Re:Michael K. Williams Is More Than Omar from ‘The Wire’
by BurningFrog on Monday July 03, 2017 @12:16AM
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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.
Re:Michael K. Williams Is More Than Omar from ‘The Wire’
by mercer on Monday July 03, 2017 @08:24AM
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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.
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.