"What you say? What you need? What you want?" - Ginuwine, Little Man's Bangin' Lude
"We don't need to dream no more." - Stringer Bell
I had forgotten just how foul Stringer Bell has really been. He and Avon own the death of Omar's boyfriend, Brandon, together but the hits on D'Angelo and Brother Mouzone are all him. He saw everything as business, even moreso than Avon, and saw little use for the traditions of the game if they got in the way of him making a bigger profit. String, outside of maybe Prop Joe, was the smartest man in the parts of Baltimore we get to see on The Wire and yet even he couldn't beat the game.
"The game is the game." - Avon Barksdale
It didn't come as a surprise that Stringer's time was coming to an end. Everything in the episode pointed that way. It still was one of the most powerful deaths on television, rivaling Adriana's murder on the last season of The Sopranos. It's perhaps even more jarring because we're not supposed to like String. He's a low down dirty drug dealer and murderer. Somehow, though, he just seems so much less lecherous than the rest. He'd be legit if he could. He's in many ways the perfect embodiment of the American Capitalist. When it really comes down to it, the hell with morality, honor, and family. The mighty dollar was his god and devil. And the game is the game.
So, who in the blogosphere is watching The Wire? Check out the links after the jump.
- Broken Language
- In My Write Mind
- A True Southern Belle
- That Good Good
- Free Floating Hostility
- Dud Sea Scrawls
- The Big Ticket
- Dancing with Derrida
- Matthew Yglesias
- ProHipHop
- Follow Me Here
- Drowning in Vanity
- Old Gold Soul
- Maps and Legends
- Musings of DJ Diva
- Thought 4 the Day
- Bejata Dot Com
- Todd Kelley
- Chauncey Billups
- Tommy T
If I'm missing blog thoughts about this week's episode, please let me know.
Peace Out, String. And damn, only one more week of The Wire. Lawd, What I'm goan do? What I'm goan do?!