fans of The Wire: which character is your favorite?

[gumpzilla]

No love for Cutty from anybody?

[Amid Cent]

Omar clearly.

As an aside, one of my friends had directed several episodes of the Wire. She says that the actor who plays Omar is totally cool. And his scar is real, got it in a bar fight years ago.

[TheNoodleMan]

This is some egregious polltarding.

1. OP, you have seen half the show. There are great characters that you haven't even seen yet.

2. You left off numerous great characters that are in the first 2 seasons.
No Avon, no DeAngelo, no Bodie, no mention of anything related to the docks (are you sure you've even seen season 2?)

3. No option for "Other"

[obvv]

I watched the first 3 seasons in 3 days, and season 2 i really didn't like at all. I think its because I watched the last 3 episodes while pissing into empty wine bottles and trying to figure out how to open my eyes and see the PC screen, but it had nothing on seasons 1 and 3.

Gonna hammer through season 4 tonight, love the show immensely.

[ClassicBob]

I've never understood the hate for Season 2. It's a bit slower than the other seasons, but once it gets going, it's fantastic. The last 5 minutes of "Bad Dreams" is some of the best TV I've ever seen, and maybe my favorite Wire moment.

[Dids]

I think season 2 just gets dumped on because the greeks and polocks aren't as sexy as Avon's crew. Too bad, because I don't know if anybody on the show had a better preformance than Frank Sobotka (aka Tilt's Lee Nickle).

I always found 3 kinda lacking, just because the Hamsterdam concept seemed a bit stretched.

[mikeymer]

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I think season 2 just gets dumped on because the greeks and polocks aren't as sexy as Avon's crew. Too bad, because I don't know if anybody on the show had a better preformance than Frank Sobotka (aka Tilt's Lee Nickle).

I always found 3 kinda lacking, just because the Hamsterdam concept seemed a bit stretched.

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I heard that this experiment actually happened somewhere. I forget where I read it.

As for me, Bodie, Avon, Stringer and WEEBAY.

The scene where weebay confesses to all the murders in season one was priceless. says if he gets another hamburger he'll confess to more. then you see in s4 how he puts his girl in her place and helps keep naymond out of the game.

[GTL]

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I think season 2 just gets dumped on because the greeks and polocks aren't as sexy as Avon's crew. Too bad, because I don't know if anybody on the show had a better preformance than Frank Sobotka (aka Tilt's Lee Nickle).

I always found 3 kinda lacking, just because the Hamsterdam concept seemed a bit stretched.

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i really like season 2. a lot of people dump on it because it moves at a slower pace and it has less of a "cool" factor. the last few episodes of season two are just amazing. D'angelo and Bodie are two of my favorite characters for sure.

I love Omar, but he is the most idealic and stylized of the main characters. He is the only one that isn't tied into a "game".

D'Angelo and Bodie both try to play the game differently, but they are still playing the game like all the other characters. I get a lot more from Bodie and D'Angelo because they are more real than Omar. Sure Omar is a cool mother [censored] but in the end, he is less of a person and more of a force.

[Aloysius]

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I've never understood the hate for Season 2. It's a bit slower than the other seasons, but once it gets going, it's fantastic. The last 5 minutes of "Bad Dreams" is some of the best TV I've ever seen, and maybe my favorite Wire moment.

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I really like S2 also - I think part of the hate has got to be Ziggy-related (who I didn't mind and he redeemed himself in "Bad Dreams", an awesome episode I agree).

-Al

[talentdeficit]

if i have to choose from the list then it's bunk, but he's like my 20th favorite overall.

bodie is one of my favorites, but i kinda hated him in season one. it wasn't until season two that i came to appreciate him. d'angelo is very close behind bodie, and i like wallace almost as much. i also like frank sobotka, who was easily the most fully realized character on the show ever and prop joe, easily the most fun character on the show. i also prefer major daniels, detective sydnor (who is criminally underused), avon, weebay and poot. slim charles and his counterpart chris partlow were also awesome. and donnette and brianna and shardene (west side girls for life) of course.

my favorite though, is norman wilson. carcetti's campaign manager.