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This week of The Wire has been so intense, I did not see any of it coming! I am so excited to watch more episodes, the season just dramatically changed.
Episode 10:
The opening scene with Bubs was very symbolic and represented the title well! Throughout the episode the cost started to build up. First it was with Bubs and the cost of getting clean. The sounds and lightning as well as the scenery around like the kids with the bubbles, was very symbolic. It was the first time that the scenery was truly pleasant, possibly foreshadowing a better life for him. Then when it became nighttime, the scenery was very different. It was dark and gloomy as well as police sirens around him. The next cost that occurred was with Wallace. Wallace got brought into the police station and tells everything he knows. Daniels seems to gravitate towards him because he tried to ask and see if they could put Wallace up in a hotel. Since they could not, Daniels personally brought Wallace to his grandmothers. What I thought was interesting, was that Wallace did not know what a cricket sounded like. D’Angelo experienced a literal cost because his girlfriend wanted a new apartment and new bed sets for the kids. Another cost the paralleled with D’Angelo regarding kids, was with McNulty. His ex-wife tried to get an emergency hearing because McNulty let his kids play lead and follow. Then, Orlando paid the cost of trying to cross Avon but ended up getting arrested. He ended up paying the cost of death. The ultimate cost was at the end with Kima. Kima sacrificed herself to go undercover, but things went wrong. Kima started to notice that things were not right, which was also told by the scenery and lighting. While they were parked in the alley, shadows were on the wall and it was extremely quiet.
The opening scene with Bubs was very symbolic and represented the title well! Throughout the episode the cost started to build up. First it was with Bubs and the cost of getting clean. The sounds and lightning as well as the scenery around like the kids with the bubbles, was very symbolic. It was the first time that the scenery was truly pleasant, possibly foreshadowing a better life for him. Then when it became nighttime, the scenery was very different. It was dark and gloomy as well as police sirens around him. The next cost that occurred was with Wallace. Wallace got brought into the police station and tells everything he knows. Daniels seems to gravitate towards him because he tried to ask and see if they could put Wallace up in a hotel. Since they could not, Daniels personally brought Wallace to his grandmothers. What I thought was interesting, was that Wallace did not know what a cricket sounded like. D’Angelo experienced a literal cost because his girlfriend wanted a new apartment and new bed sets for the kids. Another cost the paralleled with D’Angelo regarding kids, was with McNulty. His ex-wife tried to get an emergency hearing because McNulty let his kids play lead and follow. Then, Orlando paid the cost of trying to cross Avon but ended up getting arrested. He ended up paying the cost of death. The ultimate cost was at the end with Kima. Kima sacrificed herself to go undercover, but things went wrong. Kima started to notice that things were not right, which was also told by the scenery and lighting. While they were parked in the alley, shadows were on the wall and it was extremely quiet.
One thing I did notice while the two police were waiting to get Wallace was that McNulty gave them a case of beer. This was surprising to me because they were on the clock. It related to previous episodes, like the one when the 14-year-old kid got blinded. Busting Wallace helped the case immensely; he was ready to get out of the violence he was raised in. Now the show is getting more intense because they are finally connecting dots between Avon and Stringerbell. As mentioned in the discussion, the scene with D’Angelo looking out the window does give off symbolism about how he is stuck like in prison. I completely overlooked that, so I actually went back to see that scene. If I would have picked up on that, it could have foreshadowed a lot into the episode. Something else that was apparent, when Kima was out with her significant other and some friends, her significant other was not happy about her job. As soon as Kima got shot, I thought about her significant other would react because she already did not like what she did.
