Standoff: Marlo VS Herc

"Ain't gonna happen."

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Entertainment

Tags:

• The
• Wire
• Marlo
• Stanfield
• Thomas
• Herc
• Ellis
• Carver
• Kima
• Face-off
• Confrontation
• Hamsterdam
• Police
• Officer
• Drug
• Dealer

[BlaccEagle]

Yo Marlo, give Herc his fucking camera back man!

[Swiffness]

I love Carver's western gunslinger swag here, slowly looking around and observing how outmatched they are

[AlvinHDavernport]

@Swiffness I just love Carver, period.

[Garykelleher123]

Bodie in backseat? What was the story behind this again?

[fsmramen]

Ah god, the last second. DUCK BODIE

[Vitupable]

@vilkwang Snoop - the fact that she never cared about her appearance and didn't act feminine at all and then the final thing she does is ask about how she looks, her desire for reputation when she tries to keep the mart guard's badge, she has no qualm about killing people if it's what she's being told to do but still shows signs of compassion when she gives away all that money to the guy in the DIY store, less emotionally detached than Chris ("damn you didn't even wait to get him in the vacant")

[Vitupable]

@vilkwang Chris - strongly implied that he was sexually abused, you can tell he has a lot of respect/fear for Marlo from his body language and tone when he's saying "you didn't need that shit on your mind", you can tell about why he does what he does from the fact that he does not care about reputation, when Snoop does (he throws the guard's badge away when she wants to keep it as a medal). You can tell he's cold-blooded, would you expect a hitman like that to get scared or upset very often?

[Vitupable]

@vilkwang Oh, there was plenty of development for those characters, you just didn't pick up on it because The Wire takes a 'show, don't tell' approach (and rightfully so).

Marlo - the fact that he doesn't ever raise his voice or show anger until Chris tells him that Omar was saying his name in the streets tells you how much he cares about his rep, you can see from the way he talks to Prop Joe before killing him that he is sociopathic, you've got the whole thing about his birds which he likes.

[aguyyaknow]

I don´t get it. Why didn´t they just call for backup or something? I mean , sure, Marlo is dangerous but if they just bring a couple of extra officers then there´s no big deal. It´s clearly shown through the rest of those early season 3 episodes that the police can do pretty much whatever they want towarss these project-gangsters, (assuming their commanders looks the other way).

[logic2000]

@ravenouscolonelhart I Highly doubt it!!

[lixiaofun]

@vilkwang  you want it one way, but it's the other way.

[vilkwang]

@mirmac12

People hate them because they weren't characters. Marlo and his crew are the least developed characters in the entire show, which is dumb as they are the major targets for nearly half of the show.

I love The Wire but it was much better when the "bad guys" were actually human and not just mindless psycho's. Chris nearly got a bit of development when he beat that guy but that's it.

I know, "it show's how crazy the youth is today". I'd still rather watch human characters.