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- The Wire Bids Adieu
  
  A post about The Wire by Josh on March 10th, '08
  
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- “the message that creator David Simon wanted to leave us with: things aren't changing and we shouldn't expect them to.”
  
  It was a fitting end. The Wire’s five glorious seasons have featured numerous downers. The characters are perpetually stuck in, well, reality (if you can say that about a fictional show). The series ended as it always lived, with things in Baltimore going on as usual. I think that that was probably the message that creator David Simon wanted to leave us with: things aren’t changing and we shouldn’t expect them to.
  
  Spoiler warning: If you’re waiting for the DVD or if you were indisposed last night don’t click “more”.
  
  The you can’t change anything message was best seen with Lester and Jimmy. Two good cops trying to make a dent in the city’s crime problem and being forced into early retirement for their efforts. The fact that they can laugh it off gave the whole plot a positive twist, but…
  
  Marlo Stanfield ended the show back where he started. In a way, he got in over his head. His ending was perhaps the most fitting of any character, he ends up taking a corner by force and then sits looking at what he has just won. It tied up nicely with the theme often vocalized by Omar: “It’s all in the game.” For Marlo, perhaps it wasn’t about the money. It was about the game. That’s what The Wire was really about. All these characters playing their parts, not seeing the ending that they are destined for, or at least not being able to change their path. Even Omar Little, the one character that seemed to be above the fray, was not able to leave the game before it became too late.
  
  I’ll miss The Wire. Few shows were, are, or will be as challenging and respectful of their viewership.
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2 Responses to “The Wire Bids Adieu”
1. PopCosm » Blog Archive » The Wire Ends Says:
  March 10th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
  […] You can read some of my thought on the ending over at Teevieo. […]
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