Episode 11:
I really liked the opening scene of this episode because it captured all the confusion and dismay going on after the shooting. All the cops that worked with Kima were in complete shock, which I thought the scene did well capturing. Like when Rawls yelled at everyone who wasn’t assigned anything to do, like the cops that worked closely with Kima, to get out. They all just went to the car and started at the scene and McNulty was blankly staring at a corner. One theme I noticed was racism again, exemplified by the scene where the Deputy Commissioner assumed Daniels was the white cop. As well as when the judge was talking about how they wanted to balance the ticket with different races. Also, homophobia seemed to be apparent, when Kima’s significant other came to the hospital, everyone just thought she was her roommate. I liked how when she went home, they showed the blue highlighter mark on the couch from Kima earlier. When Peters brought information to the Homicide Unit, I loved his response to where he worked. He casually said he worked for the pawn shop while Jay hid behind his paper.
Rawls attempt to comfort Jimmy but then ended up treating Kima as an object, not a human. He said “she took two for the company” which you could tell upset Jimmy more in the scene. As mentioned in the discussion, violence is apparent on both sides. Bubbles got hit because he paged Kima; the violence does go both ways. It was interesting seeing how they police reacted to saving their own reputation. My favorite scene was when D and Bey were going into Bey’s house, which D did not know at the time. D was so afraid he was going to be part of the clean up, but then he just turns on the lights and there are fish tanks everywhere. That scene showed that there is another side to them when they are not in the game. This really opened up my eyes to the life behind the scenes.
Some quotes that stood out to me in this episode that shines a light on the characters’ personalities are:
“Who’s my daddy now” – McNulty
“She took two for the company”—Rawls
“I don’t know she thinks she cute”– Bey
Episode 12:
This episode truly lived up to its title, “Cleaning Up’. The ending scene really summed up the episode for me. When they show the low rises with just the orange couch and clean clothes hanging up in the background, it shows how much the police have truly cleaned up. There was no one out and the police sirens in the background really gave the episode closure.
Cleaning up meant a wide variety of things in this episode. The worst part of this episode was the cleaning up that Avon did to his people. Wallace came back from the shore only to get killed, simply because he was a loose end. Avon and Stringerbell were cleaning up, meaning killing, those who are not considered trustworthy to him. Avon also cleaned up Orlando’s, which is where he got arrested towards the end of the episode. The police cleaned up the people they had enough evidence on to arrest, but Stringerbell did not make that cut. The other scene that summed up the case was when they showed the police bulletin board and all the people were linked to Avon. The police cleaned up the case so it was now pretty clear-cut. During the scene of the arrest of Avon, I thought when McNulty said “catch you later” had a lot of tension. We knew that before Wallace was killed, they had a case against Stringerbell that would put him away for good, so there must have been so many things going through McNulty’s head. The government was also trying to clean up the controversy with the Senator carrying a lot of cash.
As mentioned in the discussion, McNulty and D’Angelo do not enjoy all the violence going on. For example, in the opening scene, you could clearly tell that McNulty hated what had happened to Kima because he couldn’t even get the strength to go see her in the hospital bed. There were many scenes that showed D’Angelo cared so much about keeping the peace, particularly with Wallace. When D’Angelo was talking to the lawyer and Stringerbell, all he cared about where Wallace was. Also mentioned in the discussion was an interesting point of view on the color orange. During the other episodes, I always wondered why they’d pick the color orange for the couch. I realized that on the couch nothing illegal ever happens, but it is where all the police end up going. It seems almost as a warning sign of something is to come. Like when D’Angelo and Wallace both wore orange, Wallace got killed and D’Angelo got arrested.
Daily Creates:
9/3- Represent a well known story over a transit map
9/4- Draw your own map of the internet, show your home
9/6- What book would you use in a protest?
I am known to break my phones and lose them! I have broken about 6 phones, including my iPhone i shattered the screen last year. So then I bought a brand new iPhone 5c.. and got it stolen a month later.
Since I am not at all technologically savvy I did not turn on the “find my iPhone app” so I waited a month and the phone was always off until exactly 3 weeks after it gotten stolen. In the meantime, I bought a burner phone, I never thought I’d miss my smartphone so badly. Now I had to pay full price for a new phone, but I have never been so happy to have my iPhone back.. I thought it was funny how connected to my phone, when I never thought I was!
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