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Re:Michael K. Williams Is More Than Omar from ‘The Wire’ by civilitty on Sunday July 02, 2017 @11:50PM (#14685716)
> EDIT: WIRE SPOILER: also, as long as we're talking about it ... the resolution of the omar character in the last seasons of the wire was incredibly anti-climactic and just downright weird. I understand they got the rug pulled out and had to quick wrap up the show but that was really just the worst and most useless bookend to his character arc...

I think that was the point. I don't remember where I read it, but his death was always going to be like that. It didn't matter that he was the only beacon of (kinda) good in a cruel world - good and bad, the streets get you eventually and its never honorable or glorious.

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Re:Michael K. Williams Is More Than Omar from ‘The Wire’ by BurningFrog on Monday July 03, 2017 @12:16AM (#14685784)
Yeah, I would have expected - and enjoyed - a blaze of glory end for Omar.

Which in itself is an argument against doing that!

The way he went out says that in the real "game", there are no super heroes. Even the biggest badass dies just as much from a bullet, and ultimately mean nothing compared to the big institutional forces that shape the world.

One way to think about The Wire as a whole is that it's about organisations and how they remain the same, regardless of the seemingly big influence individuals have in them.

At the end of the show most the bigger-than-life people on all sides have been replaced. Yet everything is just the same as it always was.

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Re:Michael K. Williams Is More Than Omar from ‘The Wire’ by mercer on Monday July 03, 2017 @08:24AM (#14687731)
What makes the show both brilliant and crushingly depressing is the cyclical nature of it all. At the end there's a new Bubbles, a new Omar, etc. Nothing changes.
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