of the crabs. At least you still have your title as VD capital of the U.S.

Chief Wahoo

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> @VirusWithShoes: Hm. Replacing with another one. We'll see if that works.

Richard

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> Can we have a do-over on the generally lame season 5? Surely there could have been a better plotline than the wacky hijinks of Lucy and Ethel--I mean, Jimmy and Lester--as they launched their daffiest caper yet, no?

Even the sight of Omar stalking the streets like some demented biblical angel of vengeance couldn't make up for the overriding silliness.

Elektra

]]> <![CDATA[Saying Goodbye to <i>The Wire</i>, Over And Over Again]]> Thanks for aggregating, Richard. Also - Season 5's song is currently unavailable.

VirusWithShoes

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