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Originally Posted by GoDukes
Just another reason why The Wire kicks the The Sopranos ass up and down the street. Art. Amazing writing. Social commentary.
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I missed this the first time around...
The Wire is my favorite TV show of all time. There isn't even a close second. If The Wire is a "10," Sopranos is about a 6.5. But I find it amazing that someone who appreciates The Wire like you do, can't appreciate The Sopranos finale.
(spoilerized due to some specific Season 4 of The Wire discussion)
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One of the reasons I love The Wire so much is because they don't fall in line with the typical TV standards. The bad guys actually outsmart the police? Who would've thought. Plots aren't resolved at the end of every season...the thinking is a total "We'll get them next year." Sometimes, they know they missed their one and only chance (The Greek). Do you think that this last season will end with Baltimore becoming free of the drug trade? Of course not. "Life goes on." Drugs will be sold, politicians will be corrupt, the police system will be a joke.
I mean, did you see the Season 4 finale? That was a complete "Life Goes On" moment. That season started with Carver chasing all the young kids out from where they were breaking bottles and starting trouble in some alley. A whole season of work is put into those kids, trying to get them off the streets. Namond makes it, but only because Colvin literally took him in. Randy gets into the worst shape of any of them. Michael doesn't trust Cutty so he falls under the wing of Marlo and looks to have potential to be a big dog in the drug world. Dukie, saddest of them all, goes from the dirty, impoverished kid who's getting picked on, to doing well enough in school where he earns advancement, which of course takes him away from Prez, the one who believed in him, and is now out of school and selling drugs too. Our one with the least potential seems to have made it, while the more promising ones will be in jail or dead within a few years. So again...how did that season end? With Carver chasing the next group of kids out of that same alley. Life goes on is right.