Comments on: it’s all in the game, though http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/its-all-in-the-game-though/ You trying to get all up in the Kool-Aid, but you don't even know the flavor. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:09:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Professor Coldheart http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/its-all-in-the-game-though/#comment-1043 Professor Coldheart Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:06:57 +0000 http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/?p=35#comment-1043 Yeah. S1 establishes the characters; S2 plays with them a bit. Yeah. S1 establishes the characters; S2 plays with them a bit.

]]> By: Erin http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/its-all-in-the-game-though/#comment-1042 Erin Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:33:23 +0000 http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/?p=35#comment-1042 We just finished Season 2 last night. <i>Frank Sobotka walking to his last meeting with the “Greeks” is one of the saddest goddamned things I’ve ever seen. </i> Agreed. It was heartbreaking to see Nick, Beatie, and the FBI guy each take some measure of blame for Frank's death when they realized their roles. I LOVED that line from Omar to the skeevy lawyer guy. We just finished Season 2 last night.

Frank Sobotka walking to his last meeting with the “Greeks” is one of the saddest goddamned things I’ve ever seen.

Agreed. It was heartbreaking to see Nick, Beatie, and the FBI guy each take some measure of blame for Frank’s death when they realized their roles.

I LOVED that line from Omar to the skeevy lawyer guy.

]]> By: M. Witty http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/its-all-in-the-game-though/#comment-322 M. Witty Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:40:51 +0000 http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/?p=35#comment-322 Oh, and "Sigh. Why is it always Boris?" Oh, and “Sigh. Why is it always Boris?”

]]> By: M. Witty http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/its-all-in-the-game-though/#comment-321 M. Witty Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:39:54 +0000 http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/?p=35#comment-321 "They only know me as The Greek, and I am not even Greek." "They only know my name, and my name is not my name." “They only know me as The Greek, and I am not even Greek.”
“They only know my name, and my name is not my name.”

]]> By: JHaas http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/its-all-in-the-game-though/#comment-320 JHaas Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:30:28 +0000 http://periscopedepth.wordpress.com/?p=35#comment-320 Word on all points. Sergei and Prop Joe's quotes are some of my favorites. Stephen L. Miles had a similar effect on me, as you can imagine. I was taken by how much the conclusion of this season hangs on coincidence. Lester happens to have gone down to South East when Nick turns himself in. The Greek just happens to be in the surveillance photo of Vondas. In another show, it might feel kind of fakey and forced, but the world of The Wire is so built on happenstance - heaping helpings of breaks both lucky and unlucky - that it didn't feel all that forced. Beatrice Russell ends up not in office, but going back to the Port, though. That's why McNulty isn't completely insane when he thinks he sees her in the Statey car towards the end of Season 3. Word on all points. Sergei and Prop Joe’s quotes are some of my favorites. Stephen L. Miles had a similar effect on me, as you can imagine. I was taken by how much the conclusion of this season hangs on coincidence. Lester happens to have gone down to South East when Nick turns himself in. The Greek just happens to be in the surveillance photo of Vondas. In another show, it might feel kind of fakey and forced, but the world of The Wire is so built on happenstance - heaping helpings of breaks both lucky and unlucky - that it didn’t feel all that forced.

Beatrice Russell ends up not in office, but going back to the Port, though. That’s why McNulty isn’t completely insane when he thinks he sees her in the Statey car towards the end of Season 3.

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