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Sunday, March 09, 2008
The Wire Finale
I'm sad that The Wire is ending tonight, but I'm looking forward to the finale. This last season has been a notch below the previous 4, though that is a lofty standard. If we're lucky, we'll get a Wire movie in a few years.
I've watched them all, and I don't think I want a "Wire" movie.
This show has been episodic TV at its finest. Simon and Burns took 60 hours to tell us a fantastic story. Even on the smaller scale of the individual seasons, they took 13 hours (or 10.5 in last one). I don't want them to try and cram a similar caliber story into 2 or even 3 hours.
No, I want to leave it where it is.
Although it would be fun for them to give us a couple more seasons 10 years from now. Mike terrorizing the new drug ring which has Randy as the number 2, and Kenard as the muscle. They're intimidating witnesses on the Westside, and the young black detective (whose name escapes me) is fed up. He goes to Judge Pearlman and rants. In response, the commissioner sets up a detail headed by Lt. Carver, who has fallen out of favor with the brass. As one of his detectives, he gets Detective Sydnor who has been stuck on Pawn Detail for years, and now builds miniature doll houses. The detail begins by building a list of CI's, first of which is a homeless man named Dukie.
I'm sure Simon and Burns would be better at this than I, but it's doable.
I strongly agree that a few more seasons sometime in the future would be the ideal scenario. I'm just guessing a movie would be more realistic, and perhaps lead to the renewed seasons. I'd hope that they'd scale down for a 2.5 hour movie and not try to do too much. But there would be big pressure to try to touch on as many of the characters as possible, and it could be messy.
5 comments:
Excellent posting.
Thank you.
I've watched them all, and I don't think I want a "Wire" movie.
This show has been episodic TV at its finest. Simon and Burns took 60 hours to tell us a fantastic story. Even on the smaller scale of the individual seasons, they took 13 hours (or 10.5 in last one). I don't want them to try and cram a similar caliber story into 2 or even 3 hours.
No, I want to leave it where it is.
Although it would be fun for them to give us a couple more seasons 10 years from now. Mike terrorizing the new drug ring which has Randy as the number 2, and Kenard as the muscle. They're intimidating witnesses on the Westside, and the young black detective (whose name escapes me) is fed up. He goes to Judge Pearlman and rants. In response, the commissioner sets up a detail headed by Lt. Carver, who has fallen out of favor with the brass. As one of his detectives, he gets Detective Sydnor who has been stuck on Pawn Detail for years, and now builds miniature doll houses. The detail begins by building a list of CI's, first of which is a homeless man named Dukie.
I'm sure Simon and Burns would be better at this than I, but it's doable.
I strongly agree that a few more seasons sometime in the future would be the ideal scenario. I'm just guessing a movie would be more realistic, and perhaps lead to the renewed seasons. I'd hope that they'd scale down for a 2.5 hour movie and not try to do too much. But there would be big pressure to try to touch on as many of the characters as possible, and it could be messy.
Take this for its face-value humor (the whole blog, not just this post): http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/85-the-wire/
argh.
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