R.I.P. The Wire......

What a great show.... the last one ever to wrap things up tonight was a decent send-off....  as a series I have to say it beats The Sopranos, then again they are two totally different shows even though they are dramas...  if I just wanted to be entertained I'd watch Sopranos, but The Wire is the better television show.... Sopranos used to crack my shit up though, and I think it's comedic elements were underrated....  then again I crack up at the scene in Goodfellas where he pistol whips his girlfriends neighbor.  Every.  Single.  Time.  

Fucking hilarious.  

Between the 3 and 1/2 minute crime solving "motherfucker" scene and this first one ever in the series, it's easy to see the genius of the show.  (Also, for the record I wasn't a huge fan of the guy playing Marlo's acting, I kind of just thought he was just laying back doing nothing until the "Omar Spiderman aftermath"  scene and the "MY NAME IS ON THE STREET!" scene from jail as well.... it totally put his approach to the character on another level and framed it perfectly..... the reason I didn't like his acting was actually because he was doing such a good job... if any of that made sense....)

anyways here's the first scene in writing ever in The Wire.....

Ext. night: Rivulets of blood creep across pavement, flashing in the lights of a police cruiser, we pan across a body, and police investigating. Overlooking the scene from a tenement stoop are a young black guy and a 30ish male cop, Det. McNulty, seated side by side.

DM: So your boy's name was what?
YBG: Snot.
DM: Called the guy Snot?
YBG: Snot Boogie
DM: God. Snot Boogie. You like the name?
YBG: What?
DM: Snot Boogie.
YBG: quiet, looks on
DM: This kid, whose mama went to the trouble to christen him Omar Isaah Betts... You know, he forgets his jacket, his nose starts running and some asshole, instead of giving him a Kleenex, he calls him "Snot". So he's Snot forever. Doesn't seem fair.
YBG: Life just be that way, I guess.

DM: So, who shot Snot?
YBG: I ain't goin' to no court.
pause, filled only by the barking of dogs, somewhere in the neighborhood
YBG: Mother ****er didn't have to put no cap in him though.
DM: Definitely not.
YBG: He coulda just whooped his *** like we always whoop his ***.
DM: I agree with you.
YBG: He killed Snot. Snot been doing the same **** since I don't know how long. You don't kill a man over some bull****.

YBG: I'm sayin': every Friday night in an alley behind the Cut Rate, we rollin' bones, you know? I mean all them boys, we roll til late.
DM: Alley crap game, right?
YBG: Like every time, Snot, he'd fade a few shooters, play it out til the pot's deep. Snatch and run.
DM: What, every time?
YBG: Couldn't help hisself.
DM: Let me understand. Every Friday night, you and your boys are shootin? crap, right? And every Friday night, your pal Snot Boogie... he'd wait til there's cash on the ground and he'd grab it and run away? You let him do that?
YBG: We'd catch him and beat his *** but ain't nobody ever go past that.

DM: I've gotta ask you: if every time Snot Boogie would grab the money and run away... why'd you even let him in the game?
YBG: What?
DM: Well, if every time, Snot Boogie stole the money, why'd you let him play?
YBG: Got to. It's America, man.
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in writing there seems to be a little subtle xenophobia and provincialism, but that is just due to taking the scene and bordering out of context... it didn't really come across in the show... still it's badass.... watch it from the beginning....