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I still can't believe how they ended it with Omar like that.
by zeeg 16y ago
I still can't believe how they ended it with Omar like that.
- tptacek 16y agoThe one truly great thing about the last season was that they reincarnated his character. He was the one character whose arc was perfect from season 1 through season 5.
- thedz 16y agoI know, right? When that Viper showed up in Baltimore, I was like WTF, that character's supposed to be dead. Not realistic at all.
- amirmc 16y agoYou should add 'Spoiler' to the start of your post. I've only watched up to Season 2.
- barredo 16y agoNot that you are wrong. But when do we start & stop using 'spoiler' tags? A week after the episode was on TV for the first time? A month? A year? And with movies? I guess it's right to not use the tag when talking about Star Wars, for instance. I guess too that The Wire's 5th season was enough years ago to don't use spoiler tags. I've learned this the hard way (Dexter 5th season finale, amongst others) and stopped worrying about this. It's the Internet, there will be spoilers no matter how careful you browse. Again, the only thing I can think of where using spoiler tags was absolutely necessary is in unreleased shows/movies/narrative
- amirmc 16y agoAll very good points. I admit I was expressing my grief rather than offering something constructive. My sympathies re: Dexter season finale.
- Elite 16y agoWell people like him and I love to spoil the fun for everyone else. By the way: Bruce Willis is dead. Soylent green is people Kaiser Soze is Kevin Spacey. It's been 2 and a half years since the end of the wire. I don't think he owes you a warning
- dailo10 16y agoBut you knew that was coming, right? It had to happen. It's a Greek drama in which their fates are sealed.
- telemachos 16y agoDavid Simon at USC[1]: In what seemed a preemptive nod toward any outraged Omar fans in the audience, Simon also leaned on the same source to explain the fate for some of his show's most popular characters. "Those who want to know why Omar had to die, why Stringer had to die," he said, "Strap on a helmet, get in the game and read Antigone. Read Medea. It had to happen." [1] http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2008/03/the-wire-david.html http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2008/03/the-wire...
- telemachos 16y agoI can't find a link right now, but I remember an interview with David Simon where he mentioned that Omar was originally supposed to appear only in a short arc (and then be killed). The actor (Michael K. Richards) was so good that they had to keep him. (Still can't find a link to the David Simon interview, but here's a link to an interview with the actor. He says 7 episodes was the original number.[1]) My point being: that character had to die. As awful as I found it to watch his last episodes, there was really no other end for him. [1] http://www.hobotrashcan.com/2005/08/23/one-on-one-with-michael-k-williams/ http://www.hobotrashcan.com/2005/08/23/one-on-one-with-micha...
- samg 16y agoOmar is Michael K Williams, not Michael K Richards.
- telemachos 16y agoStupid of me, thanks. (Michael Richards played Kramer on Seinfeld. Wow. Weird transfer.)
- Tyrannosaurs 16y agoHaving Omar die also allowed them to emphasise the whole thing starting over again and nothing really changing - Michael taking Omar's place, Dukie taking Bubble's and so on.