Only about a decade behind the times here

[sabotabby]

Okay, jerkfaces, I am grudgingly liking The Wire. Mostly Omar. You were right and I was wrong. Happy now?

Comments

[bitter-crimson.livejournal.com]

I like Lt. Daniels the best, but Omar is prolly my 2nd or 3rd favorite. He is p gr8.

[thebigbadbutch.livejournal.com]

Greggs > Daniels

Let's discuss :)

[dobrovolets.livejournal.com]

Daniels is, in my view, the sexiest character, but Omar's the most seductive.

[thebigbadbutch.livejournal.com]

I will not be happy until you watch every episode and squee about it with me. Also, Omar in his jammies? Baddest assed scene of all time in the history of all television. The entire history.

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

See my comment below!

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

Which season was that??

[jvmatucha.livejournal.com]

Omar Little is an amazing character. He is universally regarded as the baddest bad ass on a show about hard-boiled cops and gangsters, and is usually people's favorite character.

And the charcater Omar Little is gay! Talk about alternative portrayals of gay people.

[sabotabby]

I appreciate that not only is he a gay badass, but he is also a gay badass with absolutely no fashion sense. Way to play against all stereotypes ever.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

There are so may great characters on that show. Why they thought McNulty was the hook to draw you in is beyond me. Kima, Omar, and Bubbles are initially the only really likeable characters. But that is in part because it takes a while to introduce everyone in that vast cast. For example, we do not actually see Big Chief Albert Lambreaux Det. Lester Freamon do anything until halfway through season one. Until then, he just hangs in the back making doll house furniture. Omar is, indeed, an awesome, gay force of nature. But let's not forget Brother Mouzone. Or Frank Sobotka. Or Major Howard "Bunny" Colvin ...

[thebigbadbutch.livejournal.com]

LOL @ Lester Freemon with his little dollhouse furniture in season 1. That man was bad..

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

An interesting thing about Treme is many of the actors who were cast as cops in David Simon's previous shows have an adversarial relationship with the police in Treme. For example, Melissa Leo, the lady lawyer Toni Bernette in Treme, previously played police detective Sgt. Kay Howard in Homicide: Life on the Street. The personalities of the actors' characters are basically the same - Wendell Pierce (The Bunk/Antoine Batiste) plays basically the same guy in both Treme and The Wire, ditto for Clarke Peters. I would normally be a little critical of this, but I like to think that Simon is suggesting slightly different life circumstances/opportunities make vastly different life trajectories.

[sabotabby]

I still am not over my hatred of McNulty and his nice guyness and his dumb eyebrows. We'll see if I end up liking him by the end of the show, but I think the main thing that I like about S2 so far is that he's sidelined. I know why they made him the main character, and I don't like that either.

(Compared to Treme, where they did not at all follow the rule of making the main character a heterosexual white guy between the ages of 18-45. I don't think Treme has a main character, but the closest character to that description is deliberately written to be as annoying as humanly possible. I think this is part of the reason why it hasn't gotten very popular despite its brilliance.)

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Also, off topic regarding a previous post, if you do not have enough sofa cushions to make a fort, you can make a bubble tent with a bed sheet and a box fan.

Or is that more of a summer thing?

[sabotabby]

That is more of a summer thing and a thing for people who own box fans. I have air conditioning!

What? YOu've just started?

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

Of course you have; but the way you worded the post led me to think (until comments disabused me of the notion) that you had somehow gone on a 50 hour marathon in a couple of weeks.

But yes. Happy you're liking it, because it's very good and you have excellent taste. Also, it's nice to see you admit you're wrong (though not as nice it would be to see people who never do that admit they are wrong. Actually, you really don't have a problem admitting you're wrong, do you? So there really isn't any schadenfreudish enjoyment in your confession for me at all. Though you're making me digress like nobody's business (The proverbial Nobody, of course). I should probably stop typing now.)

But before I do, you must tell us: where are you in it?

[sabotabby]

No, no. I saw the first season years ago when everyone was raving about it, but I didn't like it. People keep telling me to keep watching, so I downloaded the second season and I'm liking it much more. I think I'm about halfway through.

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

It seems like such a silly thing, but one of the things I really like about The Wire is how every season they use a different arrangement of the opening music.

[sabotabby]

I mostly enjoy that it's Tom Waits.

[corwin77.livejournal.com]

There's this great show called Threes Company you should check out. Very topical.

[sabotabby]

You are a funny man.

[mendaciloquent.livejournal.com]

Man, I should watch that show again. So fucking good.

My favorites were Stringer and Rawls. All after Omar, of course. I never got around to liking McNulty. Oh, and Cheeze. I fucking love Cheeze.

[mendaciloquent.livejournal.com]

Oh, and Clay Davis. Too many good characters.

[pofflewomp.livejournal.com]

Omar is DJ Driss - a good reason for my pondering over Idris as a baby name, though I was thinking of the Welsh really more than the druggie, scary side of things!

[sabotabby]

Idris is a lovely name. (So is Ash, though!)

[pofflewomp.livejournal.com]

The series about teaching is one of the best though very depressing. I don't think I could face watching any of them again but they were pretty incredible - shows how television can be a medium for truly great, intense art though it is so rarely so.

[sabotabby]

I keep hearing that that's the season that'll break me. I had a hard time with Children of Earth so it's quite likely.

[ironed_orchid]

My season one dvd arrived on Tuesday. I am 8 eps in.

OMAR!!!!!!!!

He is so great.

Watching season one again is interesting, because I'd sort of forgotten how slow it is. Like, it's about 4 or 5 episodes before we even start to find out who Lester is, and Daniels is still a very minor character. But D and Bodie and Wallace, all my love.

[sabotabby]

Yeah, I think if I were watching S1 now, with familiarity with the actors and knowledge that Lester and Daniels become more important later, it would have hooked me in more.

[livsmama.livejournal.com]

I love Omar *so* much.

[sabotabby]

He is pretty rad.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Omar is great, but it's Lester that has my allegiance. There's just... something... about that much quiet competence.

[sabotabby]

I <3 Lester because he's Big Chief Albert Lambreaux. And also that he wears suspenders.

[marrythebed.livejournal.com]

Yes, very!

[sabotabby]

Hah.