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I think the exception is Omar. I don’t see Omar as corrupt. I think many people see him as one of the “good” ones, relatively speaking. He didn’t move around wh
by jonnybgood 4y ago
I think the exception is Omar. I don’t see Omar as corrupt. I think many people see him as one of the “good” ones, relatively speaking. He didn’t move around what he was and what he was about. He stayed completely true to it. He didn’t have a larger institution as you say. He was his own institution.
- kahrl 4y agoOmar comin.
- dredmorbius 4y agoThe Cheese stands alone.
- jfengel 4y agoAnd I saw that phrase on a poster in a Baltimore takeout joint just the other day. It resonates powerfully still.
- woodruffw 4y agoOmar doesn't fit as easily into the mold, but you can see ways in which his amoral characterization establish his roles in the criminal and LEO institutions: he's an opportunist, stealing from those who can't go to the police to report crime. He's his own institution, but he isn't above his own drives for vengeance and thrill: later seasons characterize him as depressed by his own infamy, driving him to seek out new criminal targets to keep the heat up.
- Aerroon 4y agoOmar would also realistically fizzle out. He would either get killed or end up killing innocents by accident. There's only so many times intimidation works without serious incidents.
- UncleMeat 4y agoAnd yet, after his death he is replaced.
- treis 4y agoWho replaces Omar?
- UncleMeat 4y agoMichael. He is robbing dealers in the last episode.
- MonkeyMalarky 4y agoIn the last episode, doesn't Bubbles see a couple of the kids from the highschool going to buy drugs and recognizes a younger version of himself and his friend from the 1st season? That whole episode was about the cycle of drugs, violence and poverty repeating itself.
- Floegipoky 4y agoAnd his killer is a young child, a replacement for the previously exploited child-murderer (who was killed by Michael).