tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post7693592722359020368..comments2024-03-28T18:01:28.997-04:00Comments on What's Alan Watching?: The Wire, Season 2, Episode 7: "Backwash" (Newbies edition)Alan Sepinwallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03388147774725646742noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-70497927360698216102014-07-26T11:48:21.412-04:002014-07-26T11:48:21.412-04:00Wait, the writers ask us to accept that people are...Wait, the writers ask us to accept that people are buying the idea that D could hang himself on a doorknob? hahahaha. Has anyone ever done that? A person actually trying that would start to choke and instinctively stand up. You have to jump off something and break your neck. Talk about willing suspension of disbelief! And an investigation would not disclose signs of a struggle?Frankie811https://www.blogger.com/profile/11190415876407351879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-44008367859362960362011-04-30T23:22:34.533-04:002011-04-30T23:22:34.533-04:00It broke my heart to see people be so clueless abo...It broke my heart to see people be so clueless about D before and during his funeral. I wanted to shake everyone (especially Bodie and Avon) when they were calling him weak and yell that D was the braver than all their selfish sheep asses put together! Bodie and his unforgettable floral homage would be laugh out loud hilarious if it wasn't so despairing how clueless he was: the projects and the grisly game they represented were exactly what D did NOT stand for. No one really got or appreciated the personal sacrifice and struggle that entailed till the end. It kills me that he is helpless to escape the roots and past that were not of his choosing, even in death. And his son will grow up hearing about his father was a suicidal weakling, no small thanks to the callous and opportunistic Donette. Arrgh! All them dumb motherf****rs need to realize how awesome D was and what a cold calculating snake String is already!Cecily Cardewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18264093022129891187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-78032163266436471572010-01-09T19:58:30.594-05:002010-01-09T19:58:30.594-05:00How gross is Marla Daniels. "I liked you bet...How gross is Marla Daniels. "I liked you better when you were a social climber!"karenologyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05079751630229062991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-84830263178552501712010-01-06T21:49:31.892-05:002010-01-06T21:49:31.892-05:00Just got round to watching this series, thankfully...Just got round to watching this series, thankfully its complexity has shielded me from anyone giving spoilers away. Reading your analysis after each ep, much appreciated.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07705517165721248186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-3864660438356381852009-11-30T04:47:08.255-05:002009-11-30T04:47:08.255-05:00A testament to the skill of the writing: Stringer&...A testament to the skill of the writing: Stringer's rational explanation for D's suicide as something Avon couldn't stop even if he was D's shadow is also a quiet confession that Stringer was going to deal with D no matter what Avon said or did to stay on him. Stringer seems to know this. Avon may not. The writers sure did.Andy Hutchinshttp://therockabyereview.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-54095564545197584952009-10-19T11:30:57.478-04:002009-10-19T11:30:57.478-04:001st time submitting a comment, I saw you on the se...1st time submitting a comment, I saw you on the season 5 pre-shows and have always been a huge fan of the show. I love what you're doing here and hope you finish the series next summer. In this episode you started to see the coldness of Stringer to the point you wanted his death to come. I always felt he resented D'Angelo from the first episode.blizzanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-31029289374854703582009-10-19T11:11:22.065-04:002009-10-19T11:11:22.065-04:00This is my first comment, but not the first time I...This is my first comment, but not the first time I have visited this site. I saw you for the first time on the the season 5 pre-shows and decided to look you up. I am a HUGE Wire fan, during the five seasons some friends of mine would throw parties on Sunday nights like we were watching a football game. When season 4 introduced the option to view an episode a week in advance I took off a day from work when the season started. To take it further my friends realized the shows would air @ 12am so we would stay up sometimes till 2 in the morning to watch the episode, go to work come home and then watch it with my wife! I know it sounds crazy but you have to understand the world never seen something so real before, let's be honest the African American gangster has always been portrayed as a big jewelry wearing buffoon, the Wire puts the game in perspective. I lived through the crack era of the eighties in The Bronx and seen 80-95 homicides in my community a year so the depiction is real. <br /><br />As far as the episode, this season grew on me and I feel after the second viewing it has become respected more. I actually have watched this season at least 4 times and it seems to get better and better, and I have to ask Alan please give us a season 3 wrap next year to complete this wonderful series. Hopefully the Truth Be Told will be released as well!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15574964128450125022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-52575434780972766742009-08-22T03:05:20.029-04:002009-08-22T03:05:20.029-04:00Alan, I love your reviews. I watched the first se...Alan, I love your reviews. I watched the first season at the beginning of this summer -- and read your corresponding review after each episode -- and then I took a break after its conclusion so I could digest all that I've seen. I started watching again the other day, and already I'm up to episode 7; I saw that there were no comments for this episode, and I wanted to ensure that you didn't think no one appreciated it. The one thing I wanted to mention was the humorous scene in which one of the Stevedores puts the cigarette in New Charles' mouth as he lay on the ground, almost echoing the scene in the first season in which one of the drunkard cops put a cigarette in his recently-assaulted buddy's mouth.3333/afahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09267988998044410208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17517257.post-22022114510970008002009-08-14T23:14:05.082-04:002009-08-14T23:14:05.082-04:00I really enjoyed this episode - Sobotka is turning...I really enjoyed this episode - Sobotka is turning out, to me, to be a much more compelling criminal to watch than Avon or Stringer, even if he's clearly less competent. As excellent as the Barksdale crew all were, as much as I cared about them by the end of the season, Sobotka manages to make similar points with an added touch of melancholy and self-awareness that just makes him so sad. It was the same reason I really felt for D'Angelo by the end of season 1 - he didn't WANT to be where he was, but there was literally nowhere else he COULD be.<br /><br />It's interesting to look back, this early in the series, on the different ways they've looked at what the Game means to these people, why they do it. Where Avon knows the Game and likes the opportunities it can provide, Stringer wants to make the Game work for him, and D'Angelo just can't reconcile the Game with the cost, but feels trapped in it. Omar almost seems to see it as a joke. Frank sees it as a necessary evil to preserving the past, while Nico sees it as the only/the easiest way of escaping his.<br /><br />Really enjoyed this episode.Calvin Clearyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11176274808862742970noreply@blogger.com