Anybody seen a street date for when Season Five will be on DVD?

HERE WE GO.

FUCKING AWESOME!

Thank you WIRE.

NOT FUCKING CRAP.

-Jeremy

pretty good ending. Met all my bitter requirements of real life fucked up bull shit. a little too much everybody landing on their feet though.

how about something like this:

freamon doesn't get his pension, girlfriend from season 3 leaves his one income ass and you see him putting together those miniatures in some hovel.

mcnulty ends up homeless and drunk.

kima becomes a pariah in the dept. for betraying freamon and mcnulty. career stalls.

herc: levy finally puts it together that it was herc who gave the cops stanfield's phone number. at first feels angry, realizes that it put into motion his own salvation. decides to get even with herc in some way in the future.

pearlman: when time comes and bond isn't elected, she finds herself working as a high priced drug lord defender.

cheese: at the meet, cheese doesn't lower his gun. kills all the others. takes the money, becomes the connect to the greeks.

gus: gets fired for insubordination, not demoted.

everything else seemed spot on, perhaps daniels working as head of security for U of MD instead of being a public defender.

I like the implication that marlo will get fleeced.

Slim Charles could almost be my favorite character based solely on the end. And that scene was just about perfect!

madlee wrote:pretty good ending. Met all my bitter requirements of real life fucked up bull shit. a little too much everybody landing on their feet though.

how about something like this:

freamon doesn't get his pension, girlfriend from season 3 leaves his one income ass and you see him putting together those miniatures in some hovel.

mcnulty ends up homeless and drunk.

kima becomes a pariah in the dept. for betraying freamon and mcnulty. career stalls.

herc: levy finally puts it together that it was herc who gave the cops stanfield's phone number. at first feels angry, realizes that it put into motion his own salvation. decides to get even with herc in some way in the future.

pearlman: when time comes and bond isn't elected, she finds herself working as a high priced drug lord defender.

cheese: at the meet, cheese doesn't lower his gun. kills all the others. takes the money, becomes the connect to the greeks.

gus: gets fired for insubordination, not demoted.

everything else seemed spot on, perhaps daniels working as head of security for U of MD instead of being a public defender.

Man, based on some of those alternate endings, I think you're confusing this show's vibe with The Shield.

Conchis wrote:Slim Charles could almost be my favorite character based solely on the end. And that scene was just about perfect!

Man, based on some of those alternate endings, I think you're confusing this show's vibe with The Shield.

ha, the shield is more mean spirited. I guess the wire just left an impression of how "the institution" crushes all who stand in its way. I read an interview earlier today where Simon indicates that the wire is a greek tragedy and the institutions are the gods.

Don't get me wrong, I dig the shield, but it's kinda more like a really, really, really well written comic book - intensely entertaining and often clever, whereas the wire is more like a contemporary urban shakespeare that is often beyond brilliant. Both are definitely fun to watch though...

Oh, and Valcheck as the new commissioner? That is the most awesome kind of horrible!

Conchis wrote:Don't get me wrong, I dig the shield, but it's kinda more like a really, really, really well written comic book - intensely entertaining and often clever, whereas the wire is more like a contemporary urban shakespeare that is often beyond brilliant. Both are definitely fun to watch though...

they are different animals. both have their strengths and weaknesses. but, let's save that for another time! god it seems so long ago to think about season 1, which I started watching in october! jeez that seems like years ago!

I guess I should be happy with seeing scott and those two douches at Columbia University winning the Pulitzer. talk about taking the piss out of an institution!

Conchis wrote:Oh, and Valcheck as the new commissioner? That is the most awesome kind of horrible!

there was nobody left.

perhaps my version was too puerile and obvious. simon allows us to think that a happy ending is still possible. shit, freamon is happy. carver is happy, herc is happy...it's easier to see who isn't happy. gus & mcnulty, the two individuals who the creators based on their own stories.


ah, and I am destined to go to work tomorrow to an office where I am the only person who watched this show.

good article on nytimes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/arts/ ... 0stan.html

Michael is the new Omar.

Slim is the new Marlo/Avon.

Dookie is the new Bubbles.

The-light-skinned-cop-whose-name-I-can-never-remember (seen going to see the judge to rat) is the new McNulty.

The beat goes on . . .

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:The beat goes on . . .

Quite a tragic ending, actually.

I was very sad to see Duquan's situation. He was my favorite kid on the show. I was glad to see that Bubbles was finally allowed upstairs.